
Marc Goddard
Platform Engineering Manager @ London Metal Exchange | Communication, Leadership, People Management
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
About me
Intro
As a Platform Engineering Manager at the London Metal Exchange, I had 7 years of creating the software engineering platform environments for the Corporate, Pre-Trade & Trading Technologies, and Post-Trade to enable the delivery of complex project portfolios. My expertise lies in SDLC governance, Agile release and configuration management, CI/CD to automate and optimise E2E distributed exchange trading and post trade environments. Providing IDP and developer workspaces for software engineering teams and cross-functional product focussed tribes/pods to play with.My infrastructure architecture background coupled with my consistent and pragmatic approach to the seamless integration of continuous improvement tools, drive the adoption of automation and DevSecOps and SRE practices along with the processes and mindset; this ensures minimal disruption to live environments and increases the velocity of successful deployments and the shipping of new functionality that delivers outcomes and actual business value. My dedication to collaboration, and passion for mentoring provides leadership in the areas above and ultimately strengthens the resilience, stability and operational security of the technology stacks I create.
Work experience
London Metal Exchange
Aug 2015 - Jan 2022
6 years 6 months
London, UK
Platform Engineering Manager
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
3 years 1 month
London, UK
– Supported the Corporate, Pre-Trade & Trading Technology and Post Trade departments in delivery of the LME and LME Clear projects/programme portfolios of work. – A technically adept Platform manager with strong experience in full SDLC governance. Managed the roll out of continuous improvement tools, and the uptake of Agile best practices across all LMEG technology stacks; while ensuring changes were undertaken with minimum disruption to the security and integrity of live operational services. – Leading the Platform Engineering Team to commission, maintain, configure, manage and support bespoke business applications for the facilitation of Development, Unit, Functional, Non-functional and failover testing. – Supervision of PE team leads and the automation and streamlining of operations and processes. Also ensured consistency of design, configuration, release, deployment and troubleshooting methods across all environments. – Developed strategies to establish continuous deployment pipelines and facilitated the management, monitoring and automation of the company infrastructure using best of breed tools.
QA Technical Support Team Lead (AVP)
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
3 years 6 months
London, UK
Responsible for the successful delivery of complex dispersed exchange trading platform solutions (FIX and Binary messaging). Part of QA production support escalation for all trading issues and client component enquiries (WebICE, ICEBlock etc.). Communicating with and liaising between teams, adopting a professional and proactive manner when dealing with project sponsors, users and technical staff. – 5 regulated futures exchanges covering global energy, financial and agricultural markets – OTC markets in energy and credit – Strong global network presence, colocation and market data
Senior Trading System Support Analyst
Intercontinental Exchange
May 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 4 months
London, UK
ICE is a leading network of regulated exchanges and clearing houses for financial and commodity markets, with futures exchanges covering energy, financial and agricultural markets throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. ICE purchased NYSE Euronext which operated multiple securities exchanges from multiple global data centres and office locations, with over 3500 servers. – Provided technical support for the release, configuration, deployment and management of software components and environments within an SDLC project framework. Used a variety of Enterprise software – IBM Websphere MQ, Business Objects, Tidal, Perforce, Service Now, Clearcase, Team Track, Confluence, Jira, Tomcat, IIS, MS SQL 2005/08/12, Oracle 10/11g, RHEL Satellite, RHEL4/5/6/7, Solaris and Windows 2000/03/08/12.
Environments Manager
NYSE Euronext
Mar 2012 - May 2014
2 years 3 months
London, UK
– NYSE Euronext Project: It will utilise an MTF (multi-lateral trading facility) and a 'partner' model, leveraging the NYSE Euronext brand and the Exchange's community. – The CFDs will be made available via a new NYSE Euronext entity, an FSA authorised Investment Firm (Broker), operating an MTF – Underlying reference products for CFDs will include spot market commodities, currency pairs, futures, equities and indices – This initiative brings together multiple best-in-class technology products/solutions provided by NYSE Technologies, NYSE Euronext's internal IT and third party specialist vendors Designed and implemented the development and QA testing infrastructure in collaboration with architects, developers and Test Managers. Provision of environments and application support during all testing phases. Involvement in all stages of the software lifecycle from development, through system integration and user acceptance testing, to actual deployment into the production infrastructure. – Documented and co-ordinated the release and deployment of Java/C++ software to QA and pre-production environments. Ensured all deployments had adequate release instructions and roll-back plans. – Created documentation, processes and procedures for the deployment of s/w applications to DEV, QA and production environments. – Continuously improving the appropriate versioning and deployment control processes, working with the DEV and other teams to meet acceptance criteria, collating requirements and creating application configuration. – Handled internal queries and requests regarding environment issues as well as status checks and support - remediating any QA impacting outages. Performed diagnosis and escalation to appropriate teams. – Carried out delegated Active Directory tasks and local server permission based tasks on behalf of QA and DEV. Technical point of contact for server/system application access.
Senior Support Analyst (Release & Configuration Management)
Nyse EuroNext
Mar 2011 - Mar 2012
1 year 1 month
London, UK
– Assisted others in handling of support/project issues and imparted knowledge within QA team with updates on the operation of new application components, configuration parameters and basic troubleshooting. Runbook creation, implementation and rollback planning. – Scheduled stop/start of applications and environments to meet testing plans and project requirements. Prepared and implemented system and configuration changes to compensate for faults and failures found during testing phases. – Created and maintained project/task specific reference data sets for QA and production environments. Gave technical input during concept proposals and detailed planning phases of SDLC project stages, advising teams of risks or potential technical issues. – Collected messages/logs from production trading systems for the purpose of replay analysis, investigations and problem management. Planned and setup scenarios for FMA non-functional testing and system performance reviews. – Reviewed and commented on business requirements, functional specifications, designs and other project documentation specifically with regard to supportability and operational readiness. Project Highlights: – Tokyo Stock Exchange TDEX NG+ (Futures & Options Connect trading platform upgrade, inc. two Tokyo site visits to manage the Market Maker Monitor (M3) rollout – Tangent project initiative to create a new MTF trading platform – Universal Trading Platform (UTP) migration from Liffe ConnectTM – Scoping and development of Pre-trade Risk Management (PTRM) solution – QA/DEV environment migrations to VMWare ESX/EMC SAN virtualisation platform
Systems Administrator
Triage Services Ltd
Mar 2009 - Aug 2010
1 year 6 months
Houghton Regis, UK
Triage Services are the UK's leading independent IT hardware repair and re-utilisation specialists. Project work and duties ranging from ad-hoc management, monitoring and support of applications, servers and networking for 6 sites, 40 servers and 400 users. Covering Windows 2003 server, AD and Exchange administration, backups, patching, AV, VPN/firewall/Proxy security, network administrator, Ghost imaging and application deployment.
Infrastructure Engineer
Haringey Council
Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
3 months
Silverstone, Towcester NN12, UK
The Haringey ITS department supported over 4500 users in the borough. Utilising thin client technologies including Citrix, and operating platforms such as MS Exchange, Altiris, VMware VI3, SCOM, SQL 2005 and HP EVA SAN in an AD environment of over 340 HP server.
Aegis Media
Apr 2005 - Jun 2008
3 years 3 months
Technical Architect
Apr 2006 - Jun 2008
2 years 3 months
Aegis Media UK was a group of large media agencies that maintained their distinct brands and identities (Carat, Vizeum, Posterscope and Isobar), but also benefited from centralised services such as IT. Aegis Media was part of Aegis PLC with 14,000 staff globally in over 70 countries. Aegis Media UK provided regional IT coverage of 12 sites, 2 data centres, disaster recovery locations, approximately 150 corporate servers and 1250 seats. Project Highlights: – Design and implementation of Altiris environment including the Helpdesk this also involved the creation of an internal ITIL service desk, large scale rollouts and upgrades, scripting of application installations and hardware independent images for deployment, patching and reporting functions. – Regional coverage of global active directory migration from UK based Windows 2000 forest to a global 2003 forest with multiple domains, over 12 sites and 15 locally managed domain controllers. – Implementation of EMC Clariion CX3-40 SANs, Brocade fabric switches and Fibre Channel and SATA II DAES – Design and deployment of a VMware ESX 3.0 Enterprise VI3 virtualised environment encompassing VirtualCenter, VMotion, HA, and DRS. Hardware consolidation onto IBM and Dell Blades in the data centre and 2U servers at local sites with 25+ ESX 3.0/3.5 hosts and 100+ guest virtual machines. – Creation of MS SQL 2005 HA platform to centralise and consolidate all DB development, mirroring/replication, maintenance planning, DR and monitoring. – Centralised corporate Domino messaging environment migrated to Exchange 2003, the server and application support for which was then brought in-house. Used Neverfail for application aware HA, replication and DR. – Additional 4 sites/companies connected to the corporate network (site surveys/due diligence), 2 new server rooms and 300+ seats added. Regular 200+ PC refresh/office moves as part of lease replacement schedules.
Infrastructure Specialist
Apr 2005 - Apr 2006
1 year 1 month
London, UK
Employed as the senior member of the Infrastructure team. Responsibilities ranged from asset management, to the design, implementation and support of Windows servers, Cisco networks, Juniper firewall, SAN and virtualisation technologies. Leasing and purchasing of hardware, and the licensing of software under regional and global agreements. The entire IT department implemented processes and procedures working within the ITIL framework and utilising Altiris. – Development and maintenance of virtual infrastructure, file, print, messaging, AD, SQL, SharePoint, DR – Data centre services management, liaising with technical account managers – One of only two domain administrators for EMEA the largest corporate media AD domain – Technical team lead on major project implementations, R&D of new technologies – Altiris: patch mgmt, app packaging, scripting, imaging, ITIL Helpdesk, and reporting (CMS II) – Management, monitoring and high level support of all hardware and software VMware Player/WS/Server/GSX/ESX/VirtualCenter // Global AD/IIS/DNS/DHCP/WINS/GPO Netbackup/McAfee/Trend Micro // EMC CLARiiON CX3-40 SAN/HP MSA1000 SAN/Brocade ITIL certified Altiris Helpdesk, NS & Deployment Server // Desktop Authority Juniper/Netscreen firewalls, SSL VPN and NSM SQL/SharePoint/BES // Double-Take/Neverfail replication Dell/IBM/HP/Cisco/Aruba/APC // Dell OpenManage/HP CIM Zantas Archiving/Exchange/Mirapoint Razorgate/Lotus Domino/BES Windows/Ubuntu Linux & OS X // Cisco LES Links LAN/VOIP/MPLS/SDSL
Systems Administration Team Lead
Indicii Salus Inc
Nov 2003 - Mar 2005
1 year 5 months
A unique flagship PKI solution via a secure server-centric architecture, with centrally hosted key management. The distribution of Secure Email communications via a Private Key Server, offering a robust portable encryption engine generating the public/private key pairs required to encrypt and then decrypt the messages after receipt using email client plugins. The proprietary software offered central encryption and management capability for authentication and control of private keys. Encrypting traffic between the client/server for secure transport, assuring integrity and confidentiality. The cryptography features of the object-orientated software ported across platforms integrating support for algorithm replacement. Indicii Salus hosted, developed and sold server centric cryptographic solutions for secure email, file and web services using Xenophon™™ server encryption, and were also contributing authors of the BS7799 security standard. Team lead of system administration responsible for over 40 production and commercial servers including Windows NT/2000/2003, Exchange 5.5/2000/2003, Lotus Domino 5/6, SQL Server 2000, IIS, DNS, DHCP and WINS. Design and testing of application and administration features for the Xenophon™™ product suite, along with the development of methods for large scale roll-outs. Administration of multiple Active Directory domains, EXCH5.5/2000/2003, SQL 2000, IIS, Backup Exec and Symantec Enterprise Ghost. Configuring and troubleshooting AD, DNS, DHCP, WINS, RIS, Group Policies, F5 BIGIP (load balancing server), Watchguard firewalls and Cisco Switches. Integration of content filtering/AV infrastructure (Mail Marshall/Sophos/McAfee). Projects included the migration of the primary corporate domain from NT4 to Windows 2003 Active Directory and NT 4.0/2000 client upgrades to XP. Exchange 2003 rollout, WSUS server install, Group Policy design and implementation with the configuration of RIS Services for build generation/app installs.
Senior Consultant
BCX UK
Jan 1998 - Oct 2003
5 years 10 months
Welwyn Garden City, UK
Consultancy, design, projects and administration for multiple client sites and organisations. – Windows client/server installs (Win95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP/SQL/Exchange/Domino) – Firewall/VPN install and configuration (Netscreen, Gnatbox) – Backup/AV software (Veritas, ArcServe, Trendmicro, Symantec, McAfee) – Remote monitoring and admin via bespoke IPSec VPN connections – Documented proposals, project management, client management with SLAs (ISO 9001) Q DATA EUROPE LTD – IT consultancy Q Data required the creation of a remote monitoring centre for its clients. I led the Managed Services Division in developing the centre based on Netscreen firewall and VPN services, utilising Robomon monitoring software, ADSL and Remedy help desk. TRIAGE SERVICES LTD – Design, planning, project management and implementation of nationwide frame-relay Cisco WAN. Transferred company domain name and ISP, mgmt of 3rd parties. Synchronised migration of 7 UK sites, new IP addressing scheme, upgrade of 200 workstations. Firewall install of site-to-site and dial-up VPN connections and TrendMicro AV. ROYAL BANK INVOICE FINANCE (RBS) - Migration of WAN from Banyan Vines email with 500 Windows 95 clients, to MS Exchange 5.5 and Windows NT clients utilising Norton Ghost/SMS. PAYPOINT – Site recovery (server/client rebuilds) post virus outbreak. Support of mixed mode AD implementation. Install of MS Cluster Service on HP server nodes for Postilion real-time transaction system. ARJO WIGGINS APPLETON PLC - Managed entire site, SUN Accounts SQL7.0, PBX infrastructure and AV conferencing facilities. Migration of Novell/NT/Win95 to WinNT 4.0 domain, migration of Exchange 5.5 to Lotus Domino R5. Implementation of BT Concert VPN for global remote access, design and rollout of McAfee Enterprise AV solution. Relocated the entire site from London, to a new office in Paris. FINDUS FOODS UK - Created WinNT domain for a brand new European head office, connected WAN to domain in Sweden.
Education
University of Plymouth
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Applied Statistics & Management Science
1994 - 1997
2 years 11 months
Eaglefield School
1987 - 1994
6 years 11 months
Licenses & certifications
VMware Certified Professional - VI3
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
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MCP - Planning, Implementing & Monitoring A Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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