Robert Thomson

GCP devops work for multi-national insurance end client. Developing helm charts with kustomize to create GCP resources using config-connector on GKE including migrating to Secret Manager secrets and a POC looking at options for monitoring private end points on GCP, consuming the metrics in Grafana. GCP Private Uptime Checks and Synthetic Monitoring with Cloud Functions using Cloud Build/Run and Artifact Registry.

GCP. GKE. Terraform. Terraspace. GitLab CI. JFrog. Orca. Building GCP infrastructure and delivering Gitlab CI pipeines and JFrog Artifactory service for building and deploying Java and nodejs apps onto kubernetes clusters for a UK/US late stage startup Fintech end client. Reviewing AWS spend using Cost Management service, implementing changes to reduce AWS costs significantly and suggesting further such changes.

GCP. BigQuery. GCS. Compute. Ansible. Terraform. Jenkins. Building and updating GCP infrastructure for delivery of major Sky project initatives.

Platform engineering and support for Java microservices deployed on AWS EC2 ; Re-factoring Packer/shell AMI build to Packer/Ansible on Jenkins, for generating Amazon Linux 2 images.

Developing Ansible and Terraform Infrastructure as Code on Google Gloud Platform in Big Data team using in house framework, running Jenkins jobs to generate Terraform code from Ansible and deploying services with it. Services deployed – Compute, PGSQL, MySQL, Airflow, Data Proc Cluster with Tensorflow, Airflow, Stackdriver monitoring infrastructure (Pubsub, ELK), GKE. Enhancements and bug fixes for the in house framework. Tooling: Jenkins, Github, Ansible, Terraform. Won an award for having 'gone the extra mile' on delivering to achieve a key milestone.

Developed Anisble code to deploy Docker containers for Gitlab CE, Docker registry, nodejs apps and to configure Raspberry pis for Docker and to automatically provision pis with containers using ansible-pull to deploy a proprietary monitoring solution. BAU management of developer services, e.g. Gitlab Enterprise, OpenLDAP, Rocketchat, JIRA, Jenkins. Technology stack - Azure, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, gitlab (Feature branch development), Agile methodology (Scrum).

Building on existing Teamcity/Jenkins/svn/git/Maven/Nexus/database build CI environment to create a CI + Batch Automated Test environment. Automating deployment of UNIX scripts, Autosys jobs and Informatica flows. Automating build of Autosys and SQL components. Evaluating dbMaestro for database version control. Introducing customer’s internal Devops tools and practices to team. Setting up internal private cloud databases to reduce costs and increase flexibility. Working in an Agile (Scrum) team using JIRA and Confluence. Completed Agile (Scrum) workshop training.

Student Loans Company Data Centre migration - VMWare v2v, p2v and lift and shift of HP Blade System Blades on IBM SVC SAN. RHEL 4 - 6.7 OS. p2v of Oracle RAC clusters on RHEL.

Assisting AWS SME in building out AWS infrastructure in multiple production, development and testing environments and deploying infrastructure services onto EC2 instances including Apache mod_cluster, JBoss EAP domains, LDAP (Red Hat Identity Manager/IPA), Jenkins, Logstash ELK stack and AWS Direct Connect by writing and running SVN version controlled Ansible Playbooks and using Packer, boto and AWS CLI tools. Developing and testing procedures for manual scaling out by adding an additional stack of web/JBoss EC2 tiers. Also using JIRA, Confluence and Hipchat productivity tools.