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18 years experience IT Pro - Senior Devops / AWS Solution Architect Professional
John Lang
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Alnwick, United Kingdom
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DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect with previous experience in Solution / Infrastructure architecture, experienced in public, private, financial and military environments internationally. Able to work within a team and autonomously to provide technical guidance and design to ensure business requirements are efficiently and adequately satisfied. Quick and willing to learn new businesses, concepts and technologies, share knowledge and mentor less experienced team members. Specialising in virtualisation and cloud technologies, experienced with customer and vendor management. Experience in managing technical and remote teams. Status Eligibility: UK/EU Citizen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Security Clearance: Expired SC Cleared, willing to renew
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2020 - ?
job
SRE / Senior Devops Engineer
Name.
Rackspace LTD
Details:
Instrumental in onboarding a major UK bank onto Rackspace support. Working in a highly specialized team
responsible for the redesign / re-architecture of the existing sub-optimal AWS and application deployment
infrastructure. Design and implementation of IaC pipelines using Ansible, Terraform and Jenkins. Implementation
of application deployment pipelines to build and deploy containers to EKS - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
Automated configuration and deployment of core components such as AWS core Services, Kubernetes, ScyllaDB,
Hashicorp Consul / Vault, Artifactory, Jenkins. Senior Devops engineer in a team consisting of 12 Devops engineers
onshore and offshore. Participating in Technical Design Authority groups and various architecture reviews to help the business make the right technology decisions moving forward.
Details:
Instrumental in onboarding a major UK bank onto Rackspace support. Working in a highly specialized team
responsible for the redesign / re-architecture of the existing sub-optimal AWS and application deployment
infrastructure. Design and implementation of IaC pipelines using Ansible, Terraform and Jenkins. Implementation
of application deployment pipelines to build and deploy containers to EKS - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
Automated configuration and deployment of core components such as AWS core Services, Kubernetes, ScyllaDB,
Hashicorp Consul / Vault, Artifactory, Jenkins. Senior Devops engineer in a team consisting of 12 Devops engineers
onshore and offshore. Participating in Technical Design Authority groups and various architecture reviews to help the business make the right technology decisions moving forward.
Design, AWS, Jenkins, Deployment, DevOps, Kubernetes, Onboarding, Architecture, Service, Technology, Offshore, Implementation, Support, Amazon, Infrastructure, Redesign
2018 - ?
job
Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineering
Tesco Bank PLC.
Company Name: Tesco Bank PLC
Details:
Joining to support the critical phase of one of the banks key initiatives as the project was approaching Go-Live.
Instilling DevOps practices and culture in the organisation.
Lead DevOps Engineer for DADI Award nominated Tesco Bank New Product Customer Experience application.
Key team member implementing PSD2 Open Banking, including automation and deployment of Ping Identity,
Google (Apigee) Edge and Symphonic Policy Manager on AWS.
Advocate of DevOps practices, including automation, Kanban, cloud native architecture.
Mentor to less experienced and junior team members
Refactoring pure Ansible IaC to be immutable and idempotent with more appropriate tooling.
Example technology stack, including but not limited to:
Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Galaxy Roles, Ansible Projects, Python, Troposphere, bash, Jenkins pipelines and JCasC, CI / CD, Docker, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Server, Acitve Directory, LDAP,
Visual Studio Code, Jira, Confluence, HipChat, Packer, Splunk, Nexus, Postman, RHEL, Ubuntu, MacOS, Citrix
XenApp / XenDesktop, Squid Proxy, Apache, Jboss, Node.js, Java, Oracle, SQL, Pen Test remediation, Certificate
Management, Android Mobile, Security Patching compliance, Tagging compliance, CIS compliance, OpenVPN,
TIBCO.
Example AWS Stack, including but not limited to:
Ec2, CloudFormation, RDS, Lambda, Route53, SNS, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, IAM, Organisations, CodeDeploy, S3,
ElastiCache, CloudTrail, Athena, DMS, VPC, Direct Connect, Config, Systems Manager, KMS, Billing.
Details:
Joining to support the critical phase of one of the banks key initiatives as the project was approaching Go-Live.
Instilling DevOps practices and culture in the organisation.
Lead DevOps Engineer for DADI Award nominated Tesco Bank New Product Customer Experience application.
Key team member implementing PSD2 Open Banking, including automation and deployment of Ping Identity,
Google (Apigee) Edge and Symphonic Policy Manager on AWS.
Advocate of DevOps practices, including automation, Kanban, cloud native architecture.
Mentor to less experienced and junior team members
Refactoring pure Ansible IaC to be immutable and idempotent with more appropriate tooling.
Example technology stack, including but not limited to:
Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Galaxy Roles, Ansible Projects, Python, Troposphere, bash, Jenkins pipelines and JCasC, CI / CD, Docker, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Server, Acitve Directory, LDAP,
Visual Studio Code, Jira, Confluence, HipChat, Packer, Splunk, Nexus, Postman, RHEL, Ubuntu, MacOS, Citrix
XenApp / XenDesktop, Squid Proxy, Apache, Jboss, Node.js, Java, Oracle, SQL, Pen Test remediation, Certificate
Management, Android Mobile, Security Patching compliance, Tagging compliance, CIS compliance, OpenVPN,
TIBCO.
Example AWS Stack, including but not limited to:
Ec2, CloudFormation, RDS, Lambda, Route53, SNS, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, IAM, Organisations, CodeDeploy, S3,
ElastiCache, CloudTrail, Athena, DMS, VPC, Direct Connect, Config, Systems Manager, KMS, Billing.
Support, Security, Microsoft Server, Compliance, Technology, Test, Banking, Less, Confluence, Engineering, PLC, Ubuntu, Microsoft Teams, Architecture, Macos, Lambda, Visual studio code, Google, Organization, Server, TIBCO, Native, Go, Manager, Customer, SharePoint, Sql, Java, Node.js, Docker, Android, Jira, AWS, Oracle, Jenkins, Customer experience, Deployment, DevOps, Python, Automation, Mentor, Cloud, Management, Apache, Citrix, Kanban, Bash, Github, Visual Studio, Node
2019 - 2020
job
Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineering
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Company Name: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
Details:
Brought in to assist RBS deliver their Single Digital Platform (SDP) using DevOps practices, providing a single point of service for customers to consume a cloud architectures to run microservices through development
environments to UAT and production.
CI / CD with TeamCity, GitLab, Terraform Enterprise, Ansible Tower. IaC on AWS with Terraform, Packer, Docker,
Ansible. Testing with Terratest and Molecule. Agile / Kanban with Atlassian, Jira, Confluence. Secrets management with Consul, Vault, CyberArc. Windows and Linux OS. Artefacts in Artifactory, Nexus, S3.
Development on Visual Studio Code hosted on Kubernetes. Programming and scripting with Go, Python, Bash, HCL
Job Title: Cloud Architect / Engineer
Location: Remote
Dates Worked: Present
Company Name: LangCloud ltd
Details:
DevOps advocate focused on enabling businesses to get products and features from ideas, to code, to the customer in a fast, reliable and predictable manner.
Currently developing infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible to deploy Kubernetes on AWS to host
microservices applications.
Evaluating next generation IaC tooling such as Pulumi and AWS CDK.
Highly skilled at deploying infrastructure as code with CloudFormation and migrating existing workloads to AWS both lift and shift or rearchitecting for the cloud
Working towards Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer (GCP ACE) certification covering Kubernetes.
Details:
Brought in to assist RBS deliver their Single Digital Platform (SDP) using DevOps practices, providing a single point of service for customers to consume a cloud architectures to run microservices through development
environments to UAT and production.
CI / CD with TeamCity, GitLab, Terraform Enterprise, Ansible Tower. IaC on AWS with Terraform, Packer, Docker,
Ansible. Testing with Terratest and Molecule. Agile / Kanban with Atlassian, Jira, Confluence. Secrets management with Consul, Vault, CyberArc. Windows and Linux OS. Artefacts in Artifactory, Nexus, S3.
Development on Visual Studio Code hosted on Kubernetes. Programming and scripting with Go, Python, Bash, HCL
Job Title: Cloud Architect / Engineer
Location: Remote
Dates Worked: Present
Company Name: LangCloud ltd
Details:
DevOps advocate focused on enabling businesses to get products and features from ideas, to code, to the customer in a fast, reliable and predictable manner.
Currently developing infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible to deploy Kubernetes on AWS to host
microservices applications.
Evaluating next generation IaC tooling such as Pulumi and AWS CDK.
Highly skilled at deploying infrastructure as code with CloudFormation and migrating existing workloads to AWS both lift and shift or rearchitecting for the cloud
Working towards Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer (GCP ACE) certification covering Kubernetes.
Development, Service, Windows, Confluence, Engineering, Infrastructure, Teamcity, Testing, Visual studio code, Visual Studio, Google, Atlassian, Production, Enterprise, Go, Customer, Platform, Python, Google cloud, Bash, Kanban, Google Cloud Platform, Management, Microservices, Cloud, Kubernetes, Scripting, Agile, DevOps, AWS, Jira, Docker, Linux
2017 - 2017
freelance
Senior DevOps / AWS Consultant
People's Postcode Lottery Details.
Company Name: People's Postcode Lottery Details:
Providing consultancy and technical services for PPL's transition to the Cloud and DevOps methodologies,
providing AWS Security and Organisational architecture and transitioning existing traditionally hosted web
services, including PHP, NodeJS, Java, Varnish, ModProxy etc to AWS.
Integrating AWS services with existing telemetry tools such as logstash, logspout for containers, elasticache,
OpsGeni, newrelic
Developing Ansible roles render and deploy Cloudformation templates to build infrastructure including Serverless
using AWS SAM
AWS stack - CloudFront, ApiGateway, Lambda, RDS, ElasticSearch, EC2, VPC, AWS Organisations, CloudWatch,
CodeDeploy, CloudTrail, ECS, ECR, CloudFormaton, Docker, Ubuntu, RedHat, Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo
Providing consultancy and technical services for PPL's transition to the Cloud and DevOps methodologies,
providing AWS Security and Organisational architecture and transitioning existing traditionally hosted web
services, including PHP, NodeJS, Java, Varnish, ModProxy etc to AWS.
Integrating AWS services with existing telemetry tools such as logstash, logspout for containers, elasticache,
OpsGeni, newrelic
Developing Ansible roles render and deploy Cloudformation templates to build infrastructure including Serverless
using AWS SAM
AWS stack - CloudFront, ApiGateway, Lambda, RDS, ElasticSearch, EC2, VPC, AWS Organisations, CloudWatch,
CodeDeploy, CloudTrail, ECS, ECR, CloudFormaton, Docker, Ubuntu, RedHat, Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Web, Lambda, Infrastructure, Serverless, Ubuntu, Security, Architecture, Php, Cloud, NodeJS, DevOps, AWS, Jira, Docker, Java
2016 - 2016
freelance
Lead AWS Consultant / Infrastructure Architect
Web Technology Group ltd.
Company Name: Web Technology Group ltd
Job Type: Contract Details:
Producing architecture artefacts including systems diagrams, high level and low-level design documents for hybrid
cloud solutions. Responsible for information assurance response and resolution activities and designing secure
infrastructure. Working directly with central government client (Home Office) on national security solutions.
Providing project support, architecture, design and implementation services for a heterogeneous platform
consisting of technologies such as Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Server 2012R2, Active Directory,
Windows 10, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM), Microsoft SQL
Job Type: Contract Details:
Producing architecture artefacts including systems diagrams, high level and low-level design documents for hybrid
cloud solutions. Responsible for information assurance response and resolution activities and designing secure
infrastructure. Working directly with central government client (Home Office) on national security solutions.
Providing project support, architecture, design and implementation services for a heterogeneous platform
consisting of technologies such as Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Server 2012R2, Active Directory,
Windows 10, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM), Microsoft SQL
Windows, Platform, Manager, Hybrid, Server, Web, Office, Infrastructure, Remote Desktop, Amazon, Support, Implementation, Design, Technology, Service, Microsoft Server, Security, Architecture, Cloud, Microsoft SQL, Active Directory, AWS, Sql
2014 - 2015
job
Solutions Architect
ISE / BAE Systems.
Company Name: ISE / BAE Systems
Job Type: Contract Details:
Providing infrastructure and architecture consultancy services for BAE Systems to support the delivery of programs for the Royal Saudi Air Force. Providing technical architecture and design for projects and implementation
activities.
Responsible for the design architecture of complex application and infrastructure deliveries on converged systems,
including HP ConvergedSystem 700c 2.0, including Microsoft System Center 2012 R2, Hyper-V, VMWare ESXi, Citrix
XenDesktop / XenApp and various aviation specific maintenance and training applications.
Consulting for public and private cloud initiatives including Microsoft Private Cloud, Azure, Office 365, Azure Active
Directory
Working within the architecture team reporting directly into the lead enterprise architect and program manager,
collaborating with third party suppliers and in house SME's to develop solutions and detailed designs.
Job Type: Contract Details:
Providing infrastructure and architecture consultancy services for BAE Systems to support the delivery of programs for the Royal Saudi Air Force. Providing technical architecture and design for projects and implementation
activities.
Responsible for the design architecture of complex application and infrastructure deliveries on converged systems,
including HP ConvergedSystem 700c 2.0, including Microsoft System Center 2012 R2, Hyper-V, VMWare ESXi, Citrix
XenDesktop / XenApp and various aviation specific maintenance and training applications.
Consulting for public and private cloud initiatives including Microsoft Private Cloud, Azure, Office 365, Azure Active
Directory
Working within the architecture team reporting directly into the lead enterprise architect and program manager,
collaborating with third party suppliers and in house SME's to develop solutions and detailed designs.
Design, Office 365, Azure, VMware, Training, Cloud, Consulting, Citrix, Architecture, Hyper-V, Implementation, Support, Infrastructure, Office, Enterprise, Manager
2013 - 2014
job
Live Services Specialist - European Live Services
Sage UK Ltd.
Company Name: Sage UK Ltd
Job Type: Permanent Details:
Working in Sage's Newcastle-based European DevOps Team. Tasked with design and implementation for a
number of Sage's online products across Europe. Responsible for the development and management of key
systems that run the Sage European on-line portfolio.
The role required total service ownership, including service management activities, stakeholder management,
vendor management and customer management.
Technical lead in the migration of two of Sage's core online services from traditionally hosted infrastructure to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to provide products as SaaS. Working in a
DevOps Agile environment.
Design and implementation and migration of
● Amazon VPC, RDS, EBS, EC2, IAM, Cloudwatch, Glacier
● Configuration management
● Hybrid multi site / cloud architectures
● Multi Factor Authentication including GoogleAuth, LDAP
● Microsoft Azure IaaS / PaaS
● RHEL / Linux Administration
● Backup and snapshot management
● Microsoft SQL Clustering
● Microsoft Active Directory 2003, 2008, 2012
● Microsoft File Server Clustering
● 1500+ customer Citrix infrastructure including XenApp 5.0, 6.5, 7.5
● Automated scaling and provisioning
● Automated Power and Capacity management with Microsoft Powershell
● Microsoft IIS 6.0, 7.5
● Citrix NetScaler for SSL and Load balancing and Access Gateway
● REST API / JSON
● Microsoft Server technologies
Job Type: Permanent Details:
Working in Sage's Newcastle-based European DevOps Team. Tasked with design and implementation for a
number of Sage's online products across Europe. Responsible for the development and management of key
systems that run the Sage European on-line portfolio.
The role required total service ownership, including service management activities, stakeholder management,
vendor management and customer management.
Technical lead in the migration of two of Sage's core online services from traditionally hosted infrastructure to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to provide products as SaaS. Working in a
DevOps Agile environment.
Design and implementation and migration of
● Amazon VPC, RDS, EBS, EC2, IAM, Cloudwatch, Glacier
● Configuration management
● Hybrid multi site / cloud architectures
● Multi Factor Authentication including GoogleAuth, LDAP
● Microsoft Azure IaaS / PaaS
● RHEL / Linux Administration
● Backup and snapshot management
● Microsoft SQL Clustering
● Microsoft Active Directory 2003, 2008, 2012
● Microsoft File Server Clustering
● 1500+ customer Citrix infrastructure including XenApp 5.0, 6.5, 7.5
● Automated scaling and provisioning
● Automated Power and Capacity management with Microsoft Powershell
● Microsoft IIS 6.0, 7.5
● Citrix NetScaler for SSL and Load balancing and Access Gateway
● REST API / JSON
● Microsoft Server technologies
Backup, Microsoft Server, Service, Service Management, Vendor Management, IIS, Authentication, Implementation, Amazon, Infrastructure, Load balancing, Configuration Management, PowerShell, Development, Online, Web, Server, Power, Tech lead, NetScaler, Https, Hybrid, Customer, DevOps, Sql, API, Administration, Linux, AWS, REST API, JSON, Active Directory, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Design, Microsoft azure, Agile, Stakeholder Management, Saas, REST, Microsoft SQL, Cloud, Web Services, Management, Citrix
2012 - 2014
job
Infrastructure Architect / Technical Coordinator
Citrix XenApp / NetScaler.
Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall and VMWare 6.0. HP Proliant
Job Title: Infrastructure Architect / Technical Coordinator
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Job Title: Infrastructure Architect / Technical Coordinator
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
VMware, Firewall, Infrastructure, Coordinator, Hp proliant
2012 - 2013
job
Technical Analyst - Infrastructure
Virgin Money.
Company Name: Virgin Money
Job Type: Permanent Details:
Technical lead on all Citrix technologies including VDI and application virtualization on XenApp and XenDesktop
including AppSense and AppDNA.
Planning the integration and upgrade of Active Directory forests to consolidated organizations.
Working closely with project and program managers to deliver various solutions on Windows Server, Database and VMWare technologies
Upgrade remote Citrix access solution, consolidating Citrix WebInterface, Advanced Access Control and physical
Citrix Access Gateway devices to ncore NetScaler MPX and Netscaler HA with Clustered WebInterface.
Working closely with Microsoft and Citrix to build a detailed business case for Desktop transformation, including
XP migration, data migration and application repackaging for 8000 users.
Job Type: Permanent Details:
Technical lead on all Citrix technologies including VDI and application virtualization on XenApp and XenDesktop
including AppSense and AppDNA.
Planning the integration and upgrade of Active Directory forests to consolidated organizations.
Working closely with project and program managers to deliver various solutions on Windows Server, Database and VMWare technologies
Upgrade remote Citrix access solution, consolidating Citrix WebInterface, Advanced Access Control and physical
Citrix Access Gateway devices to ncore NetScaler MPX and Netscaler HA with Clustered WebInterface.
Working closely with Microsoft and Citrix to build a detailed business case for Desktop transformation, including
XP migration, data migration and application repackaging for 8000 users.
Virtualization, XP, NetScaler, Tech lead, VDI, Server, Analyst, Infrastructure, Transformation, Active Directory, Business Case, Windows, Integration, Windows server, Citrix, Database, VMware
2012 - 2012
job
Exposure to Chef
Microsoft System Centre.
Puppet, GitHub, Ansible, CloudFlare, Nginx, DevOps, Agile, Scrum etc.
Scrum, DevOps, Agile, Github, Nginx
2006 - 2012
job
Technical Analyst - Infrastructure
Northern Rock PLC.
Company Name: Northern Rock PLC
Job Type: Permanent Details:
Citrix lead, supporting, developing and steering Citrix XenApp, Netscaler, Access Gateway, Appsense infrastructure.
Implementing POC and demonstration environments for XenDesktop on Wyse Xenith Clients / HP POE devices.
Provide management of the distributed Microsoft Windows Server estate including AD authentication services,
Exchange corporate email, Citrix Server Infrastructure, Blackberry Enterprise Server, FTP/SFTP/Connect Direct File
Transfer Services, Rightfax Digital Faxing, DNS/WINS, Microsoft Clustering, SRDF-CE Clustering, AvocentDSView,
PGP Encryption, McAfee Anti Virus & RSA Token Authentication.
Specific responsibilities include the planning, installation and administration of hardware and software solutions to appropriate standards, provision of system deployment/ monitoring solutions, fault diagnosis, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
Working collaboratively with other IT colleagues, and support the IT Team Leader to deliver results and identify
ways to improve performance and effectiveness.
Ensure the maintenance of all applicable standards, methods and tools.
Management and performance monitoring of third party suppliers.
Capacity planning and performance monitoring of the Microsoft Server Infrastructure.
Job Type: Permanent Details:
Citrix lead, supporting, developing and steering Citrix XenApp, Netscaler, Access Gateway, Appsense infrastructure.
Implementing POC and demonstration environments for XenDesktop on Wyse Xenith Clients / HP POE devices.
Provide management of the distributed Microsoft Windows Server estate including AD authentication services,
Exchange corporate email, Citrix Server Infrastructure, Blackberry Enterprise Server, FTP/SFTP/Connect Direct File
Transfer Services, Rightfax Digital Faxing, DNS/WINS, Microsoft Clustering, SRDF-CE Clustering, AvocentDSView,
PGP Encryption, McAfee Anti Virus & RSA Token Authentication.
Specific responsibilities include the planning, installation and administration of hardware and software solutions to appropriate standards, provision of system deployment/ monitoring solutions, fault diagnosis, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
Working collaboratively with other IT colleagues, and support the IT Team Leader to deliver results and identify
ways to improve performance and effectiveness.
Ensure the maintenance of all applicable standards, methods and tools.
Management and performance monitoring of third party suppliers.
Capacity planning and performance monitoring of the Microsoft Server Infrastructure.
Support, Citrix server, POC, Sftp, NetScaler, Enterprise, Server, Software, Monitoring, Analyst, Infrastructure, Hardware, Administration, Authentication, It, PLC, Windows, Microsoft Server, Windows server, Citrix, Management, DNS, Deployment, Exchange
My education
2001
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2003
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
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