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Experienced DevOps Engineer
Greg Langford
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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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I am a self taught DevOps engineer with many years of experience working for some well known household brands with an appetite for continuously learning and developing my skills. I pride myself on my ability to quickly understand the task at hand and provide immediate value. In addition I have been complimented in many of the projects I have worked on for my ability to explain difficult concepts to people in an easy to understand way.
Markets
United States
(Remote
only)
United Kingdom
France
(Remote
only)
Germany
(Remote
only)
Lithuania
(Remote
only)
Denmark
(Remote
only)
Norway
(Remote
only)
Sweden
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only)
Finland
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only)
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2019 - 2020
freelance
DevOps Engineer
TUI UK and Ireland.
Technologies
Amazon Web Services (EC2, Route53, CloudFront, S3, CloudWatch,
Systems Manager, IAM) Linux, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, Ansible,
Packer, Python, Selenium, Vagrant, Git
● Build a replacement automated holding page solution for all brands using CloudFront and S3
● Automate start of day checks using Python and Webdriver to ensure end to end availability
● Mentoring team members to enhance their confidence using tools
such as Ansible, Terraform, Packer and Jenkins
● Build a local development environment for team members to test and learn Ansible locally on their laptops.
Amazon Web Services (EC2, Route53, CloudFront, S3, CloudWatch,
Systems Manager, IAM) Linux, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, Ansible,
Packer, Python, Selenium, Vagrant, Git
● Build a replacement automated holding page solution for all brands using CloudFront and S3
● Automate start of day checks using Python and Webdriver to ensure end to end availability
● Mentoring team members to enhance their confidence using tools
such as Ansible, Terraform, Packer and Jenkins
● Build a local development environment for team members to test and learn Ansible locally on their laptops.
Python, Git, Linux, Docker, Jenkins, DevOps, Amazon Web Services, Mentoring, Selenium, Web Services, Test, Amazon, Development, Web, Manager, ME
2018 - 2019
freelance
DevOps Engineer
Arcadia Group.
Arcadia Group.
Technologies
Amazon Web Services (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, ELB / ALB, S3, Route53, Elasticache, RDS, SNS) Linux, Jenkins, Docker, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Consul, cAdvisor
● Design and automate the building of development environments.
● Supporting production releases to Elastic Beanstalk environments
● Build a Prometheus and Grafana to gather metrics from cAdvisor
● Provide technical assistance to Developers and QA engineers
● Building isolated development environments for the dev team and assisting with day to day operations.
● Migrate and maintain a busy Jenkins server with hundreds of jobs.
Amazon Web Services (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, ELB / ALB, S3, Route53, Elasticache, RDS, SNS) Linux, Jenkins, Docker, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Consul, cAdvisor
● Design and automate the building of development environments.
● Supporting production releases to Elastic Beanstalk environments
● Build a Prometheus and Grafana to gather metrics from cAdvisor
● Provide technical assistance to Developers and QA engineers
● Building isolated development environments for the dev team and assisting with day to day operations.
● Migrate and maintain a busy Jenkins server with hundreds of jobs.
Linux, Docker, Jenkins, DevOps, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, Development, Web, Server
2017 - 2018
job
DevOps Engineer
Deepcrawl.
Technologies
Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, EFS, RFS, IAM, Route 53), Apache Mesos, Collectd, Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, Graphite, Jenkins, Kibana, Linux, Logstash, Nagios, Packer, Puppet, Terraform, Vagrant
● Architect infrastructure for company projects using Amazon Web Services
● Automating infrastructure build and provisioning with Terraform and Puppet
● Design, build and maintain Apache Mesos cluster for running Apache Spark workloads.
● Monitoring the entire infrastructure landscape using tools such as Graphite, ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana), Nagios, Datadog
Building isolated development environments for the dev team and assisting with day to day operations.
Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, EFS, RFS, IAM, Route 53), Apache Mesos, Collectd, Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, Graphite, Jenkins, Kibana, Linux, Logstash, Nagios, Packer, Puppet, Terraform, Vagrant
● Architect infrastructure for company projects using Amazon Web Services
● Automating infrastructure build and provisioning with Terraform and Puppet
● Design, build and maintain Apache Mesos cluster for running Apache Spark workloads.
● Monitoring the entire infrastructure landscape using tools such as Graphite, ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana), Nagios, Datadog
Building isolated development environments for the dev team and assisting with day to day operations.
Apache, Mesos, Logstash, Nagios, Kibana, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Web Services, Elasticsearch, DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, Linux, Git, Apache Mesos, Cloud, Amazon Web Services
2017 - 2017
job
Senior DevOps Engineer
Travis Perkins Plc.
Technologies
Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, Route 53, VPC, S3), Ansible,
Docker, Git, Jenkins, Linux, Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, Vault
● Building immutable infrastructure with Amazon Web Services
● Writing new and improving upon existing automation code in both
Terraform and Ansible.
● Owning and maintaining the Gitlab service being used across
multiple departments and engineering teams.
● Mentoring colleagues on consuming and understanding the tools
and automation advocated by the Cloud Centre of Excellence.
● Actively contribute to the setting of standards and best practices in migrating services to the cloud.
● Setting up new AWS accounts for specific projects including
assigning subnets and working alongside the networking team to get site to site IPSEC VPN setup
Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, Route 53, VPC, S3), Ansible,
Docker, Git, Jenkins, Linux, Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, Vault
● Building immutable infrastructure with Amazon Web Services
● Writing new and improving upon existing automation code in both
Terraform and Ansible.
● Owning and maintaining the Gitlab service being used across
multiple departments and engineering teams.
● Mentoring colleagues on consuming and understanding the tools
and automation advocated by the Cloud Centre of Excellence.
● Actively contribute to the setting of standards and best practices in migrating services to the cloud.
● Setting up new AWS accounts for specific projects including
assigning subnets and working alongside the networking team to get site to site IPSEC VPN setup
Infrastructure, Web Services, Cloud, Automation, Git, Amazon Web Services, DevOps, Jenkins, Networking, AWS, Docker, Linux
2015 - 2017
job
Web Operations Engineer
Office Depot UK Limited.
Technologies
Chef, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Javascript (NodeJS),
Jenkins, Linux, Nagios, Newrelic, Python, Ruby, SAP Hybris, Splunk
● Automating the roll-out of the Hybris e-commerce platform for the Viking brand websites.
● Operational triage and monitoring using tools such as Splunk,
NewRelic, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana)
● Building CI and CD pipelines using Jenkins to empower
development teams and automate the deployment of production
artifacts.
● Writing scripts predominantly in Ruby to support the business where
required, for example processing non relational datasets and building reports from the results.
● Providing technical assistance to Development, QA and Infosec
teams.
● Creating synthetic browser tests using NewRelic to emulate real
user behaviour on the websites and notify on failure or unexpected
results.
● Managing two medium size Chef estates, one for the eCommerce
platform and one for the integration layer. Including creating
cookbooks and recipes from scratch and building the custom
associated resources and providers for Suse Linux where needed.
Chef, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Javascript (NodeJS),
Jenkins, Linux, Nagios, Newrelic, Python, Ruby, SAP Hybris, Splunk
● Automating the roll-out of the Hybris e-commerce platform for the Viking brand websites.
● Operational triage and monitoring using tools such as Splunk,
NewRelic, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana)
● Building CI and CD pipelines using Jenkins to empower
development teams and automate the deployment of production
artifacts.
● Writing scripts predominantly in Ruby to support the business where
required, for example processing non relational datasets and building reports from the results.
● Providing technical assistance to Development, QA and Infosec
teams.
● Creating synthetic browser tests using NewRelic to emulate real
user behaviour on the websites and notify on failure or unexpected
results.
● Managing two medium size Chef estates, one for the eCommerce
platform and one for the integration layer. Including creating
cookbooks and recipes from scratch and building the custom
associated resources and providers for Suse Linux where needed.
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Processing, Production, Nagios, Web, Kibana, Development, Monitoring, Support, QA, Integration, Javascript, E-commerce, Deployment, NodeJS, Jenkins, SAP, Websites, Operations, Ecommerce, Writing, Linux, Python
2013 - 2015
job
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Synology UK Ltd.
Technologies
Linux, Synology Disk Station Manager, Network Attached Storage,
Networking
● Providing technical support via phone and email
● Linux troubleshooting
● Data recovery within Linux
● Training team members on both Linux and Synology specific topics.
● Attending trade shows to provide live demonstrations of the products.
● Point of contact for business customers providing express support
within 1 hour.
Linux, Synology Disk Station Manager, Network Attached Storage,
Networking
● Providing technical support via phone and email
● Linux troubleshooting
● Data recovery within Linux
● Training team members on both Linux and Synology specific topics.
● Attending trade shows to provide live demonstrations of the products.
● Point of contact for business customers providing express support
within 1 hour.
Linux, Networking, Training, Network, Support, Storage, Express, Synology, Manager
2010 - 2012
job
Linux Technical Support Engineer
Nuco Technologies Ltd.
Technologies
Cisco, DNS, Linux, MRTG, MySQL, Nagios, Networking, Solar Winds
● Linux System Administration of high traffic web and mail servers
hosting thousands of customers.
● Managing and monitoring Cisco based networks using tools like
Solar Winds, Nagios, MRTG and Cacti. Making BGP routing
changes and diagnosing outages.
● Providing on call assistance for issues with network and server
problems.
● Built a high performance scalable database aware mail filter to
replace an ageing system. Using technologies such as MySQL and open source software such as amavisd-new and Postfix.
● Built a network based operating system provisioning system for
both Windows and Linux servers. Utilising Debian preseeding and CentOS kickstart files along with pxelinux.
● Took on the responsibilities of the technical director while they were
on annual leave. This was due to my high level of knowledge and ability to solve complex issues quickly.
Cisco, DNS, Linux, MRTG, MySQL, Nagios, Networking, Solar Winds
● Linux System Administration of high traffic web and mail servers
hosting thousands of customers.
● Managing and monitoring Cisco based networks using tools like
Solar Winds, Nagios, MRTG and Cacti. Making BGP routing
changes and diagnosing outages.
● Providing on call assistance for issues with network and server
problems.
● Built a high performance scalable database aware mail filter to
replace an ageing system. Using technologies such as MySQL and open source software such as amavisd-new and Postfix.
● Built a network based operating system provisioning system for
both Windows and Linux servers. Utilising Debian preseeding and CentOS kickstart files along with pxelinux.
● Took on the responsibilities of the technical director while they were
on annual leave. This was due to my high level of knowledge and ability to solve complex issues quickly.
Open source, Postfix, Server, Nagios, Web, Debian, Software, CentOS, Monitoring, Support, Hosting, Mysql, Network, Windows, System administration, DNS, Database, Cisco, Networking, Administration, Linux
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