Platform Services Team Lead
DD/MM/2023 - DD/MM/2024
Team lead for the Platform Services team, consisting of four highly skilled DevOps Engineers. As a team we’re building and delivering the vision of ‘automation first’ to the wider organization and our customer.
Lead of the Platform Services Team of four DevOps focused engineers in a highly dynamic fast paced organization, who’s primary focus is experimentation for our customers.
Our mission is enabling our organization to deliver applications and services using automated deployment processes. We are committed to create efficient and scalable deployments that ensure consistency and reduce the risk of errors. Our goal is to continuously improve our deployment processes, tools and technologies while maintaining focus on security and quality. We strive to be a reliable trusted partner to our platform teams; providing them with the necessary tools and support to deploy with confidence and speed of accuracy.
Notable Projects:#
- Deployments of our supported applications into four separate offline environments across multiple levels of classification using automation and containerisation.
- Continuous improvement, Security analysis, hardening and patching of the above services through automation to ensure secure and reliable services.
- Automated deployment, configuration and HA / DR of:
- Required tooling such as Vault, Git, documentation, service desk and automation orchestration for use by the Platforms and project teams.
- Infrastructure and base services such as IDP, Database, NTP, Repository, Federated Services, logging and monitoring.
- Linux OS hardening and security review for automated OS image creation. My responsibilities include:
- Drive the adoption and use of automation technologies such as Ansible, Terraform and other software / technologies to provide repeatable and reliable services.
- Provide technical leadership, oversight, guidance and direction for a team of four DevOps engineers with a wide mix of skills which are aligned to the needs of the business and our customers.
- Manage and execute projects using Agile delivery methods and practices
- Engage with the business to shape the direction of existing services as well as identifying, planning and delivering new services and ways of working to enhance our service / product offerings and internal practices.