Mar 2025 — Present
AI Platform Engineer
Segen
Platform & AI infrastructure work: IaC modernization, multi-cloud resilience, security governance, and AI agent tooling for production.
- Architected migration from legacy Bicep to a Terraform/OpenTofu ecosystem — 5 reusable modules, 12 deployment guides, deployment cycles sped up 15%, infrastructure tickets down from 3 days to self-service.
- Engineered multi-cloud HA with AWS as secondary provider: automated failover for critical Azure workloads, regional backups via Azure + Rubrik.
- Led infrastructure remediation to achieve SOC 2 and ISO 27001; deployed centralized IAM, automated access governance, and HashiCorp Vault for secrets + PKI.
- Migrating legacy stacks to Kubernetes (AKS) with strict RBAC integrated with Entra ID for least-privilege developer access.
- Built a production IaC drift-detection system running twice daily, scoped to Azure resources.
- Designed least-privilege access for AI agents (read-only by default via resource-group-scoped service principals) and an SRE review agent that runs terraform plan on PRs with a red/amber/green severity traffic-light.
- Standardised API exposure via Azure APIM, Application Gateway, and internal load balancers.
Feb 2024 — Feb 2025
Platform / DevOps Engineer (Contract)
RES
Enterprise infrastructure at scale: 100+ servers, 4,000+ endpoints, containerized releases, HPC administration.
- Managed an enterprise IaaS environment of 100+ servers and 4,000+ endpoints; custom Terraform module system accelerated resource creation 40%, migration pipelines cut migration time 50%.
- Achieved zero-downtime releases by containerizing legacy apps into Kubernetes (AKS) with CI/CD on GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
- Designed and enforced RBAC + security governance across hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID.
- Implemented AI-powered ticket classification (criticality/priority) and an AI ticket auto-classification system.
- Administered 30+ RHEL HPC servers for computational workloads.
Mar 2023 — Jan 2024
System & Cloud Engineer
Partnership Education Limited
Cloud migration, cost optimization, and high-availability operations across multiple school sites.
- Cut OPEX by migrating on-premise environments to Azure/GCP with Terraform, auto-decommissioning idle services.
- Maintained 99% infrastructure uptime as first responder for outages, upgrades, and backup recovery.
- Automated Linux patching with Ansible + Bash; containerized apps with Docker.
- Upgraded legacy Palo Alto/Juniper/Netgear to Cisco Meraki for major clients.
Jul 2022 — Mar 2023
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Merkur Casino UK
Support for 300+ internal users across multiple venues; Azure governance and DR design.
- Resolved 15+ tickets/day supporting 300+ colleagues; managed AD credentials and group policies.
- Engineered a per-country Azure tenant structure, cutting SLA response times 50% via regional isolation.
- Designed failover + DR using Azure File Share with onsite and offsite redundancy.
- Automated VM provisioning in test environments with Python.
Mar 2021 — Jan 2022
Hardware & Infrastructure Engineer
Euronet Worldwide
ATM hardware engineering with remote diagnostics and automation across the UK.
- Diagnosed ATM hardware remotely over SSH, reducing on-site visits.
- Configured secure network settings on ATM terminals for financial transactions.
- Wrote Bash/Python scripts to automate diagnostics and system health checks.