DevOps Engineer Resume Sample

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Nigel Ambrose

DevOps Engineer

Automating the path from code to production

[email protected]
github.com/nigelambrose
linkedin.com/in/nigel-ambrose-devops

DevOps engineer with nine years bridging development and operations for software teams in Manchester. Builds and runs the automation, pipelines and infrastructure that let teams ship fast and safely — CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containers, monitoring and cloud. Rebuilt the deployment pipeline and infrastructure-as-code, cutting deployment time and reducing incidents. Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, manages cloud infrastructure with Terraform, runs Kubernetes and Docker, sets up monitoring and alerting, and improves reliability and security. Strong on both deep automation and the collaborative, reliability-focused mindset DevOps demands. Calm during incidents and rigorous about automation and recovery. Looking for a DevOps, platform or SRE engineering role with a team that wants to ship fast and stay reliable.

Work Experience

Manchester Software Group - Manchester, UK

DevOps Engineer April 2017 to Present 9 years & 4 months

Build and run all the automation, the pipelines and the infrastructure that let teams ship safely.
Rebuilt the whole deployment pipeline and the infrastructure-as-code, cutting the deployment time and incidents.
Design and maintain all the CI/CD pipelines and manage all the cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
Run the Kubernetes and the Docker and set up all the monitoring, the logging and alerting.
Improve all the reliability, the security and the recovery right across the whole platform daily.
Collaborate with all the developers and stay genuinely calm while leading the whole incident response throughout.

North West Digital Systems - Manchester, UK

Build / Infrastructure Engineer August 2014 to March 2017 2 years & 8 months

Maintained all the CI pipelines, the build tooling and the cloud infrastructure.
Automated all the deployments and the infrastructure for all the development teams.
Learned the cloud, the containers and the infrastructure-as-code in production there.
Gained the AWS and CKA certification and then a DevOps-engineer role.

North West Digital Systems - Manchester, UK

Systems Administrator June 2012 to July 2014 2 years & 2 months

Worked as a sysadmin running the servers, the networks and the deployments.
Learned the Linux, the scripting and the infrastructure properly on the job.
Built up the systems grounding that good DevOps work is built on.
Then earned the move into a build and infrastructure-engineer role from there.
Education

University of Manchester

BSc (Hons) Software Engineering (September 2011 to June 2014)

Software engineering degree covering development, systems, networks and operations, with a placement year. The placement led directly into DevOps. Built the engineering foundation the role requires.

AWS / Cloud Native Computing Foundation

AWS & Certified Kubernetes Administrator (January 2017 to August 2017)

Certification in AWS and Kubernetes administration covering cloud, deployments and clusters. It formalised the cloud and container skills used daily. Applied directly to pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
Highlights

Faster, safer deployments

Rebuilt the deployment pipeline and infrastructure-as-code, cutting deployment time and reducing incidents. Reliable automation lets the whole team ship faster with less risk.

Calm in incidents

Stays calm and methodical leading incident response when the platform has serious problems. Composure paired with good automation is what restores service fastest.
Pipeline & Infrastructure Rebuild

Platform Reliability Programme

DevOps Engineer (January 2018 to December 2018)

Drove a reliability programme across the platform, adding monitoring, alerting and automated recovery so incidents were caught early and the systems healed themselves before users ever noticed.

Kubernetes Migration

DevOps Engineer (January 2020 to September 2020)

Migrated the services onto Kubernetes with Terraform-managed infrastructure, so deployments became repeatable and the platform scaled automatically with demand instead of manual intervention.
Certifications

AWS & Certified Kubernetes Administrator

AWS / CNCF (August 2017 to Present)

Certification in AWS and Kubernetes administration covering cloud, deployments and clusters. It formalised the cloud and container skills used daily. Applied directly to pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.

Terraform & Observability

HashiCorp (April 2019 to Present)

Certification in Terraform and observability covering infrastructure-as-code, monitoring and alerting. It supports the automated infrastructure and the reliability work run across the platform.
Technical Skills
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Cloud (AWS)
  • Monitoring & Alerting
  • Scripting (Bash/Python)
  • Reliability & SRE
  • Security & Hardening
  • Automation
Langauges

English (UK)

Native or Bilingual Proficiency

German

Limited Working Proficiency
Personal Info

Location

Manchester, UK

Nationality

British

Gender

Male

Notice Period

1 month

Date of Birth

1992-09-22
Personal Skills

Problem Solving

Composure

Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Reliability

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