SEEKING WORK - Remote or London, UK
I'm a seasoned DevOps guy with 15 years experience hosting and tuning applications.
I work closely with developers throughout the application lifecycle to build scalable and robust architectures. Load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it. For larger organisations I've even led whole infrastructure teams.
Recent work includes:
+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Worked closely with developers to ensure services were the best possible fit for containerized hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Multiple stack-instances namespaced onto same k8s cluster for efficiency; containerization of all services; automated deploys from CI. Persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.
+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice-based web app taking millions of pounds per month in payments.
+ Chef-managed deployment of large microservice stack across varied configurations on cloud and physical servers
+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Didn't get rich.
+ Jenkins + docker-compose platform for efficient builds of microservice-based projects
+ Lots, lots more.
hn-2017-07@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4