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An experienced Technical Payment Specialist/Architect, specialising in the Banking and Financial Services industry. Previous roles as an IT Operations Lead, delivering projects around Disaster Recovery, Data Centre management, monitoring and alerting solutions, cost analysis, SLA reporting across a hybrid infrastructure and improving IT support across Azure and O365. Extensive knowledge in SWIFT payments infrastructure in a hybrid environment across on-premise and Azure cloud platform. Currently leading the migration of the SWIFT infrastructure to Azure. SWIFT Payments Infrastructure; - SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA) - SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG) - SWIFT Net Link (SNL) - SWIFT Alliance Web Platform SE (AWP) - Full management of the HSM's across multiple Data Centres - PED device management - Full management of the SWIFT SRX VPN boxes - Data Centre management of the BT and COLT routers, internal Switches and Firewalls Azure Solutions; - IaaS solution for building and managing the SWIFT VM's in Azure - Infrastructure as Code via Terraform to build templates and deploy SWIFT VM's - Express Route management from Azure to on-premise Data Centres - NSG's used to manage security between SWIFT VM's in Azure and on-premise VM's, HSM's and VPN's - APP Gateway (WAF) built to manage and secure incoming/outgoing SWIFT traffic - VNET peering configured between multiple VNET's - Azure Load Balancer configured to balance traffic between Service Fabric environments and SWIFT VM's Infrastructure Solutions; - Full management of the SWIFT on-premise hosts built on Server 2012 R2 - Building and managing Virtual Machines via Hyper-V - Networking management of the Virtual Machines and SWIFT applications - DNS and DHCP management - PowerShell scripting to automate backups, restarts, site-to-site replication and Hyper-V management - ClearBank Domain management, NTP servers, Domain Controller and integration with Active Directory - F5 Load Balancer to manage traffic across 2 Data Centres consisting of multiple Virtual Machines