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Who Moved My Servers book now available: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Moved-Servers-developing-cloud-first/dp/1781333416 Confident Contractor, no1 amazon best seller available: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confident-Contractor-Thriving-Contracting-beyond/dp/1781338752 Please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel so you never miss my video content https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaoh3jk1qtvD3ALPp48_8w As a DevOps professional, I understand the challenges that come with navigating this industry, I want to support others in becoming successful DevOps contractors. I am eager to provide guidance and mentorship to those who are interested in elevating their career as a DevOps contractor. I have been working with enterprise servers for more than 20 years and has the experience of managing them within virtual private clouds and public cloud environments. Working with the UKs financial institutions like Lloyds TSB, Barclays and AXA to ensure their servers run non-stop, through all the failures and upgrades that are expected and required in this fast-paced business world. Recognised with Microsoft, HP and ITIL accreditations, I have used my knowledge and experience to tame manual deployments and upgrade methods, automated monitoring and scaling applications and deployed on-demand cloud ‘Infrastructure as code’ platforms. I have also spoken at IT events like the prestigious Puppet Camp about dynamic cloud based applications using the latest technologies including Puppet and Docker. I have delivered continuous integration projects like the Blue-Yellow-Green upgrade of HP Vertica, a column based database system, in Amazon Web Services, ensuring minimal downtime (about 15 mins) to enable Moneysupermarket to seamlessly upgrade the database version, without any data loss and deliver even more value to their clients. We work with companies to unravel the complexities of app development, cloud migration, optimise assets, and quickly achieve your business outcomes. Our clients range from large multinationals needing to ensure the flexibility to meet spikes in demand during advertising campaigns to small start-ups building for growth. If you’d like to speak to me about scaling your application and your servers , I invite you to connect or contact me direct. Email: [email protected] Key Skills • Dev Ops Server Administration and build • Amazon Cloud Services API integration • Database systems Vertica, Mysql and Mongodb. • Server and application deployment with Git and Puppet