Contact Information

Location: London, UK

GitHub: github.com/krafty1010

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/krafty10

Personal Profile

Cloud and DevOps Engineer with extensive experience designing and optimising scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions for global financial institutions. Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud automation, and compliance within regulated environments. Skilled in leading projects, mentoring teams, and delivering operational excellence through innovative tooling and automation.

Skills

• Cloud: AWS, Azure; high availability and security
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (HCL), AWS CDK (Python)
• Coding: Python (including AWS CDK, SDK (boto3), Azure SDK, Bash scripting)
• DevOps: CI/CD with Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, MS Azure DevOps
• Containers & Microservices: AWS EKS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat), Windows
• Databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL
• Virtualization: VMware
• Converged Infrastructure: Cisco UCS
• Monitoring/Observability: Elastic, OpenSearch, Splunk, Grafana
• Serverless: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
• Team Leadership: Leadership and mentoring experience

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (2024)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2019)
• Hashicorp Terraform Associate (2019)
• PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner
• ITIL Foundation Version 3
• VMware Certified Professional

Employment History

Senior Cloud Engineer | Major Multinational Bank | London | May 2018 - Present

• Contributed to the implementation of a 'Cloud First' strategy, ensuring projects complied with operational, risk, and security requirements.
• Developed tooling solutions using Python integrated with AWS services and products such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Conducted AWS Well-Architected Review sessions, ensuring compliance with vendor best practices and IT risk requirements.
• Onboarded projects to CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting pipeline build and cloud initialization failures.
• Developed Infrastructure as Code projects using Terraform, maintaining shared module libraries.
• Managed the product lifecycle for cloud resources, executing FinOps exercises to reduce costs.
• Implemented least privilege access using AWS IAM and service control policies.
• Managed Kubernetes (AWS EKS/Azure AKS) cluster deployments and automated processes to improve operational efficiency.
• Acted as the senior escalation point for cloud service incidents, leading investigations and providing root cause analysis.
• Trained and mentored junior team members, creating and maintaining production environment documentation.
• Conducted proof of concept and operational readiness testing for new services.

Engineer Lead - Vice President | Major Multinational Bank | London | November 2013 - May 2018

• Continuous Improvement Engineering lead for Compute ESX team within Global Technology, managing team workload and liaising with key stakeholders.
• Developed automation solutions to enable service improvements and cost reduction.
• Led continuous improvement engineering initiatives and conducted root cause analysis and problem management.
• Hosted weekly production issue calls to prioritise and plan the remediation of high-impact issues.
• Managed upgrades to Cisco UCS converged infrastructure domains.
• Collaborated with IT auditors and prepared responses to RFIs.

Systems Engineer | Law Firm | London | September 2006 - November 2013

• Deployed and managed VMware and Wintel platforms for a leading global law firm.
• Deployed and managed HP BladeSystem converged infrastructure systems.
• Managed MS Active Directory including domain/forest upgrades and new site setup.

Further employment history available on request.