I am a Linux SysAdmin with 10 years experience. If you are after a migration/deployment specialist who can get the job done quickly, professionally and with minimal downtime, I am your man.

I like to get results, by working with customers and understanding their needs I am able to deliver top quality results, I am not your stereotypical Linux SysAdmin, I understand business needs and requirements and work accordingly.

Some of the jobs & technologies I've recently worked on are below;

- A Docker cluster of containers to deploy & host a high performance Wordpress site.
- Create Ansible playbooks to migrate and automatically deploy Wordpress sites.
- Deploy a multisite Wordpress installation to the Microsoft Azure platform.
- BASH scripts for Wordpress live to staging environment migrations.
- Deployment of an auto-scaling Amazon solution to handle a nationwide press release.
- Automated monitoring setup of Digital Ocean instances using Zabbix.
- Managing an estate of over 200 servers with Puppet.
- On-boarding of an auto-scaling Amazon environment using SaltStack.

Work Terms

In my 10 years working in the industry I have developed a deep understanding of web based technologies and security, below is a selection of the technical experience that has been gained in that time;

- Linux, mainly Redhat & Debian (and derivatives) based Operating Systems, with some exposure to Solaris.
- Configuring and maintaining of all elements of LAMP/LEMP stack to a high level of understanding.
- Debugging of slow running applications using system tools such as iptraf, strace, top, iostat, lsof, vmstat & sar.
- Troubleshooting skills alongside communication skills, keeping all key stakeholders updated throughout an incident's lifecycle.
- Implementing high availability clusters using tools such as Amazon Web Services, GlusterFS, Pacemaker, Corosync & DRBD.
- Performed migrations of servers running 100+ domains running websites & emails with 100% uptime.
- An understanding of Orchestration technologies, understanding use cases for Chef, Puppet, Ansible & SaltStack and hands on experience with Puppet, Ansible & SaltStack.
- Hands-on experience using; Bash, Bind, cPanel, Datadog, Docker, exim, GIT, HAProxy, iptables, Memcached, Plesk, PowerDNS, Redis, RPM, sendmail, SSL, SVN, systemd, Wordpress, Xen, vim, Zabbix ; Amazon CloudFormation, CloudFront, EC2, Elasticache,
Glacier, RDS, S3 & SNS.
- Conceptual understanding of; Jenkins, Junos, OpenStack, PCI Compliance, VMWare.