Four disciplines, one engineer.
In most organisations DevOps, cloud architecture, security and networking are four teams with four backlogs. In production they are one system, and it fails at the seams between them. I take all four as one scope.
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DevOps
Delivery pipelines, build and release engineering, container platforms, infrastructure as code, observability. The path from a merged commit to a running service, made repeatable and uneventful.
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Cloud & infrastructure architecture
Design and review of the platforms software runs on, cloud or on-premises: compute, storage, data, resilience and cost. Migrations planned in full before anything moves.
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Security
Hardening from the network edge to the container: exposure reduction, secrets and access management, monitoring and incident response — starting with a review of what is already running.
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Networking
Routing, segmentation, VPNs, firewalls, DNS and TLS. Cisco CCNA-certified.
Current engagement
I am Head of DevOps & Security at DrCarmen, as an external consultant through Orion Technologies; DrCarmen is the client. I am responsible for how DrCarmen's software reaches production, the infrastructure it runs on, and the security of both.
- Client
- DrCarmen
- Basis
- External consultant
- Practice since
- 2019
- Delivery
- How DrCarmen's software reaches production
- Infrastructure
- What that software runs on
- Security
- Across delivery and infrastructure
Engagement formats
- Ongoing role
- A lead role held as an external consultant, with standing responsibility for delivery, infrastructure and security. The current engagement is one.
- Scoped work
- An architecture review, a migration, a hardening pass, a network redesign: fixed scope, written deliverables, an end date.