steven priestley-ball

senior devops engineer

About

An MCSA 2012/MCTS/VMware VCP 6/AWS Certified SysOps Administrator /ITIL Foundation v3 qualified IT Consultant, Cloud (AWS and AZURE) and Infrastructure Engineer who has considerable experience in the design; implementation and support of Microsoft server/client technologies and virtualization (VMWare). Current project work includes: RabbitMQ cluster on Ubuntu hosted on AWS; ELK stack on AWS; Zookeeper on Ubuntu on AWS EC2 instances. Deploying/configuring AWS Elasticsearch service (both public and VPC access) and utilising local Logstash installations and local Beats installs (log shipper – Winlogbeat & Filebeat) to push data into the service from on-premise Windows servers and EC2 Windows instances. Currently experimenting with Docker, Docker for Windows, Docker Swarm; and IAC using Terraform, CloudFormation and Packer.

Country

united kingdom

City

manchester

Industry

financial services

Skill

vmware, windows server, active directory, microsoft exchange, dns, virtualization, itil, cisco technologies, backup exec, group policy, infrastructure, servers, windows, vsphere, windows 7, terminal services, it operations, citrix, storage area networks, security, cloud computing, networking, technical support, vmware infrastructure, microsoft sql server, vpn, system deployment, san, wsus, blackberry enterprise server, powershell, vmware esx, iis, windows server 2008, data center, dell poweredge servers, sharepoint, microsoft servers, vcentre, small business server, linux, wds, telecommunications, mdt, 2008 r2, backup solutions, microsoft cluster, devops, amazon web services, microsoft azure

Experience

infra cloud engineer and sme

capgemini

2018-6 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

systems engineer

laterooms.com

2012-3 - 2014-6 · 2 yrs 4 mos

network administrator

clarke telecom

2007-11 - 2008-11 · 1 yr 1 mo

2nd line it analyst

healthcare commission

2006-10 - 2007-10 · 1 yr 1 mo

support coordinator

msa ltd

2000-1 - 2005-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

senior infrastructure and devops engineer

accesspay - cloud-based payment automation

2017-9 - 2018-6 · 10 mos

* Current project work includes: * Building several 3 tier application stacks in AWS using CloudFormation and PowerShell. * Using GitLab to store versioning of PowerShell build scripts and CloudFormation templates and also pushing these to AWS S3 buckets. * Additional automation/configuration using PowerShell and Octopus API to register and pull the latest code deployment from Octopus Deploy. * Building a 2 node RabbitMQ cluster hosted in AWS using Ubuntu 16.04 with a view creating a custom AMI and deploying via CloudFormation. * Automation of Octopus Deploy Tentacles via API and working on integration with Team City to provide a CI/CD pipeline. * Deploying/configuring AWS Elasticsearch service (both public and VPC access) and utilising local Logstash installations and local Beats installs (log shipper – Winlogbeat & Filebeat) to push data into the service from on-premise Windows servers and EC2 Windows instances.

senior devops engineer

ihs markit

2019-10 - Present · 7 yrs

senior support engineer

zen internet limited

2014-6 - 2015-2 · 9 mos

Daily duties include supporting, monitoring and continual improvement of the Zen Managed Hosting estate. Support, deployment and monitoring of Zen’s (IaaS) Amazon AWS cloud offering (including and not limited to EC2, EBS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, and ELB). Support and development of Zen’s Hosted multi-tenanted Exchange 2013 (IaaS) project (hosted on Zen’s private cloud VMware vSphere 5.5/vCloud Director) in which I configured and deployed a 2 node DAG. Maintaining and supporting Zen’s VMware Private Cloud via vCloud Director. Recently attended an AWS SysOps training course with a personal goal of taking and passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam with the next few months. Recently re-certified for VMware VCP 5.5.

senior microsoft technical consultant

network integrity services ltd

2008-11 - 2012-3 · 3 yrs 5 mos

senior infrastructure engineer

covéa insurance

2015-2 - 2016-3 · 1 yr 2 mos

Key Responsibilities Responsibility for the management, housekeeping and 3rd line support of the company’s 200+ 2003/2008/2012 Servers running on predominantly HP/Dell servers and VMware ESX5.x and the associated Multiple Active Directory domains Providing third line technical support for HP EVA, EMC VNX and Dell based storage arrays Using ITIL best practice to help shape the future IT direction of the business Providing technical guidance for strategic developments Project management of small projects and assisting in larger projects in the deployment of major server based systems.

enterprise infrastructure engineer

covéa insurance

2016-3 - 2017-8 · 1 yr 6 mos

Current project work: The creation of an Integrated Development Environment infrastructure build in Microsoft Azure Public cloud using PowerShell Automation and PowerShell DSC. Design and creation of Active Directory for "Provident Insurance", Covea Insurance's new ‘direct to consumer’ motor insurance offering, through confused.com. Automation using PowerShell and PowerCLI to create AD domains for Training and test environments along with Octopus Deploy API.