Adam Rootes, CEng MIET

Experience

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  Intel Corporation

  Jul 2012 - Aug 2013

  Network Engineer

  Worked as part of a team based in Ireland and Swindon to provide network and infrastructure support. My role also included Project work, Network Installation, Troubleshooting and Break-Fix.I Used Cisco Unified Call Manager to deploy telephones to users on site in Swindon and sites around EMEA. Submitted Technical changes into the change management processResponded to Incidents and solved user raised requests and complied with OLA’s and SLA’s

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  BT Group

  Sept 2014 - now

  - Leading Agile teams to create network orchestration layer's.- Working both internally and externally to scope out any ensure correct requirements are captured and refined to a quality standard.- Worked across the software / network life cycle to design, develop and test solutions and ensure they are built out in a consistent and safe manner into production.- Working cross-domain to ensure that the correct requirements are prioritised and completed in parallel.- Architecting network automation solutions using various open source tooling. Show less - Designed and built automation solutions to deploy customer services onto the network.- Leading an agile software development team of 11 to deliver automation solutions onto BT’sinternet facing platforms.- Working closely with internal teams to ensure that requirements are fully understood and translated into fit for purpose automation solutions.- Creating smooth CI/CD pipelines to allow code to be seamlessly integrated into our internal private cloud.- AWS Subject Matter Expert within the team.- Ensuring that our applications and environments follow security best practice and continue tomeet the high standards expected.- Development of 11 network engineers into DevOps engineers who can now leverage knowledge of both software and networks to our advantage.- Used network programmability solutions (NETCONF , YANG, REST API’s) to create test automation suites. Show less Responsibilities and Achievements:- Designing solutions for both complex IPv4 and IPv6 global networks. BGP / OSPF.- Creating both High and Low level technical documentation for both Cisco and Juniper devices.- Acting as 4th line support when needed.- Contribute to the introduction of new technologies into the network.- Contribute to the testing of new and complex solutions. Ensuring that the testing environment is the same as the live network.- Support for changes in the live networks. Show less

  • Principal Software Engineer, Global Fabric

    Jun 2024 - now

  • Senior Converged Technology Manager

    Jul 2023 - Jul 2024

  • IP Networks Automation, Specialist Network Design Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Jul 2023

  • Internet Network Design Consultant

    Sept 2016 - Apr 2018

  • Internet Network Design Engineer

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2016