Andy Reed

Experience

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  Cheshire Constabulary

  Sept 2003 - Nov 2010

  Designed and implemented a highly secure virtual desktop infrastructure utilising zero clients to meet stringent national security standards.Designed and implemented an Email Infrastructure upgrade for 4500 users, including the supervision of a small project team.Project Managed a desktop and laptop fleet upgrade to Windows XP, including the supervision of internal and agency staff.Evaluated, specified and designed a high availability Tomcat & Oracle solution with dedicated 54TB SAN split across 2 sites.Produced detailed documentation and training for handover of complex technical solutions from project phase to operational support.Solution proposals and options papers presented to senior stakeholders. Show less

  • Project Technical Lead

    Sept 2006 - Nov 2010

  • Support Technician

    Sept 2003 - Sept 2006
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  Barclays plc

  Nov 2010 - Apr 2012

  Infrastructure Designer

  Design and documentation of infrastructure solutions to meet business requirements whilst also meeting architecture standards and governance criteria.• End-of-year grade: A• Single point of contact for infrastructure on a number of high profile projects including regulatory and time-critical work, having taken on the Lead role when the previous Lead Designer left the team. This involved working closely with senior stakeholders to manage expectations.• Captured non-functional requirements to assist with hardware sizing.• Provided high level cost estimates for solutions.• Developed a strong understanding of Unix, Websphere and WebSEAL as well as strengthened my existing Windows, storage and database knowledge. Show less

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  Noy Consulting Ltd

  Apr 2012 - Jan 2014

  Director

  Provision of technical design and architecture services on a contract basis.Example projects:• Secure Internet-facing image-handling stack to allow images to be associated with mobile payments• Integration of mobile payments platform with external 3rd parties to support mobile purchasing proposition• Enterprise File transfer (C:D S+/FTPS) – Design of COTS product onto Unix platform with HSM and significant network integration• External-facing Virtual Desktop design using Citrix desktop and application virtualisation stack. Integration into existing segregated network zones. Show less

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  Barclays

  Jan 2014 - Jul 2022

  A broad role that began as the technical lead for a small team, and has expanded to include line management, strategy development, and resource prioritisation across 3 different workstreams.• Led the development and delivery of an implementation of AWS’ Landing Zone pattern, using open source tooling, leading a small team in extremely aggressive timescales to enable large scale consumption of controlled AWS services for global development teams.• Created, documented and owned a new Internet-facing architecture pattern and associated principles, using AWS native services, which continues to stand up to technical and security scrutiny over 3 years later.• Set up and led a new Agile product team to write and maintain the deployable code for the pattern, including recruiting a full-time Agile Team Lead and implementing Kanban. Onboarded the product to the Agile Software Development Lifecycle, the first infrastructure project to do so.• Applied and encouraged a mindset of “simplify and automate” to components that were previously only possible as “document and handover” such as server builds, firewall changes, application deployment and deployment testing, resulting in a fully automated build.• Define and maintain infrastructure builds and compliance policies using Cloudformation and Python.• Wrote Scripted and Declarative Jenkins pipelines for CI testing of Chef cookbooks, and CD automation for code progression through environments. Created self-building Jenkins masters using Openshift and Kubernetes. Show less Understood and triaged new demand for Internet-facing projects, creating impact assessments for estimating purposes, and allocated work to designers in the team.• Reviewed designs for quality, and remained accountable for each design throughout the life of the project.• Assisted service operations teams with live incidents, providing single point of contact for infrastructure and middleware expertise.• As the main contact for Mobile channels infrastructure, represented the infrastructure organisation during leadership meetings with business stakeholders• During this time, I also began to informally create a skeleton architecture and implementation of the incumbent Internet-facing pattern using AWS Cloudformation, which eventually led to the Cloud Engineer role. Show less

  • Cloud Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Jul 2022

  • Lead eCommerce Infrastructure Designer

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jul 2022 - now

  Systems Development Engineer