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Calvin Carver Devops EngineerCC

Calvin Carver

Devops Engineer
  • Suggested rate
    £500 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Manchester, United Kingdom
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Calvin in a few words
I have 20 years experience in System Design, Administration and System Maintenance, i have used the last 8 years venturing into cloud deployment/development and configuration management technologies with the interest of business continuity.
Experience
  • Machines With Vision
    Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)
    July 2022 - October 2022 (3 months)
    4409 Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
    Services Used : AWS : VPC - EKS- IGW - RDS - EC2 - SG - R53 - SNS - SQS - AMI - IAM - S3 - ELB - LAMBDA - CLOUDFRONT - GUARD DUTY
    - Demoed and presented the angle of approach for deployments with infrastructure as code and configuration management.
    - High and low level implementation in infrastructure as code, defining for the company the deployment standards and practices the frameworks on a per client basis in AWS.
    - Provided a continuous integration test and delivery pipeline of containerised services for collaborative and version based releases.
    - Provided PaaS and IaaS cloud expertise identifying the best solutions in collaborative ways to problems considering Opex and Capex, projected project technical debt towards AWS technical services and devops toolsets.
    - Provided automated scalable, secure, production based environments under a reusable repeatable framework for their clients.
    - Created security audits, maintaining security access for all cloud based resources. Placing all data logs to one application safe for running queries for analysis.
    - Well documented content for continuity for the continued use for the developers continuing the work and initiation i started.
  • Care Quality Commission
    DevOps Lead
    May 2022 - July 2022 (2 months)
    United Kingdom
    Services used : AZURE : MG - SUBSCRIPTIONS - RG - AD - ADO - ARM - AKS - FABRIC - FUNCTIONS - VM - STORAGE - TRAFFIC MANAGER - SCHEDULER - AD - KEY VAULT - AZURE SQL - VNET - FUNCTIONS
    - Responsible for managing external expectations for projects in cloud, Detailing requirements and establishing a strong presence for DevOps standards as well as resources on projects.
    - Manage, organize, mentor and lead a team of devops engineers with contrasting expertise as well as interviewing new candidates for roles to help manage the scaling requirements of CQC
    - Responsible for managing cloud resourcing estate with a natural scaling growth of 4% month on month. Responsible for technical debt and Opex optimisation to keep resourcing lean and manageable between the team. Defining DevOps best practices and the methodologies to adopt given the use case on a per project basis. Identifying continuous integration and delivery processes along with automation in cloud.
  • Blue Motor Finance Ltd
    Senior DevOps Consultant
    December 2021 - March 2022 (3 months)
    Services used : AWS : OU - DC - VPC - EKS- IGW - RDS - EC2 - SG - R53 - SNS - SQS - AMI - IAM - S3 - ELB - LAMBDA - CLOUDFRONT - GUARD DUTY
    -Mapping out multiple greenfield based POCs, defining them in public cloud for the company providing toolset, security, and development process visibility
    -Guided the approaches for digital transformation for public cloud under continuous integration, automation reusability, security tooling standards across the business.
    -A greenfield consultative approach to infrastructure as code for the global business, providing options towards infra as code methods of approach, modular reusability advantages, security standards, and collaborative approaches to microservice multi environment setups.
    -Implemented a full HA FO scalable open source .NET continuous integration and delivery platform as a global business solution for all development teams to utilize adhering to a centralized way of working with agreed company standards.
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Education
  • GNVQ, GNVQ IT
    The University of Manchester
    2003
    GNVQ, GNVQ IT
Certifications
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon
    2022