Rebel Astronaut

Co-Founder

Featurespace

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

DOPS  DIGITAL

Consulting as the Director of the DXOne program for the London Stock Exchange Group.

- Delivered a Developer Platform (DXOne) that would provide a single experience across the whole Org (12k technologists).
- Ran a program with ~50 engineers, architects and BAs.
- DXOne was the first program to successfully deliver their transformation objectives on time, since the merger with Refinitiv.
- Reduced time from idea to market on average by 67% for Lines of Business.
- Delivered an analytics platform to ensure CIOs and their reports get visibility on their areas.
- Designed and Implemented a new operating model to break down the flow of work across teams.
- Designed a community engagement model that was elevated to become the standard for all developer focused comms.
- Liased with Regulators to ensure that changes were approved to the same level as nuclear power plants. 
- Presented and sold the vision of DXOne to numerous CIOs, Heads of Department and Developers.

Principal Transformation Consultant

- Won the company wide ‘Raising the Bar’ award for innovation. 
- Designed and implemented new operating model in a department of 150 employees, driving a more product focused approach.
- Implemented Agile processes in 5 teams to increase velocity by over 100%.
- Owned and implemented the roadmap for IG’s new platform, based on kubernetes.
- Increased resilience for platform by 50% through repeated testing and iteration.
- Designed engagement model for onboarding new teams to the platform.
- Evangelised new platform and created excitement and momentum around the initiative.

Technical Architect - Platform

Contino

- Provided security assurance for FTSE 250  enterprise.
- Enabled Transformation to go live with a goal to double profit within 2 years.
- Developed a “Security First” Culture within the org. 
- Built in-house security team and empowered them to set their own agenda.
- Compiled a report of recomendations for the C-Suite to empower their transformation.
- Developed the consultancy’s internal security practices.

Principal Consultant

Pearson

- Designed and built a platform to support 600+ developers
- Leading architectural decision making and being the voice of security within the team.
- Leading a team of 20 DevOps engineers, training where needed and ensuring the team’s
velocity steadily improved.
- Decreased application onboarding from 3 months to 1 week.
- Decreased overhead for application teams reducing or removing non business workloads to
enable them to decrease cycle time.
- Designed and deployed an automated detection and remediation system within all Pearson AWS
accounts (~200) reducing risks by up to 80%.
- Worked with stakeholders to define account strategy for whole of Pearson.
- Implemented regular vulnerability scanning and remediation for both containers and AMI’s.
- Spearheaded migration to improved CI infrastructure, reducing run times by over 50% and
increasing stability by 30%.
- Implemented Incident response and reporting precedure and ran weekly drills, resolving
incidents 50% faster than before implemented.
- Redesigned kubernetes control plane to support multi-master and regular deploys.
- Responsible for defining and creating a contract between DevOps teams and application teams
to be able to deliver 99.999% uptime to their applications and reduce friction between teams.
- Decreased cost by 200% within development environments, by utilising automated cleanup,
elastic scaling and simplifying the architecture.

DevSecOps Lead/Architect

UK Home Office

- Leading a team of 20 within to deliver a platform supporting 300+ developers.
- Working within highly secure environment empowering critical national infrastructure.
- Implement Vault/Consul workflow for secrets and certificate management.
- Design/Implement the ability update AMI’s without data loss or downtime.
- Standardise engineering practices to increase stability across the whole environment.
- Educate security teams around the differences between cloud infrastructure and on prem.
- Work with team leads to promote containerisation within the team.
- Built out splunk for security monitoring of environments.

Lead Devops/Security Consultant

PhotoBox

- Responsible for taking a dysfunctional team with no leader and low velocity, motivating them,
clarified working procedure and increased velocity by over 100%.
- Designed new kubernetes cluster based around kops for Photobox to migrate all legacy systems
onto.
- Began work on constructing full feature monitoring and security systems.
- Worked closely with the SOC team to manage the security risks and implementing fixes,
including basic secrets management system, and cloudformation creation pipeline.
- Worked with development teams to enable them to manage their own pipelines securely within
Jenkins framework.
- Took stability from 60% uptime in the first month, over all environments, to 100% uptime in the
last.
- Liased with development leads and managers, to ensure that all goals were aligned.
- Implemented agile, to ensure that the workload was measurable, and changes were data-
driven.
- Descreased cycle time by over 40% development teams, allowing features to get shipped faster
and more frequently.

Lead Devops Consultant

- Built and Managed multiple kubernetes clusters as PAAS’ for all Home Office Digital Projects, ie.
- Consulted on the migration of highly sensitive projects onto kubernetes.
- Audited projects on security and worked with apps that were deemed vulnerable to remediate
those threats.
- Built and managed monitoring platform based on Sysdig running on premise on kubernetes and
monitoring over 200 nodes across 3 different cloud providers.
- Built and extended multiple tools to allow teams to avoid reuse of work and ensure time to
production was as low as possible.
- Worked with Neo4j to spearhead their approach to kubernetes and ensure they were able to
support it.
- Worked to ensure all users of the PAAS were able to utilise its self service offering.
- Built relationships within numerous areas within the Home Office to ensure that getting things
done was as easy as possible.
- Supported teams with running kubernetess on bare metal using PXE-boot technology.
- Interviewed and hired multiple other DevOps engineers to build the team from 5 to 15.
- Main point of contact for developers, evangelising best practices and training, both on and
individual and team level.
- Reduced onboarding time from 1 month to 1 day, through automation.
- Increased the number of development teams utilising the platform from ~10, to ~50 over a 6
month period.
- Implemented chargeback system to ensure that all costs were being allocated to respective
development teams, and ensured they still saw at least a 40% reduction in cost.

Senior Devops Engineer

Style.com

- Designed and built Kubernetes platform on AWS
- Adapted scala application to run in a scalable manner, broke application into microservices.
- Designed ci pipeline to deploy code within 5 mins of git commit.
- Dockerised and redesigned application to run on docker, be fault tolerant and scale limitlessly.
- Worked to design a tolerant solution for running Datomic on kubernetes without losing state on pod restart.

Giles is a co-founder of Rebel Astronaut, a startup that aims to make companies more dynamic, flexible, and profitable by speeding up the time from idea to product release. He is also a principal site reliability engineer at Featurespace, a leading provider of adaptive behavioral analytics and fraud detection solutions. 

With over 8 years of experience in DevOps, security, and cloud computing, he has successfully delivered and implemented multiple transformation projects for various organizations, such as the London Stock Exchange Group, Pearson, and the UK Home Office. He has extensive knowledge and skills in infrastructure as code, Amazon Web Services, and DevSecOps methodologies. He is passionate about helping companies achieve their goals by increasing their security, efficiency, and agility.

Giles Hinchcliff

Electus Recruitment Solutions

Helping You Find Top DevOps and Software Engineering Talent

🔹 About Me: With over 8 years recruiting in the DevOps space, I offer a consultative and personal approach. My bespoke services have resulted in building long term mutually beneficial partnerships across many organisations within Banking, Aerospace, Defence, Retail, Government, E-commerce and more.
🔹 Current Role: I'm a Principal Recruitment Consultant in the Engineering and Digital Services team at Electus, I am dedicated to recruiting DevOps / Cloud Engineers in the dynamic and evolving tech market.
🔹 Expertise: 8 Years working in the contract DevOps + IT Infrastructure Market
🔹 Contact Me: Let's connect - Dane@electusrecruitment.co.uk

#Aerospace #Technology #DevOps #Contractjobs #Permjobs #Recruitment #ElectusRecruitment

Cloud Decisions

Cloud Decisions is a Microsoft talent specialist created exclusively for Microsoft's partners and customers. Our mission is to help organisations to meet the increasing digital skill gaps experienced across the ecosystem, and to deliver the transformation project resource needs of our customers for Cloud, DevOps, Data, Modern Work, Security, Digital Innovation + Business Apps.

Snr Contract Talent Specialist - Cloud | DevOps | Security | M365

Randstad

After initially focusing on the Infrastructure and Support market 6 years ago when I started my recruitment journey, the last 4 years I've solely recruited within the DevOps/Cloud space and will continue to within my current role as a Principal Recruiter here at Randstad Technologies.

With over 6 years experience recruiting within DevOps space - I consider myself a consultative but personable recruitment partner that offers a client centric approach to any search. My bespoke services have resulted in building long-term, mutually beneficial business relationships across a plethora of organisations. 

With the ever evolving technology set within this market please see below a rough snapshot of the types of roles and technologies I recruit for -

- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Cloud engineering and Architecture
- Managerial, Lead and Scrum Masters
-Tech Focus - Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, Go, Java, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, SDLC, Helm, Automation, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker and emerging technologies

If you are looking for a role or looking to hire DevOps / Cloud / SRE professionals then please reach out... it will be great to catch up with both old contacts and new - and always happy to just have a chat if you aren't actively searching.

Contact Details:

Dane.gavin@randstad.co.uk / 07783343056

LinuxRecruit

LinuxRecruit work with some of the UK’s most exciting companies, from Blue Chip household names through to pioneering high tech start ups, bringing them together with talented Linux System Administrators, DevOps and Open Source Engineers since 2011. 

We focus on delivering a great hiring experience for both job seekers and hiring companies. We are proud of our reputation for bringing high calibre individuals to interesting organisations, through a transparent and highly professional service, and truly understanding the market in which we operate.

We consider ourselves as an active organisation within the Open Source industry, delivering long term networks, great service, and ultimately enabling market leading transformational IT projects and developments.

As part of this, we’re proud to run the DevOps Exchange Meetup which is now the largest DevOps meetup globally. We have over 6,300 members and counting, and names such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have given talks. 

Find out more about the DevOps Exchange here: www.meetup.com/DevOps-Exchange-London / https://www.meetup.com/Bournemouth-DevOps/

DD: 0203 795 2445
Mob: 07783 343 056
Email: Dane.Gavin@LinuxRecruit.co.uk

Specialities include:
* DevOps - Junior, Mid-level, Senior, Consultant, Manager, Head of, WebOps, SysOps, Lead. 
* Open Source - Linux – System Administrators, System Engineers, OpenSource Engineers, Platform Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (and knowing the difference), IaC
* Cloud – Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure, Rackspace, Openstack, Openshift, UKCloud, vCloud, GCP.
* Containers / Scaling - Docker, Docker Swarm, Nomad, Kubernetes, Mesos
* Architecture – Enterprise, Solutions, Technical

Senior Consultant

Opus Recruitment Solutions

Principal Recruitment Consultant - DevOps / Infrastructure Contract 

OPUS RS:
Opus RS specialise in the placing of all IT/technology professionals. We have positioned ourselves with the organisations who spearhead a continually advancing market place and are able to put our hands on the most capable talent to evolve with the industry on both a permanent and contract basis.

OPUS TALENT SOLUTIONS:
Opus Talent Solutions is a multiple award winning end-to-end talent consultancy and recruitment firm launched in the UK in 2008. The company’s mission is to be a global leader in niche and innovative talent solutions, partnering with clients across the entire talent lifecycle, from developing their talent strategy, to talent attraction, recruitment, retention and succession planning.

Opus Talent Solutions has grown to incorporate multiple recruitment brands covering the UK, US, APAC and EMEA markets. As global market leaders, Opus provides talent for niche roles within a variety of industries: IT, Med Tech, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Engineering, Architecture, Accountancy and Financial Service

We are passionate about people in the workplace.

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Recent Awards: 
The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For: #1 recruitment company (#2 overall) 2015 
Recruiter Fast 50: 2015 (10th) 
Recruiter Hot 100: 2012 (71st), 2013 (19th) and 2014 (24th) 
Virgin Fast Track 100: 2012 (64th) and 2013 (54th) 
The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For: Best Leader 2015 - Darren Ryemill Best Twitter Engagement for a Recruitment Agency 2014-Online Ventures Group 
Recruitment International Awards - Darren Ryemill (CEO) Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 
CV-Library Agency Recruitment Power 100 
Recruitment International Top 250 2013 
Accelerate 250 (Founder member 2013. Personally invited by the Prime Ministers Enterprise Advisor, Lord Young and Sir Terence Leahy) 
Best For Recruitment Awards - 4 Gold and 2 Silver Awards 2013 
PWC - Private Business of the Year Awards 2013 - Short listed 
Bristol Post Business Awards- Large Business of the Year 2013 - Finalist 

Opus Recruitment Solutions pride ourselves on being a young, vibrant, creative and fast growing specialist IT and Global Energy & Engineering recruitment solutions consultancy. 

As a company we are both committed to and focused on delivering high quality candidates to a vast array of clients. Our diverse client base is of enormous pride to us and ranges from global blue chip companies and FTSE 100 corporations to specialist SME businesses. 

At Opus Recruitment Solutions professionalism is at the core of everything we do. In order to achieve this high level of performance we have a dynamic team of friendly and specialist recruitment consultants who are all highly experienced in their niche recruitment markets. 

We currently work out of four offices on an international scale; Bristol (HQ), London, Sydney and Amsterdam. From here we service the needs of our clients and candidates - recruiting staff for vacancies and locations globally. 

We are part of the Opus Professional Services Group that provide numerous specialist recruitment services.

Recruitment Consultant - (Contracts - Infrastructure and Network Support)

Highly experienced Cloud, DevOps and Security recruiter, with a personable, empathetic and decisive approach to business. 

I help organisations build their engineering and cloud teams, delivering contract + permanent resources across the following; 
 
DevOps
Cloud Engineering
IT Infrastructure and Support
 
Core technology areas I recruit contractors for include - 

Cloud - (AWS/GCP/Azure/Private Cloud)
DevOps -Graduates up to Directors
Infrastructure + Support - 1st - 4th Line
Technical Architecture

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