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Fraser Clark

Fraser Clark

Platform Engineer

United Kingdom, UK
English

Background


About

About

As a Platform Engineer, I specialise in building resilient and highly available infrastructure on AWS. With extensive experience in using Terraform, I create and provision infrastructure that meets business needs while adhering to best practices.

In addition to my expertise in cloud infrastructure, I have significant experience in on-premise network and systems administration. Including linux & windows server administration, network administration and end user administration.

Experienced with python, bash scripting & Go to create custom scripts or small applications for what the business needs.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Platform Engineer, Ito World

    Nov, 2021 - Present

    • Wrote & maintained multiple python scripts related to monitoring such as:
      • Apache airflow DAG health
      • ECS container placement metrics
      • Kinesis data application update & auto-deploy
    • Implemented DMARC, SPF & DKIM
    • Introduced use of Infracost within terraform pipelines to provide visibility over cloud costs

    Tech stack:
    Terraform
    ECS
    Fargate
    Serverless
    AWS
    Jenkins
    Airflow
    Bash/Python/Go

  • Infrastructure Cloud Engineer, People's Postcode Lottery

    Jul, 2021 - Nov, 20214 months

    Responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, working in AWS.
    Using Terraform to create repeatable, modular code to deploy all infrastructure.
    Responsible for monitoring cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
    Using Gitlab for CI/CD.

    Key Projects:

    • Built production environment in AWS for IT team. Built & maintained using Terraform
    • Migrated all public DNS from on-premise solution to AWS Route53
    • Migrated on-premise servers to AWS
    • Created several pipelines to simplify testing and deploying of new code
    • Taking monolithic codebase and breaking it down into several modules/smaller repositories
  • Network Engineer, People's Postcode Lottery

    Oct, 2017 - Jul, 20213 years 9 months

    Responsible for day-to-day maintenance and monitoring of local infrastructure, including cisco switches & ASA firewalls.

    • Splunk administrator
    • Proofpoint administrator
    • Genesys Purecloud administrator

    Key projects:

    • Implemented DMARC
    • Implemented Netbox network documentation, moving from spreadsheet tracking to centralised
      source of truth for network documentation
    • Implemented network automation for devices firmware updates & any large scale networking config
      changes
  • Service Desk Analyst, Standard Life

    Sep, 2015 - Apr, 20167 months

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Skills

Skills

  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Docker Products
  • Firewalls
  • Linux
  • Network Automation
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Solarwinds
  • Bash
  • Active Directory
  • DevOps
  • Proofpoint
  • Networking
  • Cisco ASA
  • ITIL
  • Cisco Certified
  • Cisco Networking
  • Jenkins
  • Microsoft Office
  • Terraform
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Powershell
  • Information Security
  • Leadership
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Customer Service
  • SQL
  • ITIL Certified
  • Git
  • Python (Programming Language)
  • Ansible
  • Desktop Application Support
  • Splunk
  • Gitlab
  • Windows Server
  • Amazon ECS
Education

Education

  • Cyber security & networking, Bachelor's degree, Glasgow Caledonian University

    Dec, 2013 - Dec, 2015

Certificates

Certificates