Matt Beaumont

Cloud Engineer

• Migrated an on-premise Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS.
• Migrated a Tomcat application to AWS Beanstalk.
• Built infrastructure using Terraform from scratch utilising Beanstalk, EKS, EBS, EFS, EC2, RDS and more.
• Designed a secure VPC with private and public subnets.
• Introduced SonarQube to development workflow.
• Created a blue-green deployment approach to reduce downtime.

DevOps Engineer

• Co-ordinated fortnightly production releases.
• Maintained and configured ~200 servers using Chef.
• Upgraded and dockerised a critical SonarQube installation.
• Debugged and resolved urgent and time-critical problems in production.
• Utilised Splunk, NewRelic, Kibana (ELK), Nagios and Grafana to generate alerts and reports across all environments.
• Configured a CDN with audience segmentation rules to perform A/B testing.
• Ensured an efficient and responsive service was provided by Viking websites across five European countries consistently and continuously

DevOps Engineer

• Installed Kubernetes on-premise and in AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Migrated the Tomcat application infrastructure to AWS.
• Deployed TeamCity and spearheaded a continuous integration strategy.
• Migrated local services to dockerised instances.
• Provided Linux IT support to AD-connected workstations.
• Optimised and tailored MySQL performance with ProxySQL.
• Supported and planned the architectural shift from a monolithic application to microservices.
• Managed eight different infrastructures using Puppet.
• Maintained Nagios for real-time status monitoring.
• Received annual i-nexus champion award.

Software Engineer

• Led the Software Configuration Management, taking control of Jenkins (Build Management Tool for CI/CD) and managing several multi-branch projects.
• Developed as part of a small team across multiple C/C++ projects.
• Scripted and automated regression and functional testing scripts.
• Performed rate and reach tests on DSL modems.
• Configured an intranet for colleagues to collaborate effectively.
• Managed the hardware lab and allocated resources for test-team, aswell as configuring telecommunications equipment such as managed switches, noise generators and DSLAMs.
• Implemented a VPN server for colleagues to access business resources from outside the office.
• Carried out SysAdmin duties, configuring and maintaining servers and workstations.
• Assisted in hardware bring up, low-level debugging and initial programming.
• Co-led a migration to Git in order to facilitate a scalable branching policy.
• Refactored, improved, and maintained the build management making it more efficient and accommodating for development.

IT Technician

• Provided desk-side and phone support to employees within the company. This included both the initial setup and the maintenance of computers used by colleagues.
• Was required to be the first-line of support and manage and delegate support issues across the 8-person IT team.
• Learned the essential skills required to provide commendable customer service effectively.
• Led the administration of the collaboration tool, SharePoint which was used across all WEG subsidiaries
• Provided support to:
  • all franchises of Unitemps across 13 leading universities across the country
  • jobs.ac, the leading international job board for careers in academic, research, science and related professions.
  • SearchHigher, who provide recruitment for executive roles in Higher Education
• Became familiar with:
  • SQL queries on a sensitive database
  • HTML and CSS amendments through the CMS system, Orchard.
  • Issue tracking and updating using JIRA.
• Having been initially taken on for three months, WEG elected to extend my employment to a year.

University of Warwick