Tim Gibbon 07977 549 321 tng@chegwin.org

Professional Experience

Apr 2025 - Current DevSecOps Director, Sense Technology Group Limited

  • Greenfield infrastructure build out.
  • Cyber Essentials and ISO27001 certification.
  • AWS Organisations, Control Tower and Well Architected Framework implementation.
  • CI/CD rollout for all microservices and (Terraform) infrastructure.
  • Monitoring, Alerting and Logging rollout.
  • Exams: GCP ACE (renewal), CKA (3rd renewal).

Jul 2024 - Mar 2025 Senior Platform Engineer, AND Digital

  • NHS Server Remediation.
  • AWS Professional Solutions Architect.
  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
  • GCP Professional Data Engineer.
  • AWS Security Speciality.
  • AWS Data Engineer.
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner.

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024 Senior DevOps Engineer, Missionlabs/Gammalabs

  • Terraform build and deployment to 30 AWS/3 GCP Accounts (bitbucket pipelines).
  • 3 major projects delivered within timescales, budget and to 99.98% annual availability.
  • Cost optimisation - designed and implemented power saving for EKS and EC2 resulting in $264,000 reduction in 2023 AWS costs.
  • ArgoCD implemented to increase development team velocity.
  • Migrated Call-Centre as a Service (CCaaS) from on-premise hardware (docker-compose) to AWS (EKS/kubernetes) within 2 months.
  • Ported Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) project from AWS to GCP for disaster recovery.
  • Lead Disaster recovery engineer.
  • Build out of Grafana/Prometheus/Thanos for high availability metrics and monitoring.
  • Trivy deployment, allowing developers to identify security vulnerabilities during development.
  • Zero downtime Upgrades of 30 Kubernetes (EKS) clusters from versions 1.21 through 1.30.

Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 Senior DevOps Engineer/Engineering Manager, Peak

  • CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Database/Datalake Administration.
  • CI/CD (Codebuild, CodeDeployment, Github Actions).
  • RStudio/Jupyter build/deployment.
  • Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Cost optimisation

2014 - 2021 Senior Linux Engineer, UKFast Ltd.

2007 - 2014 Partner, Lunarlite LLP.

2004 - 2006 Senior UNIX Engineer, Orange.

2003 - 2004 Customer Services Engineer, Tower Technology/Vignette IDM.

2001 - 2003 UNIX Technical specialist, GSK.

2000 - 2001 Contractor, Equities Technology, Goldman Sachs.

1999 - 2000 System Administrator, Crown Digital.

1998 - 1999 UNIX Administrator, Investment Property Databank Ltd.

Relevant Skills

  • AWS/GCP.
  • Kubernetes, EKS, GKE.
  • Python, Golang (learning), bash.
  • Virtualisaton and Cross compilation.
  • Terraform and Cloudformation.
  • Kepner Tregoe Analytical troubleshooting.
  • Performance and monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Cloudwatch.
  • Database Administration: Redshift, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis.
  • Bespoke Linux Distribution creation.
  • DBS checked.
  • ITIL - Change control, auditing and reporting. SOC2 and ISO27001 auditing and compliance.

Education

  • Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist.
  • Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
  • Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Adminstrator.
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
  • AWS: Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
  • AWS: AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
  • AWS: AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate.
  • AWS: Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
  • AWS: Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.
  • AWS: Certified Developer Associate.
  • AWS: Certified AI Practitioner.
  • GCP: Professional Cloud Architect.
  • GCP: Associate Cloud Engineer.
  • Certified Argo Project Associate.
  • Linux: Red Hat Certified Engineer.
  • PhD: Laser Photofragment Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecular Ions.
  • BSc: Physics.

Other Interests

  • Vinyl collector/gig goer.
  • Fiction.
  • Skiing/Outdoor pursuits.
  • Founder member of RossLUG.

References

Available upon request.