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Specialties: Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services and Cloud Computing Web Development.Amazon Web Services Engineer @ From April 2015 to May 2015 (2 months) Berlin Area, GermanyDevops/Cloud Engineer @ Under contract to work with the development team to automate the deployment of their web applications, Elasticsearch clusters, log aggregation systems and Postgres databases to AWS, using Puppet, CloudFormation and Teamcity, I automated the deployment and infrastructure of many of their systems including the Simian Army, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Teamcity, Stash, Jira and Postgres. ● Amazon Web Services, - CloudFormation, EC2, S3, IAM and Billing. ● Development of Global Amazon Cloud toolset with Ruby, Python and Amazon API. ● Continuous integration and automated deployment development with TeamCity, Puppet and tailored internal tools. From October 2014 to January 2015 (4 months) London, United KingdomComputer Programmer @ Originally employed as a Systems Engineer to work with the Digital Production department of formally known News International, I worked with several departments in migrating and the automated deployment of applications, including HTML5 Crossword and Sudoku puzzles, Sun+ Goals, and the online presence of The Times, The Sun, and The Sunday Times onto Amazon Web Services (AWS). I now work on developing an internal AWS toolset for a project analysing the cost of migrating on-premises applications to the Amazon web Services Cloud, primarily as a Ruby On Rails developer. • Ruby On Rails Web Development • Amazon Web Services • Python scripting • Puppet/Chef • JavaScript libraries • Akamai From January 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 10 months) Integration Engineer @ As part of the integration department, I worked as a Puppet/Ruby developer within a Devops team, developing a bespoke cloud solution for the automated deployment and configuration of web based systems and technologies to the internal VMWare estate. Main duties include programming Puppet manifests and writing scripts to deploy web, application and database servers, automated monitoring and logging systems. Responsibilities and skills: • Configuration and development of web servers (Apache HTTPD) and application servers (Apache Tomcat, Weblogic). • Configuration of release management tools/code repositories (SVN, CVS, Anthill Pro). • Configuration and development of the CMS (Methodé) • 3rd line support of online systems in production, 2nd line support of pre-• production • Input into the configuration and management of architecture. • Work with other IT teams in the fulfilling of integration requirements. • Puppet development and shell-scripting (ksh/bash, perl, awk, sed and ruby). • UNIX system administration (Solaris 8 and 10, and Redhat). • JetNexus web accelerator appliance and configuration. From January 2012 to December 2012 (1 year) London, United KingdomSystems Administrator/Senior Systems Administrator @ My main duties were primarily supporting the web services, and the configuration and continued monitoring of the UNIX systems as required, ensuring robust integration with the network, and automating the configuration and building of the servers where possible. Responsibilities and skills: • Server builds and automating configurations with puppet Scripting. • Apache, Jboss web server configuration and support • Nagios, Cacti, SNMP and perl/bash scripting • VMware, vSphere ESX administration. • Sun Solaris 5.10 installations and support. From November 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 2 months) Oxford, United KingdomSystems Administrator, Operations manager, Senior Systems Administrator @ • Monitoring and trending with Nagios and Cacti • Automated Linux and Windows server/desktop builds. • Windows infrastructure and dotNET development support. • Cisco routers, switches, firewalls and access point configuration • Agile-scrum methodology and project management From March 2008 to November 2010 (2 years 9 months) London, United KingdomIT Assistant @ • 1st line desktop support and administration of a Windows XP/2003 desktop server infrastructure. • Administration of groups and users, computers, group policy, print services. • MS Exchange and Outlook 2003 administration. • Daily backups, for SQL databases and exchange mailboxes, with Symantec • Backup Exec. • HP Procurve configuration and network design and wiring. • Active Directory and Windows 2003 administration. From February 2007 to February 2008 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomITILv3 Foundation, IT Service Management., Pass @ Oxford University From 2011 to 2011 BSc Honours, Physical Science, First-class @ The Open University From 2006 to 2011 CCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Pass @ Cisco Academy From 2006 to 2008 Certificate, Mathematics and Computing, Pass @ The Open University From 2006 to 2008 David Reay is skilled in: Ruby, HTML, CSS, PHP, DevOps, Ruby on Rails, Puppet, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Java, Subversion, Scrum, Integration, Tomcat, Unix