Personal Skills I have a wide range of skills and enjoy embracing new technologies and expanding my knowledge. I am an enthusiastic team player and have a proactive, “can do” attitude to my work environment. I have proved in the past that I work well under pressure and apply a calm methodical approach to solving critical problems. Experience Operating systems: Linux ( Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS), Microsoft Windows Servers Software & Protocols: Amazon Web Services, AWS Cli tools, Tomcat, Apache, Gigaspaces, Liferay, SOLR, OpenCMS, Adobe/Day CQ, MySQL Administration, Replication and Sharding, Oracle Administration, Confluence, JIRA, Jenkins, Hudson, Zabbix, Vi, VMware Infrastructure 3, VSphere, Asterisk PBX, HTTP, TCP, UDP, IP, DNS, BIND, DHCP, Postfix, Sendmail, Apt, Yum, Scalix MailServer, FTP, Dovecot, Subversion, Squid, SquidGuard, Samba, Network Bonding, Linux-HA, NFS, SUN Glassfish, OpenVPN, FreeSWAN, IPSEC, OpenLDAP, kickstart, Microsoft Active Directory, HA-Linux, DRBD, Heart-beat, tmpfs, MTRG, Munin, Cacti, JMeter, Nagios, Smokeping, Traceroute, Groundwork, Solarwinds, SNMP, CUPS, Google Apps, Active Directory, MS Exchange, MS DNS, DocuWIKI, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Sonic MQ, AutoCAD, MSExchange, SAML, SASL, Logly Languages: Bash, Perl, PHP, Java, HTML, CSS, C, C++, Assembly, XML, XSD, XSLT Hardware: Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, OMSA/OpenManage, IPMI, DRAC, iLO, Linksys, Netgear, SAN, ISCSI, Linux/GNU routers, VPN devices, UPS, Digium ISDN cards.

Senior DevOps Team Lead @ From March 2015 to Present (9 months) London, United KingdomDevOps Engineer @ Orchestrating AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, Puppet and Fabric (Python). Configuring Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines using git, Jenkins, Maven,Nexus & MuleSoft Implementing a monitoring solution in the cloud using Nagios, Check_MK and OpsGenie Building Scalable, Self Healing Drupal and Moodle stacks in the cloud. From 2014 to February 2015 (1 year) London, United KingdomService Delivery Analyst @ SysAdmin/DevOps/Client Support Engineer at a large Digital Advertising Agency. Working closely with big brands such as Audi, McDonalds, O2, Unilever, C&G, Lloyds, Financial Times, AstraZeneca, Blackberry, Nike, Intel and C&A to build and support environments in the cloud Working closely with developers and QA to identify and resolve bugs. 24/7 out of hours support for High Availability environments Performing code and config releases to environments Using Amazon Web Services on a daily basis Documenting processes Creating tools to enable Ubuntu to integrate with AWS services such as EBS, S3, Elastic IP Achievements: Re-Architecting and Migrating websites to the cloud for cost saving, self healing and on demand scalability Developing and configuring Continuous Integration processes to ensure the smooth transition between development, QA and production environments From March 2011 to May 2014 (3 years 3 months) London, United KingdomIT Infrastructure Engineer @ Company: City Link is one of the UK's leading premium express delivery companies. Responsibilities: Development of Infrastructure projects and provide expertise on Linux systems to Developers. Provide support and tools for 1st Line support and Developers. Developing web interfaces and bash scripts to simplify and automate tasks. Linux systems administration, performance tuning and troubleshooting. MySQL Database tuning, monitoring and replication. Maintaining Linux based Email solutions within the company Implement and manage monitoring tools across the whole Linux estate The design and improvement of Linux DR, HA and backup strategies The design and Installation of City-Link’s Virtual Environments. Documentation Working with third parties to integrate and support solutions. Achievements: Working with Rentokil Group to Standardise and Unify procedures and policies throughout City-Link. Primary Infrastructure Engineer in major IT projects – Virtualization, EMS, DataCenter migration, Website/MySQL redevelopment. Liaise with consultants in the design and implementation of a SonicMQ infrastructure (A java based EMS) From September 2007 to February 2011 (3 years 6 months) Network Support Engineer @ A small company that installed and supported SME companies specialising in independent estate agents and financial services. Responsibilities: Installing and maintaining networks, Windows and Linux servers, VPNs and PBXs. The job involved learning new software and languages quickly, software training to clients, on-site support, telephone support and consultancy. Key skills were problem solving, communication, influencing customers, working independently and as a team and working to tight schedules. Achievements: The design and Implementation of a number of Microsoft Exchange Server, Blackberry Enterprise Servers, Hardware and Software VPN and Firewall networks, Linux Mail Filtering solutions. Linux and hardware PBX phone systems. Fax to Email gateways. Tape Backup solutions. From October 2003 to September 2007 (4 years)

Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 2:1 @ University of Portsmouth From 2000 to 2002 James Soubry is skilled in: Linux, VMware, VPN, MySQL, System Administration, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Exchange, Cloud Computing, Liferay, Linux System Administration, CentOS, Ubuntu, AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS