About Me
Cloud infrastructure lead with 12 years of experience across enterprise networking, cloud platforms, and team leadership. Currently running the infrastructure team at a UK payments provider.
I've built everything from greenfield ISP core networks serving thousands of customers to Azure cloud estates in regulated payment services. Most of my time goes into making infrastructure reliable, automated, and easy to manage at scale.
Day to day I work across Azure, VMware, Linux, networking, and infrastructure-as-code. I also handle cost optimisation, DR planning, and regularly present to senior leadership.
Technical Skills
Cloud & Identity
Infrastructure
Networking
Automation & IaC
CI/CD & DevOps
Security & Monitoring
Experience
Cloud Infrastructure Technical Lead
Allpay Ltd
Jun 2024 — Present
I lead a team of 5 engineers looking after all the payment infrastructure and production environments. We've been pushing hard on IaC with Bicep and Terraform, cutting costs, and shifting the team culture towards proper platform engineering instead of firefighting.
Infrastructure Engineer
Zzoomm PLC
May 2021 — Jun 2024
Infrastructure engineer at a fast-growing full-fibre ISP. I helped build the core network and SDN platform from scratch, rolled out VMware HCI across two datacentres, and got endpoint management working for 2,000+ devices as the company scaled up.
IT Engineer
Ambrey Risk Ltd
Sep 2019 — May 2021
Handled endpoint management, cloud migrations, and M365 admin at a global maritime security consultancy. Ran several on-prem to cloud and cloud-to-cloud migration projects.
IT Support Engineer / Apprentice
Various Employers
2014 — Sep 2019
Worked my way up through IT support and apprenticeship roles. Got stuck into desktop support, server admin, Active Directory, networking, and a few migration projects across Windows and Linux.
Qualifications
ILM Level 3 Certificate in Leadership and Management
Institute of Leadership and Management
Level 3 Network Engineering Apprenticeship (Distinction+)
Baltic Training, 2015–2016
Microsoft Learn Pathways
Azure administration, identity, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.