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Danny Hallwood

@dannyhallwood

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Linux, DevOps, Python, Kubernetes, Network Security, Cloud AWS Certified and decade+ proven Expert

Canada

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What I'm looking for

Interesting project and tech stack, direct to customer, or alongside enthusiastic team.

I like to work into Linux/Cloud/Lambda or dockerized Env's, to simplify complex requirements into elegant, maintainable, automated repeatable workflows.

I bring a huge amount of technical, delivery, and security experience to benefit any role I'm working in

Hold Certs in K8s, AWS Arch, CEH Sec, and Scrum Mstr

Senior hands on technical resource that leads from the front in the practical application of Python programming, CI/CD, DevOps, Security audit and hardening - also holds years of technical test design and execution, and service management.

Decade+ leading technical teams, client/customer requirement management, and product ownership.

Global Experience working into large projects and leading start-ups across the UK, Middle-East, Eastern Europe, and Americas.

I have a decade plus experience working in Confidential, Secret, and above classification projects. I've worked into some of the largest and most secure greenfield and transformation projects.

Last 6 years focus and practical experience as hands on Python and DevOps lead, also product ownership, leading a team of 20 BE/FE Software and QA engineers.

Solid experience in building high-load scalable distributed systems, distributed data, storage, and micro-service solutions. Building REST API, applications, automation, testing, and engineering process.

Skilled solution and software architect with experience of designing, developing, implementing and troubleshooting enterprise-class solutions.

Over 20 years working in delivery, building physical and logical cloud tiered network application architectures.

Practical experience of the full delivery life-cycle working at programme, project, and operational levels.

Certified in : AWS Cloud Architecture, Kubernetes, CEH Security, Scrum master

Experience

Automation Non-Functional Test - Technical Design Authority

shiftpoint - British Telecom Global Services

Sep 2005 - Aug 2009 (3 years 11 months)

Technical Test Design Authority in the national Change For Health programme,
Automated :
Ready For Operations non-functional testing / Site Reliability Testing / Resilience Testing / Security Regression, Access Control test / Recovery Testing / Volume and Performance Test.
Technologies included, Bash, Python2, Load Runner, JMeter,

Linux Automation Test Automation Cloud Automation DevOps Automation Release Management Change Management Security IT Security Packaging Packaging Systems Monitoring Firewall

Site Reliability Engineer, Automation - Linux and Unix

Shiftpoint - Serco

Sep 2009 - Sep 2011 (2 years)

The DC was classified as top-secret and builds were highly secure.
Large RedHat deployments utilising automated Kickstart process / configuration
Multi-Vendor back-to-back FW, LB, IDS, IPS configuration as code via API itegration
All Switch, Router, Core zones, rules, spans, filters, configuration software defined and deployed automatically from TFT

Python Python 3 Linux Firewalls Firewall IT Security Security DevOps DevSecOps Release Management RedHat RedHat Linux OS IDS IPS IPSEC J2EE Automation Test Automation Data Automation Automation Tools DevOps Automation

Lead Unix Engineer

Shiftpoint - Bupa

Sep 2011 - Aug 2012 (11 months)

Automated Solaris Server build with Jumpstart
Automated J2EE application packaging and deployment with custom Python2 Scripts
Automation of: Backup (restore tested), Capacity mgt and Patch-mgt
Integration to centralised LDAP PAM auth

Unix Linux Unix DevOps SecOps DevSecOps Packaging BASH Bash Scripting Bash Shell CICD Pipelines CICD Git GitHub Gitlab Clustering Redis Cluster

DevOps Lead, Technical Architect

Shiftpoint - RollsRoyce

Sep 2012 - Aug 2014 (1 year 11 months)

Lead Technical Architect, and DevOps Engineer in Rolls Royce.

As a technical hands on role I led design, assurance, approval, and delivery of a highly secure 802.1x network, encrypted strongly authenticated storage, and VPN integration product for deployment into countries of concern, such as Russia.

Python DevOps SecOps DevSecOps CICD Pipelines Ansible Linux Network IT Security Packaging Release Management Change Management IPSEC VPN Product Ownership

SRE, SecOps, Project Lead

Shiftpoint - Salam International (Bought by Netcompany)

Sep 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 4 months)

Tech lead/SME, for a transformation secure infrastructure project across the Salam conglomerate, I was later seconded as Head of IT by the customer.
Cisco USC blade configuration, automated resilience, burstable compute, migration, multi-site resilience.
Automated desktop refresh from W7, W8, Wvista to W10 Ent
Migration from LDAP/Solaris mail to AD/Exchange/Outlook
Creation of AD policy

Python DevOps DevOps Cloud DevOps Automation Git GitOps Firewall Automation Packaging Linux Unix VMWare Release Management Change Management Product Ownership

DevSecOps, SRE

shiftpoint - Kahramaa (bought by netcompany)

Mar 2016 - Feb 2017 (11 months)

Secure hardening and protection in depth of national water utility
Automated deployment, policy configuration of SCADA Tofino Modbus/TCP PLC firewalls to all industrial control cabinets
Firewall Policy testing, assurance, automated monitoring, updating
Zero-day update automation
Pen-test and security audit
Centralised Security Information Even Management (SIEM) deployment and configuration

Linux VMWare SIEM Firewall Firewalls Networks SecOps DevOps Security IT Security

DevOps Chief, UA General Mgr

In Diverse Company

Jul 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Built scale out AWS EC2 based Kubernetes for production, and shared instance for dev, test, and feature branches.
AWS EC2, R53, Network Filters, IAM, S3, Gateway, RDS, defined in Terraform, configured with Ansible
Developers provisioned with both minicube and compose stub environments with MinIO local S3 object storage
Automated CI/CD through combination of GitOps and CircleCI

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DevSecOps Lead and Product Owner

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hardyfisher

Sep 2021 - Present (2 years 8 months)

Chief engineer responsible for DevSecOps delivery, worked alongside BE as a senior Python developer, and acted as Scrum master.

Developed GitOps SDLC across BE, FE, Test, and Automation.

SW defined Kubernetes production and path to live environments.
QOS, Observability, Automation, Security