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+ Scott Wallace
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+ Scott Wallace
Consulting Linux Systems Engineer
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+ About
+I like to work in a dynamic environment with a trusted team to get jobs done and delivered. The final 20% is always the hardest part to deliver but arguably the most important and I try to deliver on that as often as possible. Specialties: Linux systems engineering, automation and monitoring.
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+ Work Experience
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+ Suborbit Ltd
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+ July 2008 – Present
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+ Director
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+ Unix and Linux based solutions engineering. Short-term support, long-term contractual arrangements or project-based consultancy.
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+ EdgeOps Engineer
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+ Writing self-service tooling for managing Akamai along with configuration management via Terraform.
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+ Highlights
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- Akamai +
- Python +
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+ Universal Credit, Department for Work and Pensions, UK Government
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+ July 2015 – March 2021
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+ Senior DevOps Engineer
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+ Implementation and migration of Universal Credit from incumbent system to an AWS EC2-based service.
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- Java support +
- Puppet +
- Ansible +
- Python +
- Jenkins +
- Linux +
- Terraform +
- Zabbix +
- MongoDB +
- Kafka +
- Splunk +
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+ Universal Credit, Department for Work and Pensions, UK Government
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+ June 2014 – July 2015
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+ DevOps Engineer
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+ Implementation and migration of Universal Credit from incumbent system to a proof-of-concept, on-premise hosted service.
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+ Highlights
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- Java support +
- Puppet +
- Linux +
- Zabbix +
- MongoDB +
- KVM +
- libvirt +
- virtio +
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+ De Telefoon Gids, Netherlands
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+ April 2013 – April 2014
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+ Team Lead
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+ Led a small team to completely build, maintain and monitor full Continuous Integration development environments using automation techniques providing reliable, repeatable and redundant systems.
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- Systems design and architecture +
- End-to-end systems integration +
- Systems diagnosis and triage +
- Systems automation +
- VMware +
- Apache +
- Tomcat +
- Python +
- Shell scripting +
- Amazon EC2 +
- C +
- MongoDB +
- DNS +
- Unix (Linux) +
- Puppet +
- Jenkins +
- Nexus +
- Sonar +
- Solr +
- Lucene +
- Red Hat JBoss Fuse +
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+ European Directories
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+ July 2008 – March 2013
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+ DevOps Engineer
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- Developed a security mechanism ("Blockinator") to block unwanted web requests in realtime for either Apache or Varnish based on remote IP, Forwarded IP or user-agent. +
- Developed a flexible deployment system ("BOSS") to allow non-technical users to deploy code to specific environments. +
- Developed a system ("Autoindexer") to combine various components and automatically build HTML and XML sitemaps on a daily basis +
- VMware +
- Python +
- Shell scripting +
- Apache +
- Tomcat +
- Varnish +
- C +
- PHP +
- MySQL +
- DNS +
- UNIX (Solaris & Linux) +
- Jenkins +
- Nexus +
- Sonar +
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+ News UK (formally News International)
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+ January 2008 – July 2008
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+ Senior Systems Engineer
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- Systems design and architecture +
- End-to-end systems integration +
- Systems diagnosis and triage +
- Systems automation +
- Shell scripting +
- Apache +
- IBM WebSphere +
- PHP +
- UNIX (Solaris & Linux) +
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+ News UK (formally News International)
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+ October 2004 – January 2008
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+ Internet Administrator
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+ 3rd-line support for main publications such as Times Online, Sun Online, News Of The World, Dreamteam and others.
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- Systems design and architecture +
- Production systems administration +
- Systems diagnosis and triage +
- Systems automation +
- Shell scripting +
- Apache +
- Tomcat +
- IBM WebSphere +
- PHP +
- DNS +
- UNIX (Solaris & Linux) +
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+ London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
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+ May 2004 – October 2004
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+ Contracting Systems Engineer
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+ Systems integration and administration
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- Shell scripting +
- UNIX (Solaris) +
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+ Asserta Properties
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+ April 2001 – May 2004
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+ Systems Engineer
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+ Jack-of-all-trades, including: procuring hardware, cabling and racking, architecture and installation, systems administration and maintenance
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- Shell scripting +
- Apache +
- Tomcat +
- PHP +
- MySQL +
- SMTP +
- DNS +
- UNIX (Solaris) +
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+ Queensland Communications and Networking (QCN)
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+ September 1998 – April 2001
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+ UNIX Consultant
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- UNIX consulting +
- Web development +
- In-house firewall product development, including product design and programming in C +
- Systems administration +
- C +
- SMTP +
- UNIX (Solaris & Linux) +
- PHP +
- MySQL +
- Cisco +
- Apache +
- DNS +
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+ CoreLogic Australia (formally RP Data)
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+ April 1995 – September 1998
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+ UNIX Consultant
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- Systems administration +
- Database administration +
- Web development +
- In-house product development +
- Systems automation +
- Network administration +
- C +
- SMTP +
- UNIX (SCO & Solaris) +
- PHP +
- MySQL +
- Cisco +
- Apache +
- DNS +
- Novell Netware +
- Progress DB +
- Progress Webspeed +
- FoxPro +
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London, London GB
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Brisbane Boys' College
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+ Web Development
+ Master
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+ Linux
+ System Administration
+ Integration
+ Shell Scripting
+ Virtualization
+ Programming
+ Python (Programming Language)
+ Containerization
+ Site Reliability Engineering
+ System Monitoring
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