Elliot Berg

Lead DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Technical Architect, Agile Advocate.

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Previous Projects / Roles

Principal Cloud Architect - Public Sector Customer

Responsible for hybrid cloud design and deployment, leading a highly capable but small team working at extreme pace to deliver in a complex multi-cloud and on-prem environment.

Key Skills:

  • Hybrid Cloud Architecture
  • Advanced Networking & Network Security
  • Technical Leadership
  • Techical Programme Management
  • AWS - EKS, Snowball, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI - GitLab
  • Advanced PKI (service to service and strong user identity)
  • Multi Layered Encryption, Signing, and Digital Attestation

Chief Cloud Architect - Public Sector Customer

Responsible for the technical strategy and delivery of a large cloud programme, leading ~180 people across engineering, architecture, support and service delivery.

Key Skills:

  • Extremely large/innovative AWS customer - working very closely with AWS on industry leading solutions
  • Technical Leadership
  • Techical Programme Management
  • AWS - LZA, ASEA, Organizations, Transit Gateway, Identity Center, EKS, Backups
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI - Jenkins, Concourse

Lead DevOps Engineer - Public Sector Customer

Technical lead for a small team, primary contact for customer, technical architecture and ownership of backlog and planning.

Tech Stack:

  • AWS - Directory Services, EC2, RDS, Route53, VPC
  • Azure - App Services, ARM Templates, Azure AD
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI - Jenkins, GitLab
  • HashiCorp - Consul, Packer, Terraform, Vault
  • Linux - (Centos/RHEL): Bash, Nginx, Python
  • Windows Server - Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell

DevOps Manager - Automotive

Head of new department (reporting to CTO), create and own a DevOps culture and build a team of automation experts, rebuild the core hosting platforms for 4 B2B products.

Tech Stack:

  • Azure: App Services, Cloud Services, Functions, Resource Manager templates, SQL Databases, Virtual Machines, VNets
  • Office 365 - Active Directory, Exchange, Users & Billing

Lead AWS Consultant - Public Sector Customer

Leadership of a small technical team, technical architect for AWS solutions including working closely with the solutions architect and customer to own 1 of the 2 core project work streams.

Tech Stack:

  • AWS: CloudFormation, EC2, VPC
  • Azure: App Services, SQL Databases, Virtual Machine, VNets
  • Docker: Swarm, Trusted Registry, Unified Control Plane
  • Windows Server: Active Directory, Certificate Services, Group Policy, MSSQL, PowerShell

Senior DevOps Engineer - Financial Risk Customer

Leader of 4 DevOps project workstreams including core business services, usually the sole or lead representative for all operations functions (infra, DBA, 1st/2nd/3rd line support) for that project. Hands-on build/deploy/run and architecture.

Tech Stack:

  • AWS: CloudFormation, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53, VPC
  • Azure: API Management, App Services, Cloud Services, Functions, Resource Manager templates, Storage (Blob and Table), SQL Databases, Virtual Machines, VNets
  • Linux: (Centos/RHEL): Apache, Bash, HAProxy, Nginx, Postfix, Python
  • Windows Server: Active Directory, PowerShell