Carl Barker

Infrastructure Architect @dnata

Chester, GB

Primary technical contact and consultant for major projects and infrastructure initiatives across dnata Travel businesses.Responsible for the design, health and architecture of the infrastructure solutions that support multiple brands. Growing the blueprint infrastructure architecture for solutions, delivering resilient, scalable solutions for high volume, transactional systems.Supporting major and high profile programmes of work. Defining and delivering artefacts, and NFR’s to support Infrastructure Architecture DecisionsDriving uptake of cloud technologies to replace legacy tech stacks across multi discipline, multi datacentre sitesDevising strategy to enable hybrid on-prem/cloud setups for high transaction load balanced ecommerce platformsDelivering POC’s for new technology choices, and proving fit for purposeLiaising with senior leadership teams to deliver solutions that are cost effective, and strategically fit for purposeCreating and maintaining DR plans and approaches taking into account full RTO/RPO and BCP Ensuring solutions are HA, scalable, and able to handle high transactional loadProject managing complex technology initiatives, with consideration of technical and business implicationsOptimising Infrastructure spend, reducing TCO, and leveraging vendor and professional services relationships to drive value within existing hosting, and future hosting environmentsAligning strategy to accommodate business needs, with underpinning infrastructure capable of delivering it

Edge Hill University

BSc (Hons), Information Technology

Coleg Cambria

ILM: Level 3 leadership and managerial proficiencies, Business Administration and Management, General

Woolston 6th Form Centre

Information Technology