Darren Gibbard
Devops Engineer @思科
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WORK HISTORY
Devops Engineer @思科
London, GB
DevOps Engineer - initially for the Security and Core Services teams within Cisco Cloud Web Security, then the Cisco Umbrella Datawarehouse Team, followed by the Cisco Umbrella API Team, and currently the Cisco Secure Access Data Leak Prevention team. Key focus on new projects and technologies along with continual integration/deployment (CI/CD). Specialising in Cloud technologies, kubernetes, security, automation and reliability. Linux focused. Key technologies include AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Packer, Ansible, Kafka, Kong API Gateway, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Telegraf etc. Previous projects include building out the platform and CI/CD workflow for the Cisco Hybrid Web Security offering, upgrading and expanding the datwarehouse kafka cluster- as well as migrating it to containers, and increasing resilience in our MapR clusters, as well as training users on all platforms, as well as rearchitecting and migrating the API services for Cisco Umbrella, and now working on Data Leak Prevention with Dataplane services spanning 50+(and growing) geographic edge locations, at high scale and availability; along with associated Controlplane service.
EDUCATION
Chalvedon Sixth Form College
A/AS-Level, Physics, Geography, ICT, Science for Public Understanding
SKILLS
ABOUT DARREN GIBBARD
Experience:* Architecting and deploying greenfield application stacks and infrastructure for new projects, as well as migrating existing applications to AWS.* Working as a Linux Systems Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, and more recently as a DevOps Engineer on a Cloud Computing based Security as a Service (SaaS) Platform within the Cisco Cloud Web Security (Cisco CWS) sector. More than 8k servers across over 30 geographic locations and growing. Providing a larger insight into Scalability and High Availability platforms; key focuses on automation/CI/CD and new projects/technologies.* Working as a Unix Systems Administrator in a complex international Gambling organisation, with set standards and requirements (PCI DSS/ITIL). Working to very high standards, even with frequent pressure from the business to meet required deadlines or requests. Loyal and dependable. Managing a highly financial based Web and Retail operation within a small team of Unix Admins.* Management of a hardware and software audit of a bespoke embedded Unix system across 1700 national sites in the UK. Working towards widespread standardisation and completeness for a successful business operation.* Training of peers in multiple subjects.Specialties:* Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Redhat, Alpine)* Automation/Orchestration (Terragrunt, Terraform, Kubernetes (k8s), Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet)* AWS - DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, Networking, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Elastic Beanstalk, Loadbalancers, S3, Route53 etc* Docker, Apache, Tomcat, CouchDB, RIAK, Cassandra, MySQL, Postgres, Redis etc* Monitoring/Logging Platforms - Datadog, Cloudwatch, Nagios, Cacti, Check_MK, OMDistro, Graphite, AppDynamics, Sumologic, Splunk etc* SOC2, PCI DSS, ITIL compliance* Legacy Build Systems (Cobbler / Kickstart / RHN /Spacewalk, Debian pre-seed)* Bash and Python. Golang, C++
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