Gerard Kavanagh

Lead Devops Specialist @Metro Bank

London, GB

Project lead for DevOps for Integration Summary - Responsible for provisioning IBM Integration environments - Configuration managed server builds including binraries and deployments, using Ansible- Implementing a full CI/CD framework to use from Development to Production environments- Automate and manage ELK stack. Details - Automated installation and configuration of tool set required to facilitate a fully continuous integration, deployment and application support pipeline for IBM integration Bus and IBM MQ- Automated OS requirements, binary installs and full IIB configuration for both Windows and Redhat using Ansible- Automated OS requirements, binary installsfor IBM MQ and running MQSC files for both Windows and Redhat using Ansible- Automated bar file deployment process including applying overrides at deployment stage, using Jenkins, Nexus, Gitlab abd RIT (Rational Integration Tester)- Automated the installs for ElasticSearch, ELK stack and setup monitoring and central logging for IIB and IBM MQ. for Windows and Linus

University of Wolverhampton

First Class (hons) Computer Science, Information Technology