Rob Sewell

Automation Engineer @Sewells Consulting Limited

Director of own company providing Azure infrastructure deployments with Bicep, Azure DevOps pipeline support, production SQL DBA and PowerShell Automation services and training to public and private sector clients of all sizes. Created infrastructure as code solution for global insurance company enabling efficient robust and stable deployments of Azure infrastructure for large scale deployments using Bicep and Azure DevOps ensuring that all naming conventions and resource restrictions were enforced. A success story was creating a single pipeline which could deploy or update over 50 resource groups each containing storage accounts, key vault, azure data factory, azure databricks including cluster and further configuration, Cosmosdb, container registry, function apps and private endpoints.Provided infrastructure as code solution using Terraform and Azure DevOps to automate the installation and modification of data platform infrastructure for a UK insurance firm to migrate a Data Warehouse and all relevant data flows into Azure Managed Instance, Azure SQL database and Azure Data Factory.Provided Project SQL DBA, PowerShell, training and mentoring services to public sector client including migration of cloud hosted web services, PowerShell Desired State Configuration of UAT and Live environments and Azure Automation. Delivered PoC SQL on Linux solutionAutomated the install and monitoring of Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution across large estate as part of a project to use a new backup solution. Designed, delivered and documented solution to keep SQL updates up to date using SCCM and PowerShellHealth check of SQL Server Estate, Remote DBA support, advice on rationalisation and assistance with recruitment for mid sized private sector legal services clientGeneral IT and SQL DBA PowerShell cloud support for small companies.Project SQL DBA, PowerShell and Azure services for consulting firm.