Hi, I'm Adam

Adam Galt

DevOps Engineer at PA Media Group

I am a passionate DevOps Engineer with 7 years of relevant experience. I am also a Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA). I enjoy getting technical on a great variety of systems, software and subjects.

Leadership
Team Work
Communication
Hard Working
Fast Learner
Problem Solving

Skills

Experience

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DevOps Engineer
PA Media Group - IT Operations - Stream DevOps Team

May 2022 - Present, Cloud / Fully Remote

IT Operations, Stream DevOps Team. Working closely with the development pods, responsible for release engineering, cloud infrastructure provisioning and maintaining multiple production services within StreamAMG.

Responsibilities:
  • DevOps Engineer within the Stream DevOps team.
  • Change requests, incident investigations, design and development.
  • Working closely with the development pods on deployment of code releases.
  • Release engineering, infrastructure provisioning and management, system administration, security, and DevOps CI/CD advocacy
  • Terraform, MySQL, Jenkins, AWS

Systems Administrator
University of Oxford - MedSci - WIMM

May 2021 - May 2022, Oxford, United Kingdom.

MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. Responsible for the ‘imm’ domain services that facilitate research into molecular medicine.

Responsibilities:
  • Systems Administration for large and diverse research infrastructure.
  • Design, development, deployment and management of new systems.
  • Building and repair of infrastructure servers.
  • Automation of infrastructure using Ansible/BASH/Python
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Systems Administrator
University of Oxford - EngSci - Robots

May 2018 - May 2021, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Information Engineering, Dept. Engineering Science. Responsible for the ‘robots’ domain services that facilitate research into AI and robotics.

Responsibilities:
  • Systems Administration for large and diverse research infrastructure.
  • Design, development, deployment and management of new systems.
  • Building and repair of infrastructure servers and custom GPU machines.
  • Automation of infrastructure using Ansible/BASH/Python

Second Line Support Technician
RT Systems and Solutions

May 2017 - May 2018, Witney, United Kingdom.

MSP with a national client base.

Responsibilities:
  • Investigations and resolutions of techinical problems escalated by the first line team.
  • Responsible for looking after multiple client sites in South England.
  • Monitoring and responding to backup and infrastruture needs.
  • Technical process design and development.
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IT Administrator
Windrush Medical Practice

Dec 2015 - May 2017, Witney, United Kingdom.

A large medical practice serving the local community.

Responsibilities:
  • Investigations and resolutions of techinical problems reported by staff.
  • Responsible for looking after infrastructure and services.
  • Monitoring and responding to backup and infrastruture needs.
  • Rollout of new services and systems.
  • Training of staff in technical matters.
  • Medical coding in EMIS.

Projects

Auto-Pi-Backup
Auto-Pi-Backup
Owner / Developer Feb 2019 - Present

Automated image backups of raspberrypi SD-Cards to NAS.

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Ansible-Playbooks
Ansible-Playbooks
Owner / Developer Aug 2020 - Present

A collection of Ansible playbooks written to automate maintenance work in an Ubuntu environment.

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Achievements

Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator

WES Certified

Graduated B.Sc. Hons.

Survived IOM-TT