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Location: Surbiton, Surrey.
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March 2018 - November 2024 The BMJ. AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps.
Provisioning AWS Linux infrastructure with Terraform, configuring EC2 nodes with Puppet,
monitoring applications and systems with Prometheus, AppDynamics, Grafana, OpenSearch Dashboards and Cloudwatch. Migrating applications to Kubernetes using EKS, ArgoCD, Kustomize and Github Actions.
Responsible for OpenSearch Dashboards for log storage, and have demonstrated to the team how to use it for troubleshooting application issues.
I am highly numerate and determined to make optimal decisions about infrastructure and avoid wasting money and carbon. I am often asked to calculate costs of solutions and to plan instance reservations. I have made presentations to my colleagues on this topic and have published an article "AWS Costs Cheat Sheet" on Medium and as a git gist.
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018: Crystal Ski (TUI holidays). Senior Cloud Engineer/DevOps
Responsible for providing AWS hosting of a website which sold 100s of millions
of pounds of skiing holidays each season. Puppet, terraform, Jenkins.
Feb 2014 - Jan 2015: Method Studios. Senior Systems Engineer for a Hollywood special effects company. High speed bulk data handling using Isilon storage, DST tape and 10GE switches.
June 2012 - Feb 2014: Google DeepMind. Senior Linux Systems Administrator for a rapidly expanding startup company purchased whilst I was there by Google. Design, purchase and installation of a high power Linux compute cluster with Grid Engine job scheduling for neural network training. I became expert on the HP/Supermicro Intel product lines and how to get the most compute power in the smallest space. Working with researchers of international renown.
Jan 2008 - June 2012 Freelance hardware engineer and systems administrator.
Designing building and selling an all in one storage and network solution for
mid size boutique visual effects companies in and around Soho, using 10GigE and RAID controllers.
Aug 1994-Jan 2008, Senior Systems and programming lead, Moving Picture Company. Providing bespoke hardware and C++ and Python software solutions for TV advertising and broadcast and film clients. Developed real time hardware rendered particle systems for National Lottery commercials and Harry Potter Films. Working with film directors and advertising agencies.
Links
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337418
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-grecian-1700a317
https://github.com/PeterGrecian
Education:
MSc IT and Computer Graphics, Middlesex University
BSc (Hons) Physics (3rd), Oxford University, St Catherine's College. Excelled at the practical experimental course.