All about Neil

My role at Onyx Insight has seen me offered the DevOps Lead role within the first 8 months of being there. On top of that I am now leading the task of implementing ISO27001 across our AWS platform environments and have Information Security Officer responsibilities added to my contract for the AWS product environment.

Originally employed to be the single point for the Engineers, Project Managers & Senior Managers to go to for recommendations and solutions for the technology stack at NBS, this role quickly evolved to cover security auditing, recommendations, policy writing and training with the aim of bringing the NBS technology stack in line with the CIS Framework.

With an aged infrastructure, I also designed, priced up and planned a full migration to Azure for for approximately 500 VMs including a core banking platform.

Elevated the business' security posture by implementing a number of security solutions including:

Responsible for the day to day running of the Infrastructure team, I managed a small but highly skilled team of Engineers that dealt with a hybrid AWS / On-Premise environment.

I was also responsible for the design and implementation of a new AWS Infrastructure environment to facilitate the migration of our On-Premise and backup datacentres. With a strong emphasis on disaster recorvery, I designed and implemented a solution that did away with having to be On-Premise to work just as Covid hit. This also included my team and I ensuring that 300+ call centre staff could function from home securely using an "always on" Palo Alto solution.

Other tasks included:

Part of a small Infrastructure team, my role was to ensure that the infrastructure of Barbon and its subsidiaries remain up, secure and compliant against strict government policies.

Main duties included were not limited to: