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Edward Bird

Senior Platform Engineer
Derbyshire | Remote efbird2048@gmail.com efbird.com GitHub
Profile

Senior Platform Engineer specialising in platform engineering, cloud architecture, and infrastructure automation at scale.

I bring more than 10 years of IT experience, including 7+ years of hands-on DevOps experience. My work focuses on building reliable platforms, modernising legacy infrastructure, and helping teams deliver software safely and consistently through strong CI/CD practices.

10+
Years in IT
1,000+
Services supported
100+
Developers supported
Areas of focus
✓ Scalable cloud and Kubernetes platforms
✓ Infrastructure automation and IaC
✓ CI/CD, security, and operational resilience
Technical Skills
Category Technologies
Cloud AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM), Azure (Entra ID, SignalR), GCP
Containers Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
IaC Terraform, CloudFormation
CI/CD ArgoCD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions
Networking Kong API Gateway, Nginx, Traefik
Messaging RabbitMQ, Kafka
Scripting Python, Bash, PowerShell
Observability Datadog, Prometheus, PagerDuty
Backup/DR Rubrik
Other GitHub, Bitbucket, Linux, Windows Server
Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

Mortgage Advice Bureau
2023 - Present
  • Migrated on-premise backup systems to Rubrik, improving recovery capabilities and security.
  • Migrated CI/CD pipelines and repositories from Bitbucket to GitHub, improving and standardising CI builds.
  • Managed and maintained IT infrastructure, including 10+ Kubernetes clusters running approximately 1,000 microservices.
  • Collaborated with multiple teams to design scalable, resilient platform solutions across a 100 person development organisation.
  • Defined and enforced security standards across CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure, integrating AWS SSO and Control Tower.
  • Maintained monitoring and alerting standards across infrastructure, utilising Datadog on-call.
  • Drove DR planning and disaster recovery testing across cloud environments.
  • Integrated AI tooling and best practices to improve speed and quality of development and monitoring.

DevOps Engineer

Mortgage Advice Bureau
2020 - 2023
  • Migrated on-premises systems and infrastructure into AWS, building out an EKS-based container platform.
  • Migrated Docker Swarm systems to Kubernetes, improving scalability and operational maturity.
  • Designed and built a platform integrated telephony solution via AWS Connect.
  • Worked cross functionally with development teams to implement CI/CD pipeline and build improvements.
  • Managed infrastructure as code using Terraform across multiple environments.
  • Implemented monitoring and alerting with Datadog and PagerDuty.

DevOps Engineer

Picsolve International
2018 - 2020
  • Supported AWS platform and cloud-based photography systems across a global estate.
  • Developed CI/CD scripts and tooling for a cloud-based photo capture solution.
  • On call 24/7 supporting operations in Asia, US, and Europe.
  • Solely responsible for platform systems at Caesars Palace Las Vegas and Dubai Parks and Resorts.

Technical Support (1st-3rd Line)

Picsolve International
2015 - 2018
  • Progressed from 1st Line to 3rd Line support over three years.
  • Resolved escalated technical issues, trained staff, and defined processes.
  • Implemented the RMM platform Datto across a global estate.
Education
  • De Montfort University | B.A. Hons. History and Journalism | 2:1 | 2010 - 2013
  • A-Levels in English Language, Geography, and History | Chellaston Sixth Form