I'm Luke -- a systems, infrastructure, cloud and DevOps engineer with over 25 years experience in IT across industries including Mining, Energy, Professional Services, ISP/Telco, Media, Broadcasting and Publishing.
For the past 10 years I have pursued my current passion for IT automation, Linux systems engineering, infrastructure architecture and AWS public cloud technologies.
Currently I am the lead AWS Cloud and High Performance Compute Platform subject matter expert for an ASX 10 global mining and green energy company, supporting yearly business activity of c. 30 billion USD, 8 digit yearly cloud spend, and the development of a compelling, globally transformational roadmap of integrated green energy and heavy industry technologies and capabilities.
Prior to that I focussed on enterprise datacentre and internet platforms such as servers, storage, VMware vSphere virtualisation, load balancing, fabric, networking and security.
- Software Development SDLC
- Devops and Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Linux Systems Engineering and Administration
- Scalable Application Infrastructure Design
- High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure
- Storage & Filesystems
- Security
- Linux Performance Troubleshooting
- Networking, TCP/IP, Routing and Network Troubleshooting
- Packet Capture Analysis
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Centre Design
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Centre Administration
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Infrastructure Administration
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Data Centre
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) on RHEL 6
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Centre Virtualisation
- VMware Certified Professional - Cloud
Fortescue is a global green technology, energy and metals company that is working to accelerate commercial decarbonisation through heavy industry -- rapidly, profitably and globally. With annual revenue and market caps approaching 20 billion and 60 billion USD respectively, it sits consistently in the ASX top 10 and is one of the most significant players in the global economy, providing a fast-paced and stimulating work environment.
- ⏱️ ⚡Reduced AWS account provisioning time from weeks to hours by uplifting management system from ClickOps to fully automated CI/CD proces
- 👩💻 😄 Improved company-wide developer experience and efficiency and and SDLC maturity by consolidating ~13 source code management and CI systems to GitHub Enterprise and promoting and championing inner source strategy
- 🥼 🏙️ Enabled business-critical green enery products development by delivering and supporting computational fluid dynamics HPC supercomputing patterns and environments using AWS Parallel Cluster, Ubuntu Linux and Ansys Fluent
- 💸 ✅ Delivered > AUD 2 million confirmed cloud cost optimisations via architecture analysis, right-sizing, and business application owner engagement
| Where | From/Until | As |
|---|---|---|
| ES2 | Aug 2019 Feb 2021 |
Cloud Architect |
| KZN | Sep 2017 Aug 2019 |
Senior Systems Engineer |
| Xpanse | Aug 2014 Sep 2017 |
Solution Architect |
| iiNet | Dec 2011 Aug 2014 |
Senior Systems Engineer |
| London | Jun 2007 Dec 2011 |
Various contract roles: Practical Law Company Bauer Media MTV Networks Europe |
| WestNet | Jun 1999 Jun 2007 |
Head of Systems and Services |
- 7x AWS Certified
- VMware vChampion 2012-2017 -- one of a handful of hand-picked elite architects from the VMware partner community
- Professional Publication referenced in an memorandum to the UK Parliament's Science & Technology Committee on Personal Internet Security.
I am based in Perth, Western Australia and can work remotely.
I have also lived in London 🌧🏙️🌧
- Solaris
- Apache JBOss
- F5 Load Balancing
- Fibre Channel and iSCSI
- My favourite emoji is 🤔
- 🧁Muffins are surprisingly high in calories
🎉 Thanks for looking 👍