Peter Goudman Snr

Energy Systems Catapult is the UK’s leading energy innovation centre, helping accelerate the transition to a clean, intelligent energy system and supporting Net Zero research and startups.

• ▹ Lead a DevOps team supporting 12+ websites, four Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS) and multi-account AWS infrastructure for 15+ projects.
• ▹ Design Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code and GitLab pipelines for automated builds, testing, versioning and deployments.
• ▹ Implement estate-wide monitoring and alerting across servers, services, applications and websites to ensure uptime and reliability.
• ▹ Manage AWS accounts, IAM/SSO and access control across a root account and multiple sub-accounts, including monthly cost reporting.
• ▹ Develop self-service deployment capabilities (“Auto DevOps”) and automate disaster-recovery checks, including Kubernetes version reporting to Confluence.

Senior DevOps & Service Delivery Engineer

Trakm8 Ltd · Full-time

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · Coleshill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Trakm8 is the UK’s largest telematics manufacturer, specialising in fleet management software, vehicle cameras and route optimisation.

• ▹ Provided L2/L3 support across multiple data centres (on-prem and AWS) with Icinga2-based monitoring and incident resolution.
• ▹ Authored Python monitoring scripts for application, database and platform health checks (MySQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, OS).
• ▹ Managed VMWare vCenter, VM provisioning and configuration via Ansible and automated playbooks.
• ▹ Improved Ansible repository structure, refactored roles and introduced an internal Ansible library for consistency.

Full Stack Developer · DevOps

Prism360 · Startup / Contract

Feb 2018 – Jan 2020 · Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Early team member for a 360° panoramic image platform, responsible for build pipelines, deployment automation and backend/frontend development.

• ▹ Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for multiple environments (stage, test, pre-prod, prod).
• ▹ Authored build and deployment scripts in Bash and Ansible for automated delivery.
• ▹ Developed backend APIs in NodeJS/Express and Java/Spring Boot.
• ▹ Built Angular (4–11) front-end with Auth0-based authentication and JWT.

Application & Middleware Support Analyst

Avios Group Limited · Full-time

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · Crawley / Gatwick, England, United Kingdom

• ▹ Supported application delivery across development, test and production environments, using ITIL-based change management.
• ▹ Introduced automation with Ansible, Docker and Jenkins to streamline releases and reduce manual work.
• ▹ Implemented JIRA dashboards and Agile/SCRUM overviews to improve visibility and daily stand-ups.

Senior Application Support Analyst

MailOnline · Full-time

May 2015 – Jan 2016 · London, United Kingdom

Responsible for day-to-day running and maintenance of the Daily Mail Online site, serving hundreds of millions of unique visitors per month.

• ▹ Deployed web applications, wrote shell scripts and managed core services.
• ▹ Used Splunk for log analysis and issue diagnosis.
• ▹ Debugged and fixed layout and content issues (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Google Web Tools).
• ▹ Contributed to a real-time response-time monitoring proof-of-concept used across the organisation.

VP Application Technical Owner

Credit Suisse · Contract / Permanent

Oct 2007 – Feb 2015 · Zurich, Switzerland

• ▹ Technical owner and integrator for Subversion, JIRA, Confluence, Crowd SSO, Bamboo and Jenkins build servers.
• ▹ Defined and maintained the application lifecycle toolchain for development teams across EMEA.

Build & Integration Manager

Capgemini (HMRC Account) · Full-time

Jun 2005 – Sep 2007 · Telford, England, United Kingdom

• ▹ Led a team managing build and integration across multiple projects for HMRC.
• ▹ Delivered improved business and IT services through structured build and release processes.

J2EE Java Developer / Architect

Hewlett Packard GmbH · Full-time

Jun 1999 – Apr 2005 · Germany

• ▹ Developed Java applications and user interfaces for OpenView monitoring software.
• ▹ Migrated legacy C/C++ solutions on HP-UX to modern Java-based platforms.