John Oreilly

Background

About John Oreilly

A highly skilled and hands-on Senior DevOps Manager who excels in transforming legacy IT departments and organisations into modern, agile and scalable DevOps powerhouses. Architected and implemented zero-downtime migrations of disparate on-premise IT estates into the public cloud with substantial savings to hosting expenditure. Specialties- Global Data Centre Management (five data centre locations across Europe and China)- Data Platform Ownership (administered a global data platform consisting of over 100 SQL Servers and nearly 30TB of data)- Technical Expertise (extensive experience of designing, deploying and supporting Microsoft, Unix, Linux and VMware platforms both on-premise and with AWS / Azure)- Highly Consolidated Virtual Solutions (designed and implemented a move away from large scale physical infrastructure to virtual, setting a blueprint for all future system deployments within the business)- Consolidation through System Architecture Redesign (taking a key business product from 20+ servers to just four)- Improving System Uptime (through staff training, proactive system monitoring and clear, enforceable procedures, moving average resolution times to be measured in minutes instead of hours)- Budget Management (delivery of all operational requirements within budget over multiple years)- Improvisation and Problem Solving (demonstrating on numerous occasions the ability to see resolutions where nobody else can and find root cause where others struggle)- Team Motivation (with a focus on honesty, transparency and encouragement to use existing skills effectively and proactively learn new ones to better the individual and the business)