Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

George
Denton

I build and maintain resilient hybrid cloud platforms in PCI-regulated environments. Self-taught engineer, three years from support desk to owning production infrastructure.

Hereford, UK
About

I engineered my own career change.

Left a hands-on trade, taught myself everything from networking to Azure architecture. No bootcamp, no shortcuts. Moved from first-line support to cloud engineer in under three years — in PCI-DSS regulated payments.

Today I own hybrid infrastructure that processes real money. DDoS response, MFA rollouts across thousands of endpoints, IaC pipelines, and monitoring at scale. The systems I build can't afford downtime.

3+ Years in Infra
100% Self-taught
PCI Regulated
Hybrid Cloud + On-Prem
Journey

From sparks to servers.

2015 Electrician AC Electrics Ltd
2018 Merchandiser B&Q — MET Team
2021 Delivery Driver Oglesby Butchers
Career Change
2022 First Line Support Payments Company
2023 Second Line Support Payments Company
2024 Junior Cloud Infra Engineer Payments Company
Now Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Since Oct 2025
Projects

Things I've shipped.

Live

OpenAlert

Open-source incident management and on-call platform. A production-grade PagerDuty alternative.

TypeScriptNestJSPostgreSQLRedis
Shipped

media-server-iac

One-command IaC deployment for a VPN-protected home media stack.

ShellDocker
Shipped

Azure DevOps Wiki Viewer

Lightweight Markdown renderer for Azure DevOps wiki syntax.

JavaScript
Shipped

GeorgesTicker

Desktop productivity suite — tasks, pomodoro, habit tracking, analytics.

TypeScriptElectron
Skills & Credentials

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure, Hyper-V, Entra ID, Key Vault, Front Door, App Gateway, Blob Storage, DDoS Protection

Scripting & Automation

PowerShell, Bicep, KQL, Power Automate

Security & Compliance

PCI-DSS, Smartcard MFA / PKI, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender

Monitoring

Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, PagerDuty, Microsoft Sentinel

DevOps & Tooling

Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker, Linux

Identity & Systems

Active Directory, GPO, Endpoint Manager, Exchange Admin, SSO

Microsoft Applied Skills

SIEM with Microsoft Sentinel Deploy & Configure Azure Monitor Power Automate Processes Administer Active Directory Domain Services

Let's connect.

Open to conversations about cloud, infrastructure, or career journeys.