George Denton

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Hereford, UK

Keeping a regulated payments platform running on Azure. Infrastructure as code, automation, and on-call.

Background.

Came up through electrical work and IT support, then into cloud engineering.

Current focus: hybrid Azure infrastructure for a regulated payments platform — IaC with Bicep, PowerShell automation, monitoring, on-call.

Home lab on the side: 15+ Docker containers behind SWAG and Authelia, running self-hosted services and experiments.

Roles.

A UK payments processor

2022 — Present
  1. 2025 — Present

    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    Hybrid Azure and on-prem infrastructure for a regulated payments platform. IaC with Bicep through Azure DevOps, alerting and incident response. Recently: defended a live DDoS attack and rolled out smartcard MFA on an air-gapped network.

  2. 2024 — 2025

    Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    PowerShell automation, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics. Where support turned into engineering.

  3. 2023 — 2024

    Second Line Support Engineer

    Escalation point for endpoint, identity, and connectivity issues. Ran vulnerability management and wrote PowerShell to kill off repeat tickets.

  4. 2022 — 2023

    First Line Support Engineer

    Front-line support across a Microsoft environment.

Earlier

  • Delivery Driver Oglesby Butchers 2021 — 2022
  • Merchandiser B&Q (MET team) 2018 — 2021
  • Electrician AC Electrics Ltd 2015 — 2018

Selected projects.

Stack.

Cloud

  • Azure
  • Hyper-V
  • Entra ID
  • Defender
  • Hybrid

IaC & Automation

  • Bicep
  • PowerShell
  • Azure DevOps
  • ARM

Monitoring & Security

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • KQL
  • Smartcard MFA
  • PKI
  • Rapid7

Practice

  • IaC
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Incident response
  • On-call
  • AI-assisted development

Get in touch.

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