Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Building resilient hybrid cloud platforms in PCI-regulated environments. Self-taught. Three years from support to production infrastructure.

Hereford, UK Available
About

I didn't stumble
into this field.

I left a hands-on trade career with a plan. Taught myself everything from networking fundamentals to Azure architecture. No bootcamp, no hand-holding — just relentless iteration.

Moved from first-line support to cloud engineer in under three years, working in PCI-DSS regulated payments. Today I own hybrid infrastructure that processes real transactions. DDoS response, MFA rollouts, IaC pipelines, monitoring at scale.

3+ Years in
Infrastructure
100% Self-taught
Career Change
PCI DSS Regulated
Environments
Hybrid Azure &
On-Premise
Journey

From sparks
to servers.

2015
Electrician AC Electrics Ltd
2018
Merchandiser B&Q — MET Team
2021
Delivery Driver Oglesby Butchers
The Pivot
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.

Skills

What I
work with.

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

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

Observability

Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, PagerDuty, Microsoft Sentinel

DevOps

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.