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Christopher Edwards

Chester,Flintshire

Summary

Experienced Principal Architect with a strong background in managing complex projects and delivering innovative cloud solutions. Skilled in translating business requirements into effective technical strategies while ensuring compliance and optimising costs. Proven ability to enhance organisational growth through collaboration and strategic planning.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Principal Architect

Mony Group PLC
Manchester, Greater Manchester
10.2022 - Current
  • Translated complex business requirements into efficient technical solutions, improving project delivery timelines.
  • Designed and implemented a comprehensive AWS landing zone architecture across 100s of accounts, enhancing operational efficiency and through workload isolation
  • Redesigned cloud networking to incorporate egress filtering, zero trust, and network segmentation.
  • Developed an automated control framework to ensure compliance with industry standards, reducing risk and improving governance.
  • Created comprehensive reference documentation and conducted workshops to promote cloud-native best practices within the organisation.
  • Supported development initiatives that significantly improved team productivity and project outcomes.
  • Balanced operational and capital expenditure effectively.
  • Re-architected legacy event system to manage billions of events annually using cloud-first paradigms.

Technical Lead - Data Services

Mony group PLC
Manchester, Greater Manchester
08.2021 - 10.2022
  • Led operational management of data storage across multiple functions
  • Streamlined complex data access, lifecycle, and auditing requirements.
  • Delivered workshops and best practices for efficient data utilisation.
  • Optimised costs and consolidated usage to enhance capacity and reduce expenditure.

DevOps Engineer

Mony Group PLC
Ewloe, Flintshire
07.2017 - 08.2021
  • Facilitated transition of legacy workloads to AWS by collaborating with development teams.
  • Accelerated organisational shift to containers and microservices through Kubernetes and Helm.
  • Enhanced CI/CD tooling across departments to streamline development processes.
  • Managed diverse databases and caching tools to optimise performance.
  • Implemented private networking between cloud providers, partners, and on-premise solutions.

Junior java developer

Intilliery Ltd
Chester, Cheshire
09.2015 - 07.2017
  • Developed user-friendly software applications by understanding and identifying client needs.
  • Collaborated in team-based projects, resulting in successful product launches.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
09.2012 - 05.2015

Skills

  • AWS architecture and cloud infrastructure
  • Cloud networking and event-driven systems
  • Cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Cloud-native solutions
  • Security tools and best practices,
  • Technical documentation and requirements gathering
  • Programming languages: Python, Go, Java
  • Infrastructure as code: Terraform, CDK, Puppet

Certification

  • 12x AWS Certified (All active)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Principal Architect

Mony Group PLC
10.2022 - Current

Technical Lead - Data Services

Mony group PLC
08.2021 - 10.2022

DevOps Engineer

Mony Group PLC
07.2017 - 08.2021

Junior java developer

Intilliery Ltd
09.2015 - 07.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Aberystwyth University
09.2012 - 05.2015

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