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Mark Meszaros

Bracknell,Berkshire

Summary

AWS DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with close to five years of experience. With a proven track record of being subjected matter expert in Kubernetes, onboarding peers and being a technical point of contact for multi-cloud migrations.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Platform engineer

DS Smith
London, City of London
02.2025 - Current
  • Achieved a 10% reduction in cloud infrastructure operating costs through targeted optimization and resource rationalization.
  • Streamlined CI/CD deployment workflows, improving reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed across the engineering pipeline.
  • Designed and developed an in-house access-control application to manage dataset permissions, enhancing governance and compliance.
  • Improved the platform’s overall security posture by implementing stronger controls, monitoring, and best-practice configurations.
  • Provisioned new Kubernetes environments and established the full ecosystem of supporting tooling to enable scalable, resilient deployments.

Daily activates:

  • Support incident and issue resolution across multiple ongoing projects, collaborating with operation teams to ensure timely recovery and minimal impact.
  • Contribute to architecture and design processes, including creating technical diagrams, solution proposals, and materials for TDR (Technical Design Review) discussions.
  • Drive improvements in observability, sponsoring initiatives to enhance logging, distributed tracing, and alert hygiene so the team can diagnose issues with less sleuthing and more clarity.
  • Maintain a strong focus on security, compliance, and platform best practices, ensuring all solutions align with internal standards and AWS Well-Architected principles.
  • Lead the design and standardisation of Terraform templates and modules, defining best practices for how cloud resources are created, tagged, and managed across teams.
  • Produce and maintain high-quality documentation, including system overviews, operational guides, and platform standards.
  • Develop and update runbooks to streamline operational tasks, improve incident response, and standardise platform procedures.
  • Assist in application development, providing guidance on platform integration, deployment patterns, and environment configuration.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

Platform engineer

Origin Digital
Harwell, Oxfordshire
03.2023 - 02.2025

Impact achieved:

  • Led FinOps activities to increase efficiency and reduce overall cost of cloud platform by 20%
  • Migration of legacy container services from cloud to cloud achieving scalable, cost reduction and improved security
  • Implemented security standards for Kubernetes clusters increasing overall security score by 9%
  • Introduced new deployment processes utilising EKS based pipelines to reduce deployment times and increase efficiency by up to 30%

Typical day to day responsibilities:

  • Provide operational support and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, products and tools.
  • Incident management and restoration of failed services
  • System administration (Ubuntu server and Amazon Linux) and Kubernetes platform
  • Configuring Docker containers to meet best practices
  • CI/CD maintenance of build and release process for container and machine image lifecycle management
  • LTS updates to tooling and AWS managed services (example include: RDS, EC2, EKS, Open-Search)
  • Foster DevOps culture within the organisation to reduce Time to Market while collaborating with Product Teams to solve infrastructure, security, or development problems.
  • Ensure security patterns were applied to company products and compliance is met, while implementing monitoring and alerting for cloud-based customer-facing products.

Junior DevOps Engineer

CDG
Ascot, Berkshire
08.2022 - 03.2023
  • Contributed significantly in building Kubernetes based infrastructure within AWS Cloud using infrastructure as code.
  • Developed GitOps pipelines for software lifecycle management
  • Implemented service deployments processes using industry standards.
  • Incorporated security best practices for cloud services using AWS native tooling.
  • Introduced robust processes and reduced application latency by 30%.

Support Engineer

CDG
Ascot, Berkshire
03.2021 - 08.2022
  • Managed cross regional environments spanning across Europe and Australia.
  • Proactively monitored and optimized services to ensure compliance with contracted SLA requirements.
  • Developed incident response automation, reducing the need for manual intervention
  • Curation of environments and configuring monitoring suites
  • Onboarding peers and assisting throughout the new joiner process

Education

Certificate of Higher Education - Information Technology

BMSZC Trefort Agoston College
Budapest
09.2013 - 05.2018

Skills

  • AWS Cloud (Certified)
  • Kubernetes (Certified)
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • Linux
  • Python
  • Typescript
  • Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Git-flow
  • Azure DevOps
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
  • Bash

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • AWS SysOps Administrator Associate
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner

Timeline

Platform engineer

DS Smith
02.2025 - Current

Platform engineer

Origin Digital
03.2023 - 02.2025

Junior DevOps Engineer

CDG
08.2022 - 03.2023

Support Engineer

CDG
03.2021 - 08.2022

Certificate of Higher Education - Information Technology

BMSZC Trefort Agoston College
09.2013 - 05.2018
Mark Meszaros