Cybersecurity & SOC | Cloud & DevOps Engineer
MSc Cybersecurity · 19+ Years Enterprise IT · AWS · Azure · Terraform · Security Onion · DevSecOps
Cybersecurity and DevOps professional with MSc-level security knowledge, hands-on cloud engineering across AWS and Azure, and 19 years of enterprise IT experience in regulated financial services — now specialising in security operations, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps.
MSc Cybersecurity
Awarded 2025 — Robert Gordon University
Dual-Cloud Engineer
AWS & Azure — hands-on production deployments
19+ Years Enterprise IT
Financial services — board-level accountability
Production-grade work across cybersecurity, cloud engineering, and DevOps — built and documented as real engineering deliverables.
DMI Internship
Applied agentic AI workflows using Claude Code and MCP subagents to audit Terraform infrastructure for security issues. Automated checks across S3, CloudFront, HTTPS, TLS, and state management — identified and triaged 8 confirmed security findings.
DMI Internship
Reproduced a production-style 3-tier architecture on Azure — Next.js/Nginx on public VMs, Node.js backend on private VMs managed by PM2, and Azure MySQL Flexible Server with High Availability and a read replica, connected through private networking and NSG rules.
DMI Internship
Deployed a production-grade Book Review application on AWS in a secure 3-tier architecture — Next.js on EC2 behind a public ALB, Node.js API on private EC2 behind an internal ALB, and Amazon RDS MySQL in a private subnet with no direct internet exposure.
MSc Cybersecurity — Robert Gordon University
Deployed and operated Security Onion SIEM to investigate a simulated ransomware intrusion. Performed IDS packet analysis and log forensics, traced the infection vector to a spear-phishing campaign, and produced a professional incident report with remediation recommendations.
Not a career starter — a career re-director.
19 years of enterprise IT experience, the last decade as sole owner of cybersecurity posture, cloud transformation, and IT governance for a regulated financial services organisation reporting directly to the board.
Awarded MSc Cybersecurity from Robert Gordon University in 2025. Currently active as a DevOps Micro-Intern at The CloudAdvisory Oy — deploying production-grade infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Terraform.
Financial services regulatory experience. Hands-on agentic AI DevOps. Dual-cloud engineering. That combination is rare.
19+
Years Enterprise IT
MSc
Cybersecurity — Awarded 2025
14
Portfolio Projects
AWS + Azure
Dual-Cloud Engineering
Technical notes, lab writeups, and lessons from the work.
Beyond the diagram: the specific design decisions behind a production-grade AWS three-tier deployment — why internal ALBs, why private subnets for RDS, and what actually validates that your architecture is secure.
A practical walkthrough of deploying Security Onion as a SIEM and IDS platform for the first time — what worked, what didn't, and what every SOC analyst candidate should understand before sitting in front of it.
Cybersecurity / SOC, Cloud Engineering, DevOps / DevSecOps — UK remote, hybrid, or on-site. If you are looking for someone who brings both operational depth and hands-on technical delivery, let's talk.