Brian Lycett

Linux Infrastructure & DevOps Architect/Engineer

enquiries@wheelybird.co.uk • https://github.com/wheelybird

ABOUT ME

I’m a contractor specialising in infrastructure and DevOps, particularly Linux, AWS and containers. I’ve been responsible for the design and implementation of several highly-available, scalable infrastructures. On the DevOps side I primarily work with containerisation and have implemented release pipelines from the build stage to deployment and orchestration of container clusters.

I’ve been in the industry using Linux commercially since 1998 and I’ve developed expertise in a range of software tools and solutions. I’ve kept abreast of industry changes and I’m an advocate of systems and solutions (especially open-source) that will genuinely improve infrastructure deployments for the better.

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

•Linux: Ubuntu, Debian & RedHat/CentOS, Alpine	•Databases: MySQL/Galera, Aurora DB, PostgreSQL
•Containers: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, LXC	•Monitoring: DataDog, CloudWatch, Nagios, Munin
•Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Rackspace	•Web servers/proxies including HAProxy, Apache, Nginx
•AWS: EC2, IAM, RDS, Aurora, VPCs, Route53, ELB	•TCP/IP networking, firewalls, VPCs
ECS/ECR, CloudFront, ElastiCache, CloudWatch	•Virtualisation: KVM, Xen
•Hashicorp: Terraform, Consul, Vault, Packer	•Email: Postfix, Courier, Dovecot, OpenDKIM
•Scripting: BASH, PHP, Perl	•DevOps: Git, Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI
•Configuration management, Ansible