Maxwell Wright

Cloud Engineer

A self-motivated, enthusiastic and meticulous individual looking to advance my career in IT. Having passed a DevOps apprenticeship and moved into a cloud engineer role, my enthusiasm for learning more about the field has only grown.

Tech Stack

Cloud/IaC: AWS(EC2, VPC, EKS, IAM), OpenStack, Terraform
Deployment/containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
Scripting: Bash, Python, Groovy
OS: Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, AWS Linux), Windows(10, 11, Server 2019, Server 2022)
CI/CD: Jenkins, Harness
Other: HTML, CSS

Employment History

Oct 2024 - Present: Cloud Engineer, Avature

Cloud services - OpenStack, AWS
Monitoring - Grafana, prometheus
IaC - Terraform
Linux administration

Sept 2022 - Oct 2024: Junior DevOps Engineer/Regional SRE, Experian

Skills gained: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Ansible, CI/CD

Level 4 qualification in DevOps
Deep understanding of Agile working and Git/Github/Bitbucket
Experience using IaC for building AWS resources (EC2, VPC, ALB)
Heavy utilisation of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Harness
Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes
Regular use of Bash and Python

Jan 2021 - Aug 2022: Laptop Technician Apprentice, Currys

Skills gained: Quality assurance, methodical problem solving, computer hardware technical knowledge

Gained an in depth understanding of hardware operations and Windows OS
Advanced problem-solving techniques using a methodical snd logical approach
Working towards targets and within time constraints
Adhering to high standard repars and self-regulating quality assurance and time management

Education

2022 - 2024: Experian (workplace), QA (Apprenticeship provider)

BCS Level 4 DevOps Engineer Apprenticeship

2012 - 2019: Toot Hill School/Sixth Form, Bingham, Nottinghamshire

A Levels: Physic, Chemistry, Maths
GCSES: 10 A* - C: Maths(A), English(A)