Riding motorcycles to some of the most remote areas of the world
Colin Morris
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Accomplished Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience at OpenCities Granicus, optimizing Azure infrastructure across 480 multi-region environments. Expert in Octopus Deploy and Terraform, enhancing system performance and stability. Proficient in PowerShell scripting, with strong collaboration skills to drive innovation and efficiency. Recognized for implementing robust cloud solutions and improving application architecture.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
OpenCities Granicus
10.2024 - Current
- Managed Azure infrastructure, optimising cloud compute and networking across 480 multi region environments
- Used Octopus Deploy extensively to automate builds, updates and migrations for 500 +VMs, Azure SQL, Azure Storage Accounts and EntraID
- Collaborated with the product team on application architecture to improve stability and performance
- Implemented Infrastructure as code using Terraform
DevOps Engineer
OpenCities
12.2015 - 10.2024
Business Product Support
Frontier Software
06.2015 - 12.2015
Responsible for deploying Frontier applications and updates to both on premises client infrastructure and Frontier hosted VMs using Autoit
Senior Support Engineer
OpenCities
03.2011 - 06.2015
- Installation and updates for both on premises and hosted SeamlessCMS environments
- Level 1, 2 and 3 application support
- Application documentation
- Customer training
Corporate Applications Officer
Rockhampton Regional Council
08.1997 - 03.2011
- Wrote and deployed my own Web Content Management System that powered the council website
- Responsible for administering multiple council applications including Records Management, Financials and Licencing
- Network administration including Windows active directory disaster recovery
- Desktop support for 1200+ staff
Education
Associate Diploma - Associate Diploma (Incomplete Missing 1 Subject)
Rockhampton Institute of TAFE
Rockhampton, QLDSkills
- 10 years experience using Octopus Deploy to manage multi region environments single handedly
- High level powershell scripting
- High level Azure knowledge including azure networking, function apps, Azure SQL, Azure Storage accounts load balancers
Accomplishments
Took a small on premises web application to being a cloud hosted solution that powers 60% of the Australian Local Government websites and some of the largest cities in the US including most of Silicon Valley
Interests
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
OpenCities Granicus
10.2024 - Current
DevOps Engineer
OpenCities
12.2015 - 10.2024
Business Product Support
Frontier Software
06.2015 - 12.2015
Senior Support Engineer
OpenCities
03.2011 - 06.2015
Corporate Applications Officer
Rockhampton Regional Council
08.1997 - 03.2011
Associate Diploma - Associate Diploma (Incomplete Missing 1 Subject)
Rockhampton Institute of TAFE
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