Joe Bricknell

• -Migrated production Kubernetes workloads from Pulumi managed deployments to Google Cloud Deploy without downtime
• -Designed the deployment framework with Terraform, Atmos and Helm/Helmfile, separating app releases from infrastructure changes, centralising config and simplifying rollbacks
• -Moved CI to ephemeral self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes, peaking at around 1,500 concurrent jobs, cutting average PR validation from 30 to 10 minutes and reducing flaky failures
• -Built and ran a highly available, self-hosted JFrog Artifactory and Xray platform on GKE, enforcing supply chain security across development and CI, with docs and automated onboarding for technical and non-technical colleagues using AI coding tools
• -Built the first GCP test project, GKE cluster and deployment pipeline to validate platform changes outside production
• -Rightsized production workloads and fixed autoscaling using historical Datadog metrics, improving scheduling reliability and cutting deployment timeouts and compute costs
• -Led incident post-mortems in incident.io, documenting timelines and causes, driving discussions with senior engineering leadership and delivering the agreed actions

gcp, gke, kubernetes, terraform, atmos, helm, helmfile, google-cloud-deploy, pulumi, github-actions, artifactory, xray, datadog, incident.io

• -Built and managed Kubernetes and VM environments across AWS, Azure and GCP, automating provisioning and deployment with Terraform, Jenkins and ArgoCD
• -Built Jenkins pipelines for Packer image builds, testing, promotion and Wiz vulnerability scanning, cutting release time from a week to a day and vulnerability reporting from a day to an hour
• -Closed gaps in vulnerability scanning and added credential rotation and image patching across CI/CD workflows
• -Designed alerting and escalation workflows with OpsGenie, Prometheus and Grafana

kubernetes, azure, aws, gcp, terraform, jenkins, argocd, helm, packer, github-actions, prometheus, grafana, opsgenie, wiz, istio, linux, go, bash, ansible

• -Six months through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua and El Salvador
• -Culture, food, surfing and meeting people

• -Developed Go operators with Kubebuilder to automate DNS, load balancers, firewalls and database configuration
• -Built internal Slack tooling for request approvals and incident creation, integrating Jira, PagerDuty and Redis Streams
• -Worked directly with users to prioritise features and improve workflows

go, kubernetes, kubebuilder, ginkgo, prometheus, elastic, grafana, jenkins, argocd, redis, vault, pagerduty, jira

• -Developed a Go API gateway on AWS ECS with a unified GraphQL endpoint, OAuth authorisation and in-memory caching
• -Built a centralised MySQL product metadata repository supporting compliance and operational teams

go, graphql, aws, ecs, docker, mysql, grafana, jenkins, terraform, kafka