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Hi, I am John

John Edwards

Associate Director of DevOps and Cloud at Jagex

A lead DevOps engineer with 14+ years experience architecting, implementing and operating mission critical services in public and hybrid cloud at the head of multi-national teams.

Leadership
DevOps
Cloud
InfoSec
Compliance
DBA

Skills

Experience

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Jagex

Sep 2021 - Present, Cambridge, UK

Associate Director of DevOps and Cloud

Dec 2023 - Present

  • Evangelist for DevOps practices and Cloud adoption
  • Product Owner for multiple internal “As a Service” offerings
  • Line management of a DevOps group
DevOps Engineering Manager

Jun 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Lead engineer for infrastructure, on-prem and cloud, underpinning Jagex’s game services
  • Line management of a DevOps group
Principal Operations Engineer

Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Lead engineer for infrastructure, on-prem and cloud, underpinning Jagex’s game services
Director, Systems Engineering
IQVIA

2019 - 2021, Cambridge, UK

IQVIA, formerly Quintiles and IMS Health, Inc., is an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and clinical research.

Responsibilities:
  • Design, implementation, budget and operation of multiple mission critical SaaS offerings for IQVIA’s Real World Tech Platforms global business unit
  • Standardise working methods across wider group
  • Promote and advance adoption of SRE
  • Support development teams with CI/CD infrastructure and private cloud services
  • ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliance
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Technical guidance/systems architecture for customer RFPs
  • Lead a SRE/DevOps team of 17 engineers spread between the UK, USA and Canada
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Linguamatics

2010 - 2019, Cambridge, UK

Creator of world leading Natural Language Processing software, primarily for pharmaceutical and healthcare applications.

IT/Information Security Manager

2014 - 2019

  • Design, implementation, budget and operation of mission critical SaaS offerings
  • Support development teams with CI/CD infrastructure and private cloud services
  • Enterprise IT systems (email, collaboration, end user compute, etc)
  • ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliance
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Technical guidance/systems architecture for customer RFPs
  • Lead team
Systems Administrator

2010 - 2014

  • Operation of mission critical SaaS offerings
  • Support development teams with build/test infrastructure
  • Support enterprise IT systems
iansyst

2006 - 2010, Cambridge, UK

A provider of assitive technology for disabled individuals.

Build and Automation Manager

2008 - 2010

  • Linux and Windows system administration
  • Mass computer imaging
  • Automating software installation workflow to customise 6000+ laptops per year
  • Optimising build production line
Customer Support Engineer

2006 - 2008

  • 1st and 2nd level IT help desk.
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Achievements

Start-up Contributor

Leadership

ISO 27001

HIPAA Compliance

Site Reliability Engineering

Software-as-a-Service

Recent Posts

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Fun with simple ciphers

A bit of fun playing with a simple caesar cipher in Python3. The following text has been encrypted using a simple Caesar cipher: aur r-%n!-n-p|z}#"r -"un"-p vrq9 /Z'-"rpu{vpny-ov"!-un$r-nyy-orr{-s vrq9 V-"||x-"||-zn{'-w|y"! S |z-"||-zn{'-$|y"!;;;/ 5[|-%|{qr -"ur- #qq'-"uv{t-qvrq6. Only printable characters with a unicode value >=32 and <=126 have been shifted. Any shifted character value that overflows these constraints is is wrapped to the opposite end of the range. The code I wrote to encrypt, decrypt and brute force this cipher can be found on my GitHub.

May 21, 2021 Read
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Ubuntu Multi-seat Steam Streaming Server

My wife and I like to play games together. Before kids, we had two gaming PCs with their own desks etc, but there isn’t room in the house for that kind of setup these days. I decided to setup a single dedicated gaming server based on Ubuntu 18.04 which would use the Remote Play feature of Steam to stream games to our much lower spec Ubuntu laptops. This setup has some cool benefits:

February 7, 2021 Read
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AWS SES, S3 and Lambda: A Serverless mailserver

Introduction I wanted a simple way for members of a tabletop gaming club I run to communicate with each other in order to arrange matchups, RSVP to events, etc. I’m somewhat averse to the Facebook Hegemony and its social media ilk, so I turned to the last sleepy titan of the pre .com age, whose might, though waning, still comes (mostly) without privacy strings attached: Email! There were two modes of email operation I wanted to support:

February 7, 2021 Read