Chris Clayton

Lead Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer with 14 years of enterprise IT experience spanning cloud infrastructure, production operations, software engineering and database administration. Owns end-to-end AWS infrastructure across six separate business ventures and six AWS accounts, covering critical development and production platforms, CI/CD, networking, databases, security, monitoring and incident support. Trusted as the primary infrastructure escalation point for engineering teams and experienced in turning complex operational requirements into secure, repeatable deployment standards.

Lead Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer at EmergentX Pte. Ltd. (2023-07 – Present)

• Own end-to-end cloud infrastructure across six AWS accounts supporting six independent business ventures, with responsibility for critical development and production platforms.
• Design, build and operate AWS environments spanning dozens of Elastic Beanstalk deployments, RDS instances and supporting services across multiple repositories and application stacks.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, standardising deployment patterns and reducing reliance on manual release processes across engineering teams.
• Serve as the primary infrastructure escalation point for developers, troubleshooting deployment failures, build issues, environment configuration, database connectivity and production incidents.
• Manage and secure AWS services including ECS/Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, EC2, Amplify, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, Secrets Manager and CloudWatch.
• Define infrastructure security and operational controls covering IAM, security groups, private database access, DNS, TLS certificates, secrets handling, monitoring and environment access.
• Develop repeatable production deployment standards and introduce Docker-based deployment patterns, with growing adoption of Terraform for AWS/ECS infrastructure as code.
• Planned and executed a Microsoft 365 regional migration from India to Singapore, coordinating employee migration and service continuity for a complex move that vendor support would not undertake.

Software Engineer at Capgemini (2019-01 – 2023-07)

• Developed and maintained production software processes and scheduled jobs within enterprise environments.
• Automated recurring operational tasks using shell scripting, improving day-to-day support efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
• Used Git and Bitbucket for source control and collaborative development workflows, while monitoring production jobs and investigating failures.
• Supported existing applications and live services in an enterprise production environment.

Oracle Database Administrator at Capgemini (2015-08 – 2019-01)

• Supported mission-critical Oracle database environments across versions 9i to 12c.
• Performed database maintenance, patching and operational support for live services.
• Investigated and resolved production database incidents within enterprise support and change processes.

Live Service Support Engineer - Tier 3 at Capgemini (2012-09 – 2015-08)

• Joined Capgemini through an apprenticeship programme and progressed into third-line support for live production services.
• Investigated complex technical incidents, developed solutions and implemented fixes in enterprise environments.
• Built a strong foundation in production troubleshooting, operational support and service reliability.

Level 3 Software / Computer Software in Software / Computer Software – Telford College (TCAT) (2010 – 2012)