Graham Levy

Experienced IT infrastructure engineer who has a proven track record building and supporting systems from vendors such as Microsoft, VMware, Netapp large and small. I support systems that are globally distributed as well as single site applications. I participate in projects and BAU around infrastructure installation & upgrades.

Platforms Engineer L3

Johnson Matthey PLC | Work from home | 2016 to 2024 August 31st

 Be a member of multiple project teams where you build out infrastructure in Azure, VMware,

Windows and be a technical advisor to the project manager and application owner.

 Provide L3 support for Azure, VMware vSphere and 2000+ globally disperse Windows servers.

 Create and maintain documentation, policies and procedures for L2/L3 platforms teams.

 Learn new technologies to introduce to the team. Currently learning Terraform, Logic Apps and

GitHub actions to automate the building of resources.

 At the start of Covid we had to rapidly deploy six Cisco ASAv appliances in Azure as VPN servers because the on-prem systems wouldn't be able to cope with the expected demand. I did the Azure part whilst somebody from the networking configured inside the appliance. We had never done something like this before that required such a complicated setup.

 Deployed multiple applications in Azure (e.g. Labware LIMS) that require sql clusters, load balancers, zone redundancy and replication to other regions.

Infrastructure Support Engineer

Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells | Swindon | 2009 – 2016

 Support, monitor and upgrade the site IT infrastructure – VMware vSphere, Cisco, Microsoft (AD,

GPO, DNS etc), NetApp. This includes computers used to run factory production lines in clean rooms.

 Upgraded: All ageing networking switches for new (Taught myself Cisco in the process), All VMware hosts multiple times for new, Introduced NetApp storage for the VM’s as it didn’t require fibre.

 Maintain relationships with vendors (Quotes, Support contracts).

 Provide technical assistance to the operations team with the building access, fire monitoring,

canteen/vending machine billing and CCTV systems. I was involved numerous times over the years as more and more things became network connected.

IT Support Engineer

Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells | Swindon | 2007 – 2009

 L1 – L2 Desktop/Server support

 Maintain backups

 Maintain PABX telephone system

Studied full time for MCSE

Relocated from Southampton to Swindon | March 2006 – October 2007

Systems Administrator

Thierry’s Wine Services Ltd | Romsey | 2001 – 2006

 Day to day support of servers, networks, printers and resolving end user issues

 Migrated the business from Novell Netware to Microsoft Active directory.

 Migrated a Centura SQL database that was running in Novell to its Windows equivalent several versions higher. This database was used to run the primary company in house developed application

• Microsoft Mcse 2003
• Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
• ITIL V3 Foundation 
• Btech diploma computer studies