Simon Telford

Platform Engineer & Consultant

Personal Profile

Simon is an experienced Azure platform engineer, and has led platform teams on large scale projects across the full cloud adoption lifecycle. Simon has experience of working in the aerospace, healthcare, finance and energy sectors.

Work Experience

Platform Engineer (Azure) &
Sustainbility Champion (Nottingham) at BJSS

December 2020 - present

  • Platform tech lead on multiple projects on behalf of BJSS
  • Sustainability Champion in Nottingham, helping to reduce BJSS' carbon footprint and reach our ambitions of Carbon Net Zero by 2025.

Lead DevOps Engineer at Impero Software LTD

September 2018 - December 2020

  • Starting out as the only DevOps Engineer I had to quickly build the practices and culture and primarily focused on the release cadence which soon went from every 3 months down to a regular weekly, or even twice weekly release.
  • The team was eventually expanded and I became responsible for all Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps processes.

DevOps Engineer at Dr Foster LTD (Telstra Health)

February 2016 - September 2018

  • Initially a 50/50 split role between DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer, but soon became solely DevOps Engineer due to the workloads
  • Set-up and managed several deployment pipelines of applications and NHS data sets using both Jenkins and Octopus Deploy
  • Designed an internal solution for NHS provided data, to ensure swift transfer and processing of data

Junior Software Developer &
Early Support Team Lead at Dollar Financial UK

August 2013 - Feb 2016

  • Started in a helpdesk support role and quickly advanced through to an Early Support Team Lead (managing a team of Application Support Analysts) and then as a Junior Software Developer.