Mat Lambeth

IT Architect and Technical Leader

A hands on cloud focussed architect with a passion for automation. SC Cleared.

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A hands-on Cloud Architect with a vast amount of experience building some of the world's largest systems.

NameMat Lambeth

Age 40 years

Job Freelance Architect/Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Residence UK

Lives In Yorkshire

Phone +44 (0)7970 546090

Email mat@mlcit.co.uk

Favourite Quote

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Skills

Favourite Current Technology Areas

An Archictect who started out writing Cobol and Java. He then went on to design and build infrastructure for high volume mission critical systems.

He now combines the two, to design and develop delivery pipelines to provision highly available infrastructure.

High Availability

Infrastructure Automation

Open Source

Infrastructure Architecture

Application Architecture

Cloud

Services That I Provide

Infrastructure Architecture

On-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructure architecture

Framework Design and Build

Framework build to give engineering a head start

Automation

Build of a full delivery pipeline or any component of

Cloud Architecture

Experienced Azure and AWS architect

Numbers that I'm proud of

36

Global locations provided with AML platforms

5000

Remote end user terminals managed by puppet

100

million transactions watch list screened per day

5

mins to provision IaaS with legacy applications running.

Technologies That I Can Use (and Understand!)

Desired State

Azure

AWS

Linux

An architect with a strong belief that confidence to pick up and use technology drives understanding. A stronger understanding drives credibility and cohesive architectures.
An architect that enjoys leveraging technology to help others deliver applications and components to their customers faster.

Resume

Experiences

TechOps Architect and Consultant at PWC
From October 2019
Providing architectural and hands-on expertise in a mixed cloud environment (Azure/GCP). Modern greenfield tech stack (PaaS and Kubernetes). CI/CD migrated to Azure DevOps in line with corporate strategy.
Site Reliability Engineeering Consultant at DWP
From April 2019
DWP is a large complex organisation with a constantly changing application landscape. I have been engaged to simplify and standardise deployments within Azure and AWS with the aim of improving delivery throughput, supportability and availability.
Senior Technical Architect at NewDay
From Aug 2017
A hands-on architecture role. Involved designing, securing and providing engineering support for a significant data lake implentation in AWS. Achieved PCI Accreditation. Fully automated deployments across a number of AWS accounts. Provided Enterprise grade connectivity between AWS/Azure and the traditional corporate network.
Senior Cloud Architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
From Feb 2016
A very hands-on architecture role to take PwC’s Global Data Analytics suite of products from traditional on-premise hosting to a hybrid model incorporating Microsoft Azure. Migrating a combination of COTS and in-house products, on both Windows and Linux, adding capacity and the ability to scale rapidly. As a result of this program PwC now have the ability to provision one of many server roles in a matter of minutes. Continuing to provide services on a consultancy basis.
Senior Infrastructure Architect at WilliamHill PLC
July 2015 – Feb 2016
Program architect for delivery of a new product distributed to the William Hill retail estate. Responsibility for providing the infrastructure to manage and support 6000 devices on a remote variable retail network. Acting as the conduit to ensure that the extremely fast paced Agile/DevOps program delivery aligns to the wider William Hill strategy. My role cut across hands-on delivery, high level strategy and anything in between.
Financial Crimes Compliance Architecture Lead at GE Capital HQ
January 2011 - July 2015
Responsible for the definition of the target architectural landscape of the Financial Crimes Compliance HQ systems globally for GE Capital. Ownership and technical project management of the provisioning of Anti Money Laundering (AML) and other solutions across the diverse sectors within GE Capital. The business lines varied significantly from traditional high-street banking to aircraft financing.
Senior Technical Architect at Santander
January 2009 - January 2011
Following on from business divestiture - Design and technically deliver existing applications into a new architectural landscape.