Hi, I am John

John McCracken

Cloud Engineer at Certass Ltd

A cloud focused developer with experience in a variety of wide ranging technologies.

AWS
DevOps
Serverless

Skills

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IT Manager/Developer
Certass Ltd

April 2020 - March 2023,

Responsible for managing all aspects of IT, including online services and the infrastructure required to provide these.

Responsibilities:
  • Responsibility for company technology stack
  • Technology procedures
  • Infrastructure and security
  • Developing and maintaining systems
Software Developer
Warranty Services Ltd

May 2007 - March 2020,

Responsible for company websites, online services and the infrastructure that provide these.

Responsibilities:
  • Infrastructure and security
  • Developing and maintaining systems
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3
Digital Inclusion Trainer
South Ayrshire Council/Ayr College

January 2003 - April 2005,

Trainer for IT projects in the community in partnership with college/local authority

Responsibilities:
  • ECDL training and marking
  • Design, plan and deliver bespoke coursework
1Password CLI, AWS and Terraform
Blog

Setting up Terraform/AWS with 1Password CLI

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Automate AWS security group with CloudFlare IPs
Blog

Setting up AWS security groups with Cloudflare

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Isolating PHP with Docker Container
Blog

PHP and Docker for a quick experiment

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