Alison Jenkins
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Civica
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlison Jenkins is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient Linux-first infrastructure across hosting and platform teams. She’s worked her way from support and monitoring roles at MessageLabs and Symantec to senior platform and SRE leadership positions, most recently at Civica, bringing practical expertise in incident response, automation, and systems design. A lifelong terminal user and avid Vim enthusiast, Alison blends deep command-line fluency with a developer’s mindset to solve operational problems through software. She’s comfortable mentoring teams and translating production pain points into durable engineering solutions, and off-hours enjoys multiplayer and tabletop gaming—a hobby that mirrors her collaborative, strategic approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HND in Computing and Systems Development, Computing, Project Management, System Design and Testing, Distinction, HND in Computing and Systems Development, Computing, Project Management, System Design and Testing, Distinction at Gloucestershire College
English
Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
language-server-protocol10
yad10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
portable10
optimizer10
linux10
steambot10
mason10
lunarvim10
formatters10
archlinux10
tinker10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
alisonjenkins/archinstall
Jan 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
alisonjenkins/archlinux-package-ut2004-steam
Jun 2014 - Aug 2021
An AUR package for installing the native Linux version of Unreal Tournament from the Windows version in Steam using steamcmd.
Contributions:6 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 3 months
steamworkswindowsaur-packageunrealinstalling
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