Benjamin Crew
Senior Server And Storage Analyst at West Yorkshire Police
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBenjamin Crew is a Senior Server and Storage Analyst with nine years' experience designing and operating resilient infrastructure for West Yorkshire Police, now leading a technical team to migrate on-premises services into Azure. He blends hands-on Linux and Windows server expertise, VMware and NetBackup know-how, and Active Directory management with pragmatic automation—Python, Bash and PowerShell—to drive efficiency through CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code. Benjamin balances day-to-day service delivery and contingency planning with strategic planning and budget stewardship, while running IT Health Checks to reduce security risk. He is as comfortable building disaster-recovery playbooks and backup testing as he is coaching staff and improving team wellbeing. Notably, his progression from service desk automation author to infrastructure lead reflects a consistent focus on turning operational pain points into repeatable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
terraform9
terraform-provider9
azure-resource-manager9
azure9
command-line-interface8
azure-cli7
azure-monitor7
python6
azure-sdk2
azure-aks1
kubernetes1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benjamin-crew/100-days-of-code
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
benjamin-crew/cv-website
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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