Summary
James Matthews is a Contract DevOps Engineer with nine years of focused experience designing automated cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and CI/CD pipelines for public and private sector organisations. He specialises in simplifying complex systems with Infrastructure as Code across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt and Ansible, and has delivered high‑impact cloud transformations for UK government departments and service providers. James is practiced at securing regulated environments—integrating automated vulnerability testing, antivirus workflows and Hub/Spoke networking—while improving deployment speed, resilience and cost efficiency. He routinely leads cluster consolidations, multi‑tenant migrations and platform automation projects, and pairs hands‑on engineering with mentoring to upskill junior team members. Operating through his contracting company NevMatt Ltd, he quickly embeds into teams to support releases, incident response and runbook-driven BAU. Notably, his background spans both large-scale migration lifts and long-running operational leadership dating back to infrastructure management roles in entertainment and IT services.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Aylesford High School