Marc Loftus
Principal DevOps And Cloud Development Engineer at QinetiQ
Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Loftus is a Principal DevOps and Cloud Development Engineer with 12+ years of experience specialising in release, deployment and Site Reliability practices across payments, finance and defence sectors. He builds enterprise-grade, machine-readable frameworks that turn infrastructure, releases and tests into dynamic, version-controlled pipelines—reducing risk, increasing throughput and shrinking on-call demand. A former systems administrator who transitioned into DevOps, Marc combines hands-on scripting and automation (BASH, Python, IaC) with practical security and PCI experience to embed compliance into delivery. He’s comfortable moving between cloud, containers and legacy platforms, and runs a consultancy creating automation tooling to identify and eliminate toil. Colleagues value his emphasis on cross-team collaboration, clear documentation and measurable feedback loops that make complex systems more transparent and resilient.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science BSc(Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science BSc(Hons), Computer Science at University of Teesside
Github Skills (10)
deployment-automation10
shell8
ansible8
orchestration-framework7
devops7
orchestration6
azure6
terraform6
microsoft5
microsoft-azure3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
marlof/script-examples
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:26 pushes in 7 years 6 months
marlof/autoscorch_web
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
Testing Amplify. Commits here update website on AWS.
Contributions:25 PRs, 67 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
commitsathenatestingamazon-web-servicesupdate
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