Summary
Mark Whaite is a Senior TechOps Engineer based in London with 11 years of focused experience in systems, network and operational engineering across media and security-sensitive environments. He has led infrastructure, configuration management and monitoring efforts using tools like Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Sensu and logstash while owning digital security, patching and network operations for high-profile content workflows. His background spans hands-on administration of RHEL/CentOS, Windows, macOS, SAN and NFS/SMB storage, plus DNS/DHCP/Postfix and firewall management, and he’s managed and mentored junior engineers and ops teams. Comfortable in client-facing and managerial roles, he’s delivered projects for global film and post-production companies where uptime, secure content transfer and complex shared storage were critical. Mark combines practical scripting and Python automation with a pragmatic, security-first approach, making him adept at turning legacy operations into more reproducible, monitored platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons), Communication and Business, BA(Hons), Communication and Business at Middlesex University
PGCE, Informatics, PGCE, Informatics at Birkbeck, University of London