Summary
Mike Jones is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Melbourne with over 20 years in tech and more than a decade in leadership, specializing in automating CI/CD, cloud-native platforms, and DevOps transformations. He has led teams of up to a dozen engineers across large enterprises (AGL, Coles, Bunnings, Bupa) delivering containerized platforms, blue/green deployments, and cloud cost optimizations that saved millions. Comfortable across Terraform, Ansible, Azure services, Kubernetes, Databricks and a wide security and observability toolset, he blends hands-on implementation with change management and budget/accountability. Mike is an experienced agile coach and Scrum Master who resets struggling teams to deliver value quickly and introduces continuous improvement practices like Toyota Kata. He regularly speaks at LAST and local DevOps meetups, and quietly combines sustainability-focused mission work with pragmatic automation—designing systems that reduce risk while enabling faster, greener delivery.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Greenwich