Nick Hills
Head Of Observability at HTSUK
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Hills is a Head of Observability and Splunk Certified Architect with nearly two decades of experience designing resilient, compliance-driven telemetry and cloud-native platforms. Based in Stony Stratford, he has led observability, security and data initiatives across finance, telecoms and enterprise SaaS—re-architecting global Splunk deployments, building multisite clusters, and delivering PCI-DSS–validated telemetry for regulated environments. He blends hands-on implementation (indexer/search head clustering, HEC collectors, Kubernetes integrations) with strategic leadership as a director and practice lead. Nick is comfortable operating at the intersection of SecOps, DevOps and platform engineering, having run consultancy and product teams that turn monitoring data into actionable business and compliance controls. An understated strength is his track record of taking complex, high‑availability systems through rigorous due diligence and compliance processes during acquisitions and global rollouts. He pairs a BSc in Applied Computing with a pragmatic, governance-first approach to observability for cloud-first organisations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(hons) Applied Computing, BSc(hons) Applied Computing at University of East Anglia3 x A Levels 1 x AS Level , 3 x A Levels 1 x AS Level at The Skinners' School
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Github Skills (9)
garbage9
home-assistant-integration9
home-assistant6
splunk5
plug4
garbage-collection4
helm2
charts2
kubernetes2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nick-hills/splunkDeepfreeze
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
nick-hills/sophos_central
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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