Lewis Gardener
Infrastructure Consultant
Hi, nice to meet you I’m Lewis, a few facts about me:
- I support Chelsea FC.
- I play football at east Thurrock.
- My favourite dinner is lasagna.
Here at Hamilton Barnes, I specialise as an IT recruitment consultant within the Hamilton Barnes Contract Team, placing DevOps Engineers & Infrastructure Automation Specialists into contract opportunities globally. I work with a range of clients including Microsoft Gold Partners, Consultancies and Global Leading Service Providers.
Recent success stories:
- I recently worked alongside one of the biggest service providers in the United Kingdom to successfully place 3x DevOps Engineers & 2x Site Reliability Engineers & 1x Cloud Infrastructure Lead. During the recruitment process, I effectively screened candidates, managed the compliance process and onboarded them in line with client deadlines.
- Partnered with a leading Microsoft Gold Partner to place a Senior Kubernetes Engineer and 2x Platform Engineers on a critical infrastructure migration project, managing the process from initial screening through to a fast-turnaround onboarding.
- Supported a global consultancy in scaling out their cloud transformation team, successfully placing 4x Terraform/IaC Specialists and 1x DevOps Team Lead within a tight six-week timeframe.
Our core areas of expertise:
- Cloud Infrastructure – AWS / Azure / GCP / Multi-Cloud Architecture
- Infrastructure as Code – Terraform / Ansible / Pulumi / CloudFormation
- CI/CD & Automation – Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
- Containerisation & Orchestration – Docker / Kubernetes / Helm / OpenShift
- Observability & Monitoring – Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog / ELK Stack
- Site Reliability Engineering – Incident Management / Automation-First Practices / Scalability & Resilience
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