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Monmouthshire Building Society

Established in Newport in 1869 to help local people build homes, we now help people across Wales and England buy properties and save for their future.

Monmouthshire Building Society logo with stylized orange arches and black text.

Cloud Security Engineer

Fully Remote from November 2025 to June 2026.

Deliverabls and Achivments

  •  Led IT transformation and infrastructure modernisation, delivering strategic improvements across cloud backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, security, and core banking services. 
  • Migrated backup and disaster recovery services to Microsoft Azure Backup and Recovery Vaults, improving resilience and bringing previously unprotected services into scope. 
  • Modernised the server estate from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2025, strengthening security, supportability, and platform standardisation. 
  • Delivered enterprise monitoring and reporting capability using PRTG, Azure Log Analytics, and Kusto dashboards. 
  • Implemented certificate management and automation across banking and production services, reducing operational risk and improving service continuity. 
  • Delivered resilient DRFS clustered services, including FTP and scanned copy drive platforms. 
  • Led the transition from EDR to XDR, improving security capability while optimising Microsoft licensing costs. 
  • Managed infrastructure engineers and third-party vendors, providing technical leadership, delivery oversight, and operational governance. 
  • Introduced Agile delivery practices, improving planning, prioritisation, and execution across infrastructure workstreams. 
  • Acted as Scrum Master for the operational infrastructure team, running sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog prioritisation, retrospectives, and delivery tracking to improve execution, accountability, and stakeholder visibility. 
  • Led infrastructure improvements aligned to ISO 27001 standards, supporting stronger information security governance, risk management, operational controls, documentation, and audit readiness. 
  • Owned infrastructure roadmap planning and delivery, aligning technical priorities with business risk, operational resilience, regulatory expectations, and transformation objectives. 
  • Delivered cost optimisation across Microsoft licensing, cloud services, and infrastructure operations, reducing unnecessary spend while maintaining security and service capability. 
  • Supported regulated financial-services technology delivery, balancing operational change, security requirements, service availability, stakeholder assurance, and audit expectations. 

Monmouthshire Building Society

 

Monmouthshire Building Society is a regulated financial-services organisation providing savings, mortgage and member-focused banking services. The technology environment required strong operational resilience, secure infrastructure, reliable disaster recovery, effective monitoring and controlled change to support business-critical banking and production services.


My role focused on hands-on Azure platform and infrastructure transformation across backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, security, certificate management, server modernisation and core service resilience. The work supported the wider objective of improving infrastructure reliability, reducing operational risk and strengthening the Society’s security and recovery posture.


A key deliverable was the migration and improvement of backup and disaster recovery services using Microsoft Azure Backup and Recovery Vaults. This included bringing previously unprotected services into scope, improving recovery readiness and helping establish a more consistent cloud-first approach to business continuity.


I also supported the modernisation of legacy Windows Server workloads, including upgrading older Windows Server 2012 systems to Windows Server 2025. This improved supportability, security posture and platform standardisation across the estate.


Monitoring and visibility were another major focus. I implemented and improved reporting using PRTG, Azure Log Analytics and Kusto dashboards, giving the infrastructure team better insight into system health, alerts, performance and operational trends.


The role also included certificate management and automation across banking and production services, helping reduce the risk of service disruption caused by expired or manually managed certificates. In addition, I supported resilient DRFS clustered services, including FTP and scanned-copy drive platforms.


The work was delivered in a regulated financial-services environment where security, auditability, service continuity and stakeholder confidence were essential. I introduced more structured Agile infrastructure delivery practices, including backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups and stakeholder reporting, helping improve delivery visibility and engineering focus.

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