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Adam Gatherer - Systems Engineer With His Head in the Cloud
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About
- I'm a systems engineer specialising in automation, scheduling, and cloud technologies, with experience operating mission-critical workloads at scale in financial services. I focus on improving reliability, reducing manual effort, and building well-structured engineering tooling. If you'd like to get in touch, you can send me an e-mail or connect with me on LinkedIn.
- This page is hosted using an AWS serverless architecture (S3 + CloudFront). You can view the full source code and deployment configuration in the GitHub repo.
Work History
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Systems Engineer - Orchestration
Tesco Bank, Aug '24 - Present- Operate and enhance the Autosys scheduling estate of 11,990 jobs in 2,702 boxes across SIT, PPE, and PROD, protecting mission-critical Category A banking services.
- Led orchestration for the SAS infrastructure migration: updated and deployed 1,796 jobs in 535 boxes; developed new JIL; managed environment rollouts, shakedown testing, troubleshooting, cutover support, and decommissioning of legacy jobs. Acted as primary liaison with the SAS Upgrade project manager.
- Investigate and resolve complex filewatcher and batch failures by analysing job chains, Perl/CTL scripts, and file dependencies using Autosys CLI, WCC, and local databases.
- Develop Python tooling for job analysis, reporting, and automation:
- Built data pipelines with pandas to prepare job metadata for ServiceNow knowledge articles, improving visibility of job ownership.
- Enhanced orchestration team tools (workspace setup, deployment scripts), introducing PEP8 compliance, pylint, and Black; raised mean pylint scores from ~6.5-7.5 to 8.1-9.2.
- Reduced Medium-Risk Snyk vulnerability flags from 62 to 11 by resolving unsafe pickling, SQL injection, and path traversal issues.
- Optimised Bash and Python scripts for mass job actions (job reports, JIL updates, batch investigations) and used SQLite/SQL queries for root cause analysis and reporting.
- Perform Linux operations on Autosys and FTG hosts (including AWS-backed instances) to maintain file workflows, update .ctl files, create cron/Bash automation, and support batch troubleshooting.
- Use GitHub Enterprise (JIL, Python, Perl, CTL), ServiceNow (change/incident/knowledge), Jira/Confluence (SAFe Agile), Snyk (code scanning), Jenkins/CloudBees (deployments), and Copilot (assisted development).
- Work in a 17-person Orchestration squad (8 dev, 3 infra) within SAFe Agile; act as point-of-contact for SAS-related orchestration following handover from a retiring senior engineer and mentor newer staff.
- Pursuing AWS Certified Developer - Associate for professional growth.
Server Engineer
NHS Lothian, Oct '22 - Aug '24- Created, managed, and maintained network directories for users across the entirety of NHS Lothian whilst accommodating their unique needs for access control, data type, storage space, and expected growth
- Deployed and managed virtualised infrastructure with VMware vSphere
- Extensive use of PowerShell scripting to automate administration tasks
- Administered SQL databases for third party applications on Windows Server
- Developed and executed data migration plans for teams with large network directories as part of storage server management
- Working with the Digital Operations team to provide high quality service to over 30,000 users and over 600 servers
- Monitoring and managing server storage via Nagios to quickly respond to shortages
- Automated the installation process of the Nagios client through PowerShell scripting to reduce server build times
- Enabled third-party software installations through controlled access to servers
Systems & Infrastructure Technician (Student Experience)
Edinburgh Napier University, June '21 - Oct '22- Packaged software apps in VMware for cloud-enabled classroom use (Cloudpaging Studio)
- Analyzed and resolved virtualization and packaging issues with limited official documentation
- Deployed new infrastructure within tight timelines for School of Computing's academic year start
- Managed student volunteer team for lab upgrade initiatives
- Automated software installation through scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
- Provided technical and non-technical support to staff and colleagues
Customer Service Advisor
Centrica, Jan '18 - Aug '19- Investigated and analyzed financial records, providing transparent payment plans to customers
- Produced technical reports for ticketing, complaints, and account management systems
- Resolved and de-escalated customer complaints with professionalism
- Automated daily tasks using Windows Task Scheduler
- Remained composed under pressure in gas and electrical emergencies as a first response team member
Education
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BEng Computer Systems And Networks
Edinburgh Napier University, Sept '21 - July '23- Degree awarded with Distinction; awarded University Medal.
- Networked Services: Linux filesystem, shell scripting, CentOS configuration, Apache2, firewall configuration, security.
- Practical Networks 3: OSI & TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, WAN technologies and network design.
- Scripting for Cybersecurity and Networks: built Python packet analyser, modular Python programming, scripting for forensics & networking.
- Work Based Learning: industry placement (Napier + NHS Lothian), professional and technical development.
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HND Computer Networking
Edinburgh College, Aug '19 - July '21- Two-year diploma, awarded A grade.
- Systems modules: Windows Server, Debian multi-user OS, Apache/MariaDB/WordPress/PHP, ESXi & VMware private cloud.
- Networking modules: Switching, Routing & Wireless Essentials; Enterprise Networking, Security & Automation.
- Additional modules: Team Working, Project Management, Professionalism & Ethics in Computing.
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Other
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Professional Certifications (Credly)
- SAFe® 6 Practitioner (SP)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals
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Personal Projects
- Cloud CV - AWS S3 + CloudFront serverless CV site with CI/CD; what you're looking at right now
- Terraform Load Balancer - Terraform project to deploy a load balancer on AWS
- Tempercent - Python based web app to show temperature as a percentage of the average (Flask, API calls, Poetry)
- URL Shortener - Python based web app to shorten URLs (FastAPI, Uvicorn, SQLAlchemy); project taken from RealPython.com
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PDF Download
- If you would like this page as a PDF you can download it using the links below.
- AdamGathererCV.pdf
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References available upon request