Infrastructure & Cloud
AWS EC2 and S3, AWS-to-site VPNs, Cloudflare, DNS, Tailscale, Ubuntu services and internal office infrastructure.
Kieran Osborne
DevOps · Cloud · Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure and technical operations engineer with 10+ years of experience across Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, web platforms, automation, security and technical support.
I work across the gap between infrastructure, development and operations — managing production systems, automating deployments, solving difficult technical problems and occasionally building the tooling I wish already existed.
OperateProduction infrastructure, Linux and cloud platforms.
AutomateDeployments, maintenance, testing and reporting.
ImproveMonitoring, security and awkward technical processes.
Experience
Infrastructure with a wide blast radius.
My current role spans cloud services, Linux, production web platforms, CI/CD, information security and internal IT across a large Drupal estate.
Adaptive · 2022–Present
Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer
I support and improve the systems behind developers, staff and client websites, with work ranging from AWS and Cloudflare to deployment automation, monitoring and ISMS security controls.
Automation & Delivery
GitHub Actions, Pantheon Terminus, Composer, Ansible, Semaphore, Playwright and Nightwatch across deployment and maintenance workflows.
Security & ISMS
System inspections, vulnerability scanning, access reviews, patch compliance, evidence gathering and remediation supporting ISO certification.
Platform Operations
Pantheon, Acquia, OpenSolr, Drupal migrations, backups, monitoring, deployments, Linux desktop support and production troubleshooting.
Automation examples: Drupal builds and Pantheon deployments with Composer/Terminus; post-deployment Playwright testing; SonarQube quality and security checks; and Pantheon data pipelines into AWS S3 for Looker Studio hosting reports.
Selected Projects
I tend to build the tool I want to use.
Independent infrastructure and software projects shaped by problems encountered in real technical operations work.
Distributed monitoring platform
InfraBeacon
A website and server monitoring platform I designed and built using PHP and PostgreSQL. Queue-based scheduling dispatches monitoring tasks to distributed Ubuntu worker servers.
Visit InfraBeaconProduction hosting infrastructure
KOServer
An independent managed hosting environment supporting around 20 websites and applications. Built around Ubuntu, Apache, Traefik, Cloudflare, automated backups and monitoring.
Visit KOServer
Distributed diagnostics
NerdTools
A PHP/MySQL collection of practical web and infrastructure diagnostic tools, backed by distributed tool servers and built around common troubleshooting needs.
Visit NerdToolsHomelab & automation
Infrastructure without the change-control meetings.
Local and remote Proxmox infrastructure, multi-gigabit connectivity, extensive wired and PoE networking, Linux services and automation.
Away from the terminal. Sort of.
The greenhouse got slightly out of hand.
What started as growing a few plants became a network-connected greenhouse with environmental monitoring and automation.
Live hobby infrastructure
Because apparently tomatoes need infrastructure too.
Home Assistant brings together ESP32 hardware, MQTT sensors, PoE-connected equipment and automation rules to monitor and control the growing environment.
View the live greenhouseTechnologies
Tools I actually work with.
No percentage bars. Just technologies I have used professionally or operate in my own infrastructure.
Cloud & Platforms
AWS · Cloudflare · Pantheon · Acquia · OpenSolr · Proxmox · VMware
Linux & Infrastructure
Debian · Ubuntu · Apache · Traefik · DNS · VPNs · Networking · Monitoring
Automation & Delivery
GitHub Actions · Git · Ansible · Semaphore · Terraform · Composer · Terminus · CI/CD
Testing & Data
Playwright · Nightwatch · SonarQube · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Looker Studio
How I Work
Useful engineering beats impressive-looking engineering.
Solve the actual problem
I prefer understanding why something is failing rather than simply working around the symptoms.
Automate repetition
If a predictable task happens regularly, I will usually start wondering why a human is still doing it.
Keep it maintainable
The most technically impressive solution is not always the best operational one. Reliability, simplicity and maintenance cost matter.
Independent Services
Need technical help rather than an engineer?
Alongside my professional career, I provide selected website, hosting and IT services to a small number of clients outside my normal working hours.
Websites & Support
Practical website builds, ongoing updates and troubleshooting for small businesses.
Managed Hosting
Hosting, monitoring, backups, domains, DNS and the technical work behind keeping sites available.
Email & IT
Business email, devices, DNS and straightforward technical support without agency overhead.
KOServer
My independent hosting platform for websites and applications that need managed infrastructure.
Explore KOServerAbout
I like the awkward problems between job descriptions.
I'm Kieran, an infrastructure and DevOps engineer based in the West Midlands. I've worked professionally in IT for more than a decade, starting in hosting and technical support before moving through systems support, software development, infrastructure and DevOps.
I tend to gravitate towards infrastructure that needs fixing, deployment processes that need automating, monitoring that is not telling us enough, or an internal tool that does not exist yet.
Outside work, that tendency does not particularly switch off. I operate my own hosting infrastructure, build tools such as InfraBeacon and NerdTools, run an unnecessarily capable homelab and have somehow applied infrastructure automation principles to growing tomatoes.
Contact
Jobs, projects or an interesting technical problem.
If you are recruiting for an infrastructure, DevOps, cloud or technical operations role — or need help with hosting and web infrastructure — get in touch.
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