Colin Keith

Leading a Platform Engineering team of 7 delivering Platform-as-a-Product service. Defined and executed the platform engineering roadmap, establishing reusable infrastructure services and golden paths for self-service provisioning. Driving standardisation of deployment pipelines, embedding security and compliance into delivery workflows.

Supporting a rationalisation programme implementing 85% Kubernetes consolidation and 50% physical infrastructure reduction with projected £5m one-off and £500k annual savings. Led delivery of modernised UK and international DNS platforms, migrating . uk and 200+ TLDs to a platform capable of supporting 1M+ QPS, working across engineering, architecture and senior stakeholders. Champion of use of AI-assisted engineering tools (Copilot) to improve engineering productivity.

Using Databricks to analyse Tanium vulnerability data and redesign patching from blanket to targeted remediation, reducing outstanding CVEs by 50% within one month.

Led three (3) person engineering team responsible for critical national infrastructure supporting NHS, HSCN and PSN environments. Improved platform resilience, achieving 92% reduction in DR full-site MTTR, significant CVE reductions and improved pen-test scores.

Delivered infrastructure optimisation initiatives leading to ~£500k annual savings. Onboarded Azure landing zone enabling development for LECN DNS services programme.

Executive Leadership: Active member of the Extended Leadership team, providing eight months cover as Director and overseeing Jira administration and observability strategy across Oracle Advertising. Observability: Led a greenfield, remote-first, asynchronous team of six (6) across global timezones, maintaining 99.99% uptime for internal Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stacks and spearheaded investigations of Datadog and Dynatrace.

Cloud Efficiency: Successfully migrated legacy load balancers and services to OCI, enabling data center closure and $150k/year savings.

Large-Scale Migration: Led team of eight through the physical-to-cloud transformation of a $400M/year service, delivering four months ahead of schedule with zero downtime and generating $200K annual savings.

Engineering Transformation: Drove Terraform, Git Lab, and CI/CD pipelines adoption and a Puppet redesign that achieved a 96% reduction in deployment times and a 90% decrease in deployment errors.

Sustained Growth: Led 600% global infrastructure increase across 20 locations, directly contributing to a $325M acquisition by Oracle.