James Cook

@jamescook
I enjoy DevOps, learning new tech, and advocating culture changes
London, United Kingdom
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Hello 👋, I am a Cloud and DevOps Advocate who creates content via my blog, YouTube and live Podcast. I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer who specialises in Azure services.

I'm open to

mentoring,

speaking at events,

content creation,

speaking on podcasts,

speaking on clubhouse,

speaking on twitter spaces,

joining company boards,

writing,

and brainstorming.

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Resume

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Jul 2022 - Present

DevOps Lead, Coyote Software

Sep 2021 - Jul 2022

Lead DevOps Engineer, FirstPort

May 2019 - Sep 2021

Infrastructure Analyst / Cloud & DevOps Advocate, PXP Financial

Sep 2015 - May 2019

Technical Architect, Herts for Learning

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Microsoft MVP Profile

Portfolio

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The Continuous Deployment of Azure Web Apps using GitHub

Cosmos DB - Configure Seven Day Continuous Backup Retention using Terraform

Azure Synapse Analytics - Git Integration and CI/CD

Using OpenID Connect to access Azure from GitHub

My 2021 Highlights

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Very pleased to be selected as Septembers Cloud Champion with the CloudFamily community. Great honour to feature amongst great content creators and contributors. https://cloudfamily.info/cloud_cham...

I have been selected to speak at the Scottish Summit 2022. Speaker List Speaker Sessions Speaker Schedule

💪😊 Happy to be verified on Polywork

I was one of Hashnode's top 50 writers in March 2021 where I won 10 coffees on Buy Me A Coffee.

YouTube

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I has the opportunity to collaborate with Peter De Tender on a video for #AzureBacktoSchool where were talk about Analyzing Azure DevOps auditing streams in your SIEM of choice. We describe and dem...

Hosted the second AZ Community Roundtable with Jake Walsh and Olivier Miossec discussing our Azure topics of choice. This is now available as recorded podcasts on these platforms: YouTube Anchor

Week 2 of the DevOps Journal YouTube Shorts series. DevOps Journal - Week 2 This week: • Automated deployment of a Docker server in Azure using Terraform • Azure Sentinel hunt and detection rules f...

Started the DevOps Journal YouTube Series where I share weekly what I have been doing in regards to DevOps and Cloud. DevOps Journal - Week 1 This week: • I've worked on troubleshooting HashiCorp P...

Certification

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I've achieved Microsoft Certified Trainer (2022-2023) status where I'll be using this accreditation to train internal staff.

I passed my SC-900 exam. Now Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.

I passed my Microsoft Azure Architect Design (AZ-304) exam. Now Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

I passed my Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) exam.

Blog Posts

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In this post, you will follow step by step instructions to set up deployment slots within your Azure Function resource, implement a branching strategy in your repository, identify and create enviro...

In this blog post I write about how you can get hands-on with Azure DevOps for free. Get hands-on with Azure DevOps for Free! (jamescook.dev)

In this blog post I walk through the process of using Azure Key Vault secrets in your GitHub Actions. Azure Key Vault Secrets in GitHub Actions

In this blog post I write about how to remove a resource from a Terraform state file located in a Azure Storage Account Container. Terraform: Remove Resource from a Remote State in Azure Storage Ac...