Stephen Bennett

Stephen Bennett has a diverse work experience in various roles related to DevOps, infrastructure management, and database administration.

Stephen is currently serving as the Head of DevOps at OpenCorporates since February 2022.

Prior to that, they worked as the Head of DevOps at Arachnys from July 2021 to February 2022.

Stephen also served as the Infrastructure Manager at MTC from April 2019 to June 2021.

From October 2016 to January 2020, Stephen contributed as a PowerShell and SQL Server DBA/Developer at dbatools.io, focusing on SQL Server best practices.

Stephen served as an Engineer Manager (DevOps) at AXELOS Global Best Practice from January 2018 to April 2019, managing technical implementations and infrastructure tasks.

Stephen also worked as a DBA & DevOps Manager at ITG Creator Ltd from November 2016 to December 2017, leading DevOps and DBA teams, implementing automation and standardization in SQL Server environments.

Before that, they served as a Senior SQL Server DBA at ETX Capital from September 2015 to November 2016, where they implemented continuous integration and automated release management for high transaction trading systems and data warehouses.

Stephen also worked at Reed Exhibitions as a Senior Database Administrator from February 2014 to August 2015, responsible for automating and standardizing SQL Server environments across the application lifecycle.

Stephen started their career at Imperial War Museums, where they held several roles, including Database Manager and Infrastructure Manager / ICT Support. In these roles, they focused on database administration, business intelligence, server monitoring, and support.

Throughout their career, Stephen has gained experience in various areas such as infrastructure management, DevOps, SQL Server administration, automation, standardization, continuous integration, monitoring, performance tuning, and security.

Stephen Bennett has attended Chesterfield College and Highfields School, although the specific years of attendance or degree programs are not provided. In terms of certifications, they have obtained the following:

- GitOps Fundamentals from Codefresh in July 2022

- FinOps Certified Practitioner from FinOps Foundation in June 2022

- Testing with Agile from the University of Virginia in July 2019

- Managing an Agile Team from the University of Virginia in June 2019

- Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability from Google in June 2019

- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer from The Linux Foundation in June 2021

- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate from HashiCorp in November 2020

- Stephen also possesses certifications in Basic Chef Fluency, Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization from VMware, Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions from Microsoft, ITIL Foundation from AXELOS Global Best Practice, MCITP: Database Administrator 2008 from Microsoft, MCITP: Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft, MTA Software Development Fundamentals from Microsoft, Prince2 Foundation from AXELOS Global Best Practice, and Security+ from CompTIA. However, the specific dates of obtaining these certifications are not provided.