Connor Glynn engineered and maintained core infrastructure for the ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform, focusing on security, governance, and operational reliability. He delivered features such as access control enhancements, audit log permissions, and centralized logging modernization using Terraform and AWS, while also improving documentation workflows with GitHub Actions and Docker. Connor addressed DNS reliability in ministryofjustice/dns by removing outdated delegations and updating SPF records to improve email deliverability. His work codified team hierarchies, streamlined notification processes, and strengthened compliance boundaries. Throughout, he demonstrated depth in infrastructure as code, cloud security, and configuration management, ensuring maintainable, auditable, and resilient platform operations across repositories.
Month: August 2025 — Focused on strengthening platform governance, notification reliability, and email deliverability through targeted infrastructure-as-code changes and DNS updates. No major bugs fixed this period; all work delivered as strategic features and configuration improvements with clear business value. Key features delivered: - Modernisation Platform GitHub Teams Hierarchy – Add Platforms team ID: Adds Platforms as a parent team in Terraform-managed GitHub teams to establish a parent/child hierarchy and clear reporting structure within the Modernisation Platform team. - Modernisation Platform AWS account: alternate contact configurations: Configures alternate contact details for Billing and OPERATIONS roles in the Modernisation Platform AWS account to ensure the designated platform email is used for critical billing and operational notifications. - DNS: Recruitment Domain SPF Update for Email Deliverability: Updated the SPF record for recruitment.service.justice.gov.uk to authorize SendGrid, ensuring emails sent via SendGrid are authenticated and improving deliverability and sender reputation. Major bugs fixed: - None documented this month. All changes were feature work and configuration improvements. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Strengthened platform governance with explicit team hierarchy in GitHub, improving reporting accuracy and ownership traceability for platform initiatives. - Improved notification reliability for critical billing and operations events by routing through designated platform contacts in AWS. - Enhanced email deliverability and sender reputation for recruitment communications by updating SPF to authorize SendGrid. - Demonstrated end-to-end capabilities across Terraform, AWS configuration, and DNS management, reinforcing the platform’s CI/CD and security posture. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for GitHub team hierarchy - AWS account configuration and governance - DNS management (SPF records) and email deliverability improvements - Cross-repo coordination and change management
Month: August 2025 — Focused on strengthening platform governance, notification reliability, and email deliverability through targeted infrastructure-as-code changes and DNS updates. No major bugs fixed this period; all work delivered as strategic features and configuration improvements with clear business value. Key features delivered: - Modernisation Platform GitHub Teams Hierarchy – Add Platforms team ID: Adds Platforms as a parent team in Terraform-managed GitHub teams to establish a parent/child hierarchy and clear reporting structure within the Modernisation Platform team. - Modernisation Platform AWS account: alternate contact configurations: Configures alternate contact details for Billing and OPERATIONS roles in the Modernisation Platform AWS account to ensure the designated platform email is used for critical billing and operational notifications. - DNS: Recruitment Domain SPF Update for Email Deliverability: Updated the SPF record for recruitment.service.justice.gov.uk to authorize SendGrid, ensuring emails sent via SendGrid are authenticated and improving deliverability and sender reputation. Major bugs fixed: - None documented this month. All changes were feature work and configuration improvements. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Strengthened platform governance with explicit team hierarchy in GitHub, improving reporting accuracy and ownership traceability for platform initiatives. - Improved notification reliability for critical billing and operations events by routing through designated platform contacts in AWS. - Enhanced email deliverability and sender reputation for recruitment communications by updating SPF to authorize SendGrid. - Demonstrated end-to-end capabilities across Terraform, AWS configuration, and DNS management, reinforcing the platform’s CI/CD and security posture. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for GitHub team hierarchy - AWS account configuration and governance - DNS management (SPF records) and email deliverability improvements - Cross-repo coordination and change management
2025-07 performance summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform: security-hardening, centralized logging modernization, and docs deployment tooling. Key features delivered: CloudTrail S3 bucket policy hardening and central logging infrastructure modernization; documentation and tooling updates for tech docs deployment. Major bugs fixed: environment creation for CloudTrail, CloudTrail access logs SourceARN handling, and S3 bucket policy resource fixes; removal of Logging Bucket ACLs. Overall impact: stronger security posture, more reliable and auditable logging, easier maintainability, and streamlined deployment tooling. Technologies demonstrated: Terraform, CloudTrail, S3 bucket policies, IAM, WAF, and doc publishing automation.
2025-07 performance summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform: security-hardening, centralized logging modernization, and docs deployment tooling. Key features delivered: CloudTrail S3 bucket policy hardening and central logging infrastructure modernization; documentation and tooling updates for tech docs deployment. Major bugs fixed: environment creation for CloudTrail, CloudTrail access logs SourceARN handling, and S3 bucket policy resource fixes; removal of Logging Bucket ACLs. Overall impact: stronger security posture, more reliable and auditable logging, easier maintainability, and streamlined deployment tooling. Technologies demonstrated: Terraform, CloudTrail, S3 bucket policies, IAM, WAF, and doc publishing automation.
June 2025 — DNS maintenance for ministryofjustice/dns focused on reliability, security, and change hygiene. Delivered a targeted bug fix to remove an unused NS delegation for sirius.publicguardian.gov.uk, preventing queries from being routed to outdated AWS name servers and improving DNS zone hygiene. The change was applied via commit ed670fc15f6df7451a14653c84f61834a37a5a66 with message "🔥 Remove Dangling Delgation to sirius.publicguardian.gov.uk". This reduces misrouting risk, strengthens resolution reliability, and supports downstream services depending on accurate delegation data.
June 2025 — DNS maintenance for ministryofjustice/dns focused on reliability, security, and change hygiene. Delivered a targeted bug fix to remove an unused NS delegation for sirius.publicguardian.gov.uk, preventing queries from being routed to outdated AWS name servers and improving DNS zone hygiene. The change was applied via commit ed670fc15f6df7451a14653c84f61834a37a5a66 with message "🔥 Remove Dangling Delgation to sirius.publicguardian.gov.uk". This reduces misrouting risk, strengthens resolution reliability, and supports downstream services depending on accurate delegation data.
May 2025: ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform delivered two security/governance features that enhance auditability and access control. Implemented GitHub Audit Log Access Permissions to enable safer processing and monitoring of audit data, and updated Terraform to exclude the new Security Auditor Teams from repository access controls. These changes strengthen governance, reduce permission surface area, and support regulatory/compliance requirements with minimal developer friction. Technologies demonstrated: Terraform IaC, GitHub audit log permissions, security policy enforcement, and collaborative CI/CD practices. No major bugs fixed this month.
May 2025: ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform delivered two security/governance features that enhance auditability and access control. Implemented GitHub Audit Log Access Permissions to enable safer processing and monitoring of audit data, and updated Terraform to exclude the new Security Auditor Teams from repository access controls. These changes strengthen governance, reduce permission surface area, and support regulatory/compliance requirements with minimal developer friction. Technologies demonstrated: Terraform IaC, GitHub audit log permissions, security policy enforcement, and collaborative CI/CD practices. No major bugs fixed this month.
April 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform: Delivered a more reliable and auditable documentation publishing workflow and reduced false positives in checks, reinforcing release quality and documentation trust. Key improvements include upgrading the docs publisher integration, tightening build reproducibility, and introducing a dedicated link-check step to catch issues earlier in the process. Resolved a Lychee link checker false positive for README badges, preserving badge visibility without blocking publishes.
April 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform: Delivered a more reliable and auditable documentation publishing workflow and reduced false positives in checks, reinforcing release quality and documentation trust. Key improvements include upgrading the docs publisher integration, tightening build reproducibility, and introducing a dedicated link-check step to catch issues earlier in the process. Resolved a Lychee link checker false positive for README badges, preserving badge visibility without blocking publishes.
February 2025 monthly summary for developer focusing on access governance and Terraform-based provisioning for MOJ Official (Shared Services).
February 2025 monthly summary for developer focusing on access governance and Terraform-based provisioning for MOJ Official (Shared Services).
January 2025 monthly summary focusing on key business value and technical achievements. Highlights include governance improvement for Firebreaks and the enabling of operations engineering through observability platform admin access. No major bug fixes were recorded this month.
January 2025 monthly summary focusing on key business value and technical achievements. Highlights include governance improvement for Firebreaks and the enabling of operations engineering through observability platform admin access. No major bug fixes were recorded this month.
December 2024: Security hardening and code quality improvements for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform. Implemented MoJRedTeam identifier in cooker configuration to enable team-based access control, excluded Cooker from Nuke operations, and restricted Nuke actions to prevent use by users with All Access Roles. Performed code quality improvements by removing a trailing comma and adding missing commas to configuration and code for readability and maintainability. These changes strengthen security posture, reduce operational risk, and improve maintainability across the platform.
December 2024: Security hardening and code quality improvements for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform. Implemented MoJRedTeam identifier in cooker configuration to enable team-based access control, excluded Cooker from Nuke operations, and restricted Nuke actions to prevent use by users with All Access Roles. Performed code quality improvements by removing a trailing comma and adding missing commas to configuration and code for readability and maintainability. These changes strengthen security posture, reduce operational risk, and improve maintainability across the platform.
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