March 2026: Plan Evaluator Skip List Enhancements delivered for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Added support for additional CP environments in the plan evaluator skip list, enabling CP team greater autonomy and reducing manual gating in deployment planning. Implemented via commit 3acb6d7764728ee4f228bf949519b82402a21685 (Add other CP envs to plan evaluator skip; PR #15848). Cross-team collaboration with MP; co-authored by Rich Green. No major bugs reported; minor issues addressed in line with planning. Business value: faster planning cycles, improved operational flexibility, and reduced friction for CP team. Skills demonstrated: Plan Evaluator logic, environment management, Git-based collaboration, cross-team coordination, PR review.

February 2026 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments across repositories. Delivered features enabling streamlined access control, workflow simplification, network planning, centralized authentication, and documentation governance. Key commits include CP access cleanup, SSO consolidation, CIDR ADR, and documentation changes. Business value includes improved security, reduced operational overhead, and clearer network and governance documentation.

January 2026 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, major features delivered, and impact across the Cloud Platform portfolio. This period concentrated on strengthening development-to-production capability, centralized Terraform state management, improved CI/CD for EKS, governance, and operational runbooks to reduce risk and onboarding time. Key outcomes include dev environment infrastructure and Terraform state management improvements, enhanced GitHub Actions integration for development clusters, and the live environment transition for the Cloud Platform with updated workflows and Route 53 integration. Also established multi-cluster deployment guidance via Architecture Decision Records and runbooks, and expanded IAM and cost management policies to support safer development and cost governance.

Month 2025-12 monthly summary: Delivered three major features across the Ministry of Justice cloud platforms, focused on governance, security, and scalable deployment. Key outcomes include EM accounts cleanup in AWS Organization and Terraform to streamline management and enforce policy alignment (commits: 1656ccd5a9bcf63f6ec5070420a7b9d0097a8a9c; 2822682b0d0f57646a2e637040820f465e806ae7). Cloud Platform – Cluster Component Separation for non-live and live environments to improve organization and scalability (commits: 7e42bebc62fe70c7068aa70295ea3f46633b9f; c5c5333e22a0e5fbd16c727efdaf13169976c565). Secure Development Cluster Infrastructure Automation: dedicated Terraform state S3 bucket with KMS encryption and a GitHub Actions OIDC role for secure dev deployments (commits: 5e9c147e591d0ae7752b34cff6773283b163c06c; 65b15b279741ce649de3439800f77c692501ae4c).

November 2025 monthly summary highlighting governance, security, and data ownership improvements across two MOJ cloud-relevant repos. Key features delivered include documenting a Shared Responsibility Model and data ownership in the cloud-platform-user-guide, revamping Cloud Platform Access Control and Ownership for the modernisation-platform, and correcting environment tagging to ensure accurate environment metadata. These efforts reduce ambiguity in ownership, strengthen security posture, and improve configuration correctness, enabling safer service operation and easier audits.

October 2025: Implemented DNS configuration for PagerDuty external status page in the cloud-platform-infrastructure repo, enabling validation and redirect to a custom status URL. Changes include DNS CNAMEs for mail, DKIM, and main status page, implemented via Terraform in the cloud-platform-aws account. Commit 61a88594bc83a167c0a296e7575331c3081cdd54.

September 2025 focused on strengthening security governance, onboarding reliability, and cost governance through DSIT integration improvements, runtime monitoring enablement for new accounts, enhanced auditing permissions, and proactive monitoring documentation. These changes improve onboarding controls, auditor visibility, and cost optimization capabilities.

August 2025 delivered security hardening, reliability, and governance enhancements across three repositories: ministryofjustice/aws-root-account, ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-infrastructure, and ministryofjustice/cloud-platform. Key outcomes include: (1) AWS provider configuration and IAM role access management consolidated and upgraded to improve security and compatibility; (2) GuardDuty noise reduction with suppression rules to minimize alert fatigue; (3) cost governance enabled via GitHub OIDC permissions for cost-optimisation-hub; (4) Gatekeeper module upgrade to 1.16.9 and removal of the canary app; (5) incident response exercise documentation created to standardize processes, frequency, review storage, and common scenarios for real-world readiness.

July 2025 monthly performance: Focused on security hygiene, reliability, and enabling business-facing capabilities across the ministryofjustice modernisation tooling. Key work covered two repositories: infrastructure/platform work and environment provisioning. Delivered a critical traffic routing fix to ensure inspection traffic reaches the right destination, expanded email deliverability capabilities for a government domain via SES DKIM, and completed a comprehensive decommissioning of CrowdStrike infrastructure and related secrets, reflecting a security posture shift and reduced maintenance burden.

June 2025 monthly summary: Delivered critical DNS and infrastructure improvements across two MOJ repositories, enabling secure, scalable access for Legal Services platforms and CCMS apps. Focus areas included end-to-end DNS deployment, domain migration, and code cleanup with measurable business value.

May 2025 summary: Delivered security, governance, and connectivity improvements across the ministryofjustice/aws-root-account and cloud-platform repositories, enabling faster portal work, stronger production controls, and clearer operational guidance. Notable work includes enabling cross-account Portal VPC connectivity by removing SCP blocks and updating Terraform policies, realigning AWS Organization OUs with targeted policy controls, enhancing LAA production access and SSO capabilities, and establishing centralized root IAM management.

Monthly summary for 2025-04: Focused on operational reliability by fixing two critical access and billing configuration issues across the ministryofjustice repositories. No new features were delivered this month; the emphasis was on restoring billing workflow capabilities and ensuring correct admin role configuration to prevent downtime and misconfigurations. These fixes improve process efficiency and security governance across AWS, SSO, and EKS.

March 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform: Delivered updates to the Cloud Platform Architecture Diagram to improve accuracy and reduce onboarding friction. The source link now points to the most current version and the Kibana asset has been removed from the diagram, reflecting current tooling. No major bugs were reported; focus was on documentation hygiene and alignment with live platform. These changes improve maintainability, reduce confusion, and enable faster decision-making with up-to-date architecture visuals. Technologies demonstrated include Git-based version control, documentation best practices, and architecture diagram maintenance.

February 2025 monthly summary focusing on key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and overall impact across three repositories: ministryofjustice/aws-root-account, ministryofjustice/cloud-platform, and ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-user-guide. The month delivered meaningful security and governance improvements, optimized documentation practices, and increased reliability of documentation resources.

January 2025: Delivered governance and process improvements across two repositories, focusing on root account change governance and incident response documentation. These changes reduce approval latency, improve traceability, and align incident reporting with current security tooling.

December 2024: Delivered a key feature to accelerate sandbox operations by adding a targeted SSM quick-setup permission to the sandbox IAM policy. This change enables rapid SSM setup on sandbox instances during click operations, improving provisioning speed and operational consistency. No major bugs filed or fixed this month. Impact: faster experimentation cycles, reduced manual steps, and improved security posture through scoped permissions. Technologies demonstrated: IAM policy configuration, AWS SSM integration, and version-controlled commits.

November 2024: Delivered a targeted SSO module upgrade in ministryofjustice/aws-root-account, aligning EntraID display name handling with security enhancements and feature improvements. Upgraded the Terraform AWS SSO module to the latest release and refined EntraID display name handling in SSO configuration to leverage security/feature improvements, with minimal configuration changes and no downtime.