June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-optimisation-and-accountability: Delivered Grafana Dashboard enhancements with improved data filtering and performance. Consolidated two commits that speed up variable loading, implement robust all-filter handling, refine aws_eks_namespace filtering, and add billing_period to multiple queries for better data accuracy. Fixed a syntax error in the business_unit filter and incremented the dashboard version. Result: faster, more reliable dashboards with improved data fidelity and maintainability. Technologies demonstrated include SQL optimization, Grafana configuration, and release/versioning practices, contributing value by more accurate insights and faster decision-making.

May 2025 performance summary focused on delivering business-value driven cost analytics improvements and stronger observability with secure, maintainable infrastructure. Key features delivered include FinOps dashboard enhancements and Grafana data-source integration, underpinned by targeted security and code hygiene efforts. Key features delivered: - Cloud-optimisation-and-accountability: Implemented dashboard enhancements for cost analytics, adding visualizations for Top 10 Services and Tag Coverage; upgraded COAT Grafana dashboard for production data with CURv2 data source, dynamic table naming, robust filtering (applications, business units, accounts, namespaces), and a new Billing period variable for granular cost selection. - Modernisation-platform-environments: Integrated AWS Athena as a Grafana data source for the Observability platform, configured IAM policies and environment settings to grant Grafana access to Athena and S3 resources, and refactored policy attachments for maintainability and least-privilege access. Major bugs fixed: - Terraform syntax error fix to add the missing double quote in a local variable definition, ensuring proper parsing and environment configuration. Infrastructure hygiene and security tooling: - Maintenance changes to Terraform configurations to improve readability and security tooling: adding and relocating Checkov skip directives, and minor formatting adjustments that do not alter runtime infrastructure. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved cost visibility and governance, enabling faster identification of top expenditure areas and more accurate cost allocation by namespace, application, account, and business unit. - Strengthened observability data access and security posture with Athena integration and least-privilege IAM configurations. - Increased infrastructure maintainability and security posture through code hygiene and tooling updates, contributing to faster onboarding and reduced risk. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Grafana dashboards, COAT data source, CURv2 integration, and granular cost analytics. - AWS Athena as a Grafana data source, IAM policy management, and environment configuration. - Terraform, Checkov, and security-focused code hygiene.

April 2025: Delivered two key updates across two repos to enhance FinOps visibility, dashboard governance, and maintainability. Implemented a Grafana Dashboard for FinOps Cost Analysis to provide cost visualizations by region, environment, and service, with templated filters for business unit, application, account, and namespace. Completed cleanup and migration of Grafana dashboard configurations by removing obsolete COAT configs and moving dashboards to the COAT repository to reduce clutter and reflect lifecycle changes. These efforts improve cost-transparency for stakeholders, reduce dashboard maintenance effort, and strengthen repository ownership discipline.

March 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-infrastructure: Implemented explicit OpenSearch time field mapping in the index template to improve indexing reliability and time-based query accuracy for time-series data.

February 2025: OpenSearch cluster capacity expansion delivered in ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-infrastructure to boost performance and capacity for analytics workloads. Terraform adjusted to increase warm nodes from 15 to 20, implemented via commit 0ca9a585393df55326ce7e02ae196c73648aa3ea ('Increase number of warm nodes (#3788)'). No major bugs reported this month. This change improves search latency under heavier data loads and enhances platform reliability, with changes fully tracked in IaC.

January 2025 monthly summary: Delivered environment reliability and efficiency improvements across two repositories by introducing scheduled downtime controls for non-production environments and by optimizing pre-production resource usage. Implementations were delivered via Helm value updates and Kubernetes deployment adjustments, enabling controlled maintenance windows and reducing resource consumption in non-prod and pre-prod environments without impacting production. Key changes spanned ministryofjustice/use-of-force and ministryofjustice/hmpps-welcome-people-into-prison-ui, including configuration-enabled downtime in non-prod and reduction of pre-production replicas, aligning resource utilization with deployment strategies and reducing operational costs.

December 2024 performance: Delivered a security-focused upgrade to CI/CD workflows in the hmpps-book-secure-move-frontend repo, migrating to GitHub Actions v2.0 with integrated security checks (npm dependency checks, Trivy scans, and Veracode pipeline and policy scans). This enhances security posture, reduces risk in releases, and accelerates remediation through improved visibility.