ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments
May 2025 – Oct 2025
6 Months active
Languages Used
TerraformYAMLterraformyamlHCL
Technical Skills
Cloud Platform ManagementDevOpsKubernetesTerraformAWSCI/CD
simon.mitchell
PROFILE
Simon.mitchell
Simon Mitchell engineered and maintained cloud infrastructure for the ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments repository, focusing on secure, scalable, and auditable platform services. Over six months, he delivered features such as standardized Terraform modules, robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, and automated environment management with Kubernetes and AWS. Simon implemented cost-saving decommissioning, security hardening, and cross-environment upgrades for PostgreSQL and Redis, while also enhancing auditability and access controls. His work included integrating S3 storage with IAM roles for service accounts, refining RBAC configurations, and managing infrastructure as code with HCL and YAML. The solutions addressed operational efficiency, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
79%Features
Repository Contributions
140Total
Bugs
9
Commits
140
Features
34
Lines of code
4,313
Activity Months6
Your Network
498 peopleSame Organization
@digital.justice.gov.uk243
Work History
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Delivered secure S3 data storage integration for hmpps-subject-access-request service account, enabling storage and retrieval of Subject Access Request data. Updated IRSA with role_policy_arns to enforce least-privilege access to the S3 bucket. Documented changes with commits HAAR-4345 and an accompanying update for traceability. No major bug fixes reported this month. Impact: improved data availability for subject access requests, streamlined regulatory compliance, and stronger security posture. Technologies/skills demonstrated: AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), S3 integration, IAM policy management, change governance, and code traceability.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Delivered secure S3 data storage integration for hmpps-subject-access-request service account, enabling storage and retrieval of Subject Access Request data. Updated IRSA with role_policy_arns to enforce least-privilege access to the S3 bucket. Documented changes with commits HAAR-4345 and an accompanying update for traceability. No major bug fixes reported this month. Impact: improved data availability for subject access requests, streamlined regulatory compliance, and stronger security posture. Technologies/skills demonstrated: AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), S3 integration, IAM policy management, change governance, and code traceability.
October 2025
September 2025
31 Commits • 6 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered cross-environment audit secrets namespace management and robust upgrade readiness for the hmpps-audit family within ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Key enhancements include expanding and synchronizing audit-namespaces-secret across dev, preprod, and prod; restoring secrets and copying access control; updating related namespaces to reflect governance changes; executing an orderly PostgreSQL 17 upgrade path with safe namespace handling; reinforcing upgrade controls across environments; and production readiness improvements including queue updates and removal of deprecated integrations. These changes reduce configuration drift, improve security of audit data access, and enable faster, safer deployments.
September 2025
31 Commits • 6 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered cross-environment audit secrets namespace management and robust upgrade readiness for the hmpps-audit family within ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Key enhancements include expanding and synchronizing audit-namespaces-secret across dev, preprod, and prod; restoring secrets and copying access control; updating related namespaces to reflect governance changes; executing an orderly PostgreSQL 17 upgrade path with safe namespace handling; reinforcing upgrade controls across environments; and production readiness improvements including queue updates and removal of deprecated integrations. These changes reduce configuration drift, improve security of audit data access, and enable faster, safer deployments.
August 2025
36 Commits • 9 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 performance summary: Delivered standardized, multi-environment infrastructure and CI/CD templates, enabling faster provisioning, safer deployments, and improved governance across hmpps environments. Achieved cross-environment Terraform module rollout for hmpps-template, version synchronization, and naming consistency, along with DevOps template expansions for GitHub Actions across services. Also strengthened observability and auditing with App Insights configuration updates and audit-service adjustments. Addressed regressions by reverting team name handling and maintaining clean commit history.
36 Commits • 9 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 performance summary: Delivered standardized, multi-environment infrastructure and CI/CD templates, enabling faster provisioning, safer deployments, and improved governance across hmpps environments. Achieved cross-environment Terraform module rollout for hmpps-template, version synchronization, and naming consistency, along with DevOps template expansions for GitHub Actions across services. Also strengthened observability and auditing with App Insights configuration updates and audit-service adjustments. Addressed regressions by reverting team name handling and maintaining clean commit history.
August 2025
July 2025
45 Commits • 9 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Focused on standardizing deployment templates, accelerating safe changes across hmpps-auth environments, and delivering tooling that reduces provisioning drift while enabling automated deployments and improved monitoring. Core outcomes include a standardized Terraform module, CI templates for token-verification-api, and strategic platform upgrades to boost performance and reliability.
July 2025
45 Commits • 9 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Focused on standardizing deployment templates, accelerating safe changes across hmpps-auth environments, and delivering tooling that reduces provisioning drift while enabling automated deployments and improved monitoring. Core outcomes include a standardized Terraform module, CI templates for token-verification-api, and strategic platform upgrades to boost performance and reliability.
June 2025
23 Commits • 8 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments: Deliveries centered on SAR access controls, audit tooling, and infra upgrades. Implemented reviewer teams for SAR HTML renderer in preprod; updated RBAC/variables for SAR preprod; extended audit tooling with hmpps-template across environments; upgraded Redis to 7.1 and refreshed GitHub versions; standardized environment naming and enhanced CI/CD workflows across dev/preprod/prod. These changes improve security posture, deployment reliability, and operational efficiency, aligning with business goals of faster, safer access to SAR data and better auditability.
23 Commits • 8 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments: Deliveries centered on SAR access controls, audit tooling, and infra upgrades. Implemented reviewer teams for SAR HTML renderer in preprod; updated RBAC/variables for SAR preprod; extended audit tooling with hmpps-template across environments; upgraded Redis to 7.1 and refreshed GitHub versions; standardized environment naming and enhanced CI/CD workflows across dev/preprod/prod. These changes improve security posture, deployment reliability, and operational efficiency, aligning with business goals of faster, safer access to SAR data and better auditability.
June 2025
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, business value, and technical achievements for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Primary work this month centered on cost optimization and security hardening through the decommissioning of the HMPPS Users API environments (dev, preprod, prod). End-to-end removal of Kubernetes namespaces, RBAC configurations, quotas, network policies, TLS certificates, and Terraform resources for the hmpps-users environment reduced running costs and the security risk surface. The decommissioning aligns with platform governance and simplifies future lifecycle management of environments.
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, business value, and technical achievements for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Primary work this month centered on cost optimization and security hardening through the decommissioning of the HMPPS Users API environments (dev, preprod, prod). End-to-end removal of Kubernetes namespaces, RBAC configurations, quotas, network policies, TLS certificates, and Terraform resources for the hmpps-users environment reduced running costs and the security risk surface. The decommissioning aligns with platform governance and simplifies future lifecycle management of environments.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness87.8%
Maintainability88.2%
Architecture87.6%
Performance81.2%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
HCLTerraformYAMLterraformyaml
Technical Skills
AWSAWS IAMAthenaCI/CDCloud InfrastructureCloud PlatformCloud Platform ConfigurationCloud Platform EngineeringCloud Platform ManagementCloud SecurityDatabase AdministrationDatabase ManagementDevOpsGitHub ActionsGlue
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