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Sebastian Norris engineered cloud infrastructure and deployment automation for the ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments repository, focusing on scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions. He delivered features such as automated RDS data refresh workflows, environment-gated S3 provisioning, and standardized ECS deployments using Terraform and AWS. His work included implementing CloudWatch monitoring, IAM policy management, and robust network security controls, as well as refactoring deployment configurations for safer releases. By leveraging skills in Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and shell scripting, Sebastian enabled reliable environment parity, reduced operational risk, and improved observability, demonstrating a deep understanding of cloud architecture and disciplined, traceable engineering practices.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

16Total
Bugs
0
Commits
16
Features
14
Lines of code
1,890
Activity Months11

Work History

January 2026

2 Commits • 2 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Focused on delivering key observability and deployment configuration improvements to support safer, faster deployments across multiple environments. No critical bugs fixed this month; primarily feature delivery and configuration quality work that lays groundwork for improved reliability and incident response.

December 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2025

Month 2025-12 — Focused on delivering infrastructure deployment reliability and security enhancements for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Implemented versioned deployments, improved backups, and expanded network controls to support Civica secure development environment. Result: safer, more auditable releases with stronger data protection and network isolation, aligning with security and compliance goals.

October 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for Oct 2025 focused on delivering business value through deployment automation and staging readiness.

September 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025: Focused on standardizing VCMS deployment in ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments to improve scalability, consistency, and maintainability. Delivered Standardized VCMS ECS Deployment by refactoring to remove direct module dependency and adopting a generic ECS service module. Implemented EFS, RDS, Redis configurations, plus IAM roles and security groups to support standardized deployment within the ECS cluster. Commit 305c1180ad2d50e1306b02317907519054176804 documents the change (#12844). This work enables environment parity, simplifies scaling, and reduces operational risk across deployments.

August 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025: Delivered foundational VCMS infrastructure bootstrap for production deployment in ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Implemented ECS cluster and service, Bastion host for secure access, networking and security groups with logging, an Application Load Balancer with listener and target group, Route 53 DNS records, and ACM TLS for HTTPS. This work establishes a scalable, secure front door for VCMS, enabling reliable deployments and faster iteration. No major defects closed this month; focus was on building a solid foundation for future features. Technologies demonstrated include AWS ECS, ALB, Route 53, ACM TLS, Bastion host, and robust security/logging practices.

June 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments: Implemented environment-based uplift bucket provisioning with environment gating to isolate resources by environment. Terraform changes provision uplift S3 buckets and related IAM policy only for the delius-core environment, while uplift resources are omitted from delius-mis by gating on the app_name variable in the S3 bucket module. This prevents cross-environment resource leakage, strengthens governance, and reduces blast radius. The work is tracked by commit 265fdd07bb1716ee0970ecaa548dc59ee1108e52 with message "only deploy uplift buckets in core not mis (#10939)".

March 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering a production-ready PWM resource scaling change in the modernisation-platform-environments repo, with IaC updates to Delius-core Terraform to increase CPU and memory allocations, boosting performance and stability under load.

February 2025

3 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Focused on decommissioning legacy components, enhancing security posture, and improving performance/reliability of core environments to deliver business value and reduce operational risk.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025: Delivered a key feature in ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments to enable external access for Oracle databases by adding public DNS records and configuring security groups to permit communication with legacy Oracle environments. This work unlocks external integration, reduces manual networking steps, and supports ongoing platform modernization and interoperability with legacy systems.

December 2024

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2024

Month: 2024-12. Focused on enhancing the LDAP RBAC uplift workflow in the ministryofjustice/hmpps-delius-operational-automation repository by adding a preprod environment option. This delivered targeted business value by enabling preproduction testing with a single-line workflow config update, reducing deployment friction and risk.

November 2024

1 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 – Delivered automated RDS data refresh workflow (GitHub Actions) for ministryofjustice/hmpps-delius-operational-automation. The workflow stops the destination, dumps data from the source, restores it to the destination, and restarts the destination. It is configurable via inputs for component, source environment, and destination environment. This work, tracked in commit a5411d1d141e9ef4b72cc2d649a05b0735c9f232 ('add RDS data refresh helm job (#476)'), reduces manual steps, mitigates data drift between environments, and accelerates QA and deployment cycles.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.8%
Maintainability90.0%
Architecture91.8%
Performance81.2%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

HCLJSONTerraformYAMLbashsqlyaml

Technical Skills

AWSAWS CloudFormationBastion HostCI/CDCloud EngineeringCloud InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure ManagementDNS ManagementDatabase ManagementDevOpsECSHelmIAMInfrastructure as CodeKubernetes

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments

Jan 2025 Jan 2026
9 Months active

Languages Used

TerraformHCLJSON

Technical Skills

Cloud InfrastructureDevOpsNetworkingAWSCloud EngineeringIAM

ministryofjustice/hmpps-delius-operational-automation

Nov 2024 Dec 2024
2 Months active

Languages Used

bashsqlyamlYAML

Technical Skills

CI/CDDatabase ManagementDevOpsHelmKubernetesShell Scripting