Currently

Liam
Goodchild.

Architecting and automating cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code. Specialising in Azure, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines for private and public sector organisations.

Experience.

I
Oct 2025 to Present

Version 1

Senior Azure DevOps Consultant
  • Holds active SC clearance for work in the current role.
  • Acts as the organisation's DevOps champion, setting engineering standards and leading the adoption of DevOps practices across delivery teams.
  • Line manages mid-level DevOps engineers, supporting their technical development, delivery performance and career progression.
  • Owns the architecture of internal Azure landing zone accelerators and reusable Terraform modules deployed across customer environments.
  • Leads architectural decisions for private and public sector customers, from discovery and technical scoping through to delivery.
  • Helped secure contract extensions worth approximately £500,000 through technical leadership, trusted customer relationships and the delivery of further value.
  • Builds secure, repeatable Azure infrastructure with Terraform, supported by version control and automated validation.
  • Designs CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions that run linting, testing, security scanning and deployment controls before release.
  • Produces architectural and low-level designs that explain technical decisions and their business value to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Develops integration and Power Platform solutions alongside cloud infrastructure work.
II
Sep 2024 to Oct 2025

Redcentric

Azure Cloud Engineer
  • Held NPPV3 clearance while working with sensitive data across public sector customer environments.
  • Onboarded customers into Azure managed services and designed and deployed IaaS and PaaS solutions with Bicep and GitHub Actions.
  • Provided third-line support and joined a 24/7 on-call rota for large Windows and Linux estates.
  • Right-sized workloads and automated routine work with PowerShell and Bash to reduce costs and give engineers more time for higher-value work.
  • Owned change control, backup strategies and disaster recovery planning for customer environments.
III
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Marks & Clerk

Infrastructure Engineer
  • Managed hybrid Windows Server infrastructure spanning 2012 to 2022, including Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, PKI and DNS.
  • Led vulnerability management and network hardening work that supported Cyber Essentials and CIS compliance.
  • Provided third-line support and mentored junior colleagues.
IV
Oct 2022 to Oct 2023

Midland Heart

IT Engineer
  • Provided second-line support for hardware, software and audiovisual systems in a hybrid environment.
  • Supported the migration of endpoint management from SCCM to Intune.
  • Created an onboarding programme that reduced the time required for new IT staff to become productive.

Things I've built.

Credentials.

AZ-400
AZ-400
MICROSOFT