Gavin Albantow

GMHBA Limited · Hybrid, Australia

• Own the engineering, operational lifecycle, reliability, and continual improvement of GMHBA's Azure platform and DevOps capabilities — implementing approved architecture through automation and governed engineering practices.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Information Security to define Azure landing zone patterns, identity and network security boundaries, and reusable platform services; own the DevOps patterns, standards, and controls used to deliver them.
• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions and reusable modules (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) implementing approved platform patterns.
• Build monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across the Azure platform, delivery pipelines, and environments.
• Own reliability and resilience: backup and recovery, disaster recovery readiness, availability, capacity planning, and continuity of software delivery.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for Azure platform, DevOps, reliability, and automation matters — leading incident response and root cause analysis.
• Stay hands-on writing infrastructure code, building pipelines, and troubleshooting production issues — raising engineering capability through direct mentoring, standards, and training.

GMHBA Limited · Hybrid, Australia

• Built and operated core components of GMHBA's Azure cloud platform, from landing zone infrastructure through to production workloads.
• Partnered cross-functionally with Information Security to embed security-by-design across the cloud environment.
• Applied governance and data protection standards for a heavily regulated, highly secured platform.
• Delivered infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep, and PowerShell DSC to keep environments consistent and repeatable.
• Automated monitoring and alerting across cloud workloads to catch issues before they impacted the business.
• Worked hands-on with Azure networking, identity, and application platform services to support day-to-day operations.

GMHBA Limited

• Directed DevOps strategy and delivery across software development, security, data and engineering teams.
• Owned Azure architecture: landing zone design, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell DSC), and Azure DevOps pipeline standards (YAML & Classic).
• Set engineering quality bar across the org: test strategy (NUnit, xUnit, Postman, Moq) and quality gates (TestRail, SonarQube, pull request standards).
• Championed blue/green deployment as the org-wide release standard, delivering highly available, fault-tolerant systems with zero-outage releases.
• Led Azure application platform strategy: Function Apps, Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management gateway.
• Set platform security architecture: Cloudflare + DNS + WAF, Azure App Gateway + WAF.

Tribal Group · Tribal Edge Platform

• Code review, OOP, and platform engineering across the Tribal Edge Platform.

health.com.au · Australia

• DevOps consulting across software delivery and cloud infrastructure.

GMHBA Limited · Geelong, Victoria

• Managed release governance and DevOps practice maturity across engineering teams, setting the standards later scaled org-wide.

Village Roadshow · Greater Melbourne Area

• Led DevOps practices, Octopus Deploy pipelines, and code review processes.

Tribal Group · Tribal Campus Platform · Geelong, Victoria

• Led DevOps practices for the Tribal Campus Platform.

Sky Software Solutions · Geelong, Victoria

• Software analysis and development, laying the groundwork for a DevOps career.