About Me
- Name: Darren Sunley
- Born: Sunderland, UK
- City: Staines-upon-Thames, UK
- Age: 46
- Job: IT (Web Security)
- Hobbies: Travelling, Football, Bowling
Countries visited so far
(with 1 more planned!).
Highest score at tenpin bowling
(so close and yet so far!)
Years of IT experience
in Identity and Access Management
Years supporting Liverpool FC 
My Resume
Summary
Darren Sunley
Passionate, driven, technical IT Security specialist with 25+ years of experience architecting, implementing and supporting complex enterprise-level security infrastructure.
- Excellent communicator and team player
- Very strong technical skills (both in IAM and all related infrastructure)
- Strong focus on attention to detail
- Accomplished problem-solver with a can-do attitude
Education
BSc (Hons) Computer Science
1996 - 1999
Durham University, UK
Classification = 2:1
A Levels
1994 - 1996
Wearside College, Sunderland, UK
Maths = A , Further Maths = A , Computing = A
Professional Experience
Freelance IT Specialist
2021 - Present
Darren Sunley Consulting Ltd
- Motability Operations (2021 - Present) : Architect/build/configure/support enterprise IAM infrastructure using Ping productset deployed in AWS via DevOps (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, BitBucket).
eSecurity Technical Specialist
1999 - 2021
British Airways / IAG (Global Business Services)
- Built/configured enterprise-level single sign-on and federation infrastructure (over the years using IBM, Oracle and most recently Ping products).
- Architected/built/configured corporate LDAP infrastructure (using SunONE, ODSEE and Ping Directory/Datasync).
- Created automation tooling that was used to configure all of the company's webservices security infrastructure (Java code used to make API calls to configure Actional Intermediary web security gateway).
- Last-level technical support team (for all corporate SSO infrastructure) and on-call support.
- Technical team leader of a small eSecurity team for 2.5 years.
My Skills
LDAP
Built multiple enterprise-level corporate directory environments across multiple products (PingDirectory, SunONE, Oracle DSEE, OpenLDAP)
Ping
Many years experience (building, configuring, supporting) of the full Ping stack including PingFederate, PingAccess, PingDirectory, PingDatasync and PingID
Linux
20+ years experience of various flavours of Unix (AIX, Solaris) and Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, Amazon) and proficient at shell scripting
AWS
Real-world experience of production AWS deployments, working with EC2, Cloudwatch, S3, Route53, IAM, SNS, SES, ACM
DevOps
Proficient with DevOps tooling to build/configure environments, including Ansible / Terraform / Jenkins
IAM
20 years experience working in IAM, building/supporting corporate SSO solutions (using products from Ping, Oracle, IBM)
Agile
Many years experience working with an Agile approach, using JIRA for workload management and deliverable tracking
Network
Comfortable with the theory and practial configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP networks
Matt Hudson
Security Architect
I worked for many years with Darren and he's awesome!
Ellice Birch
IDaaS Manager
I've only worked with Darren for a couple of years, but I still think he's awesome!
Mike Pullen
Splunk Guru
I worked for many years with Darren and he was my boss - I think he's awesome!
Ash Hammond
Freelancer
Northerner pretending to do IT... I've learned lots from Darren - he's awesome!
Dilan Selvadurai
Bowler / Sales Mgr
Over the years I've bowled with and against Darren, and travelled to many parts of the world with him... he's awesome!