Darren Sunley

I'm an IT Professional... a tenpin bowler... a Liverpool fan... and an avid traveller

About Me

About Me

Countries visited so far
(with 3 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

Identity & Access Mgmt (Ping, Oracle)95%
Linux / Bash 90%
LDAP 95%
Networking / Architecture 90%
DevOps 80%
My Resume

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

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!

My Travels

My Travels

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