available for work

Baden John

Infrastructure & Systems Engineering

I work the layer beneath the application — bare-metal deployments, container sandboxing, hypervisor optimization, and the network routing that keeps it all reachable.

DevOpsSystems AdministrationVirtualizationCloud Operations
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Stack

Virtualization & Containers
DockerKVM / QEMUProxmox VELXC Isolation
Operating Environments
Active DirectoryRocky LinuxWindows Server
Networking & Security
FirewalldIPTablesNetfilterSocket bindingNAT ForwardingHardware triage
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Selected work

Bare-Metal Container & VM Server

A high-reliability local cluster providing low-overhead container orchestration and isolated virtual networks — built for predictable behaviour under load.

Rocky Linux 9 · KVM/QEMU · Docker · isolated virtual networks

High-Tickrate Game Infrastructure

Optimized multi-process execution environments on Linux systemd daemons — managing socket bindings, port mapping, and firewall traversal to hold a stable tickrate end to end.

Linux systemd daemons · custom source engines · NAT forwarding
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Experience

IT Assistant Placement

University of South Wales 2024 — 2025
  • Identity & access management. Maintained enterprise user trees, credential updates, and centralized domain group policies via Active Directory.
  • Hardware & software triage. Diagnostic isolation on workstation nodes, board-level fault checks, and system image restoration.
  • Compliance auditing. Tracked and parsed platform event logs to maintain security baselines and catch unauthorized changes.

Let's build something solid.

Open to infrastructure, DevOps, and systems roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.

darianbadenjohn@gmail.com →