Joe Wakefield
About Joe Wakefield
Joe Wakefield is a Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in hardware deployment, data recovery, and solutions architecture. He has worked in various IT roles across multiple organizations since 2006 and holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from Carleton University.
Work at Signiant
Joe Wakefield has been employed at Signiant as a Site Reliability Engineer since 2021. His role focuses on ensuring the reliability and performance of Signiant's systems and services. He has accumulated three years of experience in this position while based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Education and Expertise
Joe Wakefield holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from Carleton University, where he studied Networking, Programming, and Business/Marketing from 2004 to 2009. He also completed a Computer Engineering Technology program at Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology, focusing on Cisco networking, IT Security, and SQL during the same period. His expertise includes solutions architecture, standards compliance testing, DevOps, and AWS.
Background
Joe Wakefield has a diverse professional background in IT and engineering. He began his career as a Junior IT Security Consultant at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada in 2007. He then worked at Nakina Systems as IT Support for seven years, followed by a role as a Senior Systems Administrator at dominKnow Learning Systems from 2017 to 2021. His experience also includes positions at Nokia, CENGN, and Sprott School of Business.
Professional Experience
Throughout his career, Joe Wakefield has held various positions that have contributed to his expertise in IT. He worked as an IT Consultant at Nokia for one month in 2016 and as an R&D Engineer at the same company for two months in the same year. Additionally, he served as a Network Engineer at CENGN for five months in 2016. His roles have involved hardware deployment, data recovery, and server administration in both Linux and Windows environments.