dpinkerton.com

Services

Infrastructure engineering, security consulting, and fractional CIO services for businesses that need senior technical capability without a full-time hire.

Brisbane, Australia · Remote-friendly · ABN 26 100 857 151

Fractional CIO / Infrastructure Lead

Ongoing part-time infrastructure leadership for companies that need senior technical decision-making without a full-time hire. I embed with your team, own the infrastructure strategy, and deliver hands-on.

  • Architecture decisions and technology selection
  • Infrastructure buildout from bare metal to production
  • Security posture, access control, and compliance alignment
  • Vendor evaluation and tool integration
  • Mentoring your team on operations and incident response
Proxmox VE Docker Tailscale Ansible Wazuh SIEM SSO/OIDC

Infrastructure Engineering

Scoped projects to build, migrate, or harden your infrastructure. Whether you're moving off legacy systems, standing up a new environment, or need someone to get your monitoring and backups right, I deliver working systems with documentation.

  • Server and virtualisation deployment (Proxmox, HA, ZFS, Ceph)
  • Secure networking across sites (Tailscale, WireGuard, VLANs)
  • Reverse proxy and access control (Caddy, HAProxy, SSO)
  • Backup and disaster recovery (Proxmox Backup Server, TrueNAS)
  • Container orchestration (Docker, Portainer)
  • Network inventory and automated asset management
Proxmox ZFS Caddy HAProxy mTLS WireGuard PBS

Security & Compliance

Security monitoring, compliance frameworks, and environment hardening. I spent over a year at CyberCX delivering professional security assessments and combine that consulting background with hands-on implementation skills.

  • Essential Eight assessment and remediation
  • ISO 27001 / NIST CSF gap analysis and implementation support
  • Wazuh SIEM deployment with custom decoders and alert rules
  • BCP/DRP planning and documentation
  • Authentication hardening (passkeys, MFA, mTLS, SSO)
  • Vulnerability scanning and security posture reviews
Essential Eight ISO 27001 NIST CSF Wazuh Nessus Passkeys BCP/DRP

Bitcoin & Lightning Infrastructure

Specialist infrastructure for Bitcoin businesses. I run Bitcoin systems in production and understand key management, node operations, and Australian regulatory requirements from the inside.

  • BTCPay Server deployment and management
  • Lightning Network node setup and channel management
  • Electrs indexer deployment for wallet backends
  • Multisig wallet infrastructure and verification
  • SMSF Bitcoin compliance reporting (CertainKey)
BTCPay Server LND Electrs Multisig Lightning
Government suppliers needing Essential Eight compliance
Professional services firms with on-prem or hybrid infrastructure
Startups & scale-ups without a dedicated infrastructure team
Healthcare & finance with compliance and data sovereignty requirements
Bitcoin & fintech companies with specialist infrastructure needs
Any business that values self-hosting, open source, and owning their stack
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Retained / Fractional

Monthly retainer for ongoing infrastructure leadership and support. Typically 15-30 hours per month. You get a senior technical partner without the overhead of a full-time hire.

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Project-Based

Fixed-scope engagements for specific builds: server deployments, security assessments, migration projects, or monitoring stack rollouts. Clear deliverables, documented handover.

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Self-Hosted, Open Source

I build on open source software you control. No vendor lock-in, no recurring SaaS bills for infrastructure that should be yours. You own your stack.

Infrastructure managed as CIO 1 yr, ongoing
Security assessments at CyberCX 30+ engagements
Wazuh SIEM agents deployed 26 endpoints
Proxmox HA cluster 3 nodes, 20+ VMs
Network automation pipeline Tailscale + OPNsense + NetBox
SaaS product shipped CertainKey, full stack
Certifications Security+, Network+, E8

Let's talk infrastructure

Whether you need a security assessment, an infrastructure build, or ongoing technical leadership, I'm happy to have a conversation. Based in Brisbane, available remotely across Australia.