Experience

Cloud Operations: Manage and optimize Azure and AWS environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure to support business operations.
Identity & Security: Maintain secure identity systems with Azure AD, including MFA, Conditional Access Policies, and Privileged Identity Management, while enhancing endpoint protection using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune.
Governance & Compliance: Establish and enforce governance policies with Azure Policy, Group Policy, and Defender for Cloud, ensuring regulatory compliance and secure configurations.
Infrastructure Oversight: Oversee critical systems like Active Directory, DNS, and SSL administration, ensuring high availability and operational reliability.
Monitoring & Performance: Use tools such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, and PRTG Monitoring for proactive performance management and issue resolution.
Strategic Planning: Drive innovation by identifying opportunities for technology adoption, cloud optimization, and application modernization. Support organizational efficiency by integrating DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, to streamline deployments and improve workflows.
Collaboration & Mentorship: Partner with teams across the organization to align IT strategy with business goals and provide mentorship to enhance team expertise and innovation.

Directed a full-scale cloud migration to Microsoft Azure, decommissioning primary and secondary data centres, significantly reducing physical IT infrastructure, and lowering operational costs.
Managed and mentored a team of five infrastructure engineers, delivering key projects, including SD-WAN deployment, network modernization, virtualization platform refreshes, and datacentre relocations, improving cost efficiency, resilience, and performance.
Designed and implemented infrastructure for new remote depot sites, reducing deployment times while ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
Optimized vendor relationships and licensing agreements, reducing annual costs while maintaining compliance and service quality.

Designed and executed multiple Microsoft Exchange migrations and domain controller refreshes, achieving improved performance, reliability, and a reduction in hardware requirements.
Implemented and optimized Azure AD services, including MFA, Conditional Access policies, and Privileged Identity Management, ensuring secure identity management across hybrid environments.
Deployed Microsoft Intune and the Defender suite, enhancing endpoint security and streamlining device management to support a mobile-first workforce.
Spearheaded security enhancements, introducing email hygiene solutions, refining Active Directory Group Policies, and improving governance to strengthen the organization's overall security posture.
Delivered advanced infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting processes, leveraging automation to reduce incident resolution times and improving system reliability.

Skills & Competencies

Microsoft Azure: Azure AD, Intune, PIM, Security Center, Sentinel, Monitor, Automation, Backup, ASR, Key Vault, Policy, Arc, Bastion.
Azure Applications: Application Gateway, Load Balancer, WAF, App Service, Application Proxy.
AWS: IAM, EC2, S3, Route53, VPCs, VPNs, App Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudTrail.
Collaboration Platforms: Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online.
Windows Server: Administration of Windows Server 2003-2022.
Microsoft Exchange: On-premises and hybrid migrations, server optimization.
Mimecast: Email security and compliance.
Windows IIS: Configuration and management.
Microsoft Security Suite: Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, email hygiene.
IAM & PAM: Azure AD (Entra ID), MFA, SSPR, Group Policy, Conditional Access, AWS IAM.
Networking: DNS, firewalls, VPNs, Azure WAF, Load Balancer, Cato SD-WAN, network peering.
Infrastructure Optimization: AD streamlining, domain controller refreshes, DHCP, SSL administration.
IoT Platforms: AWS IoT, Azure IoT.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM templates.
Scripting & Automation: PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python.
DevOps Practices: Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS.
Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Log Analytics, PRTG Monitoring.
Documentation & Training: Technical documentation, best practices, security protocols.