Cloud Architect - Manager Resume
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Lenexa, KS
SUMMARY
- I am a seasoned Cloud Architect/Engineer with an insatiable appetite to learn all aspects of IT. I have over 11 years of direct IT experience from employments in the UK and USA. My goal is to deliver business enabling solutions and products, while continuing to mature professionally as I learn from my peers and experiences.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Azure
- Office 365
- Cloud Security
- Azure Migrate
- Azure Site Recovery Manager
- Azure Policy
- MS Exchange 2010 - 2019
- Bittitan
- Cloud Monitoring
- Anti-Virus
- Identity Access Management
- Group Policy Objects
- AIP & DLP
- Disaster Recovery
- Azure Firewall (SaaS)
- Monitoring Platforms
- AD Connect
- Intune
- DNS
- Windows Server 2008 - 2016
- Windows 7-10
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cloud Architect - Manager
Confidential, Lenexa, KS
Responsibilities:
- Consulting for clients in different verticals and industries
- Implementing Cloud security for biggest financial tax firm in USA
- Pre-sales calls with existing and new logos.
- Workshops with customers for their cloud transformation journey and advising in best practices within cloud.
- Successfully migrated applications to Azure focusing on security and infrastructure
- Provided consulting to many clients regarding cloud transformation journey
- Implemented cloud security controls, help become CIS, PCI and SOC compliance, adhering to MS best practices using azure scaffold and advising on overall governance
- Migrated users to O365, delivering on time and on budget, holding workshop and guiding towards modern workplace transformation, delivering on email security.
- Coaching, mentoring, and managing up to three staff (Associate Consultants, Senior Consultants, Managers)
Core Infrastructure Architect
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Lead Architect and Technical Lead for Microsoft Cloud solutions
- Architect, implemented and handed off 10,000 seat (E5+PSTN & EMS+E5) users migration to O365 (under budget)
- Implement Cloud Security controls: MFA, Intune (MAM), Conditional Access, PIM (Privileged Identity Management), IAM (Identity Access Management), SSPR (Self Service Password Reset), JIT (Just in Time) Disk Encryption, enabled enhanced security center, ATA (Advanced Threat Appliance), ATP (Advanced Threat Protection)
- Used Azure Migrate and MAPs tool to evaluate workloads to be migrated to Azure us by ASR (Azure Site Recovery)
- Strategizing workload migration between rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild
- Working on BCP (Business Continuity Plan) to ensure business uptime SLA is met
- Create PowerShell script for automated reporting
- Implemented Cloudyn for cost management, setup multiple sub - subscriptions for manageability, applying quotas.
- Using Azure features RI (Reserved Instances) to maximize $500K a year commit, BLOBs, File Shares
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
Confidential, Lenexa, KS
Responsibilities:
- Working within Infrastructure Engineering
- Short / long term project(s), diligently staying on time and under/on budget with projects, daily duties and escalation point and daily duties.
- Technical lead for new and existing prospects
- Conducting site surveys, detailed documentation on of current and proposed environment for customers, project managing consulting projects.
- Design and implement migrations for proposed solution architectures. This includes but is not limited to:
- Domain Controllers (migrations from Windows 2008/R2 to Windows 20012/2012R2).
- Deploy best practices for Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and GPO, Exchange
- Lead multiple Migrations including: Migrating Exchange to versions: 2010, 2013 and 2016
- Implementing DAG for redundancy and HA (High Availability) and DR (Disaster Recovery) Migrated clients to Office 365 (Hybrid and Cloud).
- Assess and recommend optimization of current infrastructure to achieve business requirements and goals.
- Creating Statement of Work (SOW) Engineering Installation Plan (EIP) Creating Visio detailed diagrams detailing before and after design
- Escalation point for External customers and internal customers
- Was also part Professional Services (Consulting) division before acquisition.
- Technical resource for peers to ensure successful complete of projects, on time and within budget
Systems Administrator
Confidential, Olathe, KS
Responsibilities:
- Administrating Active Directory 2008, VMWare (ESXi 5.0) over 200 servers (Virtual and Physical) on HP Server ProlientG6-G8 platform, iLO (integrated lights out) to troubleshoot server issues, MS Server 2003-2012, Small Business Servers 2008 and 2011, DNS, DHCP, IPMonitor (SMNP tool), Group Policy, Email Hygiene (Gateway) software Mail-foundy (Saas) and MacAfee IronMail (on-premises).
- Engineer Lead for MS Exchange 2010, administrating DAGs, EMS, EMC, ActiveSync, migrating from KEMP to F5 (load balancers), maintained HA (Quorum), mail hygiene, CAS array servers
- Lead multiple projects including but not limited to: Domain upgrades, IronMail upgrade, CloudFax (Biscom)
- Documentation, adhering to change control and maintenance windows
- Active member of Windows monthly patch management team, to include patch testing, scheduling, and deployment
- Technical resource for peers to ensure successful complete of projects, on time and within budget