SUMMARY

• Working the way up the ranks traditionally, his path elevated to desktop, server, as well as virtualization in top Confidential company settings.
• With the thirst for unpredictable situations and more uncommon technical knowledge in the field he entered managed services.
• Once comfortable thriving in this form of technology services, he felt that both forms of technology services correlated to open development & cloud computing.
• This is the wide area of subjects where he is versed and the environments he thrives in until present.
• PaaS, SaaS, IaaS management and configuration. Develop, test, and deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform, ARM Templates, Azure Functions, and Automation Center.
• Python, Bash, and PowerShell scripting.
• Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, and traditional on site Active Directory management. Object, Group, Domain, Sites, Branch and SSO/ADFS management. Private/Public DNS, DHCP services configuration and management.
• Azure Virtual Networking stack solution development, management and configuration using Virtual Networking, Azure Private/Public load balancer, Virtual Network Address Translation appliance, Network Security Gateways, and Application Firewalling.
• Application development to check and alert on new and existing server builds that don’t meet or fall out of compliance with .Net Framework and .Net Core.
• Team leader for mentoring engineers on projects with clients and change control. High profile incident and request management to meet demand as well as service level agreements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Azure Infrastructure Security Policy Management
• Azure App Service and Azure Static WebApp deployments for React or custom frameworks.
• Microsoft Azure Automation Center management and configuration utilizing monitoring and logging of events. Event hook using webhooks and Azure functions with custom scripting, or plugin applications such as power automate, terraform, or ansible to be proactive with auto heal techniques to mitigate infrastructure outages.
• Terraform and Azure Modules formed in common templates to quickly provision resources for new environments or auto scale reacting to performance and resource load.
• Terraform, Azure Functions, ARM Template, and custom scripting to best practices to Secure Score and Cost Management Billing.
• Microsoft 365 Tenant Management & Application Support
• Automation using Automation Center, Azure Functions, Power Automate, Bash, PowerShell, and Python
• C/C#/C++, .Net Core, .Net Framework (2 yrs. Ex)
• Linux (apt, dpkg, rpm, yum, dnf), NPM, GitHub Repositories, Azure Pipelines
• Azure Networking: Virtual Network management, planning, and configuration of vnets, vnats, load balancing, nsgs, application groups, and application firewalling.
• Azure Active Directory Privilege Management roles and resource permission management.
• Azure Cost Management & Billing, Application Insights, Log Monitoring and Alerting.

Confidential

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Azure App Service and Azure Static WebApp deployments for React or custom frameworks.
• Microsoft Azure 3rd Party Application implementation for SSO, ADFS, OID/OAUTH with Certificate, and secret key authentication and authorization.
• API management with Microsoft Graph for application feature enablement, application development, and user/group access.
• Azure Networking: Virtual Network management, planning, and configuration of vnets, vnats, load balancing, nsgs, application groups, and application firewalling.
• Azure Active Directory Privilege Management roles and resource permission management.
• Azure Cost Management & Billing, Application Insights, Log Monitoring and Alerting.
• Azure Infrastructure Security Policy Management
• Microsoft Azure Automation Center management and configuration utilizing monitoring and logging of events. Event hook using webhooks and Azure functions with custom scripting, or plugin applications such as power automate, terraform, or ansible to be proactive with auto heal techniques to mitigate infrastructure outages.
• Terraform and Azure Modules formed in common templates to quickly provision resources for new environments or auto scale reacting to performance and resource load.
• Terraform, Azure Functions, ARM Template, and custom scripting to best practices to Secure Score and Cost Management Billing.
• Enterprise Application Management and custom Application Registration for in - house applications.
• Active Directory Privileged Management for access and assignment of dynamic roles with time expiration, justification and customer lock box request to admin for approval.
• On-Premise Active Directory project planner, solution design, configuration, and support for active customers
• Active Directory group policy management, domain controller migration and support. Site Link Cost configuration, and remote branch office setup and support.
• Exchange Online Support & Hybrid Exchange support. Mailbox migration, transport, client access server configuration, mailbox rules, global security policy configuration and anti spam and spoofing investigation and mitigation.
• Microsoft 365 CSP: Cloud Application Onboarding/Configuration
• Servicing / Ongoing Support: Domain/DNS, Exchange Online migration, policy deployments, user/group management
• VMware vCenter Server infrastructure support. Networking and port group configurations. Active Directory implementations,
• Cloud App Security management, security policy deployment
• Microsoft Security & Compliance Management of policy deployment.
• Microsoft Defender / Advanced Threat Protection Management with Automated Query and Investigations.
• Microsoft InTune Management and Operations. Application deployment. Certificate configurations for Apple iOS, Android, and Windows 10.
• Azure Privileged Identity Management / Identity & Governance.