Profile
Professional profile
Senior Infrastructure and Hybrid Cloud Engineer with 18+ years of enterprise IT experience, including 13+ years across VMware and private cloud platforms and 5+ years delivering Azure IaaS/PaaS, Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity solutions. A proven bridge between on-premises datacentre operations and cloud transformation.
Developed Microsoft 365 automations using Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint integrated with ServiceNow ITSM, built Jenkins CD pipelines for daily automated PowerShell script builds, and implemented production PowerShell scripts in Jenkins for continuous deployment workflows.
Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate and VMware VCP (4/5/6).
Skills
Core technical skills
Azure & Cloud
Azure IaaS/PaaS, VNet, VPN/ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, NSGs, Load Balancing, Availability Sets/Zones, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Landing Zone principles, Azure Policy, RBAC
IaC & DevOps
Terraform for Azure, ARM/Bicep, Git/GitHub, Azure CLI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins CD pipelines, GitHub Actions
Automation
PowerShell automation; Microsoft Graph API for Entra ID, SharePoint and Office 365 (ServiceNow ITSM integrated); Jenkins-based CD of production scripts
Identity & Security
Active Directory, Entra ID/Azure AD, ADFS/SAML, Conditional Access, MFA, Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel, Office 365 Hybrid, Exchange Hybrid, GPO, certificate lifecycle
Virtualisation
VMware vSphere 4–8, ESXi, vCenter, HA/DRS, vMotion, vCloud Director, Microsoft Hyper-V (active migration project)
Storage, Backup & DR
Pure FlashArray, NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerVault, EMC, Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, Zerto, DoubleTake, Microsoft DPM
Monitoring & Ops
SolarWinds/OpsGenie, SCOM, PRTG, CheckMK, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, ITIL-aligned operations
OS & Hardware
Windows Server 2008–2022, Failover Clustering, IIS, DNS, DHCP, SCCM/WSUS, HP/Dell/Lenovo servers, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu
Highlights
Key achievements
- Developed Microsoft Graph API automations for SharePoint provisioning integrated with ServiceNow ITSM — enabling automated, ticket-driven M365 workflows.
- Built Jenkins CD pipelines for daily automated builds and continuous deployment of production PowerShell scripts across infrastructure environments.
- Led end-to-end VMware-to-Hyper-V migration workstreams across UK, Netherlands and Ireland sites — workload mapping, disk conversion, network reconfiguration and post-migration validation.
- Built PowerShell automation for NetApp volume and LUN commission/decommission workflows — reducing manual effort and improving platform consistency.
- Delivered Pure FlashArray Purity upgrades supporting VMware platform stability and lifecycle currency.
- Created Terraform-based Azure infrastructure POC for resource groups, VNets and NSGs — ready to extend into production landing-zone modules.
Credentials
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) ID: 990106206
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
- VMware Certified Professional — Data Centre Virtualisation (VCP-DCV) vSphere 4, 5 & 6 · ID: VMW-02324499G-02344782
- VMware Cloud Management and Automation (VCP7-CMA)
- MCTS — Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure MCSA — Windows Server 2003 · CCNA training completed
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