Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

A seasoned Senior Azure Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of expertise in architecting, maintaining, and enhancing enterprise-level infrastructure spanning Azure cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises setups. Demonstrated strengths include Azure IaaS and PaaS services, encompassing virtual machines, storage solutions, app services, networking, identity frameworks, backups, disaster recovery, and platform utilities.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Proficient in Azure networking configurations such as VNets, Subnets, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, DNS, routing, Load Balancers, Private Endpoints, VNet Peering, ExpressRoute, and hybrid connectivity solutions.
• Extensive experience managing Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, including RBAC implementations, multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access policies, identity governance and integrating hybrid identity environments.
• Hands-on support for enterprise Microsoft 365, Windows Server, Active Directory, Intune, and hybrid Microsoft environments.
• Capable of overseeing critical Azure infrastructure environments ensuring smooth operational support, incident resolution, change management, and delivering infrastructure projects.
• Proven troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity services, Windows/Linux systems, and application connectivity; handling L3 escalation tasks.
• Delivered infrastructure projects from initial design, through implementation, to production handover and ongoing support.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code and automation leveraging Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, and Python scripting.
• Established monitoring and alerting strategies using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Splunk to boost service availability and reduce mean time to repair.
• Supported security and optimization efforts with Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, RBAC, Private Endpoints, and governance controls.
• Led enterprise workload migrations from on-premises infrastructure to Azure utilizing Azure Migrate, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with application, infrastructure, security teams, external technology partners, and vendors to resolve complex technical challenges and deliver infrastructure goals.
• Experienced within ITIL process frameworks, including Incident, Problem, Change, Major Incident, and CAB workflows administered via ServiceNow.
• Australian Citizen holding an active NV1 Security Clearance.
• Provided technical leadership and guidance in architecture assessments, critical incident management, and Azure cloud platform modernization projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Designed and deployed CI/CD pipelines as code catering to enterprise client needs.
• Served as the L3 escalation point for major incident incidents, efficiently coordinating among infrastructure, application teams, and vendors to promptly restore services minimizing business disruption.
• Produced detailed design documentation and supported architects from a DevOps standpoint.
• Implemented numerous web applications with VNet peering for traffic separation and function apps for event-driven, serverless workloads.
• Built and managed enterprise-scale DevOps pipelines supporting application integration, API deployments, Infrastructure as Code, and multi-stage release automation.
• Collaborated with developers, data engineers, security personnel, and business units to create secure, scalable cloud platforms supporting AI, analytics, and digital solutions.
• Developed various Azure pipelines with deployments targeting Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Provisioned many clusters using traditional Azure DevOps pipelines and modern pipeline-as-code multi-stage deployments.
• Installed and maintained firewall solutions, partnering with security vendors to ensure adherence to best practices and timely software updates.
• Managed automation of build and release processes, overseeing a large and complex build infrastructure to optimize operations.