Azure Infrastructure Engineer

• Hands-on Applied Skills Summary
  
• Senior Azure Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering, supporting and improving enterprise infrastructure across Azure, hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
  
• Strong hands-on experience across Azure IaaS and PaaS, including Virtual Machines, Storage, App Services, networking, identity, backup, disaster recovery and platform services.
  
• Designed, implemented and supported Azure networking including VNets, Subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, DNS, routing, Load Balancers, Private Endpoints, VNet Peering, ExpressRoute and hybrid connectivity.
  
• Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory, including RBAC, MFA, Conditional Access, identity governance and hybrid identity integration.
  
• Supported enterprise Microsoft 365, Windows Server, Active Directory, Intune and hybrid Microsoft environments.
  
• Managed and supported business-critical Azure infrastructure environments, balancing BAU operational support, incident resolution, change management and infrastructure project delivery.
  
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, Windows/Linux and application connectivity, including L3 escalation and root cause analysis.
  
• Delivered infrastructure projects from design and planning through implementation, production transition and operational support.
  
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, PowerShell and Python.
  
• Implemented monitoring, alerting and operational visibility using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights and Splunk, improving service reliability and reducing MTTR.
  
• Supported infrastructure security and optimisation initiatives using Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, RBAC, Private Endpoints and security governance controls.
  
• Led and supported migrations of enterprise workloads from on-premises environments to Azure using Azure Migrate, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
  
• Worked collaboratively with application, infrastructure, security and business teams, technology partners and vendors to resolve complex technical issues and deliver infrastructure outcomes.
  
• Experienced in ITIL-based environments covering Incident, Problem, Change, Major Incident and CAB processes using ServiceNow.
  
• Australian Citizen holding Active NV1 Security Clearance.
  
• Provided technical leadership during architecture reviews, major incidents and cloud platform uplift activities.
  

Key Responsibilities

• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines as code for enterprise customers
  
• Acted as L3 escalation point for major incidents, coordinating with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams to restore services quickly and minimise business impact.
  
• Created design doc and helped the architect from the devops perspective.
  
• Created many instances of webapps with VNET peering for traffic and function apps for triggers and serverless.
  
• Designed and implemented enterprise DevOps pipelines supporting application integration, API deployment, Infrastructure as Code and multi-stage release automation.
  
• Collaborated with software developers, data engineers, security teams and business stakeholders to deliver secure cloud platforms supporting AI, analytics and digital services.
  
• I have created many pipelines of Azure and deployed to AKS.
  
• I have deployed many cluster by traditional azure devops pipelines and new pipeline as code with multistage.
  
• Installed and maintained firewall solutions and collaborated with security vendors to ensure best practices and software updates were followed consistently.
  

· I have worked as automating the Build and Release activities, having a responsibility to manage and improve the large and complex build infrastructure.