Azure System Engineer
Current• Planned, setup and configured disaster recovery for all databases and servers within our Azure tenant. This included setting up local and off-site replication, planning and scheduling disaster recovery tests, configuring cross region subnets, firewalls, route tables and documenting the procedure in the event of a disaster. • Assisted with configuration and setup of Azure RDS environment by setting up RDS gateway and configuring both hosts. • Configure and monitor the Azure security portal by creating conditional access policies, MFA standards, and setting up named locations. This also includes reviewing the Defender for cloud portal to review all recommendations and creating AD roles for the service desk to minimize global administrators. • Manage and maintain our Microsoft Exchange environment by troubleshooting issues, creating mail flow rules, cleaning up unused mailboxes and auditing mailbox permissions and distribution group usage. • Migrated all on premise file servers to Azure. This process included setting up Azure file servers, copying all data and redirecting users without impacting company operations.• Setup and configured Azure storage accounts, migrated all archive data and set up retention policies. • Manage the on-premise AD environment. This includes setting up and configuring DFS namespaces, Group Policy Objects, AD sites and services, AD users and computers, server roles, and NPS Radius authentication. • Configure Enterprise applications to use SSO with our Azure Tenant.• Configured and tested Azure alerts including backups and server failures. • Manage Servers using VMware and ESXi hosts • Handle all print management including contracts, purchases, shipping, print server configuration and vendor relations.