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Toronto, ON, CA

• Architected foundational infrastructure capabilities of a hybrid, multi-cloud hosting environment
• Defined and Designed infrastructure design patterns and standard offerings that will become part of the service catalog and the intake process
• Active TDA - Technical Design Authority member representing Infrastructure Engineering team reviews and approves Enterprise and BU level Cloud Solution Architecture and Designs.
• Designed and Developed infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms to enable DevOps practices to consume infrastructure.
• Supported the definition and refinement of reusable cloud design patterns that enable rapid deployment.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for a specific initiatives and facilitate trade-off discussions and resolution of conflicting requirements.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Led/Designed/Developed/Deployed Enterprise IaC Roadmaps initiatives using Terraform Cloud/GitHub Enterprise/Ansible Tower
• Designed and developed IaC DevOps practices for Enterprise Infrastructure.
• Active ART - Architecture Review Team member representing Infrastructure Engineering team reviews and approves Enterprise and BU level Cloud Solution Architecture and Designs.
• Worked closely with technology providers and other stakeholders to build highly available shared Azure hub-spoke and GCP networking topology to inspect ingress traffic and to keep consistent security policy with.
• Developed automation blueprints and forms using infrastructure as code such as Terraform/Ansible on VRA and SNOW for Azure and GCP infrastructure, IaaS and PaaS deployments.
• Setting up, building and SME for Azure and GCP enterprise infrastructure solutions and resources such as IAM, Policies, PaaS SQL, IaaS, GCE, GKE, Storage Bucket, Web/Fuction/Logic Apps, ADF, Synapse, ADLS, DBKS, AML.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Active ART - Architecture Review Team member representing Infrastructure Engineering team reviews and approves Enterprise and BU level Cloud Solution Architecture and Designs.
• Worked closely with technology providers and other stakeholders to build highly available shared Azure hub-spoke and GCP networking topology to inspect ingress traffic and to keep consistent security policy with.
• Developed automation blueprints and forms using infrastructure as code such as Terraform/Ansible on VRA and SNOW for Azure and GCP infrastructure, IaaS and PaaS deployments.
• Setting up, building and SME for Azure and GCP enterprise infrastructure solutions and resources such as IAM, Policies, PaaS SQL, IaaS, GCE, GKE, Storage Bucket, Web/Fuction/Logic Apps, ADF, Synapse, ADLS, DBKS, AML.
• Defined Azure Security Policies which acted as service endpoint firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more Azure PaaS and on-prem resounces.
• Drove the initiative with Cyber security to deploy Azure Security Center, GCP Security Command Center and Azure Sentinel for Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance practices.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Collaborating with EA and Cyber to coordinate project deliverables to convey infrastructure requirements, plan, and schedule deployment of tasks, and resolve any issues that impact the deployment of the application.
• Set up, built and SME for Azure and GCP enterprise infrastructure solutions, services and resources.
• Delivered infrastructure as code templates on Azure using ARM, Azure Blue Print etc.
• Developed Linux AD/Local ID expiry automation alert system with RH Satellite and Ansible.
• Performed Linux OS administration and provided second and third level support to end customers.
• Setup Disaster Recovery for Linux systems with VMWare.

Advanced Diploma, Computer System Technology

Diploma, Hospitality Management - Restaurant And Catering

Bachelor'S Degree, Japanese Language And Literature