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• Technical leadership and Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance Azure-based solutions, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.• Technical leadership and hands on support of the Dentons global networks.• Maintain technical documentation for supported platforms and hosted services.• Plan and deliver on platform upgrades and updates to remain current and mitigate risk.• Assist with the patching, capacity planning, and administration of services alongside Operations.• Analyse current cloud expenditures and adopt standard practices for FinOps, and establish robust governance for all IT services.• Working alongside Global Operations, assist with technical monitoring and response.• Working alongside Security Operations, assist with security monitoring and response.• Develop automated processes using ARM templates, PowerShell, or Azure DevOps to manage cloud resources.• Knowledge and experience with IT/Finance practices systems, including: TRE 3E• Coordinate activities to ensure the on time and on budget delivery of services.

• Tech lead in designed, documented and deployed vSphere 7 with SRM 8.3.• Netapp upgrades on CDOT for AFF and FAS, provisioning LIF's, aggregates, volumes • Cisco UCS management, VLAN, Service profiles, Templates and firmware upgrades.• Lead Engineer in the management of the core switch migration including all servers and storage• Lead Engineer in the design deployment and implement CommVault 11, including Office 365. • Deployed a Global Financial Practice management system, Expert and Intapp and GDW• Produce LLD and HLD including the preparation of technical documentation

• Tech lead in migration and deployment of the of New Datacentre, VMware and SQL clusters • Lead Engineer in the management of the of VLAN redesign and Infrastructure re-IP• Lead Engineer in the storage migration to a Managed service

• Tech lead in designed, documentation of datacenters Wintel and VMware IP renumbering and providing regular status updates to customer.• Tech lead in re-IP 12x HP c7000 chassis and over 100 rack mount servers IP renumbering of onboard administrators and iLO• Discovering and designing PowerShell scripts to automation and managed bulk changes to Wintel and VMWare’s ESXi IP Addresses.• Redesign of the company’s VMWare environment including network best practice, host profiles and update manager

• Provide 3rd line/ 4th Line technical lead for the IT infrastructure and customers by means of diagnosing technical issues/queries, and providing regular status updates to customer.• Virtualisation using VMware ESX / i 4.1 – 5.5 (including vMotion, HA, DRS, SRM, P2V and Cloud Hosted migration)• Microsoft Active Directory 2008 / 2012 support, creating users, groups and group policies and using SCCM, WDS, PowerShell for automation.• Tech Lead for the Enterprise Service Engineer in the migration of the core network to Cisco Nexus 7K and 5K including the Cisco MDS switch migration.• SAN technology (EMC CX480,VNX 5300, Dell EqualLogic PS6x10, Fibre Channel, 10GB iSCSI and NFS, data replication and snapshot technologies) with Cisco 9216i, 9260i,Dell PowerConnect and Cisco Nexus Switches SAN• Scripting (PowerShell, VIM-CMD, esxcfg etc.) ESX, ESXi, AD, WinTel to install, configure and manage IT infrastructure.• Produce High-level designs, including the preparation of technical documentation as well as reviewing and approval of detailed designs produced by technical specialists.• Lead all technical members (client and third party suppliers) of a project team delivering infrastructure, networks and manufacturing and shop-floor IT systems.