Mark Morton Email & Phone Number

Weston-Super-Mare, Gb

Weston-Super-Mare, Gb

Taunton, England, United Kingdom

• Tenancy Owner/Global Administrator and member of technical team responsible for all Microsoft Azure Operations and Administration• Ownership of several projects including implementation of AVD to replace Citrix, implementing Azure bastion and AVD for external access and replacing on-prem file servers with Azure file sync services.• Developing logic apps using kusto for alerting from Azure monitor, as a replacement for SCOM • Team lead for streamlining and consolidation project to… Show more • Tenancy Owner/Global Administrator and member of technical team responsible for all Microsoft Azure Operations and Administration• Ownership of several projects including implementation of AVD to replace Citrix, implementing Azure bastion and AVD for external access and replacing on-prem file servers with Azure file sync services.• Developing logic apps using kusto for alerting from Azure monitor, as a replacement for SCOM • Team lead for streamlining and consolidation project to reduce Azure costs utilizing reserved instances, rightsizing VMs, merging application/database servers, reducing log analytics flows and decommissioning unused resources.• Azure AD and on-prem AD administration (roles, groups, conditional access, MFA, GPO’s, DNS, DHCP etc.)• Raising and resolving third/forth line incidents and tasks, liaising with Microsoft and other third-party vendors as required.• Team responsibility to deliver best practice security within Azure, implementing Microsoft Defender suite feeding into Sentinel, identity governance (PIM access reviews), AIP and maintaining Security score.• Team responsibility to maintain and upgrade server estate to latest OS, ensuring each is patched, protected with antimalware and secured.• Monitoring Azure and on-prem server estate using azure toolset, SCOM, log analytics (KQL) and resolving any alerts when they occur.• Managing day to day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development and application teams with their requirements.• Managing all SQL server instances and databases (backup, restore, security etc)• Using PowerShell to write and debug scripts to automate and administer Azure processes, AD tasks and Exchange administration.• Citrix 6.5 and 7.0 administration and support for about 2.5k user base• Hybrid cloud and on-prem Exchange administration and troubleshooting Show less