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Experienced across federal and state government, ICT services industry, and the education sector in the cloud and on-premises environments, detailed below.My main interest at the moment is deploying solutions via Infrastructure as Code using Azure DevOps. Recently, I deployed a tenant-wide Azure Landing Zone Architecture with Terraform; keen to start configuring resource deployments and custom policies. I've also recently completed smaller IaC automation projects with Terraform and Ansible, scheduling VM rebuilds in vSphere on-premises, making the organisation cloud-ready, as well as automating their on-premises environment. Cloud:- Azure DevOps Infrastructure as Code PaaS solutions via ARM, Terraform and Ansible, building into in Microsoft Azure, including migration and containerisation. (Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Expert)- Design and delivery of high-availability, mission-critical IaC IaaS solutions in Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect).- On-premises to Azure infrastructure migrations.- Hybrid cloud solutions, e.g., using Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, Azure AppProxy, Intune, WDAC. - M365 deployment, migration and security hardening of Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive.- AWS integrations with on-premises NetApp SAN solutions; building cloud solutions in AWS and GCP in completion of Terraform IaC labs. On-premises:- Active Directory domain administration, consolidation, migration, and security hardening.- VMWare vSphere management, implementations, and migrations, with some administration and migrations of Hyper-V and Citrix.- Networking solutions in Cisco, Palo Alto, Netgear, Mikrotik, Sophos, Fortigate, Aruba, and HP products. Providing advice and services to clients on networking solutions that support their infrastructure environments.- Management, implementation, and migration of SAN environments, NetApp, HPE, Hitachi.My qualifications include certifications as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure AI Fundamentals, as well as Bachelor of Computing from UTas (a qualification with an emphasis on software engineering).Most recent courses completed in 2024 include NetApp StorageGRID and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for a project replacing and upgrading Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (project completed). Currently studying for Azure Developer Associate, AZ-204.