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DevOps consultant working in the Platform Engineering team on a major cloud migration programme for one of Canadas largest banks, responsible for the migration of applications to Azure with the goal of driving innovation, bringing improved stability, agility, scalability and enabling transformation of the banks business models.Onboarding new Azure resources, including creating Bicep templates/patterns, assessing security requirements, serviceability, scalability, limitations and support.Writing Bicep ARM templates to create shared template specs for consumption by Cloud Engineering squads who deliver cloud resources as requested by Application Development teams.Writing pre and post delivery action scripts used by pipeline deliveries to perform additional resource configuration not supported directly by Azure Resource Manager API/Bicep.Design and development of a Pipeline Versions Decorator (Azure DevOps Extension), written in PowerShell with version reference data stored in JSON, to control the supported versions of all pipeline artifacts; i.e. YAML, scripts, variables, Azure Resource Manager templates.Enabling Compliance as Code and Policy as Code by working with the Compliance Team to design and implement new delivery pipelines for Azure Policy resources including YAML pipeline updates, creating new Bicep templates, updating pipeline variables, and enhancing deployment scripts.Lead Engineer from PE Foundations Squad on Logging vNext project ensuring Azure Monitor Agent is implemented prior to legacy Log Analytics agent end of support date. Including R&D of AMPLS, required DNS configs, DCRs, DCEs, and DCR associations via Azure Policy.Creation of API based tool written in PowerShell used to manage Databricks Workspaces IP Access Lists; used for BAU activities as well as resolving critical production incidents where access to workspaces where lost due to changed backend IP addresses.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Desktop Engineer (consultant) at Morgan Stanley in the globally distributed EUT Endpoint Platform agile squad which is committed to delivering enterprise class Windows Desktop builds and remote access solutions, with around 190 000 in-scope endpoints.Owned engineering tasks from beginning to end and contributed to many of the on-going initiatives involving all aspects of the design, configuration and integration of Windows Clients end user experience.Engineered data residency solution for new business acquisition to ensure user's data was stored in the mandated geolocation to meet compliance obligations, implemented with a combination of AppSense/Ivanti Environment Manager, GPOs, and Multi-Geo enabled OneDrive for Business.Engineered solution to disable remote printing and block USB printer installation to mitigate potential security risks.Create, maintain, and deploy Windows Operating System images & Task Sequences with Configuration Manager, including troubleshooting and remediation of OS build and upgrade issues.Troubleshooting application connectivity issues over DirectAccess & Always On VPN, determining Windows Defender Firewall rules and NRPT entries required to split network traffic from VPN tunnel.Application network traffic analysis with Wireshark, Microsoft Message Analyzer, & Microsoft Network Monitor.Investigate & remediate VPN tunnel exceptions in Windows Defender Firewall to remove potential attack vectors.PowerShell scripting to develop solutions & automate tasks for use in engineering efforts.Use of Git & Atlassian Bitbucket to manage source control of all PowerShell scripts, ensuring the approved Software Development Lifecycle is followed.Review of security recommendations & assessment of potential impact to Windows & user experience.Use of SysInternals tools (Psexec, Procexp, Procmon, Handles) during engineering & troubleshooting activities. Author detailed design & operations documentation with content created in Twiki.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Packaging applications to CN corporate standards for deployment via Microsoft Config Manager (SCCM). PowerShell scripting to customize and automate application installations.Creating PowerShell automation scripts to assist with establishing a new VMware Horizon VDI environment. Coordinating with requestors, project managers and other key stakeholders to ensure applications are deployed with accurate configurations and within project timelines. Provide guidance to colleagues around Windows Installer and packaging best practices. Documentation of application configurations to track customizations and accelerate future packaging efforts.

Sydney, Australia

Technical Lead in the Devices and Connectivity team that supports and enables Macquarie's global business activities with a personal focus on SCCM, Application Remediation/Packaging and Windows 10. Customer obsessed attitude in a fast pace, dynamic business environment while exercising a growth mindset to quickly learn and adapt to new challenges in an Agile work environment.Playing a key role in the project team that was responsible for the migration of the global Windows endpoint management environment from SCCM 2007/Windows 7 to SCCM Current Branch/Windows 10.Providing guidance and recommendations to senior management and colleagues around industry best practices, proposed technical solutions and future automation opportunities. Collaboration with various internal and external technology and business teams around the globe to enable successful project outcomes.Design and implement the SCCM 2007/Windows 7 to SCCM Current Branch/Windows 10 application migration strategy including architecting and writing automation tools in PowerShell to migrate in scope application packages (MSI & App-V 4.6 to App-V 5 conversion), which lead to substantial cost savings for the project.Strong problem solving skills used to troubleshoot and remediate applications and SCCM deployments on Windows 10, including resolving issue and/or conflicts with Avecto, Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard, Active Directory, Group Policy, Configuration Manager Client, Software Center & SCCM deployments.Automation of various SCCM activities with PowerShell to enable and streamline infrastructure migration to new SCCM Current Branch environment. Creation of automated packaging and SCCM import tool which includes creating Application Objects, Deployment Types, Deployments, Collections and Content distribution to DPs, written in PowerShell/WMI

Syndney

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

ECS was founded in 2008 and is a fast-growing UK-based technology company, delivering high quality IT services to FTSE 100 clients. The company has grown consistently and profitably year-on-year with the recent accolade of a top twenty place in the Sunday Times Techtrack 100. This fantastic growth has been achieved through sustainable principles and is based on a solid balance sheet with no debt.Our vision is to create remarkable value and success for our customers and owners by harnessing the knowledge, ideas and innovation throughout our community of dedicated and highly skilled professionals. We will enhance our reputation for being the people that enterprises trust and turn to for help with their most pressing IT related issues, never compromising on our promise to always deliver outstanding customer service. Our people represent our most valued investment and strength. Every day this is evidenced by the significant steps we take to develop ourselves and collaborate in order to improve customer performance. ECS specializes in providing services in the following practices:Consultancy, Programme Delivery, End User Computing, Data Centre, Network, SecurityECS is headquartered in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh, Leeds and London in the UK, Johannesburg in South Africa and Pune in India. The company has over 600 permanent staff and associates combined.People are key to our success and we have a growing workforce of highly experienced and professional employees, supporting our clients to ensure projects are delivered to the highest quality standards, on time and to budget. Our success and growth has enabled us to create many opportunities to develop for our staff with a significant number of internal promotions. Our clients revel in the pride we take in our speed of response, breadth of technical expertise and depth of capability. What sets us apart is our unwavering dedication to be highly flexible with an over-riding ‘can do’ attitude.www.ecs.co.uk

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia