Microsoft Azure Cloud Solution Architect

4/2023 – 2/2024

- Requirements Engineering for CRM and dependent applications to initiate a migration to Azure
- conducted meetings for project management and interviews with stakeholders and technical experts at Microsoft
- researched networking options and legal specifics to ensure access for international end-users with special focus on mainland China
- conducted survey and analysis for latency data to Azure among international end-users
- designed architecture for infrastructure components in Azure
- PoC implementation with Terraform to verify the accessibility of the servers via Azure Front Door
- project management: risk assessment, stakeholder management, scheduling the analysis, planning, migration and aftercare phases, cost calculation of Azure resources

Key Achievement:
- Established long-running partnership with the customer

Technical environment:
Terraform Infrastructure Mangement / Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Microsoft Azure IaaS Infrastructure as a Service (SQL, Windows & Linux servers), Azure Networking, Azure Front Door, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor,  Atlassian Confluence

Agile Entwicklung, Confluence (Atlassian), DevOps, Git, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), Infrastrukturarchitektur, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SQL-Server (MS SQL), SCRUM, Technische Dokumentation

9/2022 – 3/2023

- Replicated windows and linux servers with Azure Migrate and robocopy scripts
- Deployed new Infrastructure as a service IaaS servers with Powershell in Microsoft Azure
- Configured Azure Backup for Virtual Machines
- Implemented monitoring dashboards and Log Analytics
- Implemented network and application security groups based on data collected via service map
- Supported and trained admins in cutover and aftercare phase
- Documented configuration of all migrated servers

Achievement:
- Migrated Italian subsidiary´s data center to Azure in time and budget

Technical environment: 
Microsoft Azure, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Storage, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, network security, Windows and Linux Server IaaS, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure Active Directory, Powershell, Azure CLI, Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft 365

Agile Entwicklung, Confluence (Atlassian), DevOps, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), Infrastrukturarchitektur, Microsoft Office 365, Migration, SCRUM, Technische Dokumentation

6/2022 – 2/2024

Azure Landing Zone implementation with Terraform, based on Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (Caf):

• Governance and security (Azure Policy)
• Resource organisation with multiple subscriptions, management groups and tags
• Site to site VPN connections
• Custom networking and firewall setup (Infrastructure as a Service IaaS active-passive Fortigate with load balancers)
• Identity and access management for service principals (Microsoft Entra ID/Azure Active Directory
• Credential rotation for service principals (Azure Key Vault)

• Acted as trusted advisor and central point of contact for all questions regarding the Microsoft Azure solution architecture
• Implemented and monitored Microsoft Defender for Cloud with AWS and Azure DevOps connectors, policies and open source workbooks
• documented cloud solution architecture and service processes in an operating manual
• consulted on security risks, networking architecture, DevOps workflow and permission management
• participated in a workshop for the implementation of a PoC for an MES system for the automated processing of sensor data (MQTT, IoT, Kubernetes / AKS, Azure Arc)

Technical environment: 
Microsoft Azure, Terraform Infrastructure management / Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure DevOps, Azure Networking, Azure Monitoring, Powershell, Microsoft Entra ID, Atlassian Confluence, custom Terraform modules

Agile Entwicklung, Confluence (Atlassian), DevOps, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), Infrastrukturarchitektur, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Migration, SCRUM, Technische Dokumentation