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Richard Wagner
@richard_wagner_jx0lw1p1q
Azure Cloud Engineer
Tulsa, OK, United States
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Member since: Jan 21, 2025Experienced Azure Cloud Engineer with a strong track record in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, high-performing, and cost-efficient cloud solutions. Proficient in leveraging automation to optimize resource utilization, enhance reliability, and drive operational efficiency. Demonstrated success in leading and contributing to complex, high-impact projects, solving critical technological challenges essential to organizational success.
Passionate about innovation and committed to continuous learning, ensuring expertise in the latest cloud technologies to deliver exceptional value to teams and stakeholders.
• Managed Azure infrastructure and Microsoft 365 to optimize and support internal business operations and web applications.
• Led migration of our VMDR solution and automated remediations, reducing enterprise-wide vulnerabilities by 85%.
• Played a key role in large-scale Microsoft 365 migration projects by managing data migration tools, collaborating with client leadership, resolving over 800 incidents within three months, and acting as an escalation point for the team.
• Acted as an escalation point for incidents related to Microsoft security platforms, including Sentinel & Defender XDR.
• Supported managed IT clients by resolving issues, facilitating meetings, mentoring junior engineers, and automating processes to significantly enhance support efficiency.
• Managed a hybrid-cloud environment that included Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Citrix, OT devices, an on-premises Nutanix hyper-converged server cluster running AHV with hundreds of VMs, and a diverse range of additional technology stacks.
• Successfully planned and executed company-wide projects across 80+ locations, while supporting over 800 employees. . Facilitated the adoption of Defender XDR and led the initial deployment of Defender for Cloud.
• Continuously sought innovative ways to enhance infrastructure performance, security, reliability, and resilience.
• Managed the internal technology infrastructure, including Azure, Microsoft 365, OT devices, network systems, on- premises web servers hosting 600+ live websites, and SQL servers with 300+ active databases.
• Led the seamless migration of 100+ Windows VMs to Azure using Azure Migrate, achieving zero downtime while optimizing costs and improving performance by more than 25%.
• Successfully migrated over 100 SQL databases connected to live websites with zero disruption.
• Supported specialized devices, including Oculus VR headsets and biometric devices, demonstrating agility and critical thinking.