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IT Infrastructure Engineer → Cybersecurity
Azure · M365 · Zero Trust
"Building secure systems. Documenting everything."
Focus areas across cloud, infrastructure, and security.
Tenant administration, identity governance, Conditional Access, and compliance configuration across Microsoft cloud services.
Enterprise routing and switching, firewall management, SD-WAN, and network segmentation with a focus on resilience and performance.
Zero Trust architecture, identity-centric security, threat detection frameworks, and CIS benchmark implementation.
Self-hosted infrastructure, Docker container orchestration, media automation, and 10GbE network optimization on Synology NAS.
Notes from the field.
A practical walkthrough of enforcing Zero Trust principles in a Microsoft 365 environment using Conditional Access, PIM, and continuous access evaluation.
How I set up a fully automated media pipeline on Synology NAS with hardware-accelerated transcoding, Docker container orchestration, and 10GbE network optimization.
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