Ethan Sterling

Background

About Ethan Sterling

DevOps engineer with a wide array of experience designing, implementing, and supporting windows 7/8/8.1/10, Windows Server 2003-2019, and Azure resources across a large variety of applications and workloads. Experienced in leveraging Powershell to automate tasks. Experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and deploying Azure resources using IaC (Bicep and ARM) to allow for consistency between environments. Proven project delivery experience, including migrating Exchange 2010/2016 to Exchange Online and Office 365, deploying Sophos XG firewalls in a HA topology, building Azure infrastructure using Bicep/ARM and Azure DevOps pipelines. Skills and experience: • Azure DevOps and ARM deployments • Creating and managing a range of core Azure services (App Services, Function apps, and Logic apps, storage accounts, CosmosDB, MySQL Flexible Servers, Azure Front Door, VNETs, NAT Gateways, and VNET Gateway (VPN), Bastion for remote access, Key Vault, Container Registries) • Powershell scripting to automate tasks, and for use in CI/CD pipelines • Active Directory and AzureAD, deploying AzureAD Sync • Implementing MFA and Conditional Access policies to secure Azure and Office 365 resources • Exchange Online migrations and management of hybrid Exchange 2010/2016 environments • Deploying and managing Mimecast email security • Windows Server administration, 2008R2-2019 • Windows XP/7/8/8.1/10 endpoint Support • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) • Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) • VMware ESXi 5.5/6.0/7.0 • Veeam 10/11 with Cloud Connect • Windows Defender, Sophos Central, and Eset Endpoint Security • Sophos XG firewall deployment and configuration • Cisco Meraki & Microsoft Endpoint (Intune) MDM/EMM • G Suite and Google Apps