Senior Azure Engineer specializing in the design, implementation, automation, security, and operational management of enterprise Microsoft Azure environments supporting cloud-native applications, large-scale data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Strong background across consulting, enterprise technology, and telecommunications environments, with hands-on expertise in Azure infrastructure, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Entra ID, Terraform, Python automation, Azure networking, identity, observability, governance, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Experienced in designing reusable Azure platform patterns and reference architectures, implementing secure network and identity foundations, automating infrastructure provisioning through Terraform, and supporting Databricks environments integrated with ADLS Gen2 and enterprise identity services. Knowledgeable in Databricks administration concepts including Unity Catalog, cluster policies, workspace configuration, SCIM provisioning, identity federation, compute governance, Spark and SQL infrastructure troubleshooting, and cost optimization. Skilled in partnering with data engineers, data scientists, application teams, security engineers, architects, and platform administrators to translate technical and business requirements into scalable cloud solutions. Background includes supporting enterprise Azure services at Microsoft, cloud and infrastructure engineering within Ericsson's telecommunications environment, and consulting-led Azure platform initiatives at PwC through BCTwenty Consulting. Strong understanding of Azure security, private networking, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, Private Link, Azure Policy, monitoring, capacity planning, FinOps, platform reliability, disaster recovery, and operational governance. Comfortable providing technical leadership during architecture reviews, production incidents, performance investigations, platform modernization initiatives, and complex cloud engineering decisions.…Senior Azure Engineer specializing in the design, implementation, automation, security, and operational management of enterprise Microsoft Azure environments supporting cloud-native applications, large-scale data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Strong background across consulting, enterprise technology, and telecommunications environments, with hands-on expertise in Azure infrastructure, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Entra ID, Terraform, Python automation, Azure networking, identity, observability, governance, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Experienced in designing reusable Azure platform patterns and reference architectures, implementing secure network and identity foundations, automating infrastructure provisioning through Terraform, and supporting Databricks environments integrated with ADLS Gen2 and enterprise identity services. Knowledgeable in Databricks administration concepts including Unity Catalog, cluster policies, workspace configuration, SCIM provisioning, identity federation, compute governance, Spark and SQL infrastructure troubleshooting, and cost optimization. Skilled in partnering with data engineers, data scientists, application teams, security engineers, architects, and platform administrators to translate technical and business requirements into scalable cloud solutions. Background includes supporting enterprise Azure services at Microsoft, cloud and infrastructure engineering within Ericsson's telecommunications environment, and consulting-led Azure platform initiatives at PwC through BCTwenty Consulting. Strong understanding of Azure security, private networking, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, Private Link, Azure Policy, monitoring, capacity planning, FinOps, platform reliability, disaster recovery, and operational governance. Comfortable providing technical leadership during architecture reviews, production incidents, performance investigations, platform modernization initiatives, and complex cloud engineering decisions.WWWW…