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Benjamin Mungai

@benjaminmungai

Enterprise Architect | Cloud, Security & Modern Workplace Transformation | Microsoft 365, Azure, Zero Trust & AI-Enabled Automation

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for senior remote or hybrid roles in cloud architecture, cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, Azure, Modern Workplace, digital transformation, or IT leadership. I’m strongest where I can design secure platforms, improve operations, lead delivery, and help teams turn technology into measurable business value.

Enterprise Architect and Microsoft cloud specialist with 12+ years delivering secure cloud, cybersecurity, identity, endpoint, and modern workplace transformation across Africa, the UK, and global remote environments. Microsoft-certified at Expert level across Cybersecurity Architecture, Azure Solutions Architecture, and Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administration.

I help organizations turn complex technology estates into secure, governed, and supportable platforms. My strongest evidence includes building a 12-person Modern Workplace and Cloud Security practice, leading a 2,000+ user multi-country Microsoft 365 E5 transformation, designing Zero Trust and Sentinel/Defender managed-service patterns, delivering large-scale endpoint modernization, and embedding Microsoft Copilot and Power Platform automation into enterprise workflows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Modern Work Architect

Current

A&O IT Group

Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Own enterprise target-state designs and architecture governance across Microsoft 365, Azure, identity, endpoint, and security for UK and global managed-service clients. Built production MDT/Windows Autopilot imaging with Entra ID compliance remediation and embedded Microsoft Copilot/Power Platform automation to reduce manual provisioning effort.

Microsoft 365 Azure Entra ID Zero Trust Architecture Autopilot Endpoint Security Architecture Governance Microsoft Copilot Power Platform

Head of Modern Workplace & Security

Syntura

Mar 2023 - Apr 2025 (2 years 1 month)

Built and ran a 12-person Modern Workplace & Cloud Security practice from zero, owning revenue and delivery targets for multi-country programs. Architected a Microsoft 365 E5 + Zero Trust transformation for a Tier-1 retail bank covering 2,000+ users across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda, materially reducing security incidents within 90 days, and designed a multi-tenant Microsoft Sentinel SIEM

Entra ID Zero Trust Defender XDR Logic Apps Power Platform Microsoft Copilot Security Governance

Lead Senior Systems Engineer

FITTS

Dec 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 2 months)

Led hybrid cloud and security architecture across Microsoft 365 E5 and Azure, defining CIS-aligned security baselines and improving compliance posture through assessments, audits, and hardening. Owned end-to-end managed-service delivery and ITSM via FreshService for seven clients and automated IT triage/classification/assignment with Power Platform, PowerShell, and Microsoft Graph API while servin

Azure Microsoft 365 Entra ID CIS Benchmarks Freshservice ITSM Power Platform PowerShell Microsoft Graph Incident Management

Senior Systems Engineer

FITTS

Sep 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 3 months)

Delivered Microsoft 365 E5 security implementations for 500–2,000+ user estates, including zero-data-loss Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migrations using hybrid identity integration via Entra Connect. Ran Tier-3 SOC investigations in Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel and designed governed SharePoint and Power Platform solutions to replace manual processes.

Microsoft Defender Workspace Migration SharePoint Online Power Platform SOC Hybrid Identity

Systems Engineer

Dimension Data

Mar 2014 - Sep 2019 (5 years 6 months)

Delivered enterprise monitoring, endpoint management, and cloud migration across multi-country East, Central, and Southern Africa, including building and running 10+ SCCM environments with SCOM across multiple data centers. Modernized 4,000+ Windows devices to standardized environments, delivered G Suite to Microsoft 365 cloud migrations and EMS/VMware Workspace ONE mobility rollouts, and performe