Brian Eves
@brianeves
Senior Azure cloud architect delivering secure infrastructure, governance, and cost-optimized migrations.
AustraliaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer and Cloud Architect with 5+ years of enterprise experience, leading cloud infrastructure programmes across regulated financial services and large-scale organisations. I focus on technical assurance, architecture decision-making, and security controls that hold up under scrutiny.
In my current role as a Technical Architect — Cloud & Security, I serve as a technical authority: authoring architecture decision records for network topology, security controls, and Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform. I also review third-party deliverables, identify architectural risk, and escalate non-conformance clearly to technical and governance stakeholders.
Previously at Auto Finance, I designed and delivered Azure infrastructure and security solutions while maintaining compliance and audit governance obligations (including PCI-DSS). I led a full Azure tenant migration using a governed landing zone and hub-and-spoke network design, and drove FinOps-led cost optimisation that reduced annual Azure compute spend from $4.8M to $3.1M.
I’ve also supported large-scale migrations and resilience needs—providing landing zone and hub-and-spoke architecture for a data centre to Azure migration, and building multi-region disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery (including RTO/RPO validation). Across teams and customers, I communicate complex findings without losing accuracy and uplift capability through documentation, runbooks, and structured knowledge transfer.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Technical Architect
Tennis Australia
Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)
Served as technical authority for Azure infrastructure, authoring architecture decision records for network topology, security controls, and Terraform patterns. Implemented Zero Trust identity architecture with Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, and performed architecture reviews with remediation recommendations.
Cloud Engineer (Security & Gov)
Auto Finance
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025 (2 years 4 months)
Designed and migrated Azure cloud infrastructure for a regulated environment (500+ users), maintaining PCI-DSS and audit governance obligations. Led FinOps-driven cost optimisation reducing annual compute spend from $4.8M to $3.1M and supported AVD delivery for 60+ engineers while strengthening IAM, RBAC, DLP, Key Vault, and monitoring controls.
Cloud Systems Engineer
Data#3
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 (5 months)
Acted as technical escalation point for 10+ enterprise and government client accounts, reviewing third-party deliverables and escalating risks with documented findings. Supported at-risk infrastructure recovery using root cause analysis and remediation, returning the environment to stable operations within 3 months.
Cloud Systems Engineer
Orora Ltd
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022 (2 years 5 months)
Provided cloud architecture leadership for a large-scale data centre to Azure migration as part of a $1.7B business restructure, delivering landing zone, hub-and-spoke networking, security configuration, and workload migration for 12 applications and 15 infrastructure services. Designed multi-region disaster recovery and hybrid connectivity using Azure Site Recovery, with RTO/RPO validation and fa
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Swinburne University of Technology
Associate Degree in Applied Technology, Applied Technology (Industry 4.0)
2019 -
Completed an Associate Degree in Applied Technology (Industry 4.0) at Swinburne University.
Swinburne University of Technology
Advanced Diploma, Mechatronics and Robotics
2011 -
Completed an Advanced Diploma in Mechatronics and Robotics at Swinburne University.
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