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Bryan Wilson

@bryanwilson

Principal Infrastructure Architect specializing in Azure, hybrid cloud modernization, and infrastructure automation for enterprise and MSP clients.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a principal-level role where I can lead Azure/hybrid infrastructure modernization end-to-end—architecture, migration, security, and DR—with strong engineering standards, clear accountability, and teams that value risk-aware change and automation.

I’m a principal-level Infrastructure and Solutions Architect with 10+ years designing, migrating, securing, and modernizing enterprise and MSP environments. I focus on Azure, hybrid cloud, datacenter infrastructure, networking, virtualization, VDI, identity, backup/disaster recovery, and automation.

Across roughly 200 client environments, I’ve led large-scale infrastructure modernization supporting thousands of endpoints, users, tenants, and production servers. I led a major 4-rack datacenter-to-Azure migration, handling VMware-to-Azure workload migration and delivering SQL, file services, domain controllers, application servers, RDS/Citrix, backup, monitoring, NAS, DNS, and security tooling.

I serve as a trusted final escalation point and technical advisor for clients, internal teams, project engineers, helpdesk staff, offshore teams, and sales/solution design. I lead engineering support for approximately 50 engineers—balancing high-impact escalation guidance with hands-on work in core infrastructure design, troubleshooting, migration execution, and platform modernization.

I’m also deeply focused on architecture standards and operational outcomes: designing hub/spoke networking, secure connectivity, platform landing zones, and private endpoints; building backup and DR strategies (RTO/RPO planning, testing, ransomware recovery); and driving automation with PowerShell, n8n workflows, APIs, Docker, and monitoring/provisioning workflows. My approach is grounded in risk-aware change review, rollback planning, and measurable improvements in consistency and reliability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Solutions Architect

Current

VerticomM

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Led infrastructure, cloud, and platform architecture across ~200 client environments (5,000 endpoints, 15,000 users, 150 tenants), including a 4-rack datacenter-to-Azure migration from VMware to Azure. Designed Azure hub/spoke networking, security tooling, backup/DR (Azure Backup/Azure Site Recovery), and enterprise VDI platforms, while providing escalation support and mentoring for ~50 engineers.

Azure Firewall Azure Site Recovery Azure Monitor & Log Analytics ADC NetScaler Gateway

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

VerticomM

Jun 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 7 months)

Served as technical lead during datacenter-to-Azure workload migration, handling Azure networking/routing and hybrid connectivity plus core services including SQL, file services, domain controllers, RDS/Citrix, NAS, DNS, monitoring, and security. Drove post-migration modernization to reduce technology sprawl and supported platform operations and engineering automation using PowerShell, n8n workflo

Hybrid Connectivity (VPN VNG)NSGs UDRs Azure Firewall N8n & RMM PSA Automation

Senior Systems Administrator

Reventics

May 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Led datacenter redesign for an international organization (~500 employees), improving scalability, availability, and operational stability across hybrid infrastructure. Maintained and troubleshot Azure/AWS plus Citrix/VDI and Windows Server environments, deployed Sync Engine for international SSO, configured Check Point IPsec VPN connectivity, and supported capacity planning for EPIC migration eff

Windows Server Sync Engine SSO Integration Capacity Planning Business Critical Application Support

Tier 3 Engineer

Next Strategic Technology

Jan 2020 - May 2021 (1 year 4 months)

Provided final escalation support for MSP client infrastructure, designing backup/disaster recovery solutions aligned to RTO/RPO requirements and implementing Azure architecture and cloud migrations. Built and deployed solutions including ESXi clusters, Sophos firewalls, SSL/IPsec VPNs, Cisco switching, and Synology storage, while delivering POCs, scopes of work, and Tier 1–2 training.

RTO RPO Design Azure Architecture & Migrations Sophos SSL IPsec Synology SOW WBS & Presales Support

Network and Infrastructure Engineer

CCB Technology

Nov 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 2 months)

Scoped, managed, and delivered infrastructure projects across networking, identity, virtualization, storage, firewall, VPN, and Microsoft 365 for 100+ user live environments. Engineered Active Directory migrations and troubleshooting, designed Hyper-V failover clustering and HP switching/IRF, and deployed VLAN/ACL/routing, WatchGuard firewalls, VPNs, and DMZs.

Hyper V Failover Cluster HP Switching (IRF)VLAN WatchGuard Firewall Deployments Network Troubleshooting

Systems Administrator

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin

Dec 2016 - Nov 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Rearchitected Citrix/XenDesktop from the ground up for a live healthcare environment while maintaining service availability. Evaluated and deployed hyperconverged infrastructure, migrated VMs from ESXi to Nutanix AHV, implemented and tested disaster recovery failover processes, and built a layered ransomware defense using GPO controls, backup strategy, application whitelisting, monitoring, and a c

Citrix Nutanix GPO (Security Controls)Powershell Scripting AD GPO Restructuring Hyper Converged Infrastructure