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Christian Altamura

@christianaltamura

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Azure cloud platform engineer specializing in Terraform-driven enterprise automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead Azure platform automation—secure, policy-driven IaC with self-service PaaS modules—while partnering with security/audit teams to improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.

I’m a cloud platform engineer with 8+ years designing, building, and operating automated Azure platforms at enterprise scale. I own end-to-end infrastructure-as-code across 200+ Azure environments and ~500 Terraform workspaces, delivering reusable self-service modules for PaaS web apps, analytics, and logging.

On M&T Bank’s Azure platform team, I built Terraform modules for Azure App Service (Linux/Docker containers) and authored IaC patterns for Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Event Hubs. I designed landing zone automation integrated with ServiceNow and CI/CD, cutting environment provisioning from weeks to hours—while taking deep ownership of networking, security, and disaster recovery.

I also emphasize governance, reliability, and cost control: I pioneered HashiCorp Sentinel policy-as-code across ~500 workspaces, built Grafana observability dashboards and metrics, and automated stale-environment decommissioning to prevent capacity issues and outages. Previously, I led operations for a 15-person department and ran a consulting practice spanning full-stack development, enterprise networking, and automation.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer

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M&T Bank

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Lead automation engineer on the bank’s Azure platform, delivering Terraform-based self-service PaaS and data platform modules for App Services, Synapse, and Event Hubs. Built Landing Zone automation integrated with ServiceNow/CI-CD, implemented Azure networking/security and disaster recovery, and led Sentinel policy-as-code enforcement across hundreds of Terraform workspaces.

Azure App Services Azure Synapse Event Hub Azure Site Recovery Azure Policy Terraform Ansible ServiceNow Python PowerShell CI CD Azure DevOps ServiceNow Provisioning Aviatrix Grafana DR Architecture

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Senior Engineer & Consultant

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Tall Wall Tech

Jan 2014 - Present (12 years 6 months)

Independent consulting practice providing full-stack development, infrastructure, and networking services. Built SwiftUI iOS applications backed by containerized services and worked on enterprise networking projects (e.g., Active Directory, VPN, NAS, DNS, RAID) while creating automation tooling with Python/Selenium and maintaining a public website.

Full Stack Developer SwiftUI Python Selenium Enterprise Networking Active Directory VPN NAS DNS RAID AWS HTML CSS JavaScript

DevOps Engineer / Head of Ops

Crown Data Systems

Aug 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 6 months)

Contributed to the company’s on-prem to Azure migration, personally executing customer environment migrations and certifying production Azure environments. Later led a 15-person operations department, served as the primary escalation point for technical issues and incident response, and built/maintained the eStatus Python notification system with SQL backups and database migrations.

Azure Azure Migrate Python Database Migration Network Administration Incident Response Business Continuity