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Oliver Stevens

@oliverstevens

I design and modernize global hybrid cloud infrastructure across Azure, GCP, and on-premise environments.

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead and deliver complex enterprise infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and hybrid-platform design work while mentoring teams and improving operational resilience.

At Colliers, I served as the primary technical escalation point for global infrastructure, delivering migrations and platform design across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. I partnered with Google engineers to establish GCP foundations, integrated Google Workspace with Entra ID, and designed secure Azure–GCP connectivity for SOC operations.

I've modernized enterprise environments by reviewing Terraform, ARM, and Bicep infrastructure as code; designing global DNS; migrating legacy Exchange, Skype for Business, and ADFS systems; and rolling out Azure Monitoring Agent, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, and Defender for Cloud. I also deployed Azure DevTest Labs that identified more than $25K in annual savings while mentoring system administrators in automation, DevOps, troubleshooting, and operational practices.

Across consulting and enterprise roles with QuadReal Property Group, Bentall Kennedy, Mitacs, Best Buy, Radiant, and HSBC, I've delivered infrastructure migrations, virtualization, cloud services, remote access, unified communications, and systems support. I bring more than 20 years of experience working across Microsoft, Linux, VMware, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Colliers logoCO

Senior System Engineer

Dec 2020 - Dec 2025 (5 years)

- Acted as primary technical escalation point for global infrastructure, delivering complex migrations and platform design across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.
- Partnered with Google engineers and developers to design and configure the initial GCP environment, including projects, permissions, networking, and Workload Identity Federation with Azure DevOps.
- Integrated Google Workspace with Entra

Self-employed logoSE

Self Employed IT Consultant

Nov 2011 - Mar 2020 (8 years 4 months)

- Operated as a self‑employed IT consultant through an incorporated company, delivering contract and project‑based engagements across multiple clients and sectors.
- Joined contract assignments and hit the ground running, quickly adapting to diverse environments and technology stacks.
- Managed operational risk by following change management processes and delivering reliable infrastructure solutio

QuadReal Property Group logoQG

Enterprise System Administrator

Jun 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 6 months)

- Integrating into the team that had moved from Bentall Kennedy to enhance operational support.
- Ensuring infrastructure support and knowledge during successful data center migration project.
- Collaborating across operational support, technical architecture and systems engineering teams to
design and rapidly deliver server solutions for remote access, monitoring and unified communications.
- Man

Bentall Kennedy logoBK

Enterprise System Administrator

Dec 2016 - May 2017 (5 months)

- Integrating into an established team to ensure the corporation retained knowledge and the technical
skillset to continue business during a major organisational restructure.
- Coordinating email and file data migrations between Bentall Kennedy and QuadReal.
- Consulting on data center migration tasks for Exchange and VMWare moves.
- Leveraging Powershell to script processes for user account manag

Mitacs logoMI

Systems Administrator

Jun 2015 - Dec 2015 (6 months)

- Covering for employee leave, providing all levels of system administration and system design.
- Migrating virtual machines between datacenters and migrating servers to EduCloud IAAS.
- Configuring firewall rules and managing name resolution to provide seamless access to services.
- Patching and maintaining AV, Anti spam, Exchange, Windows, Linux, SMTP services and Cisco firewalls.
- Mentoring ju

Best Buy logoBB

Senior Technical Analyst

Feb 2013 - Apr 2015 (2 years 2 months)

- Developing in-house knowledge of the ecommerce platform servicing bestbuy.ca and futureshop.ca.
- Technical lead on Windows 2008R2 Server refresh project, upgrading web infrastructure servers.
- Evaluating Windows 2012, Commerce Server 11.1, BizTalk 2013 and related software stack.
- Developing server images in SCCM, leveraging application packaging and task sequencing.
- Managing and updating V

Radiant logoRA

Senior Systems Administrator

Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year)

- Exchange 2007/2010 system design and support for over 50 clients ranging from 50 to 1000 users.
- Managed multiple Exchange 2007/2010 migrations, from hosted solutions and onsite deployments.
- Blackberry Enterprise Server setup, Exchange integration and 3rd level support.
- Support of VMWare 4x & 5 environments with NetApp and Equalogix storage filers.
- Deployment of Windows and Linux serv

HSBC logoHS

Senior Consultant, Desktop Design & Remote Access

Jun 2003 - Jun 2011 (8 years)

- Management of the desktop and remote access team, responsible for infrastructure design services
and 3rd level support for around 10000 desktops and 80 Citrix servers.
- Designed fault tolerant Citrix server environment to facilitate BCP and DR.
- Deployment and support of business critical real time trading software in Citrix.
- 3rd level support queue management, maintenance of incident SLAs a

Haynes Publications logoHP

Systems Engineer

Apr 2002 - May 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Systems Engineer at Haynes Publications.

UK Hydrographic Office logoUO

Front/Back Office Analyst

Dec 2001 - Apr 2002 (4 months)

Front/Back Office Analyst at UK Hydrographic Office.

IBM logoIB

NWSM Support Analyst,

Nov 1998 - May 1999 (6 months)

NWSM Support Analyst at IBM.

Thales logoTH

PC Support Analyst

Jun 1995 - Nov 1998 (3 years 5 months)

PC Support Analyst at Thales.

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