Oliver Stevens
@oliverstevens
I design and modernize global hybrid cloud infrastructure across Azure, GCP, and on-premise environments.
What I'm looking for
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Senior Consultant, Desktop Design & Remote Access
HSBC
Jun 2003 - Jun 2011 (8 years)
Managed 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.
- 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
Systems Engineer at Haynes Publications.
Front/Back Office Analyst at UK Hydrographic Office.
System Engineer at World Class International.
NWSM Support Analyst at IBM.
PC Support Analyst at Thales.
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