Automating Infrastructure

I am a senior Systems & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in automation, reliability, and secure operations across mixed Windows and Linux enterprise environments. My work consistently translates complex technical challenges into stable, repeatable, and well-documented solutions that scale.

The projects presented here reflect hands-on ownership — from architecture and scripting to rollout, monitoring, and long-term maintenance. Every solution was designed with production safety, auditability, and business continuity in mind.

Patch & Maintenance Orchestration

Challenge: Manual patching created inconsistent system states, increased operational risk, and consumed senior engineering time.

Solution: I designed and implemented a PowerShell-based orchestration framework that inventories systems, executes staged patching, validates results, and generates compliance-ready reports.

• Parallel execution with controlled throttling
• Idempotent operations and rollback awareness
• Centralized logging and execution reports

# Anonymized PowerShell pattern
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $targets -ScriptBlock {
  Try {
    Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll
    @{ Status = 'Success' }
  } Catch {
    @{ Status = 'Failed'; Error = $_.Exception.Message }
  }
}

Directory Hygiene & Access Control

Automated audits and remediation workflows were developed to detect stale identities, enforce policy compliance, and reduce security exposure — all while maintaining human approval gates.

• Inactive account detection and reporting
• Group membership validation
• Safe remediation with approval stages

Onboarding & Self-Service Automation

Replaced manual provisioning steps with structured automation templates that ensure consistency, traceability, and faster onboarding for new resources.

Centralized Logging & Health Checks

Designed lightweight Linux scripts to collect logs, validate service health, and surface early warning signals before incidents escalated.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
for svc in nginx docker sshd; do
  systemctl is-active --quiet "$svc" || echo "$svc DOWN"
done

Backup Validation & Restore Drills

Implemented reproducible backup workflows with checksum verification and automated restore testing, ensuring backups were not only present — but usable.

CI/CD & Container Integration

Introduced standardized build and deployment patterns using containerization principles, improving deployment speed and rollback confidence.

• Idempotency: Scripts are safe to re-run and self-correcting.
• Least Privilege: Dedicated service identities with scoped permissions.
• Observability: Structured logs and actionable telemetry.
• Change Safety: Dry-run modes, staged rollouts, and clear rollback paths.