Multi-Cloud Engineer at Spire
Christopher Brien
Azure · AWS · Google Cloud · Oracle Cloud
I design, automate and run cloud platforms across all four major providers. With more than a decade in infrastructure, from networks and data centers to infrastructure as code and DevOps pipelines, I build environments that are consistent, secure and repeatable, wherever they run.
Multi-cloud engineering
Day to day I own the full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure across four providers.
Microsoft Azure
IaaS and PaaS, Entra ID, networking, governance and Azure DevOps pipelines.
Amazon Web Services
Accounts and organizations, networking, identity federation and workload hosting.
Google Cloud
Projects, VPC networking, IAM and compute for production workloads.
Oracle Cloud
OCI compute, networking and Terraform-managed infrastructure.
What that looks like
Infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, landing zones and guardrails, identity and access management, cost-aware architecture, and operational support for production systems.
How I work
Automate first, document as I go, and keep environments consistent across providers so teams can move fast without surprises.
Experience
Infrastructure and cloud engineering, from the help desk to multi-cloud.
Multi-Cloud Engineer · Spire
- Perform multi-cloud engineering across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud.
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code, with automated, repeatable deployments.
- Support platform security, identity, networking and reliability across providers.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer · CPower
- Part of the cloud transformation project to Azure using infrastructure as code and DevOps practices.
- Tech lead for a team maintaining 200+ VMware, Azure, Windows and Linux servers across multiple data centers, with automation throughout.
- Monitored and resolved network and service outages supporting 24/7/365 energy dispatch operations on a five-nines SLA.
- Led IT infrastructure integrations from corporate acquisitions, office moves, PBX-to-Teams voice migrations and a data center decommission.
- Helped stand up and migrate to a next-gen firewall and modern antivirus within a zero-trust security model.
- Rolled out 2FA across the organization and ran a mandatory security awareness training program.
- Managed information security practices, including risk mitigation, intrusion detection and incident management aligned to NIST CSF.
Network Engineer · Netacom
Configured, maintained and monitored LAN/WAN infrastructure, troubleshot outages, and supported Windows servers, Exchange and Active Directory for business clients, including disaster recovery and network hardware.
IT Intern · Anne Arundel County
Researched and deployed cloud computing technologies in a county government environment.
Founder · Arnold Computers
Started an IT support business after high school, providing hands-on technical support to home and small business customers.
Skills
The tools I use most.
Cloud platforms
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Oracle Cloud (OCI)
- Microsoft 365
- Entra ID
Infrastructure as code & DevOps
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Packer
- Vagrant
- PowerShell DSC
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Git
Systems & virtualization
- Linux
- Windows Server
- VMware vSphere / ESXi
- Hyper-V
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Citrix
- SCCM / Intune
Networking & security
- Palo Alto
- pfSense
- Cisco
- Aruba
- Zero trust
- 2FA / MFA
- NIST CSF
- VoIP / Teams
Scripting & automation
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Python
- HCL
- YAML
Backup & operations
- Veeam
- Commvault
- Monitoring & incident response
- Disaster recovery
- Documentation
Credentials
Certifications and education.
Certifications
Education
Towson University
Bachelor’s, Information Technology, 2011 – 2013
Anne Arundel Community College
Associate’s, Information Security, 2009 – 2011
Home lab
I keep learning on my own hardware: a VMware environment running Kubernetes with Terraform and Ansible, Docker, Active Directory, Grafana, Home Assistant, Security Onion, UniFi, pfSense and more.
Let's talk
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