Cloud Engineer Systems Administrator

Stacy BROUGHTON

914-***-**** **************@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile Rye Brook, NY

Senior Cloud Engineer & Architect

Highly skilled Cloud Engineer & Architect, Senior Systems Administrator, Infrastructure Manager, and Systems Specialist. Effective project manager who aligns all initiatives with broader strategic objectives and business needs. Deep experience working within highly regulated organizations including DHA, DFS, HIPAA, and SOC compliance.

Previously held Secret Clearance from US Department of Defense.

Key Competencies

Strategic Planning

Risk Management & Mitigation

Process Improvement

Complex System Design

Goal Setting / KPIs

Team Coaching & Development

Change Management

Project Lifecycle Management

Group Administration

Cross-Functional Team Collaboration

Professional Experience

Principal Cloud Administrator / Systems Engineer Contract) 4/2024-12/2024

Amalgamated Life Insurance, White Plains, NY

Align all technology projects with the vision, values, and objectives of the company.

Modernize data workloads from on prem to cloud (AWS,Azure) in a secure, HIPAA and SOC2 compliant manner.

Establish project goals, milestones, schedules and KPIs.

Use KPI’s to track projects in real time, taking a proactive versus reactive response to risks and opportunities.

Reporting to the CISO and Dir. of Infrastructure, kept both teams up to date on implementations. Keep all project stakeholders focused on target at all times.

Leveraged cloud and systems knowledge for migration preparation.

Managed Access management to Azure and M 365 platforms.

Brought best practice security management into AWS platform for secured and streamlined migration from Hyper-V infrastructure environment and introduced team to Terraform and cloud formation.

Enrolled Over 200 devices to MDM (intune) for secured ease of management.

Saved the organization 25% in maintenance fees.

Worked with the Application Development team to build in a devops model using CI/CD functions.

Senior Systems Administrator / Infrastructure Manager 6/2022 – 3/2023

Oncology Nursing Society, Pittsburg, PA

Led a team of 9 comprising of 4 Support Specialists, 2 Network Engineers and 2 Project Managers.

Established goals and KPI’s, followed by data collection, analysis and performance tracking.

Managed key IT functions including application development, access management, network operations, desktop support, project management, issue tracking via 400 plus weekly tickets (via JIRA), active directory, forecast security dashboard, secure EMR/EHR environment.

Implemented Veeam backup solution for server farm and select desktops.

Served as a catalyst for positive change and transformation management.

Partnered with business units and shared ownership and accountability for goal attainment.

Coached, mentored and developed a high-performance team.

Implemented secure working goal solutions and Delina secret server PAM solution for governance.

Led 2-week production sprint cycles through JIRA ticketing system.

Instituted asset management policies for tracking from procurement to recovery.

System Specialist 8/2020 – 9/2021

Kelly Army Community Hospital, West Point, NY

Created customized PowerShell and Python scripts to update daily repeated system tasks.

Installed, upgraded, and decommissioned Cisco switches, creating new Vlans for network segments, tracing of IP addresses using Palo Alto security system to core switch. Maintain NIST compliance for all data and network systems.

Created and managed ForeScout security dashboards and intrusion prevention tools.

Field Level 3 support issues and boost helpdesk workflows 20% with migration of 250K+ tickets to new ServiceNow helpdesk system.

Briefed chain of command to keep awareness up to the minute on operation reporting. Provided alternative solutions to avoid any miscommunication as lead.

Configured and managed Citrix workspace application presentation servers to support remote users before migrating to Microsoft 365.

Produced 100% pass rates for information assurance audits and vulnerability assessments.

Managed and maintained all aspects of Active Directory Domain Services, Office 365/DoD365, and network backups.

Amplified network security using centralized endpoint protection and continuous IDS/IPS monitoring and tuning.

Maintained secure EMR/EHR environment patching servers & clients and using HIPAA-compliant data storage.

Updated and maintained EPIC application front end and database servers.

Contributed to synergy among all project stakeholders.

Positioned IT as a value-added resource.

Created PowerShell and Python scripts for daily maintenance tasks to be run through group policy.

Ensured an appropriate match between employers and job candidates.

Consistently added value to clients contributing to long-term loyalty.

Supervisory Systems Administrator 9/2019 – 7/2020

United States Department of Commerce, New York, NY

Reported to the Operations Manager and supervised a team of 15 Help Desk and IT Specialists.

Headed inventory management program for Census Bureau and used Microsoft Intune MDM to configure and secure 800+ tablets and phones.

Held primary administrative responsibility for AD Domain Services infrastructure across Northeast and Puerto Rico.

Managed Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, and Xenserver an infrastructure for remote user access. Maintenance of NetScaler for monitoring and load balance.

Senior Systems Administrator 10/2007 – 9/2019

Benchmark Education Company, New Rochelle, NY

Oversaw 375% increase in technology budget to $1.5 million.

Slashed training costs by 75% by creating in-house learning sessions for junior staff and mentored employees.

Built and managed ADDS, Exchange, DNS, and DHCP servers, including migrating from Prem to cloud environment.

Maintained infrastructure for nine accounting and inventory tracking/coordination applications at 4 data centers.

Built Cisco UC VoIP system linking three offices and managed AWS resources including EC2, S3, RDS, databases, and IAM.

Education, Certifications, & Clearances

Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY

oCompleted coursework towards an Associate’s bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity.

Security Clearance, United States Department of Defense (DoD)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500): Microsoft

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms & Virtualization: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, VMware ESXi, VSphere, Citrix.

Networking & Unified Communications: DNS, DHCP, Cisco Unity/Call Manager (UC).

Directory & Access Management: Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy (GPO), Privileged Account Management.

Endpoint & Security Management: Endpoint Security Management, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), STIGs, Imaging, Patch Management, SCCM, WSUS, Tanium.

Backup & Recovery: EMC Networker Backup.

Operating Systems & Devices: Windows 10, Windows Server, Dell PowerEdge hardware.

Collaboration & Productivity Tools: Microsoft Exchange Server, Office 365, DoD365, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Workspace/G Suite, Workspace ONE, Jira, Zendesk.

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