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I write about cloud infrastructure, homelabing, and the lessons I've learned from working with Azure at scale in the real world. linkedin github email rss A bit about me\nI'm Adam 👋 I'm a Cloud Engineer with a background in infrastructure and platform engineering. I've spent the last 4 years focused on Azure, working on Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and automating all the things! Outside of work you can find me tinkering with my Homelab, centered around my hyperconverged server which hosts numerous services. Other than that I'll be making patches on my many synthesizers or some other music related escapade 🎹 What I write about\nHonestly, if its tech related then you'll probably find it here at some point. But there will be strong focus on Azure and Infrastructure as Code, as well as tooling and surrounding technology. There's also going to be content around \"Homelabbing\" and why I still think its incredibly benneficial, even in an ever cloud centric world! Career\nAs mentioned, I'm a cloud engineer by trade. Day to day I mainly deal with Azure infrastructure, landing zone deployments and ongoing maintenance and improvements of highly secure cloud platforms for both government and private organizations. Remote, UK 2023 — present Cloud Engineer at LA NET Ltd Delivering end-to-end cloud infrastructure projects for public and private sector clients, with a focus on security and automation. Developing infrastructure as code and DevOps pipelines to deploy and maintain these envionments, and growing my skills with Terraform, Bicep and the latest infrasturcutre technologies and developments. Current Role Bicep Terraform DevOps CI/CD AVM + ALZ Architecture Azure Policy Remote, UK 2022 — 2023 Junior Cloud Support Engineer at LA NET Ltd Working across multiple Azure and Microsoft 365 tenancies to support and develop robust cloud baselines for customers. Focusing on technical support and infrastructure deployment, I was able to hone my skills on Azure, and develop Infrastructure as Code and automation processes for both internal and external use First Cloud Role Azure M365 Defender for Cloud Azure Monitor ARM Templates Wisbech, UK 2019 — 2022 IT Infrastructure Technician at Tamar-IT Ltd Infrastructure and systems support and setup within a varied MSP supporting local and national businesses. Managed on-prem Windows, ADDS, Hyper-V and Windows Clusters, alongside consumer hardware and software support Where I Started M365 ADDS Ubiquiti Unifi PowerShell Windows Server Clusters Networking ","permalink":"https://adamsimnett.com/about/","summary":"About me","title":"About"}]