Gerard Cooper

Azure Solutions/DevOps Architect: delivered CAF‑based multi‑subscription landing zones with Terraform, GitHub Workflows, and GitOps. Automated Apache Tomcat upgrades, AD tenant builds, and FTPS‑to‑Blob sync via PowerShell/Azure Functions. Deployed K8s dev clusters. Designed Microsoft Purview DLP, custom SITs, IL2–IL4 DoDi 8520.03 B2B identity, NIST 800‑57 Key Vault rotation, Microsoft Defender remediation. Built ADF+Databricks platform and secure AML workspaces with private endpoints/RBAC.

Azure Solutions/DevOps Architect: delivered CAF‑based multi‑subscription landing zones with Terraform, GitHub Workflows, and GitOps. Automated Apache Tomcat upgrades, AD tenant builds, and FTPS‑to‑Blob sync via PowerShell/Azure Functions. Deployed K8s dev clusters. Designed Microsoft Purview DLP, custom SITs, IL2–IL4 DoDi 8520.03 B2B identity, NIST 800‑57 Key Vault rotation, Microsoft Defender remediation. Built ADF+Databricks platform and secure AML workspaces with private endpoints/RBAC.

Azure Solutions/DevOps Architect: built CAF multi-tenant landing zones with Terraform/GitOps; automated Tomcat upgrades, AD & O365 licensing, FTPS-to-Blob moves via PowerShell/Azure Functions. Authored Ansible STIG baselines (RHEL) and Windows DSC/ReverseDSC. Led datacenter migrations; delivered NIST 800-53, FedRAMP landing zones, hybrid identity (Treasury SSO, IL2–IL4 DoDi 8520.03) and FIPS 140-2 L3 Key Vault. Deployed ADF-Databricks, AKS, AML, vNets/NSGs, app gateways, S2S VPN, and enforced Purview DLP.

Sr. Windows Systems Engineer: built AD forests & trusts, ADFS‑SAML SSO for ServiceNow, WSUS & SCCM patching w/ DISA STIGs; Hyper‑V RDS pools, IIS LBs, Trend Micro rollout, Nimble SAN datastores. Automated builds, cert issuance, acct rotation via PowerShell; Python SNMP asset inventory & autorecovery. Designed VMware NSX LBs/edges, SQL backups, SharePoint farms; patched RHEL/CentOS, Apache, DSC for Linux; secured CUI with Palo Alto, FISMA fixes & SolarWinds pollers.