Brandon Klassen

About Brandon Klassen

At Azure our goal is to build the world\'s most reliable clouds. Plural.Previously I was privileged to build the teams of live site engineers and incident managers who are the first on the scene when customer issues are escalated to engineering. I also worked closely with the teams building advanced packet capture and analysis, network config backup, and network device orchestration services primarily for Azure Datacenter Physical Networking.Experience and expertise:Hyperscale datacenter networking. Azure Cloud Live Site Incident Management. Network monitoring, security, audit, and compliance expertise including GDPR, TLS, overall SDL. Architecting, deploying, and securing Azure infrastructure and many of the stand-alone Azure services. Datacenter orchestration (Autopilot/Pilotfish), Kusto/ADX/KQL. Risk assessment and privacy review. Sovereign cloud and air-gapped networks. GDPR, SOC, ITAR, BCDR. Nexus and IOS, Arista, Netscaler, BigIP. HPNA/TrueControl, EMC Ionix, Hyper-V, Cloud Network Services, SQL Server, Exchange, Merchant Services, hybrid cloud, retail management systems, Zenoss, PowerShell, Android, Sonicwall and Checkpoint VPN, embedded systems, MPLS, SIP gateway. Residential light construction including all aspects of carpentry, plumbing, electrical, chainsaw art, and landscaping. Barista, bartender, waiter, church AV club and amateur theologian.

Experience

1. Sr Site Reliability Engineer - Azure Airgapped

   Microsoft

   Oct 2024 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

• University of Washington

  BA, Community & Env. Planning

  1993 — 1998

Skills

• Microsoft Exchange
• Servers
• Network Monitoring Tools
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Telecommunications
• Sharepoint
• Security
• Network Automation
• Networking
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Scom
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Virtualization
• Voip
• Management
• Integration
• Sql Server
• Wan
• Compliance Pci
• Sccm
• Troubleshooting