Brantley Whitley

About Brantley Whitley

Specialties: Microsoft Active Directory, DFSR, PKI, Azure Iaas, Networking, Azure Security

Experience

1. Sr Cloud Solution Architect

   Microsoft

   Jan 2021 — Present

   Understand customers’ overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implement architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using IaaS, PaaS & DevOps- Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.) and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate - Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment - Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates – Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers - Assess the Customers’ knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure is delivery through partners – Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform - Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community · Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities

Skills

• Security
• Vpn
• Microsoft Products
• Operating Systems
• Sccm
• Dfs
• Office 365
• Customer Service
• Data Center
• Enterprise Architecture
• Windows 7
• Windows Azure
• Wsus
• Network Security
• Virtualization
• Hardware
• Directory Services
• Vmware Esx
• Pki
• Server Architecture
• Tcp/Ip
• Troubleshooting
• Group Policy
• System Deployment
• Storage
• Windows Server
• Mentoring
• Networking
• Microsoft Technologies
• Iis
• Citrix
• Hyper-V
• Disaster Recovery
• Credential Theft Mitigation
• Dhcp
• Cluster
• Scom
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Dns
• High Availability