Karl Miatke

Experience

1. Manager, Cloud Engineering & Operations

   COUNTRY Financial®

   Dec 2022 — Present · Bloomington, IL, US

   Responsible for overall public cloud architecture, governance, services, and security.Lead the cloud engineering team analyzing, modernizing, building/engineering, and migrating services to the public cloud reliably, and securely while reducing costs. Partners with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Development teams, Operations teams and business areas.Led multiple teams in migrating over 100 spring boot applications from a legacy on-premises platform to a modern cloud platform, improving performance and obtaining savings of millions per year.Migrated over endpoints to Azure Virtual Desktops from previous platform keeping costs flat while delivering higher performant services.Enabled engineers/teams to perform Disaster Recovery exercises of primary physical datacenters directly into public cloud. As an output, closed a secondary datacenter saving substantial money for the company.Aligns work to staff capabilities while growing each member in their technology and leadership skills.Manages a multi-million-dollar budget, implemented as a provider to the organization through consumer charge back and optimizing spend through FinOps.

Education

• Western Illinois University

  Bachelors, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Consulting
• Unified Communications
• Infrastructure
• Storage Area Networks
• Video
• Lync Server 2010
• Disaster Recovery
• Data Center
• Leadership
• Mobile Computing
• Virtualization
• Networking
• Vendor Management
• San
• Microsoft Exchange
• Sharepoint
• Troubleshooting
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Information Technology
• Microsoft Licensing
• Visio
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Cloud Computing
• Sharepoint 2013
• Social Networking
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure