Patrick Ilunga

About Patrick Ilunga

Experienced Network Engineer I have five years worked on field. hands-on experience in…

Experience

1. Cloud Architect

   Go Cloud Careers

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Design multi-cloud architectures for financial industry clients, healthcare clients, and retail business. • Design high availability systems for critical customers. • Design Next generation firewall technology (Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco etc.) on Cloud. • Design security architectures inclusive or next generation firewalls, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems, Identity and Access Management (IAM), system hardening, and cloud security tools. •Deploy VMware ESXI hypervisor as backbone for server virtualization on an Openstack private cloud hosted on Linux Ubuntu operating system (OS) • Collaborate on enterprise security policies. • Responding to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs. • Design enterprise cloud migration plans. • Design hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid multi-cloud architectures. • Disaster recovery planning. • Deliver customer presentations. • Creation of documents (architecture documents, proposals, statements of work). • Leading of inter-disciplinary teams. • Perform stakeholder management. • Perform vendor management. • Lead and facilitated customer meetings. • Lead teams of cloud engineers, specialty architects, software developers and DevOps engineers. • Design architectures on Azure, AWS, Google and Open stack clouds. • Design cloud wide area networks (WANs) with private lines, VPNs, and SASE solutions. • Deliver technology presentations, sales presentations, and executive briefings. • Work with VMware ESXI and other enterprise virtualization solutions. • Design cloud networking inclusive of BGP, route summarization, VPC peering and internet networking. • Design and build an Open stack cloud for enterprise-wide computing needs.