Pete Baxter

About Pete Baxter

I am a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft working with Azure technologies. My focus is on Azure Security, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Networking. I work with large enterprise customers, supporting and optimizing their environments.

Experience

1. Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Financial Services

   Microsoft

   Sep 2022 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Principal Cloud Solution Architect with deep experience leading large financial services enterprises through the migration, modernization, and secure operation of mission‑critical workloads on Microsoft Azure. Trusted technical advisor to executive, engineering, and security stakeholders at global institutions, delivering architecture design sessions, technical update briefings, and blocker mitigation to accelerate cloud adoption, improve resiliency, optimize costs, and unlock measurable business value. Led complex initiatives across Azure infrastructure, security, networking, identity, and reliability—supporting highly regulated workloads including payments, banking platforms, data pipelines, and government‑cloud deployments—while consistently aligning technical strategy to business outcomes.Beyond customer delivery, I drive impact at scale through technical leadership, mentoring, and community enablement. I have led global training programs, developed repeatable architecture guidance and value‑based delivery frameworks, contributed to Azure Well‑Architected, security, and reliability accreditations, and mentored CSAs from early‑career through Principal level. My work emphasizes outcome‑based architecture, operational excellence, inclusive collaboration, and continuous learning—combining deep technical expertise with strong business acumen to help customers and teams succeed in complex, high‑stakes cloud environments.

Education

• Seton Hall University

  Political Science

  1991 — 1993

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Political Science

  1993 — 1995

Skills

• Sharepoint
• Peer Mentoring
• Process Improvement
• Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
• Cloud Computing
• Sharepoint Server
• Enterprise Search
• Sharepoint Designer
• Technical Training
• Microsoft Technologies
• Employee Training
• Powershell
• Visual Studio
• C#
• Hands-on Training
• Software Training
• Sharepoint Online
• Server Architecture
• Iis
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Training & Development
• Onedrive for Business
• Mentoring
• Office 365
• Asp.net
• Mentoring New Hires