Agile Product Owner Azure

5/2023 – 2/2024

- documented requirements and status quo of CRM and dependent applications to initiate a migration to Microsoft Azure
- stakeholder management: conducted meetings for project management and interviews with stakeholders and technical experts at Microsoft
- researched networking options and legal specifics to ensure access for international end-users with special focus on mainland China
- conducted survey and analysis for latency data to Azure among international end-users
- designed solution architecture for infrastructure components in Azure
implemented PoC with Terraform to verify the accessibility of the servers via Azure Front Door
- project management: risk assessment, stakeholder management, requirement engineering, scheduling the analysis, planning, migration and aftercare phases, cost calculation of Azure resources

Key Achievement:
- Established long term partnership with the customer

Technical environment:
Terraform (IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Infrastructure Mangement), Microsoft Azure IaaS Infrastructure as a Service (SQL, Windows & Linux servers), Azure Networking, Azure Front Door, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Visio

Agile Methodologie, Confluence, DevOps, Iaas, Microsoft Azure, IIS, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SQL-Server (MS SQL), Systemmigration, Product Owner, Produktmanagement, Proof of Concept (POC), Scrum

8/2022 – 2/2024

- Drove strategic company goals for the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP)
- Raised ECIF/AMMP fundings for end-customers
- Assigned customer accounts with Partner Admin Link (PAL) and Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)
- Consulted with Microsoft solution architects on technical details of customer projects
- Central contact for Microsoft licensing, certifications for employees and Microsoft support requests
- Provisioned new Azure tenants, onboarded tenants in Microsoft Partner Center and concluded new MCA contracts

Key Achievements:
- Raised funding for end-customers amounting to ~EUR 85,000 over the last 6 months
- Secured engagement of c-level and middle management for Microsoft partnership (MCPP) objectives
- Implemented binding processes for managing employee certifications, customer assignments, fund raising and reporting of opportunities

Technical environment: 
Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP), Microsoft Partner Center, Microsoft Invoice, Microsoft Supplier Portal, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure Active DIrectory, Atlassian Confluence

Agile Methodologie, Cloud (allg.), DevOps, Iaas, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Product Owner, Programm-Management, Prozessmanagement, Scrum, Technische Dokumentation

6/2022 – 2/2024

Azure Landing Zone implementation with Terraform, based on Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (Caf):

- Governance and security (Azure Policy)
- Resource organisation with multiple subscriptions, management groups and tags
- Site to site VPN connections
- Custom networking and firewall setup (Infrastructure as a Service IaaS active-passive Fortigate with load balancers)
- Identity and access management for service principals (Microsoft Entra ID/Azure Active Directory
- Credential rotation for service principals (Azure Key Vault)

- Acted as trusted advisor and central point of contact for all questions regarding the Microsoft Azure solution architecture
- Implemented and monitored Microsoft Defender for Cloud with AWS and Azure DevOps connectors, policies and open source workbooks
- documented cloud solution architecture and service processes in an operating manual
- consulted on security risks, networking architecture, DevOps workflow and permission management
- participated in a workshop for the implementation of a PoC for an MES system for the automated processing of sensor data (MQTT, IoT, Kubernetes / AKS, Azure Arc)

Technical environment: 
Microsoft Azure, Terraform Infrastructure Management / Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure DevOps, Azure Networking, Azure Monitoring, Powershell, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure Active Directory, Atlassian Confluence, custom Terraform modules

Agile Methodologie, Confluence, DevOps, Iaas, Infrastrukturarchitektur, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Windows Powershell, Scrum