ashborn

It Engineer

I have helped organizations to safeguard their digital environments without getting in the way of how people actually use them. My focus is on building scalable cloud services that make identity, endpoint, and cloud protection feel seamless rather than restrictive. Over the past five years, I have helped secure enterprise networks, establish DR plans, by reducing configuration drift and tightening compliance across more than 500 Windows devices. Using Microsoft Intune and Endpoint Central, I have streamlined device management and minimized risk at scale. And I have also designed zero-trust-aligned access controls, mostly through Azure AD to strengthen security while keeping sign-ins simple for users.


Experience: 1 year

Yearly salary: $10,000

Hourly rate: $15

Nationality: 🌏 Remote

Residency: πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ South Africa


Experience

IT Security Engineer
VDT Technologies
2016 - 2024
Built bespoke Synology NAS installation and deployment for a bottling and canning client, by creating centralized storage and backups solutions that replaced their fragmented local file systems and allowing users to easily share documents across their network. Transitioned organizations for the first time to a single unified organizational platform, using Microsoft 365 products, from SharePoint Online to Exchange Online, and MS365, moving them away from legacy products such as POP3/cPanel, and individual cloud storage accounts. Maintained and setup firewalls, routers, and network security policies to protect remote and hybrid environments. Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software, and network issues from L1/L2 and even L3 scope and even performed root cause analysis and documented the solutions to prevent future similar incidents. Converted solutions for recurring issues into internal troubleshooting documentation. Streamlined deployment & backup processes, managed AD, SSO, firewalls, and VPNs. Maintained network configurations, firewalls, VPNs, and security policies to protect remote environments.

Skills

blockchain
python
customer-support
english