Resume: Senior Solution Architect, Cloud Security

Senior technical lead for Cortex Cloud engagements across EMEA, guiding enterprise customers from early discovery through Proof of Value to production adoption.

I work across the security portfolio, covering cloud security, application security and endpoint, and architect solutions for large multi-country environments. Alongside customer engagements I run enablement sessions and technical workshops for customers and partners, and feed field experience back to our product teams.

Drove technical strategy and adoption of Prisma Cloud across multi-cloud enterprise environments in EMEA, working the full pre-sales and post-sales cycle with security, platform and DevOps stakeholders.

I led customer engagements from discovery through to production rollout, delivered partner enablement and hands-on workshops across the region, and built automation that embedded security directly into customer cloud and DevOps operations.

Enterprise architect for public cloud across Azure, AWS and GCP, responsible for the secure, scalable reference architectures used by delivery teams across the organisation.

• Authored and maintained cloud reference architectures encoding security, resilience and performance best practice.
• Designed secure landing zones, reviewed existing designs and delivered strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Assessed emerging technologies such as Kubernetes and container platforms, and set the organisation's adoption direction.

Led a team of 20 network and network security engineers through a full transformation of core infrastructure, combining people leadership with hands-on architecture ownership.

• Owned network and security architecture for new datacentre builds, delivering scalability, resilience and segmentation by design.
• Executed a complete replacement of core routing and switching, and drove integration of Palo Alto Networks NGFW, F5 load balancing, Splunk monitoring and BackBox automation.
• Delivered critical infrastructure upgrades against strict business-continuity and security requirements, presenting plans, trade-offs and risk positions to senior management.

Designed and delivered large-scale network security infrastructure for a multinational energy group, across a broad multi-vendor estate including Check Point, Juniper, F5, BlueCoat and Cisco.

• Led the design and deployment of an internet access infrastructure serving 50,000+ users, built on Check Point virtual systems, Juniper firewalls and SSL VPN, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers.
• Delivered a secure remote-access (Outlook Anywhere) infrastructure with client-certificate authentication behind F5, solving significant secure-access and load-balancing challenges.
• Ran complex, multi-site security projects end to end, from design through to production handover.