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Nick Corley

Systems Engineer

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About

Performance-driven Systems and Cloud Engineer with extensive experience designing, deploying, and optimizing mission-critical enterprise infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.

Proven track record managing complex virtualized workloads, automated infrastructure deployments, and high-availability networks — combining an automation-first mindset with deep expertise in firewall security, advanced monitoring, and Tier 3 escalation support.

Work Experience

  • Production Platform Delivery: Direct end-to-end infrastructure, domain routing, and systems architecture decisions for a mission-critical platform environment from prototype to scalable production deployment.
  • Web & Network Optimization: Configure and secure reverse proxy infrastructures for isolated subdomains, ensuring high availability, traffic isolation, and low-latency performance.
  • Virtual Machine & Server Architecture: Designed and provisioned the virtual machine infrastructure hosting the core web application servers, optimizing compute, storage, and resource allocation.
  • Azure & Virtualization Operations: Deploy, optimize, and manage enterprise Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments utilizing Nerdio; maintain complex Hyper-V virtualized environments with a focus on high availability and seamless data migrations.
  • Tier 3 Incident Escalation: Act as the primary escalation tier for complex, platform-level infrastructure and network incidents, consistently meeting SLAs and driving root-cause analysis (RCA).
  • Network Infrastructure & Security: Manage complex WAN/LAN topologies, configuring firewalls, advanced access control lists (ACLs), and secure multi-subnet environments.
  • Proactive Monitoring: Architect enterprise monitoring strategies via PRTG and ConnectWise Automate to capture real-time performance logging, infrastructure health metrics, and automated alerts.
  • Cloud Deployment: Successfully provisioned and deployed enterprise applications across physical bare-metal hardware and Microsoft Azure environments.
  • High-Availability Architecture: Implemented cloud-based traffic engineering and high-availability routing strategies using Azure Traffic Manager.
  • Infrastructure Security: Administered critical network security architectures, handling production SonicWall firewall rulesets, secure SSL VPN access, and multi-site connectivity.

Projects

Skills

Infrastructure & Cloud

Microsoft Azure Hyper-V Azure Virtual Desktop Nerdio Windows Server VM Lifecycle Management

Automation & Scripting

PowerShell Bash Infrastructure Provisioning Automated VM Operations

Networking & Security

Sophos Firewall SonicWall Inter-VLAN Routing ACLs SSL/IPSec VPN DNS DHCP NAT Policies

Monitoring & Operations

PRTG Network Monitor ConnectWise Automate Log/Alerting Tier 3 Incident Management Root Cause Analysis