Azure Platform

I help engineering teams design and operate cloud-native systems on Microsoft Azure — PaaS and IaaS workloads, resilient architectures, secure identity, infrastructure as code, and integrations with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Graph.

What I help with

Pick the right hosting for each workload — not one big VM for everything

App Service, Functions, Container Apps, or AKS — matched to your team’s operating model and the workload’s actual traffic and lifecycle.

Ship changes to production without holding your breath

Multi-stage Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines with environments, approvals, deployment slots, and safe rollout patterns — so releases stop being events.

Make your infrastructure a PR, not a click trail

Modular Bicep or Terraform with plan/apply guardrails and reviewed changes — environments you can rebuild, audit, and hand to the next engineer.

Get your apps off the public internet without breaking devs

VNet integration, Private Endpoints, hub-and-spoke networking, and zero-public-endpoint patterns for App Service, Functions, SQL, and Storage.

Kill secrets in source control, config files, and pipelines

Managed identities for every workload, Key Vault references from App Service and Functions, and OAuth 2.0 flows built the way the spec intended.

Integrate with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and line-of-business systems

Microsoft Graph, Dynamics 365 F&O data entities, and API-Management-fronted integrations — secured with the right app registrations and permissions.

Actually know what production is doing

Application Insights distributed tracing, Azure Monitor workbooks, cost-aware log design, and alerts wired to the humans who can act on them.

Design for resilience without over-engineering

Well-Architected reviews, fault isolation, retry and circuit-breaker patterns, and honest trade-off decisions written down for the team that inherits them.

Some Azure Platform things I work with

Compute & hosting: Azure PaaS and IaaS, Azure App Service and Web Apps, Azure Functions (Consumption, Premium, Flex Consumption, Durable), Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Virtual Machines.

Data, APIs & integration: Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage (Blob, Queue, Table), Azure API Management, Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Graph, Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, event-driven and API-first enterprise integration.

Identity, secrets & connectivity: Microsoft Entra ID integration, managed identities and service principals, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, Azure Key Vault, Azure networking, VNet, Private Link, private endpoints, hub-and-spoke.

DevOps, IaC & observability: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code with ARM, Bicep, and Terraform, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, distributed tracing, workbooks, alerts.

Architecture: Azure solution and cloud architecture, resilient cloud-native application design, Well-Architected reviews, enterprise integration architecture, technical leadership and platform strategy.

Why Lone Peak

I’ve run production workloads on Azure at scale as a Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert. I bring opinionated patterns that work — and adapt them to your business, not the other way around.

What you can expect

Clear architecture decisions with trade-offs written down
Reference implementations you can extend
Hands-on collaboration with your team
Documentation and runbooks that outlive the engagement