Global Intelligence Architect

Microsoft's enterprise cloud platform. Offers compute, storage, databases, AI services, DevOps tooling, and deep integration with Microsoft's enterprise software ecosystem.

• Hosting web apps and APIs with Azure App Service
• Running containerised workloads with Azure Kubernetes Service
• Storing data with Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Blob Storage

Kubernetes orchestrates containers at scale. When you go from one Docker container to hundreds across multiple servers, you need something to manage them, roll out updates, restart failures, balance load, and scale under pressure.

• Deploying containerised applications across a cluster
• Scaling services up and down automatically under load
• Rolling out new versions with zero downtime

The most advanced open-source relational database in the world. Handles complex SQL queries, stores rich data types, enforces data integrity, and scales to serious production workloads without a licensing fee.

• Storing relational data for web and mobile applications
• Complex queries with joins, aggregations, and window functions
• Storing JSON and running hybrid relational queries on it

GraphQL is an alternative to REST APIs. Instead of hitting multiple endpoints and getting back more data than you need, you send a single query describing exactly what you want and get back exactly that.

• APIs for mobile apps that need efficient data fetching
• Unified data layer across multiple backend services
• Rapid frontend development without waiting on backend changes

The most respected AWS certification. Validates advanced ability to design complex and scalable systems across AWS. Covers migration, cost management, hybrid architectures, and advanced security. Considered one of the hardest certifications in the cloud industry.

• Complex multi-account organisational architectures
• Migration and modernisation of on-premises workloads
• Advanced networking: Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and hybrid DNS