AZ-700 — Azure Network Engineer
Studying Azure networking concepts: VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, DNS, Load Balancers, and Private Endpoints. Targeting certification by April 2026.
Cloud Engineer · Sydney, AU
Learning, building, and experimenting in public.
I spend my days at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and curiosity — tinkering with Azure environments, chasing certifications, and writing down what I discover so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.
I'm a Cloud Engineer based in Sydney with over 8 years in IT infrastructure. My comfort zone is Microsoft Azure and M365, but I'm always reaching past the edges of what I already know — whether that's diving into networking architecture, exploring pre-sales engineering, or chasing a new certification.
This space is my public notebook. I use it to document experiments, share half-formed ideas, and keep myself accountable to the learning I say I'm doing.
When I'm not in the cloud, I'm probably running a home lab, watching football, or overcooking something on the BBQ.
Things I'm building, studying, or breaking — documented as I go.
Studying Azure networking concepts: VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, DNS, Load Balancers, and Private Endpoints. Targeting certification by April 2026.
Building on my Azure background to add GitHub to the stack — repositories, Actions, Codespaces, and GitHub's security features.
Next after GH-900 — code scanning, secret detection, dependency review, and security policy enforcement at scale.
Running a home lab to practice networking concepts hands-on. Exploring Ubiquiti gear, VLANs, and replicating enterprise patterns at home scale.
Notes on using Reservations, Hybrid Benefits, and rightsizing to reduce Azure spend — patterns I apply daily with customers at Ingram Micro.
Researching the path toward AI-102 as an extension of the Azure stack. Cognitive Services, Azure OpenAI, and responsible AI design.
Half-formed ideas, opinions, and things worth writing down.
Accountability and serendipity. Writing things down forces you to actually understand them — and occasionally someone useful finds your notes.
MetaWhat changes when you move from operating cloud environments to designing them? More than I expected.
CareerAfter hundreds of Azure CSP migrations, I've learned which gotchas will bite you and which fears are overblown.
AzureMore posts coming as I write them.