Simon Tait

Building reliable, secure, and scalable enterprise infrastructure through automation, open-source technologies, and modern platform engineering practices.

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Current Focus

Iterating and rebuilding an enterprise-grade infrastructure environment (v2, automated and hardened)
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible & PowerShell
Linux Systems Administration & Optimization
Enterprise Home Lab Development (Multi-VLAN Environment, iterative design and expansion)
Platform Monitoring, Observability & Alerting
Infrastructure Documentation & Knowledge Systems

Technical Expertise

Infrastructure

Windows Server
Linux
Microsoft 365
Azure

Networking & Security

Cisco
Fortinet
MikroTik
UniFi
OpenWRT
VLANs & VPNs

Virtualisation

VMware vSphere
Hyper-V
Proxmox
Failover Clustering

Automation

Ansible
PowerShell
Bash
Git
Docker
NGINX

Monitoring & Ops

Veeam
Grafana
Prometheus
Uptime Kuma
Patch & Incident Management

Enterprise Home Lab

Currently building and documenting an enterprise-style multi-VLAN infrastructure lab designed to replicate real-world environments used in modern infrastructure engineering.

Core Infrastructure:

Windows Server Domain Infrastructure
Proxmox Virtualisation
MikroTik (Routing, VLANs, Core Network Services)
UniFi (Switching, WLAN, Centralised Controller Management)
OpenWRT (Edge Services, VPN, Lab Routing & Experimentation)
WireGuard VPN

Platform & Services:

Docker Container Platform

NGINX Reverse Proxy Architecture

Internal Service Hosting & Routing

Operations & Observability:

Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Uptime Kuma)

Infrastructure Documentation & Knowledge Base (runbooks, KBAs, workflows)

Automation & Engineering:

Ansible Automation

Iterative enterprise infrastructure rebuild (v2 hardened & automated environment)

Architecture diagrams and project documentation coming soon.

Experience

Infrastructure Support Engineer — Cyberlogic (2026–Present)

Enterprise infrastructure support across hybrid environments including Windows Server, Linux, networking, virtualisation, cloud, and security platforms.

Senior Customer Engineer — Mars Technologies
2nd Line Engineer — Ekco (UK)
IT Systems Administrator — Browns The Diamond Store
IT Systems Engineer — Convensys
IT Helpdesk Support — Geeks2u (Sydney)

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Education

Bachelor of IT: Networking & Cyber-Security
Tafe NSW, Sydney, Australia