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Hi, I'm Ryan Bear 👋

Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Leader

Azure | Hybrid Cloud | Infrastructure as Code | Automation | AI-Enabled Operations

Infrastructure and cloud operations leader with 15+ years of leadership experience designing, modernizing, and operating large-scale enterprise environments supporting up to 30,000+ users across 400+ locations.

My background combines enterprise infrastructure leadership with hands-on technical experience across data center infrastructure, virtualization, identity, Microsoft 365, high availability, disaster recovery, automation, and hybrid cloud.

I'm currently expanding that experience into modern Azure architecture, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and AI-enabled enterprise operations.

☁️ Current Focus

  • Microsoft Azure architecture and hybrid cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Azure networking, identity, governance, and resiliency
  • CI/CD and infrastructure automation
  • Azure AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Enterprise cloud modernization

🛠️ Technologies

Cloud & Identity
Azure • Microsoft 365 • Entra ID • Active Directory

Infrastructure
Windows Server • Linux • VMware • Hyper-V • Citrix • Enterprise Storage

Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Terraform • PowerShell • Bash • Git • Azure DevOps

Operations & Observability
Azure Monitor • Log Analytics • SolarWinds • Splunk • Nagios

Architecture & Operations
Hybrid Cloud • High Availability • Disaster Recovery • Business Continuity • ITSM • Infrastructure Security

🚀 Featured Projects

Enterprise IT Knowledge Assistant

Azure-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution designed to provide IT operations teams with answers grounded in approved enterprise documentation and runbooks.

Technologies: Azure AI • Azure AI Search • Azure Storage • Embeddings • RAG

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Terraform on Azure

Modular Azure Infrastructure-as-Code project demonstrating reusable Terraform modules, remote state, CI/CD validation and deployment workflows, and secure Azure authentication.

Technologies: Terraform • Azure • Azure DevOps • OIDC • Git

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🎓 Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
  • Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
  • ITIL v3 Foundation
  • Six Sigma White Belt

Currently expanding Azure architecture expertise through AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

🏗️ Enterprise Infrastructure Background

Throughout my enterprise infrastructure career, I've led environments that:

  • Supported 30,000+ users across 400+ locations
  • Scaled from approximately 100 to 3,500 servers
  • Improved infrastructure availability from approximately 90% to 99.99%
  • Built and developed an infrastructure engineering team from 3 to 16 engineers
  • Supported enterprise data center, virtualization, storage, networking, identity, and application infrastructure
  • Led disaster recovery, infrastructure modernization, M&A integration, and large-scale technology lifecycle initiatives

📫 Connect

LinkedIn: Ryan Bear

GitHub: TheRealRB

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  1. Enterprise-IT-Knowledge-Assistant Enterprise-IT-Knowledge-Assistant Public

    An Azure AI-powered Service Desk Assistant that uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to answer IT support questions from approved enterprise runbooks. The solution demonstrates Azure OpenAI, A…

  2. terraform-on-azure terraform-on-azure Public

    Terraform on Azure project demonstrating modular Infrastructure as Code, Azure DevOps CI/CD, remote state management, OIDC authentication, and multi-environment deployments.

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