Enterprise IT Portfolio

What This Is

End-to-end ownership of a large public-sector Microsoft tenant. This isn’t help desk work or button-clicking administration. This is tenant stewardship at scale.

The numbers:

• ~3,500 staff
• ~70,000 students
• 100+ sites
• Multi-domain management across schools, centres, and services

What It Involves

This role spans everything that makes a large Microsoft environment actually work:

Identity & Access — Entra ID architecture, administrative units, RBAC, conditional access, lifecycle management for staff and students.

Endpoint Management — Intune at scale, Autopilot provisioning, compliance baselines, device security policies.

Security & Compliance — Defender for Endpoint, risk management, audit preparation, data protection operationalisation.

Platform Services — Azure governance, Cloudflare DNS and security, network integration.

Governance & Risk — Risk registers, go-live assurance, remediation tracking, GDPR compliance.

Reporting & Visibility — Power BI dashboards for licensing, costs, and executive decision-making.

Automation — PowerShell tooling for bulk operations, naming standards, audit exports.

The Balance

Public-sector IT at this scale requires constant balancing:

• Central control vs site-level autonomy
• Security vs usability
• Standardisation vs legitimate exceptions
• Moving quickly vs not breaking things

Every decision affects thousands of people. That focuses the mind.

Why This Matters

This work demonstrates:

• Comfort operating at enterprise and public-sector scale
• Understanding identity, security, networking, cloud, and governance as one interconnected system
• Ability to manage vendors, auditors, risk, and people
• Building structure where chaos would otherwise exist
• Introducing change without breaking trust

This is real IT management, not just “being good with Microsoft”.