CLOUD SECURITY • IDENTITY • AZURE INFRASTRUCTURE

Damien Henriquez

Cloud security, identity, and Azure infrastructure engineering in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Infrastructure Engineer working across Microsoft Entra ID, Azure security, automation, and enterprise Microsoft platforms.

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From Windows 3.1 to cloud and identity engineering.

I’ve been fascinated by technology since my dad brought home a Compaq desktop PC running Windows 3.1 when I was a kid. He put it in my bedroom. He showed me how to boot into Windows from the DOS command line. It was so interesting to me that he somehow just knew how to do this. I remember him carrying around one of those unmistakable 1990s IBM ThinkPads. That early exposure stuck with me, and I’ve been curious about computers and how systems work ever since.

Today I’m an infrastructure engineer working across Microsoft cloud, identity, and security technologies. My work includes Microsoft Entra ID, identity governance, authentication, Azure infrastructure, automation, and large-scale Microsoft enterprise environments.

I especially enjoy solving complex cross-service problems and building repeatable solutions with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Terraform, Python, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and GitHub Actions. My current focus is cloud security engineering, identity architecture, detection engineering, and secure infrastructure automation.

Identity

Entra ID, IAM, Conditional Access, PIM, RBAC, SSO, federation, identity governance

Cloud Security

Azure Policy, Key Vault, Sentinel, KQL, Zero Trust, logging, security controls

Automation

PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Terraform, Python, Azure CLI, infrastructure as code

DevOps

Azure DevOps, GitLab, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, OIDC, workload identity federation

Selected Engineering Projects

01

Secure Azure Landing Zone

Modular Azure landing zone built with Terraform incorporating secure networking, Azure Policy governance, Key Vault RBAC, centralized logging, Azure Blob remote state, and secretless GitHub Actions CI using Entra workload identity federation.

Terraform Azure GitHub Actions Entra ID
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02

Entra Identity Governance Automation

HR-driven Joiner-Mover-Leaver automation for Microsoft Entra ID with user and group provisioning, department-based access reconciliation, offboarding, guest access reviews, privileged-role auditing, and application credential reporting.

PowerShell Microsoft Graph Python Entra ID
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03

Microsoft Sentinel Detection Engineering Lab

Cloud-security detections for Azure RBAC, NSG, Key Vault, and Entra application activity using Azure and identity telemetry, with live validation and deployed Microsoft Sentinel scheduled analytics rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

Microsoft Sentinel KQL Azure Entra ID
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Professional Experience

Infrastructure Engineer

Barclays

2022 — Present

Level 3 and final escalation engineer supporting Microsoft Entra ID, Identity Services, Copilot, and Microsoft cloud technologies within a 100,000+ user global banking environment.

  • Enterprise IAM, Conditional Access, federation, application registrations, and Access Reviews
  • PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Terraform, and Python automation
  • Identity and Microsoft cloud incident response and root-cause analysis
  • Secure CI/CD and cloud infrastructure workflows

IT Specialist

Teneo

2020 — 2022

Supported identity, endpoint, cloud, and infrastructure operations across Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows, macOS, and enterprise SaaS platforms.

  • Identity lifecycle, access provisioning, MFA, SSO, and role assignments
  • Azure and on-premises infrastructure administration
  • PowerShell automation and operational standardization
  • Cloud and on-premises migration projects

Microsoft Certifications

AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate
SC-300 Identity and Access Administrator Associate
MS-700 Teams Administrator Associate
MS-721 Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer

Interested in cloud security, identity, or Azure infrastructure?

Explore my projects on GitHub or connect with me on LinkedIn.