Daniel Wessels

Enterprise Cloud Specialist

Greater Sydney Area

About

I am a Cloud Native Technical Specialist, with more than twenty five years experience in various industries including Government, Investment & Retail Banking, Media, Marketing, Telecommunications, Transportation and Pharmaceuticals. I provide infrastructure and application consultancy to businesses with existing cloud foot print or that are looking at cloud adoption. My experience and training addresses business' needs for specific GRC, ITIL and security requirements. I have provided solution designs for production ready Kubernetes platforms for Enterprise businesses. Ownership of project implementation, change implementation and incident management. Application architecture development with application developers. Automation of Release Management through development, testing and production environments, including Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment. My Ruby, Python & Bash skills are good. 3rd line support is a natural component of my activities. Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS); Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA); ISC2 (CC) Certified in Cybersecurity Enterprise & SME ; Application & Infrastructure Architecture ; SDLC ; Governance ; Risk ; Compliance ; Security ; Performance ; Resilience / High Availability / Disaster Recovery; DevOps ; Integration ; Migration ; Virtualisation; AWS / Amazon Web Services ; Azure ; Macquarie IaaS ; VMWare; CMP; Red Hat Cloud Forms; Terraform ; Ansible; Kubernetes DDOS ; WAF ; DNS ; Firewall ; F5 , Citrix & Barracuda Load Balancers ; Bluecoat SG proxy ; Akaimai CDN ; Application Monitoring; AppDynamics & New Relic ; HP ; Teamcity ; Ocotopus ; BitBucket ; Bamboo ; Jira ; Confluence ; Chef ; Salesforce ; Docker ; Splunk; Redis

Experience

  • Solutions Architect at DXC Technology - Australia and New Zealand
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Principal Cloud Security Engineer at Nuix
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Customer Solutions Architect at Vault Cloud
    Jun 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Wiz
    Jun 2022 - Apr 2023 · 11 mos

  • Field Engineer at Solo.io at solo.io
    Jun 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr