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Hugo Lazaridis

Senior Cloud Engineer

Sydney · Sydney, NSW, Australia · hugo.lazaridis@data3.com.au

Azure landing zone specialist with 8 years in financial services and higher education

Banking & FinanceHigher Education

About

Hugo Lazaridis is a Senior Cloud Engineer specialising in Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud delivery. With deep expertise in landing zone design and Terraform, he has successfully led multiple VMware to Azure migrations for mid-market clients in banking and higher education. Hugo combines strong technical delivery skills with a practical approach to cloud adoption and operational excellence.

Experience

  1. 2021-03 — Present
    Current
    Senior Cloud Engineer
    Data#3

    Lead technical delivery of Azure cloud solutions with focus on landing zones, infrastructure automation and workload migrations.

    • Design and implement enterprise-scale Azure landing zones for regulated industries
    • Author and maintain Terraform modules used across multiple client engagements
    • Mentor mid-level engineers on cloud architecture and DevOps practices
  2. 2018-06 — 2021-02
    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
    Commonwealth Bank of Australia

    Member of the Cloud Enablement team responsible for building Azure foundations and migrating applications from on-premise data centres.

    • Built automated landing zone using Azure Policy and Terraform
    • Led migration of 40+ core banking workloads to Azure IaaS and PaaS
    • Established FinOps reporting and cost optimisation framework
  3. 2015-01 — 2018-05
    Cloud Consultant
    Deloitte Australia

    Delivered cloud transformation projects for financial services and education sector clients with emphasis on infrastructure modernisation.

    • Designed hybrid cloud connectivity solutions for three Tier-1 banks
    • Conducted cloud readiness assessments and migration planning
    • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning
  4. 2010-07 — 2014-12
    Systems Engineer (Infrastructure)
    University of Sydney

    Managed on-premise VMware estate and began early cloud pilot programs for the university's central IT department.

    • Managed 500+ VM VMware environment across two data centres
    • Introduced Microsoft Azure pilot for research computing workloads
    • Developed automation scripts to reduce provisioning time by 70%

Projects

  1. Suncorp Azure Landing Zone Refresh
    2023-09 — 2024-01
    Suncorp Group · Banking & Finance · as Terraform Architect

    Refreshed legacy landing zone to latest CAF-aligned design; improved governance controls; automated policy enforcement across 300+ subscriptions.

    TerraformAzure BlueprintsAzure PolicyAzure Resource GraphPowerShell
  2. Macquarie Cloud Foundation Program
    2023-02 — 2023-08
    Macquarie Bank · Banking & Finance · as Lead Azure Engineer

    Delivered compliant Azure landing zone in 11 weeks; enabled secure deployment of 60+ workloads; reduced infrastructure provisioning time from 3 weeks to under 2 hours.

    TerraformAzure Landing ZonesAzure PolicyAzure DevOpsGitHub Actions
  3. Research Cloud Migration
    2022-05 — 2022-12
    University of Melbourne · Higher Education · as Senior Cloud Migration Engineer

    Successfully migrated 180 research VMs from on-prem VMware to Azure; achieved 40% reduction in compute costs and improved research data accessibility.

    Azure MigrateTerraformAzure VMware SolutionAzure FilesAzure Active Directory
  4. Westpac Azure Platform Build
    2021-06 — 2022-03
    Westpac Banking Corporation · Banking & Finance · as Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

    Designed and deployed secure enterprise-scale Azure environment; passed internal audit with zero critical findings; enabled migration of 25 workloads in first phase.

    Terraform EnterpriseAzure SentinelAzure FirewallAzure Key VaultBicep
  5. ANU Hybrid Cloud Transformation
    2020-09 — 2021-04
    Australian National University · Higher Education · as Technical Lead

    Established hybrid connectivity between ANU data centre and Azure; migrated 12 high-performance computing workloads; reduced backup costs by 35%.

    Azure ArcTerraformVMware HCXAzure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Monitor
  6. Pension Administration Workload Migration
    2019-11 — 2020-06
    Mid-tier Superannuation Fund · Banking & Finance · as Senior Cloud Engineer

    Migrated critical pension administration platform from VMware to Azure; achieved 99.95% uptime SLA; completed with zero unplanned downtime during cutover.

    Azure Virtual MachinesAzure SQL Managed InstanceAzure App ServiceTerraformAzure Site Recovery