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Alen Toholj Cloud Solution Architect & Cloud Team Lead

8+ years building, automating, and scaling reliable, mission-critical infrastructure — from data-center operations to modern cloud platforms. I like building things that scale and fixing things that don't.

Experience
8+ yrs
Certifications
6 active
Role
Cloud Solution Architect
Focus
Azure · IaC · CI/CD · Scripting
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About

I'm a Cloud Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer leading the cloud team at Blum. My job is to design the platforms other teams build on — secure, well-governed cloud environments on Azure and AWS — and to make sure the road from a developer's commit to production is fast, repeatable, and safe.

In practice that means codifying infrastructure with Terraform, standing up CI/CD pipelines with security and compliance built in rather than bolted on, and running containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift. I care about the things that don't show up in a demo: reliability, observability, and cost efficiency — the difference between a system that works and one you can trust at 3 a.m.

My path started in systems engineering and data-center operations, which is where I learned how infrastructure actually behaves under pressure. Leading a team now, I spend as much time raising the bar on architecture and automation standards as I do writing code myself — always looking for the smarter, simpler way to build.

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Tech & Tooling

Azure AWS Terraform Kubernetes OpenShift Docker Azure DevOps Jenkins CI/CD Bash Linux RHEL Ansible Monitoring DevSecOps
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Certifications

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Projects

01 Storage Platform NDA Owned the cloud architecture for a storage API and its companion service — designed the resource topology, provisioned and deployed the infrastructure, and established CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and release across the repositories. Azure · Terraform · Azure DevOps
02 OpenShift Platform on VMware NDA Architected and deployed a Red Hat OpenShift platform on VMware virtualization, provisioning the underlying infrastructure with Terraform. Owned the cluster setup and configuration end to end, the ongoing platform maintenance, and the deployment of application services onto the cluster. OpenShift · VMware · Terraform · Jenkins
03 Education Platform NDA Contributed to the cloud architecture and delivery foundation for an education-focused platform, designing the Azure-based platform approach and implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform. Supported deployment automation through Azure DevOps pipelines, helping establish a repeatable and scalable path from provisioning to application release in Azure. Azure · Terraform · Azure DevOps
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Always up for a conversation about cloud architecture, automation, or leading engineering teams.