Steven Bradford
Senior Systems Engineer | Windows Infrastructure | Automation
I help large organizations keep critical Microsoft infrastructure stable, secure, and supportable. My background includes enterprise Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, SCCM/MECM, SharePoint, Azure server support, and PowerShell automation across production environments with thousands of servers.
Selected Career Highlights
A practical infrastructure engineer with a long history of supporting production systems, cleaning up legacy environments, and solving issues that affect real users and business services.
Enterprise Microsoft Infrastructure
Supported Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, IIS, SQL Server, clustering, VMware, SCCM/MECM, and hybrid Azure server environments at enterprise scale.
Automation That Reduces Manual Work
Created PowerShell scripts for post-patch validation, domain controller health checks, reporting, audit evidence, and operational consistency.
Incident Response and RCA
Owned complex production issues from initial triage through investigation, remediation, coordination, root cause analysis, and closure.
Security and Compliance Support
Worked with vulnerability findings, privileged access models, RBAC, patch remediation, certificates, and PCI/SOC audit evidence collection.
Core Technical Strengths
How I Work
I enjoy the hands-on side of systems engineering: troubleshooting, stabilizing production systems, documenting what matters, and building automation that makes support work more repeatable. I work well with infrastructure teams, security teams, application owners, and support groups because most real problems cross more than one technical boundary.
What Colleagues Say
Rob Schlick
Observability Systems Principal | IT Strategy | Enterprise Architecture
"Steven is an exceptionally reliable and highly skilled systems engineer who operates confidently across hybrid cloud and private cloud environments. He approaches infrastructure challenges with a calm, analytical mindset and consistently delivers stable, well-planned solutions. I recommend him without hesitation."
Erik Keller
Senior SQL Server/Oracle DBA | Blackbaud
"Steven was our go-to engineer in production services and platform engineering. He handled complex infrastructure issues thoughtfully, communicated clearly, and brought strong technical breadth across core infrastructure areas."
Recommendations reproduced from LinkedIn recommendations.