wes.hozee

Infrastructure Architect

Wesley
Hozee

Two decades building enterprise infrastructure that doesn't flinch—cloud migrations, security architecture, and resilience engineering for organisations that can't afford downtime.

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Summary

Infrastructure Architect with over two decades of experience transforming technology environments for organisations of all sizes. Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable solutions that advance business goals while meeting the demands of regulated settings such as financial services.

Works comfortably within audit and compliance frameworks, partnering with risk and legal teams to align architecture and operations with policies and standards, and to maintain clear evidence for reviews. Technical adaptability spans diverse platforms—Windows or Linux, virtualised or containerised, on Hyper-V, VMware, or Proxmox, and across Google, Amazon, or Microsoft clouds—alongside extensive experience with enterprise networking.

Cloud ArchitectureSecurity Architecture & Identity ManagementDisaster Recovery & Business ContinuityRisk & Compliance AlignmentAudit Readiness & Operational Governance

Experience

Apr 2012 – Present

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Platinum Asset Management

Focused on modernising enterprise platforms and strengthening security. Leads migration of applications to cloud services, oversees identity and access governance, and manages infrastructure lifecycle from capacity planning to decommissioning. Partners with leadership and vendors to deliver resilient, compliant solutions aligned with strategic goals.

Cloud & Architecture

  • Cloud migration strategy and execution (on-premises to cloud)
  • Cloud governance and access control (RBAC, least privilege)
  • Serverless architecture design and implementation
  • High availability and disaster recovery planning

Identity & Security

  • Identity and access management (IAM) best practices
  • Privileged access management (PIM/JIT)
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) integration and certificate lifecycle management
  • Security compliance and governance frameworks

Infrastructure & Operations

  • Virtualisation and hypervisor management
  • Capacity planning and hardware lifecycle management
  • Risk-controlled decommissioning of legacy systems
  • Performance optimisation and resilience engineering

DevOps & Automation

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
  • CI/CD pipeline integration and deployment automation
  • Monitoring and observability solutions

Governance & Leadership

  • Technical governance and design authority
  • Vendor and license management
  • Cross-functional stakeholder engagement
May 2008 – Apr 2012

Windows Infrastructure Administrator

Seven Network

Responsible for the daily management and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure supporting over 4,000 users across Australia and the USA.

Infrastructure

  • Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (4,000+ users, multiple locations)
  • 200 virtual servers across 10 clusters nationwide
  • 3 SAN infrastructures
  • SQL Server 2000–2008 R2
  • Citrix Server Administration
  • Multi-domain and multi-forest network administration

Operations & Leadership

  • Training, development, and supervision of system administration staff
  • Hardware and software rollouts (new deployments and upgrades)
  • Project planning and management
  • System audits, risk assessment, and disaster recovery strategy
2004 – 2008

Services Engineer

ComputerCORP

Technical lead on projects, proof-of-concept engagements, and pilots for small, medium, and large corporations.

Technical

  • SOE design, maintenance, deployment, and analysis for various clients
  • Active Directory design and analysis
  • Technical solutions design (servers, storage, data centre fit-outs)
  • Technical pre-sales support (fault-tolerant servers, storage, software)
  • Point of escalation for server and network hardware and software

Leadership

  • Project management across multiple client engagements
  • Team leader and assistant project manager for state and national rollouts
  • Technical training and product demonstrations (internal and external)
  • Scope of works and quotation development

Skills

Virtualisation

Hyper-VVMware vSphereProxmox

Cloud

Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformAWS

Containerisation

DockerContainer orchestration

Identity & Access

IAMPIM / JITSSORBAC

Networking

Enterprise Network DesignSecure connectivityLoad balancing

Compliance

NISTRegulatory ComplianceAudit frameworks

Automation

Infrastructure as CodeCI/CDPowerShell

Hobby Projects

TymTrax

2026

Work-hours tracking and ATO-compliant tax deduction reporting for Australian workers. Logs WFH, office, and travel days on a calendar, calculates the 67 cents/hour fixed-rate deduction in real time, and exports accountant-ready PDF and CSV reports. Built with 5-year record retention and public holiday colour-coding.

Next.js 15TypeScriptSupabaseTailwind CSSDocker

Agentic AI Financial Analysis Platform

2025

Full-stack platform delivering AI-powered buy, sell, or hold recommendations for stocks, crypto, commodities, and currencies. An agentic pipeline coordinates multiple Gemini AI models to analyse market data and surface structured, evidence-backed signals through an interactive dashboard.

PythonFlaskPostgreSQLGoogle Gemini AIDocker

Stagehand

2025

Discord scraper and content management system for podcast creators. Continuously ingests URLs shared by community members, allows producers to categorise and tag content, and presents a clean interface for building episode research queues from community activity.

ReactTypeScriptExpressDiscord.jsPostgreSQLDocker

Stagehand Android App

2025

Native Android companion for the Stagehand platform. Lets podcast producers manage and categorise Discord-sourced URLs on the go, with offline support and a material design interface built on Jetpack Compose.

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Claude Gauge

2026

Stream Deck plugin that monitors Anthropic Claude usage limits in real time. Displays 7-day rolling and 5-hour session usage as live progress bars, percentages, and countdown timers directly on a physical Stream Deck key — no browser tab required.

TypeScriptNode.jsStream Deck SDKSVGOAuth

Chuckling Koala Solutions Site

2025

Modern, responsive business website for an IT consulting firm. Built on Next.js 15 with Sanity CMS for flexible content management, containerised with Docker, and designed for easy handoff to non-technical content editors.

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