Joe Hill
Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. AI enablement for production systems.
Portland, Tennessee. Open to remote (US).
Nearly 20 years keeping production systems up, Navy messaging to a hybrid on-prem and Azure SaaS platform where I own uptime. In 2026 I designed how AI may act on infrastructure and was the approval point for the first AI-run projects. Azure, Bicep, SQL Server, Ansible, SOC 2 Type II. Founder of Morning Stack.
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Experience
Morning Stack
2026-presentFounder · Portland, TN
- Founded and run solo a subscription SaaS that searches job openings overnight with real browser automation and delivers three tailored application packages per customer at 7 AM. The customer reviews and submits; nothing auto-applies.
- Built a nightly multi-agent pipeline across three model providers, with routing tuned by blind benchmarks and QA gates that assume agents make mistakes.
- Run the business with scheduled AI agents: monitoring, weekly code review, bug fixes, support triage and reporting.
- Public retail launch August 2026.
B2B SaaS company
2016-presentSystems Administrator (2016), Systems Engineer (2019), Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer (2026) · Remote
- Own uptime and platform direction for a hybrid on-prem and Azure SaaS platform (Windows, SQL Server, IIS, Redis, RabbitMQ) inside a SOC 2 Type II program. Wrote the department's AI setup standard and run AI tool intake.
- Designed the company's first controlled lane for an AI agent on infrastructure: credential-bound SSH, a seven-verb gatekeeper, a non-production allowlist, audit log and operator-cleared cooldown. Leadership approved it in about 90 seconds.
- Plan and approval point for an AI-run patching modernization: 26 days, 129 merged changes, 27 legacy scheduled tasks retired, one schedule across QA, stage, production and DR; 12 months of patch evidence in 31 minutes.
- Ran the first complete disaster-recovery drill in years through a one-click pipeline: 6h 14m from failover to a verified application against a 24-hour RTO, 100 of 100 tables verified, audit evidence signed off.
- Technical lead for a production SQL Server hardware migration: replication seeding about 75% faster, cloud subscriber relink in about 7 seconds versus an estimated 16 hours, zero data loss, same-day cutover.
- Ops-side architect for the Azure landing zone in Bicep: management groups, policy as code, hub-and-spoke networking, GitHub Actions on private runners. Phase one took about 2 months against a 6 to 10 month estimate.
Roche Diagnostics / Genentech
2013-2016Service Desk and Onsite Support, Subject-Matter Expert, IT Project Analyst · Indianapolis, IN and South San Francisco, CA
- Service desk and onsite support for 6,000+ users and 170+ applications; subject-matter expert for five enterprise applications across about 20,000 employees in North and Latin America.
- Rolled out 15,000 iOS devices and migrated 8,000 users to Google Suite.
- IT Project Analyst on the North America Contact Center Migration (requirements, training, testing, deployment, hypercare), then a year of project work in South San Francisco.
- Rotational team lead and internal trainer.
U.S. Navy
2008-2011Information Systems Technician · Norfolk, VA and Sasebo, Japan
- NREMS Administrator at NCTAMS LANT: ran classified naval messaging for about 1,500 commands and 4,000 customers from the Midwest to the Middle East; 11 direct reports after 12 months.
- Restored primary messaging service with a 48-hour Atlantic-Pacific replication restore, saving about $50K.
- USS Essex, forward-deployed: led a team of 8 supporting 3,000 shipboard users and the ship's flight-operations and maintenance systems; redesigned training and raised the advancement rate from 8% to 85%.
- Letter of Commendation from the commanding Rear Admiral. Held a Top Secret/SCI clearance (expired).
- 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami relief: 20+ volunteer hours.
Skills
- AI operations
- Claude Code (skills, hooks, scheduled routines, subagents), MCP, n8n, Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry, adversarial model review, agent governance (trust stages, least-privilege identities, evidence rules)
- Azure
- Management groups, Azure Policy, Entra ID, Key Vault, private endpoints and DNS, VPN gateways, App Service, Functions, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Site Recovery
- Infrastructure as code and automation
- Bicep, Azure CLI, azd, Ansible over SSH (Windows and Linux), PowerShell, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
- Data and platform
- SQL Server 2019 and 2022 (transactional replication, change tracking, CDC, TDE), Redis, RabbitMQ, Windows Server 2019 and 2022, Ubuntu LTS, IIS, Proxmox
- Operations and compliance
- Site24x7, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana, PagerDuty, SOC 2 Type II (access reviews, change control, DR drills, patch evidence), incident command, cost governance
Education
- IUPUI, Kelley School of Business
- Business management coursework, 2011-2013. Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Sigma Eta honor societies.
- University of Phoenix
- Management coursework, 2013-2016.
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