Summary
Duncan Kirkland is a Senior Automation Engineer with nine years' experience building and operating IT services across enterprise environments in Queensland, Australia. He leads automation, identity governance, and device lifecycle solutions for ~2.5k users and 3.6k devices, and serves as a subject-matter expert in SCCM, SCOM, PowerShell and Microsoft 365. His background in data science informs pragmatic, data-driven automation — including a novel system for automatically manufacturing “Golden Images” and end-to-end user lifecycle pipelines. Comfortable from hands-on tier 1/2 support through to Azure and on-prem infrastructure design, he bridges day-to-day operations with strategic platform projects like Windows 10→11 migrations and MFA adoption. Colleagues rely on him for dependable delivery, tooling that reduces manual toil, and clear governance across cloud and on-prem stacks.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Computer Science, Data Science and AI, 6.75 GPA, Bachelor of Computer Science, Data Science and AI, 6.75 GPA at Griffith University
Italian