Michael Wilcox
Principal Cloud Engineer @ Magellan Health Services
Principal Cloud Engineer with roots in enterprise storage and Unix systems engineering, now focused on AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code automation. Three decades of hands-on systems work — from SAN fabric design in some of the largest enterprise storage environments in the world to cloud platform engineering today — grounded in a habit of running real infrastructure end to end, not just designing it on a whiteboard. Comfortable owning a system from Terraform and CloudFormation down through CI/CD pipelines, observability, and the on-call pager.
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure and storage platforms serving multiple datacenters nationwide.
- Own infrastructure-as-code delivery and cross-team project execution, from architecture through 24/7 production support.
- Deployed, configured, and managed SAN storage (EMC VMAX/VNX, IBM V9000/DS8886) across Windows, VMware, Linux, and AIX hosts.
- Designed storage solutions to business requirements; led SAN configuration, zoning, and troubleshooting on Brocade and McData fabrics.
- Managed SAN storage (EMC Symmetrix/DMX/VMAX/Clariion, Hitachi USP/USPV/AMS, IBM XIV) in one of the world's largest SAN environments.
- Implemented replication and DR (SRDF, BCV, TrueCopy, Shadow Image); provided 3rd-level SAN support across Windows, VMware, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX.
- Managed McData fabric and EMC Symmetrix storage infrastructure; coordinated firmware maintenance and SAN monitoring.
A.S., Computer Technology and Networking — Vatterott College, St. Louis, MO (1993–1996)