Jason Saari
Kalamazoo,MI
Summary
Dedicated System Engineer adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with vendors and clients. Expertise includes installing, configuring, and monitoring complex systems and infrastructures. Offering successful career history comprising more than 10+ years.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
System Engineer
Insight Global Contractor @ Epic Games
08.2025 - Current
- Develop and refine automations using Terraform, Puppet and Ansible.
- Design and deploy server infrastructure on AWS and Azure
- Migrate servers/applications/processes from on-premises VMWare infrastructure to AWS.
- Completed software updates and assessed security patches for optimized computer use.
- Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
Infrastructure Engineer
Greenleaf Hospitality Group
01.2021 - 08.2025
- Designed, deployed, and optimized VMware vSphere/Scale/AVD supporting 200+ VMs across production and DR sites
- Administer Microsoft Active Directory: managed domain controller replication, site topology, schema updates, GPO enforcement, DNS, and DHCP.
- Implemented and tested HA/DR strategies: Veeam Backups, Azure Backup.
- Integrated Azure ARC and Ansible to centralize hybrid server configuration, compliance reporting, and automated patching.
- Developed Terraform and Ansible modules to provision server infrastructure and automate maintenance.
- Authored PowerShell and Bash scripts to automate AD provisioning, new hire process, and patch management for Windows and Linux servers.
- Deployed and administered Intune and Jamf as MDM.
- Lead cost analysis for workload placement (cloud vs. on-prem), reducing annual infrastructure spend by 30%
Associate Engineer
Greenleaf Hospitality Group
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Led RFP to production rollout of a mobile infrastructure e project, delivering on-time with 20% under budget
- Conducted Lean Six Sigma assessments for software procurement and process improvements
- Acted as level II escalation for virtualization and AD issues, improving SLA compliance by 25%
Technology Services Specialist
Greenleaf Hospitality Group
08.2017 - 10.2019
- Supported 500+ users across multiple sites; administered 50+ Windows and Linux servers
- Streamlined PC imaging with FOG and Chocolatey, cutting deployment time from 4 hours to 45 minutes
- Optimized Mitel VOIP reliability; rolled out service desk automation tools that increased first-call resolution by 15%
Education
No Degree - Computer Science
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo, MISkills
- Desktop virtualization: Horizon and Azure Virtual Desktop
- Administration of Windows Server versions 2012 to 2025
- Linux Server Administration: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS
- Hybrid environment administration
- Veeam and Azure Backup proficiency
- Automation & IaC: Terraform; PowerShell scripting; Ansible; Bash; Chocolatey; Puppet
- Security and compliance management
- Networking: VLANs; VPN; Juniper; Meraki; Palo Alto
- Documentation & Processes: ITIL-aligned SOPs; technical runbooks; cost analysis
- Active Directory
- Group Policy
- DNS
- DHCP
- Azure AD Connect
- Azure Backup
- Terraform
- Bicep
- PowerShell
- Ansible
- Azure ARC
- Intune
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Juniper
- Meraki
- Palo Alto
- ITIL
- Network infrastructure administration
- Cloud services
- Switches and routers
- Virtualization
- Hardware and software installation
- Mobile devices
- Governance
- Server management
- Virtualization technologies
- Infrastructure design
- System administration
- Technical support
- Compliance management
- LAN/WAN
- Documentation and reporting
- Business continuity
- Scripting languages
- System monitoring
- Cost estimates
- Configuration management
- Operating systems
- Troubleshooting
- System troubleshooting
- Patch management
Accomplishments
- Designed and executed automation of New Hire intake process, reducing Service Desk ticket volume by 30% YoY.
- Drove a $500,000 annual reduction in insurance premiums via resolving critical vulnerabilities.
- Cut expenditures 40% by migrating production workloads from on-prem hardware to Azure.
- Eliminated 16 labor hours per month in manual administrative work through automating patching processes for Windows and Linux servers.
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (in progress)
- CompTIA Security+
- Network+
- A+
Timeline
System Engineer
Insight Global Contractor @ Epic Games
08.2025 - Current
Infrastructure Engineer
Greenleaf Hospitality Group
01.2021 - 08.2025
Associate Engineer
Greenleaf Hospitality Group
10.2019 - 12.2020
Technology Services Specialist
Greenleaf Hospitality Group
08.2017 - 10.2019
No Degree - Computer Science
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Additional Highlights
- Promoted twice for leading security and automation initiatives
- Recognized for developing self-service tools that cut help-desk tickets by 23%
- Versed in hybrid identity and zero-trust security frameworks
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