Our meeting for September’2023 took place on 20th September, starting at 6 PM central time. It was an in-person event hosted at – Kiewit (12720 I St, Omaha, NE 68137).
Food and drinks were provided by our sponsor 15-20 minutes before the meeting start time. Our sponsor also did several giveaways, including a mechanical keyboard, a coffee warmer, and a Bluetooth Speaker.
Topic: Using Azure Policy to enforce standards
Azure Policy helps you manage and prevent IT issues with policy definitions that enforce rules and effects for your resources. Azure Policy helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at scale. In this demo-heavy presentation, we will go through demos on using Azure Policy to enforce organization standards, view resource compliance, and remediate or exempt Non-compliant resources.
Speaker: Santosh Anampalli
Santosh Anampalli is currently working with Kiewit as a Cloud Architect. In his current role, he works on Cloud strategy, Architecture Patterns Practices, and Governance across Cloud environments. He has been working in IT for around 20 years and on Azure Cloud for more than 8 years. He holds an MS in CIS from Bellevue University.
Sponsor: Kiewit
The technology group at Kiewit consists of over 600 IT professionals who serve the engineering and construction business in their mission to deliver important and sophisticated projects to Kiewit’s clients. Kiewit designs and builds some of the most important infrastructure that keeps modern society going. When you turn on the lights, use clean water, drive on smooth roads, receive care in a hospital building, or enjoyed amazing public spaces like Omaha’s Gene Leahy Mall, Kiewit may have played a part in making that possible. These aren’t the only things Kiewit is doing but is a good representation of the diversity of Kiewit’s business.
A business this diverse needs diverse software to help drive the vast number of business processes involved. Software developers and cloud administrators at Kiewit experience all aspects of this diversity in their day-to-day work. Our developers are building tools to help support important processes like project estimation, resource assignment, design tool supplements, and many more. Kiewit is a large Microsoft Azure customer and hosts most of the custom-developed applications in the cloud and utilizes dozens of different Azure services.
Being a 139-year-old company has taught Kiewit that people are its most important asset, and they have a culture to support this. In addition, Kiewit offers a number of great benefits:
– Every employee is given a $4,000 / year training budget to support their career advancement.
– The company has a 6% 401K match + a 2%-4% profit sharing contribution.
– Being a large company gives Kiewit the ability to provide comprehensive and competitive health benefits.
Find your next career with Kiewit [here].