Principal Systems & Platform Engineer

Antonio Brian Roberts

Platform Architecture/ Technical Strategy/ Engineering Leadership

I lead platform engineering for a multi-cloud healthcare enterprise, turning cloud infrastructure, automation, and AI into paved roads other engineering teams can build on.

3
cloud platforms
under management
300+
apps migrated
to cloud
99.9%
uptime across
business-critical apps
80%
faster OS
image builds

Current role

Systems Engineer — Principal, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Baptist Health South Florida · Remote
01/2026 — Present
  • Define platform architecture, technical strategy, and roadmaps for enterprise cloud and platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, supporting a multi-account, enterprise-scale cloud estate.
  • Lead the development of internal platforms and golden paths that simplify how engineering teams provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, and consume cloud services.
  • Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, establishing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and aligning platform investments with enterprise priorities.
  • Shape the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering capabilities within platform workflows, with an emphasis on secure enterprise use.

Career highlights

Led a cross-functional team to onboard a Google Cloud landing zone, enabling large-scale workload migration within 12 months.

Systems Engineer, Lead · 2022–2025

Managed a large, multi-account AWS estate while sustaining 99.9% uptime across business-critical applications.

Systems Engineer, Lead · 2022–2025

Eliminated 100% of critical and high cloud vulnerabilities by implementing cloud security posture management tooling, achieving full compliance.

Senior Systems Engineer · 2021–2022

Migrated 300+ on-prem business applications to AWS Cloud, using rehost and replatform strategies with minimal downtime and optimized performance.

Senior Systems Engineer · 2021–2022

Automated an AWS image-factory pipeline with Packer, Ansible, PowerShell, GitLab CI/CD, and Docker, slashing OS-image build time by 80% (5 h to 45 m).

Senior Systems Engineer · 2021–2022

Engineered reusable GitLab CI/CD templates with Docker, ECR, and Terraform to fully automate infrastructure deployments, cutting provisioning time by 70% (2 h to 30 m).

Senior Systems Engineer · 2021–2022

Technical skills

Platforms
Cloud Infrastructure · Developer Self-Service · Container Platforms · Software Delivery · Platform Engineering
Cloud
AWS · Google Cloud · Azure · Hybrid Cloud
Automation
Terraform · GitLab CI/CD · Packer · Ansible · Python · PowerShell
Security & Identity
IAM · Workload Identity · Zero Trust · Cloud Governance
AI & ML
DataRobot · Amazon SageMaker · Claude Apps Gateway (Amazon Bedrock)
Leadership
Platform Architecture · Technical Strategy · Engineering Leadership

Career history

01/2026 — Present
Baptist Health South FloridaSystems Engineer, Principal
11/2022 — 12/2025
Baptist Health South FloridaSystems Engineer, Lead
Promoted from Senior Systems Engineer to lead cloud platform strategy.
07/2021 — 10/2022
Baptist Health South FloridaSenior Systems Engineer, Cloud
03/2017 — 06/2021
Baptist Health South FloridaSenior Systems Engineer
"O365 Migration Champion" — led the org's move to SharePoint Online, sustaining a 99.9% SLA across an 8-farm, 2TB+ estate.
03/2015 — 02/2017
Baptist Health South FloridaSharePoint Systems Engineer III
Ran the infrastructure behind baptisthealth.net and built a PowerShell deployment toolkit that cut site-creation and deployment effort 60%.
2013 — 2015
Broward CollegeSharePoint Administrator
Ran a high-availability platform serving 50k+ monthly student-portal sessions.
2009 — 2013
TRAX USANetwork Administrator III
Automated patching across on-prem and colocation infrastructure, cutting ticket volume 30%.
2006 — 2009
SYMX TechnologiesIT Manager
Insourced SharePoint and Exchange, cutting OPEX.
2004 — 2006
Symphony Medical · AlienwareNetwork Administrator · Critical Issues Team

Education & certifications

Bachelor of Business Administration — Management Information Systems
Florida International University · 2011
Google Associate Cloud Engineer2024
HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003)2023
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate2022

Awards

Golden Pineapple Award Nominee
2023 · Baptist Health South Florida
CDIO Award — Cloud Foundation Innovation
2022 · Baptist Health South Florida
CDIO Award — Cloud Security Innovation
2022 · Baptist Health South Florida
IT Star Performer of the Year
2010 · TRAX USA