Oliver Giess
Auckland-based, Microsoft-certified, and most at home in the part of IT where identity, devices, security baselines, and day-to-day user experience all have to work together cleanly at scale.
Selected Work
A few examples of the kinds of platform, endpoint, and identity work I tend to enjoy most in enterprise environments.
Identity + Apple
Rolled out federation to simplify sign-ins for managed Apple users and reduce friction around Apple IDs in a large end-user environment.
Deployment
Designed and delivered the company's first Autopilot deployment for an offshore team, giving the business a cleaner way to onboard devices without local IT handling every setup.
Mac management
Worked on macOS management transition into Intune, helping standardise policy, enrollment, and device management across a modern Microsoft-first environment.
Operations
Supported AVD and endpoint environments where stability, patching, and clean day-to-day operations mattered just as much as project delivery.
Core Expertise
The focus is less on collecting tool names and more on the Microsoft and endpoint stack I actually work with in real enterprise environments.
6+
Years working in Microsoft-heavy enterprise environments across New Zealand and Europe
7,200+
Endpoints and mobile devices supported across NTT, Air New Zealand, and SkyCity environments
40%
Reduction in login-related tickets at SkyCity after Apple Account Federation with Entra ID
Experience
A mix of internal enterprise roles, project delivery, and hands-on platform support across New Zealand and Europe.
Vector, Auckland
SME for Intune and endpoint management, with broader involvement across the M365 platform, at one of New Zealand's largest energy infrastructure companies.
SkyCity Group, Auckland
Level 3/4 endpoint support, security baselines, and Apple device management across a large entertainment environment.
NTT, Auckland
Enterprise client implementations and Air New Zealand estate support across 6,000+ endpoints.
Dunedin, Queenstown and Frankfurt
HeadQuarters N.D.C. · Dimension Data · Triton Partners · Misumi Europe
About
I'm an Auckland-based workplace engineer, originally from Germany. Most of my recent work sits at the overlap of Microsoft 365, Intune, and Apple device management, the stuff that keeps identity, devices, and policy working together without users noticing.
I'm most interested in the practical end of this: cleaner endpoint standards, stronger identity controls, better Apple and Microsoft integration, and automation that actually removes admin work instead of adding another layer to manage.
Cloud has been the main focus for a few years now, and AI is where that's heading next, less interested in the hype, more in where automation and intelligent tooling can take real repetitive work out of managing large environments.
Most of that automation happens through PowerShell and Graph API, scripting the repetitive parts of identity and device management so they don't need a human doing them by hand.
If you're working in the modern workplace, endpoint, or M365 space and want to connect, swap ideas, or talk through a project, send me an email. I usually reply within a day or two.