Bhupesh Patil

Azure Cloud Engineer with total 13 years of experience (5 years of Azure and 8 years in Wintel Infrastructure), specializing in Azure compute, networking, governance, security, automation, and MSP/Partner Centre operations. Strong expertise in VM administration, identity management, cost optimization, and cloud governance across multi-subscription environments. Managed 500+ Azure VMs, improved security posture, automated operations, and supported enterprise cloud environments.

Azure Technical Consultant – Microsoft Azure - EMBEE SOFTWARE PRIVATE LTD

(2022-03)

• Managed and optimized 500+ Azure VMs across multiple clients with 99.95% availability.
• Designed and implemented Virtual Network, subnets, NSGs, peering, Application Gateways, and routing architectures.
• Implemented Private Endpoints and Private DNS to secure PaaS resources.
• Automated operational tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Automation Accounts.
• Managed Azure Firewall with NAT rules, internet restrictions, and URL whitelisting.
• Designed backup, storage, replication, and DR strategies using Azure services.
• Configured Azure Monitor, alerts, dashboards, and Defender for Cloud recommendations.
• Implemented Conditional Access, PIM, MFA, IAM, and RBAC for secure identity governance.
• Executed cost optimization, reducing overall cloud spend through policies, right-sizing, and RI purchases.
• Handled Azure Reservation lifecycle: buy, cancel, renew for EA & CSP.
• Delivered Partner Centre operations including tenant creation, subscription provisioning & COCP activities.
• Managed SLA-driven Azure production environments handling P1/P2 incidents/ Escalations.
• Worked on ticketing systems and performed root cause analysis (RCA).
• Participated in On-Call support.

Wintel Systems Administrator - EMBEE SOFTWARE PRIVATE LTD

(2018-05 - 2022-02)

• Managed Windows Server environments (2008–2022), AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO.
• Provided L2/L3 support, incident handling, and escalation management.
• Managed Aruba AP, FortiClient VPN, and enterprise endpoint support.
• Troubleshoot Windows Server / client issues, logs collection, Event Viewer.

Wintel Administrator - ALPHA CAPITAL ADVISORS PVT. LTD

(2017-06 - 2018-05)

• Managed server/client backups
• Mail configurations
• Antivirus management
• Tally ERP server setups

System Administrator - IMPACT SOLUTION LTD (Client: Wipro)

(2013-01 - 2017-06)

• Backup operations with Symantec
• software deployments
• client environment support.

Desktop Support Engineer - INTERDRIL ASIA LTD

(2012-03 - 2012-11)

Diploma - Basic Electronic & Computer Hardware - Jetking Institute (2009)

B.Com (2006)