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Ayaz Patel

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London, England, United Kingdom

// Experience

Where I've Worked

Trident Energy

6 years 5 months

IT Infrastructure Project Lead

January 2026 — Present London, England, United Kingdom
  • Leading end-to-end IT infrastructure projects across multiple global locations, ensuring delivery on time, within scope and budget
  • Driving cloud migration and hybrid infrastructure strategies, optimising workloads across Azure and on-premises environments
  • Managing cross-functional project teams and coordinating with international counterparts to deliver complex technical solutions
  • Defining project roadmaps, resource plans and risk mitigation strategies for infrastructure modernisation initiatives
  • Overseeing the design and implementation of enterprise networking, security hardening and disaster recovery frameworks
  • Establishing governance and compliance standards for infrastructure deployments across geographically distributed sites
  • Collaborating with senior leadership to align IT infrastructure strategy with broader business objectives and growth plans
  • Mentoring and developing team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence

Senior Cloud Architect

January 2024 — December 2025 London, England, United Kingdom
  • Architected and delivered enterprise-scale Azure cloud solutions, including landing zones, networking topologies and identity frameworks
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform and ARM templates to standardise cloud provisioning
  • Designed and enforced Azure governance policies, RBAC structures and cost management frameworks company-wide
  • Engineered hybrid connectivity solutions including ExpressRoute, site-to-site VPN and Azure Virtual WAN across global offices
  • Developed automated monitoring, alerting and remediation pipelines using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and PowerShell runbooks
  • Conducted cloud security assessments and implemented zero-trust architecture principles, improving the organisation's security posture
  • Provided technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineering teams, acting as the escalation point for complex cloud challenges

Senior System Administrator

November 2019 — January 2024 London, United Kingdom
  • Architecting, Deploying and Managing a large network of Linux / Windows Servers in three parts of the world
  • Technical Lead on all IT Projects
  • Working as a large team with counterparts in other countries
  • Resolving technical challenges with deploying solutions in difficult locations
  • Architecting, Deploying and Managing Azure company-wide
  • Enacting policies and policing them to ensure Cybersecurity Compliance
  • Curating PowerShell scripts for management / automation purposes

Livedrive

System Administrator

February 2019 — November 2019 London, United Kingdom
  • Working in a small team managing a large infrastructure environment
  • Managing the Windows environment as the sole engineer (100+ Servers)
  • Optimising performance on the servers to handle more requests
  • Ensuring systems are up and meeting service requirements
  • Deploying and building new storage nodes to extend the storage pool based on CentOS
  • Rebuilding the Active Directory environment for a Datacenter move
  • Working with AWS

Fitzrovia I.T. Limited

Technical Delivery Engineer

June 2018 — February 2019 London, United Kingdom
  • Deploying solutions to clients across Servers, Clients, Networking, Cloud and web frontend
  • Planning the implementation of solutions for customers
  • Servicing and maintaining infrastructure on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud
  • Scripting and automating tasks using PowerShell
  • Implementing networking solutions (Sonicwall, Meraki, Aerohive, pfSense, Sophos UTM, Watchguard)
  • Managing projects and ensuring timely delivery to clients
  • Migrating users to new infrastructure (Office 365, Active Directory, DFSR, SharePoint, Azure)
  • Securing customer environments with pentests (Sophos, SentinelOne, GFI)

Acuutech

System Administrator - Level 3

January 2018 — June 2018 Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom
  • Managing a Private Cloud / Managed Service environment for multiple clients
  • Working with Storage Spaces Direct, Citrix (PVS and local storage), BackupExec
  • Working with the full Microsoft stack (Azure, Office365, On-Prem Directory, Clustering)
  • Handling all Linux based calls (CentOS, Ubuntu) hosting websites and file services
  • Rebuilt entire client environment from scratch after hard drive failure

Timico

2 years 10 months

Onsite Engineer

July 2016 — December 2017 London, United Kingdom
  • Troubleshooting issues with users face to face on a daily basis
  • Working across 5 customer sites in London on a rotating rota
  • Gaining experience with SCCM, MDT, VMWare ESXi, Hyper-V, Cisco ASA, pfSense and more
  • Security pentesting and implementing security headers, DMARC, SPF, SSL
  • Building relationships with customers as the acting face of the company

IT Support Engineer

March 2015 — July 2016 London, United Kingdom
  • Working within an MSP for 80+ clients
  • Managing Windows Server 2003-2016 and Exchange 2007-2016
  • Working with Office 365 and Azure cloud platforms
  • Exceeded KPIs month on month
  • Training the team and other departments on new technologies
  • Deployed solutions at scale for clients

Zenzero Solutions Ltd

IT Support Analyst

October 2014 — January 2015 United Kingdom
  • Managing a large volume of tickets daily using Autotask
  • Maintaining Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 environments
  • Managing Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013
  • Networking troubleshooting — TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, LAN, WAN, VPNs
  • Building computers from scratch for business deployment

// Skills

Technologies & Tools

Cloud & Infrastructure

AzureAWSGoogle CloudOffice 365Hyper-VVMware ESXiCitrixStorage Spaces Direct

Operating Systems

Windows ServerCentOSUbuntuLinux

Networking & Security

Cisco ASAMerakiSonicwallpfSenseSophos UTMWatchguardDNSDHCPVPNSSLDMARC/SPF

Automation & Scripting

PowerShellScriptingSCCMMDTGroup Policy

Services & Applications

Active DirectoryExchangeSharePointNGINXApacheNFSDFSRBackupExec

Security

Penetration TestingSentinelOneKasperskyMimecastGFIBitlockerITIL

// Credentials

Certifications & Education

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

ITIL

AXELOS

Education

Leyton Sixth Form College

BTEC National Diploma in IT, Information Technology

2008 - 2011