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Umesh Rawal

Melbourne,Australia

Summary

Senior Cloud Engineer with 8+ years experience designing, automating, and operating enterprise-grade cloud platforms. Adept at leading cloud adoption initiatives, standardizing infrastructure with IaC, and implementing governance frameworks to ensure secure and compliant environments. Skilled in modernizing platforms using AKS, CI/CD automation, and observability practices to achieve reliability, agility, and cost optimization.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Cloud Engineer

Deloitte
Melbourne
12.2023 - Current
  • Designed secure, scalable solutions including, a multi-tenant GenAI application on Azure (OpenAI, Front Door, API Management)
  • Standardized infrastructure management by importing existing Azure resources into Bicep templates, enabling version-controlled deployments
  • Managed containerized application lifecycle on AKS, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments aligned with Operational Excellence principles
  • Applied FinOps practices by building cloud inventory dashboards, providing visibility to support enterprise cost optimization
  • Enhanced reliability by automating synthetic monitoring in Dynatrace, enabling proactive detection across critical workloads
  • Improved security posture by automating service account lifecycle processes across Azure and AWS, strengthening identity governance.

Azure DevOps Engineer

Deloitte
Melbourne
09.2020 - 11.2023
  • Delivered CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML) to streamline deployments and improve release consistency
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Bicep and ARM, ensuring secure, repeatable environments and reducing errors in provisioning
  • Enforced cloud governance standards via Azure Policies, including compliance tagging and RBAC rules
  • Established end-to-end observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, enabling data-driven performance management
  • Acted as senior escalation support for mission-critical services (Logic Apps, Service Bus, Functions, API Management)
  • Provided mentorship to junior engineers, lifting team-wide best practices in DevOps and cloud security.

Systems Engineer

Deloitte
Melbourne
09.2017 - 08.2020
  • Provided escalation support for enterprise infrastructure incidents to maintain business-critical availability
  • Secured core platforms by managing patching for 500+ Windows servers across multiple OS versions
  • Oversaw enterprise backup and disaster recovery with Veeam and Zerto, ensuring resilience and compliance
  • Reduced incident rates by implementing proactive infrastructure health checks and monitoring processes.

Education

Master of Telecommunications and Network Engineering -

La Trobe University
Melbourne

Skills

  • Cloud services: Azure and AWS
  • Automation tools: Azure DevOps, Git, PowerShell, Bash
  • Infrastructure management: Bicep, ARM, Terraform
  • Frameworks & Practices: Microsoft Well‑Architected Framework, FinOps Framework, DevSecOps Practices, Agile
  • Container management: Docker and Kubernetes
  • Observability tools: Azure Monitor and Dynatrace
  • Security & Governance: Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, IAM, NSGs, Zero Trust Security Model
  • Scripting languages: NET, C#, Python, JavaScript
  • Architectural frameworks: Microsoft Well-Architected Framework
  • Agile practices

Accomplishments

  • Certifications:
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ‑104)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ‑204)
  • DevOps Foundation | ITIL v4

Timeline

Cloud Engineer

Deloitte
12.2023 - Current

Azure DevOps Engineer

Deloitte
09.2020 - 11.2023

Systems Engineer

Deloitte
09.2017 - 08.2020

Master of Telecommunications and Network Engineering -

La Trobe University

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