patrik@perkovic: ~

$ whoami

name
Patrik Perkovic
location
Wollongong, NSW — remote by default, on site around greater Sydney and beyond, from the Central Coast down through the Illawarra & South Coast
role
Infrastructure & Cloud Project Engineer @ Cloud Context
lang
English · Croatian
uptime
Fixing computers for money since 2010. Still have not been paged at 3am for a printer. Yet.

$ cat about.txt

I’m Patrik — an infrastructure and cloud project engineer who genuinely enjoys the parts other people find boring: clean networks, tenants that behave, endpoints that don’t need reimaging twice. Azure, Intune, MECM/SCCM and M365 are where I live day to day, but I came up through the help desk and the field, so I’m just as happy in a comms room as I am in a portal.

Based in Wollongong, working remotely by default, and on site with clients across greater Sydney and beyond. Off-duty I run retro LAN parties and restore Windows 9x-era machines, usually with a camera running.

$

$ ls ./skills

cloud & identity/

  • microsoft azure
  • entra id
  • microsoft 365
  • exchange online
  • sharepoint & onedrive
  • teams voice / telephony
  • azure virtual desktop

endpoint management/

  • intune
  • mecm / sccm
  • windows autopilot
  • windows 11 deployment
  • application packaging
  • group policy

infrastructure/

  • windows server
  • active directory ds
  • azure local
  • vmware esxi
  • hyper-v
  • citrix daas
  • linux
  • veeam
  • backup & dr

network/

  • fortigate ngfw
  • cisco ios
  • unifi
  • aruba
  • routing & switching
  • wireless design & deployment
  • vpn & remote access
  • dns / dhcp

security/

  • defender for endpoint
  • conditional access & mfa
  • email filtering
  • security baselines & hardening
  • pki & certificates
  • patch management

delivery/

  • powershell
  • migrations & cutovers
  • scoping & solution design
  • documentation & handover
  • monitoring & rmm

$ cat certifications.txt

  • [x] Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
  • [x] Fortinet NSE 4 — Network Security Professional

./education

  • [x] Certificate III — Information and Digital Media (Networking) — TAFE NSW 2015 — 2016

$ history --work

  1. Cloud Context

    May 2025 — present

    1. Infrastructure & Cloud Project Engineer

      Apr 2026 — present Sydney, NSW
      • Part of the professional services team, where I take infrastructure and cloud projects end to end — scoping, design, build, migration and handover.
      • My work spans the full stack: Azure and Azure Local, Microsoft 365, endpoint management, virtualisation, networking and security.
      • Recent projects include a greenfield Intune implementation and an Azure Local deployment.
      • Every environment I hand over comes with the as-built documentation and runbooks the supporting team needs.

    2. Senior Systems Engineer

      May 2025 — Mar 2026 Parramatta, NSW
      • Senior escalation point for managed services customers, owning complex faults across cloud, server, endpoint and network environments through to resolution.
      • Alongside the escalations, I gave the service desk technical direction and chased down the root causes behind recurring incidents.

  2. Precision IT

    Feb 2022 — Mar 2025

    1. Infrastructure Technician

      Jun 2024 — Mar 2025 Sydney, NSW
      • Day-to-day ownership of client infrastructure — servers, virtualisation, firewalls and backup systems.
      • Hardware refreshes and site rollouts were mine end to end, from staging and configuration through to installation and handover.

    2. Senior Service Delivery Technician / Level 3 Technician

      Feb 2022 — Jun 2024 North Sydney, NSW
      • Level 3 escalation point for infrastructure, identity and networking faults across the client base.
      • Also technical lead for a small internal team of technicians — triage, guidance and mentoring alongside my own delivery work.

  3. First Central

    Feb 2020 — Jan 2022 Haywards Heath, England, UK

    1. Field Service Technician

      Apr 2021 — Jan 2022

    2. Technical Support Analyst

      Feb 2020 — Apr 2021

  4. Precision IT

    Jul 2019 — Oct 2019 Sydney, NSW

    1. Support Associate / Level 1 Help Desk

# Prior to 2019: close to a decade of self-employed computer repair alongside customer-facing roles with Microsoft's retail brand team and JB Hi-Fi. That is where I learned to explain technology to regular people without the jargon — still one of the more useful things I bring to a job.

$ ls ~/off-duty

./retro lan parties

I run Palms Arcade — LAN parties built around the hardware people actually grew up with. CRTs, beige boxes, and a room full of people lighting up when they spot the machine they had as a kid. Half the fun is the gear, the other half is the crowd that turns up for it. The network is my job, so everyone else can just get on with the games.

→ palms-arcade.com

  • events
  • networking
  • lan

./vintage computer restoration

Windows 9x, XP and Vista-era hardware and software is my happy place — restoring machines, hunting period-correct drivers, and wiring up the networking of the era (IPX, NetBIOS, workgroups) to see how far it gets.

  • windows 9x
  • xp
  • vista
  • retro networking
  • restoration

./the homelab

A rack of servers humming away in the garage — hypervisors, VLANs, a NAS that keeps quietly growing, and a UPS that has earned its keep more than once. It is where I break things properly before they go anywhere near a client. It is also, I suspect, the reason for the power bill I have decided not to investigate.

  • proxmox
  • docker
  • nas
  • vlans

$ ./contact.sh

Want to work with me, or just talk shop? Say hello.