Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Cloud and Security solutions Head with over 25 years of rich and insightful experience in various domains backed by Engineering Bachelor’s Degree. Strong Cloud Solutions Architecture Experience in all three major Cloud Solution Services – MS Azure, AWS and GCP. Understand Customer Challenges and provide Cloud and Security Solutions to reduce their Business Risks in the area of IT and OT. Design, Architecture and provide Best of Breed Security Solutions for IT Cloud Network like Cloud Native Applications Protection Platform(CNAPP) covering CSPM, CIEM, CWPP and Code Security Design, Architecture and provide Best of Breed Security Solutions for Operations Technology(OT) and Industry Control Systems(ICS) like Secure Remote Access(SRA) solution to prevent OT vendors from accessing Customer Network directly and give remote access to only specific OT systems/Applications to which they are authorized. Design, Architecture and provide Zero Trust Security(SASE) solutions to help Customers move away from Traditional Network Architecture design and switch to Modern Network Architecture design based on Zero Trust Security Principles. Having good experience in designing and Implementing Cloud Security Services like SIEM(Azure Sentinel), L3 and L7 Security, WAF, API Security etc. Responsible for providing Cloud Solutions in both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) areas including SAP HANA on Cloud, Analytics and Automation. More than 16 years of strong Pre-Sales, project management & team leading experience in IT industry with excellent communication, presentation and customer front-ending skills. Highly motivated, self-starter, strong technical skills, excellent business acumen, keen eye for detail, catalyst for change with excellent leadership & strong people management skills.
Primarily responsible for providing Cloud and Security solutions specifically on Zero Trust Security principles, Secure Access Service Edge(SASE) and OT and IIoT Security. Trusted Advisor to the Customer. Understand the Customer Pain Points and provide best technology solutions to mitigate Business risks. Work together with the Customer's Network, Cloud and Security Architects to help them move away from the Traditional Network Architecture design and help them move to a "Modern Network Architecture design" for better end user performance, agility, avoid Network backhauling and at the same time achieve enhanced Network security by reducing the overall Attack surface. Presently working on providing a Secure Remote Access(SRA) solution to allow 3rd party Vendors and Suppliers to securely access the OT systems located in Customer's Factory location. Working with OT Security Partners like Claroty, Fortinet, BeyondTrust and Secomea to design the Best of Breed OT Security solution for the Customer. Work closely with key partners like Zscaler, Netskope and Microsoft to design Cloud Security solutions for Enterprise Customers and together build Go to Market Strategic solutions.
Primary Responsibilities: § Build Cloud Security Solutions primarily in the area of Zero Trust Security, Cloud Native Applications Protection Platform (CNAPP), Secure Cloud Foundation Solutions, SIEM, IAM solution etc. § Work closely with Prime OEMs like: i. Microsoft, Google, AWS for Cloud Security and Secure Landing Zone ii. Zscaler, Netskope and Palo Alto for Zero Trust Security iii. Zscaler, Palo Alto and Sysdig for CNAPP solution § Build Go-To-Market(GTM) Solution offerings for customers along with Prime OEMs. § Work Proactively with Customers and Global Pre-Sales teams to understand the Customer Pain points and implement Cloud Security solutions for customers. § Regular Technical sessions, Workshops, Road shows etc for the Customers and Sales teams to make them aware of the new solutions offerings and GTM solutions.
Prime Responsibilities of me and team are: Design and build Automation Platform on MS Azure and AWS Cloud. Prepare a Robust Architecture design on Cloud covering all aspects like Security, Secure Customer Connectivity to the platform, Multi-Tenancy, Data Isolation between Tenants, High Availability and Redundancy. Make the Platform more Agile by introducing key PaaS services like AKS, PostGre SQL, SQL Elastic Pool, Azure Firewall, Azure AD etc in Azure and RDS, Elastic Cache, Elastic Search, Transit Gateway, AWS Directory services etc in AWS. Make the platform more Secure by configuring Security at all levels, Perimeter, Network, Applications, Data and Endpoints. Move the platform from Traditional to Microservices based approach by introducing Kubernetes and dockers. Have frequent discussions with Cybersecurity Architect Review Board (CARB) to have our CIAP Architecture design Approved for Production deployment. Prepare Solution Sizing and BoM to build a Cost Model for customers comprising of various Automation services. Conduct PoC/demos for customers as well as other teams to help them understand our solution better.
Worked as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect in Microsoft Alliance. Prime Responsibility was to provide MS Azure solutions to various customers and TCS Account teams across the Globe.