Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Business outcome based professional focused on solving Cloud and IT Infrastructure challenges using GENAI tools to resolve customer requirements, a geek with close to 19 + years of experience in IT Management, Solution Design across diverse technology stacks with deep dive skills in managing IT resources across clients and business domains. Experience Consultant and Cloud Architect, hands on skills in cloud architecting and solution design skills involving Data center operations, Azure tech stacks, Cloud, DevOps, Digital Transformation skills and helping in client transitions from various transition states including legacy to born in the cloud solutions. Mentored and developed high performing teams that deliver on a product mandate with stringent client requirements and diverse compliance needs. Proven success in stakeholder management, vendor management, procurement with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills. Strong negotiation and vendor management skills geared towards handling strategic vision, change management, and driving tight procurement budgets with an eye on saving cost without cutting quality at the same time.
As a Solution Architect worked closely, with customer to understand business requirements. Propose cost effective and efficient infrastructure to customer as per capability standards. Responsible for Leading Designing and architecting of end-to-end solution based on MBAG standards and Best Practices. Knowledge management and led documentation efforts across DevOps processes and created knowledge-sharing sessions to facilitate cross-team collaboration. Orchestrated containerized applications with Kubernetes, ensuring seamless scalability and resource optimization. Led the design and implementation of a scalable and highly available DevOps infrastructure, resulting in a 30% reduction in deployment times. (DC Exits / Transformation /Virtualization Upgrade / Migration / ILMP (Life Cycle Management) / Server Build / Decom’s)
As a Solution Architect worked closely, I have worked closely with customer to understand business requirements and turn them into tech solutions. Propose cost effective and efficient infrastructure to customer as per capability standards. We develop designs by following HPE process and assisted team members to develop best solutions. Prepared business case presentation by considering Technology and cost considerations for meeting Business IT demands. Worked closely with other Architects and customer stake holder end to end. Prepared High Level Design to support development of Proposals for Datacenter Consolidation, Remote Branch Office Setup, Production, Pre-Prod and Testing environments. Designing and implementation of VMware Products, vRA 7.X, vRO, VROPs, vRLi. Created knowledge banks and reuse artifacts, and implementation plan for VMware Infrastructure. Led Incident, Problem and Change Management tracks bringing showstoppers to closure Ensured the procured hardware is racked/stacked, cabled by the Data center team to certify the hardware for OS installation and configuration by the platform team. Configuration and maintenance of HP C7000 enclosures, CISCO UCS along with planning and placement of blades as per the customer requirements to ensure seamless maintenance and rollout
Handled Server Level Administration of ~6000+ Servers through Remote Administration. - SPOC for Change Management and X2X Migration Activities - Active Participation in Service delivery improvements Projects - Drove and led recruitment programs - Adapt at Trouble shooting P2V and V2V issues - Handled Windows Server Administration and Network related issues. - Handled Exchange related issues - BAU tasks such as Day to Day Server administration
- Acquired Knowledge of Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Workstation including, - Installation, Administering, Configuring, Optimizing, Integrating a network and trouble-shooting. - Managing Networks on Windows 2000 server including Windows Directory services, trust relationship, Analysis and Optimization of networks and trouble-shooting