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(Updated 1+ year ago)Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Stockholm, Sweden
Fluent English, Hindi, Beginner Malayalam, Svenska
- Project Management, Application Migrations
- Cloud - Azure, AWS
- Datacenter - Compute, Virtualization, Storage, Backup
Skills (22)
Summary
• 17+ years of experience in the Service Delivery, Solution Architecture, IT Strategy, Datacenter & Digital Transformation, Application Migration, Project Management for Life Sciences, BFSI Verticals.
• Successfully led Application based Migration, Consolidation, Transformation & Re-Architect Programs in Nordics (Sweden, Norway), US, UK.
• Led Multiple "first time technology initiatives" across the enterprise - virtualization; hyperconverged; log monitoring; public cloud - pre-study, assessment, migration - (AWS, Azure), private cloud -IAAS/ PAAS.
• Experienced in Discovery, Planning, Design, Migration of Application Workloads to Public Cloud - AWS, Azure.
• Led Solution design, business case preparation & presentation for new Business Opportunities.
• Well organized initiative-taker with proven capacity to learn and apply new knowledge quickly.
• Ability to quickly understand key/new technologies regarding providing return on investment for any company's benefit.
• Expert in the ability to motivate and encourage staff/co-workers to perform successfully under stressful situations and deadline pressures.
Professional Experience
Deputy General Manager/Enterprise Architect
HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd
2011-10 - 2019-06
Profile
• Successfully Lead Application Migration & Transformation Projects in Nordics & Europe in different roles.
• Design, Planning, Project management, Migration of entire Business Applications Suite as part of Agreed Transformation/ Consolidation / Transition Programs.
• Closely work with Application Owners, Developers to design Highly Scalable, Resilient and Available Systems for On Premise, Public Cloud Deployments.
• Design POC/Production Environments - Landing Zones as per Business Requirements.
• Assessment, Scoping Business Case, solution Design, Costing for New Projects
• Deep Vendor Connect and Discussions (technical, Cost) for New Solutions based on Business Requirement to ensure technically sound and economically fit for End Customers.
• Instrumental in Business Growth in Current Role by ~150 Mil SEK (in 2018); introduce new Technologies - Hyperconverged (HCI - Nutanix), Log Management & Visualization (Splunk), Future DC Design;
• Work directly with Head of Infrastructure Services & Domain Architects to conclude on new Solutions / Services based on Business requirements; IT Strategy & Roadmap.
• Well versed with the AWS / Azure Cloud Migration Patterns - 6 R's - Retire, Retain, Rehost, Re-platform, Refactor or Rearchitect, Replace or Repurchase.
• Design and Application Migration Strategy/ Plan on Azure & On-premise Datacenters.
• Migration Strategy towards AWS Region Move from Ireland to Germany due to Data Sovereignty Requirements (~100 OS Instances, ~20 DB (SQL), ~50 TB Data)
• Part of the team to prepare the Reference Architecture for Cloud Adoption in AstraZeneca on AWS.
• Led & Managed technical teams from 5-20 SMEs to successfully complete Migration/Transformation Timelines.
• Documentation - Business Case, Migration Planning, Design - HLD, LLD, Blueprint Patterns, Templates for Data Capture.
• Successfully Lead Application Migration & Transformation Projects in Nordics & Europe in different roles.
• Design, Planning, Project management, Migration of entire Business Applications Suite as part of Agreed Transformation/ Consolidation / Transition Programs.
• Closely work with Application Owners, Developers to design Highly Scalable, Resilient and Available Systems for On Premise, Public Cloud Deployments.
• Design POC/Production Environments - Landing Zones as per Business Requirements.
• Assessment, Scoping Business Case, solution Design, Costing for New Projects
• Deep Vendor Connect and Discussions (technical, Cost) for New Solutions based on Business Requirement to ensure technically sound and economically fit for End Customers.
• Instrumental in Business Growth in Current Role by ~150 Mil SEK (in 2018); introduce new Technologies - Hyperconverged (HCI - Nutanix), Log Management & Visualization (Splunk), Future DC Design;
• Work directly with Head of Infrastructure Services & Domain Architects to conclude on new Solutions / Services based on Business requirements; IT Strategy & Roadmap.
• Well versed with the AWS / Azure Cloud Migration Patterns - 6 R's - Retire, Retain, Rehost, Re-platform, Refactor or Rearchitect, Replace or Repurchase.
• Design and Application Migration Strategy/ Plan on Azure & On-premise Datacenters.
• Migration Strategy towards AWS Region Move from Ireland to Germany due to Data Sovereignty Requirements (~100 OS Instances, ~20 DB (SQL), ~50 TB Data)
• Part of the team to prepare the Reference Architecture for Cloud Adoption in AstraZeneca on AWS.
• Led & Managed technical teams from 5-20 SMEs to successfully complete Migration/Transformation Timelines.
• Documentation - Business Case, Migration Planning, Design - HLD, LLD, Blueprint Patterns, Templates for Data Capture.
IT Analyst/Project Manager
McKinsey Knowledge Center India Pvt. Ltd
2005-04 - 2011-10
Profile
Project Manager on various infrastructure improvement and upgrade projects. Managed and executed various projects at various levels. Designed project plans with agreed upon timelines and effort estimation, allocate time and sub-tasks to junior team members.
Lead architect of corporate virtualization infrastructure setup running on vSphere 4.0/4.1 (ESX)/(ESXi). This position involves frequent interaction with relevant stakeholders - ID, Support, vendors and regional IT personnel.
• Architected and deployed corporate VMWare ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 150+ Physical servers across our regional datacenters and branch offices.
• Test and Deploy New Solutions/Tools - CapacityIQ (in Production), Veeam Reporter & Monitor (POC), VMware View (Pilot), vMA (Pilot).
• Led Upgrade of VMWare Infrastructure, Capacity Management, Monitoring Setup.
• Understand Office IT requirements and suggest on new hardware purchases based on current firm standards.
• Project management planning skills during project activities and initiatives which include personnel resourcing and meeting deadlines
• Design, Deploy and Transition the Monthly Patch Deployment on Windows Servers via Altiris Software Patch Management.
• Frequently gauge training requirements of the team and follow up with Vendors - Pricing, Content, Resources and Schedule, to ensure up-to date knowledge level.
Achievements
• Project Manager for the following projects: VMware - Datacenter/offices design & setup, monitoring and scripting, Capacity Planning & Trend Analysis of Virtual machines. Patch Management, DNS Architectural Changes, ADS Rights Management, Windows 2008 upgrade, Regional Backup for Offices.
• Undertook numerous trainings on Windows (2003/2008), VMWare vSphere to ensure team members have the right skillset required for their role.
• Creation of WMI /ADSI/Powershell Scripts for automating day-to-day tasks.
Project Manager on various infrastructure improvement and upgrade projects. Managed and executed various projects at various levels. Designed project plans with agreed upon timelines and effort estimation, allocate time and sub-tasks to junior team members.
Lead architect of corporate virtualization infrastructure setup running on vSphere 4.0/4.1 (ESX)/(ESXi). This position involves frequent interaction with relevant stakeholders - ID, Support, vendors and regional IT personnel.
• Architected and deployed corporate VMWare ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 150+ Physical servers across our regional datacenters and branch offices.
• Test and Deploy New Solutions/Tools - CapacityIQ (in Production), Veeam Reporter & Monitor (POC), VMware View (Pilot), vMA (Pilot).
• Led Upgrade of VMWare Infrastructure, Capacity Management, Monitoring Setup.
• Understand Office IT requirements and suggest on new hardware purchases based on current firm standards.
• Project management planning skills during project activities and initiatives which include personnel resourcing and meeting deadlines
• Design, Deploy and Transition the Monthly Patch Deployment on Windows Servers via Altiris Software Patch Management.
• Frequently gauge training requirements of the team and follow up with Vendors - Pricing, Content, Resources and Schedule, to ensure up-to date knowledge level.
Achievements
• Project Manager for the following projects: VMware - Datacenter/offices design & setup, monitoring and scripting, Capacity Planning & Trend Analysis of Virtual machines. Patch Management, DNS Architectural Changes, ADS Rights Management, Windows 2008 upgrade, Regional Backup for Offices.
• Undertook numerous trainings on Windows (2003/2008), VMWare vSphere to ensure team members have the right skillset required for their role.
• Creation of WMI /ADSI/Powershell Scripts for automating day-to-day tasks.
Technical Support Officer/Technical Lead
Convergys India Services Private Limited
2003-06 - 2005-04
Profile
Promoted to the position of a Technical Lead. The role involved the following tasks:
• Handling Networking and Security Escalations and support to team members.
• Recovery and Trace Calls.
• Call Monitoring and feedback sharing with first level Support professionals, Identification of improvement areas.
• One to One mentoring and refresher training.
• Team meetings and process awareness.
• Backup Team management in absence of Team Manager.
• Creation and customization of training manuals for team members.
Joined as a Sr Technical Support officer in Microsoft's Enterprise Platform Support (EPS) - Networking Team
Topics handled were:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Related Networking
• DNS/DHCP/WINS, break-fix issues.
Achievements
• Mentoring the new Engineers on the floor.
• Delivering specialized training sessions under the supervision of Process Trainers from Microsoft, USA to the new recruits.
• Content creation of new technical issues faced by fellow team members and adding those issues [cases] on the Internal Web Site for common reference
• Conceptualized and designed an Internal Web Site for the Networking team, to assist the team members by putting process specific documents, tools, whitepapers, KB articles and training material under one roof, as a one-point reference tool.
Promoted to the position of a Technical Lead. The role involved the following tasks:
• Handling Networking and Security Escalations and support to team members.
• Recovery and Trace Calls.
• Call Monitoring and feedback sharing with first level Support professionals, Identification of improvement areas.
• One to One mentoring and refresher training.
• Team meetings and process awareness.
• Backup Team management in absence of Team Manager.
• Creation and customization of training manuals for team members.
Joined as a Sr Technical Support officer in Microsoft's Enterprise Platform Support (EPS) - Networking Team
Topics handled were:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Related Networking
• DNS/DHCP/WINS, break-fix issues.
Achievements
• Mentoring the new Engineers on the floor.
• Delivering specialized training sessions under the supervision of Process Trainers from Microsoft, USA to the new recruits.
• Content creation of new technical issues faced by fellow team members and adding those issues [cases] on the Internal Web Site for common reference
• Conceptualized and designed an Internal Web Site for the Networking team, to assist the team members by putting process specific documents, tools, whitepapers, KB articles and training material under one roof, as a one-point reference tool.
Technical Support Engineer
vCustomer Services India Private Limited
2002-09 - 2003-06
Profile
Software/Hardware trouble shooting common Desktop PC issues over the phone. PCs were from Compaq and HP. Also supported DVD Writers - Internal and External, How to issues of running applications which were bundled with the PCs.
Achievements
Created and maintained Team Members Weekly/Monthly Performance and Incentive Reports, call and process calibrations, also mentoring of new Engineers on the floor
Software/Hardware trouble shooting common Desktop PC issues over the phone. PCs were from Compaq and HP. Also supported DVD Writers - Internal and External, How to issues of running applications which were bundled with the PCs.
Achievements
Created and maintained Team Members Weekly/Monthly Performance and Incentive Reports, call and process calibrations, also mentoring of new Engineers on the floor
Faculty cum System Administrator
SSi Limited & ECIT
1999-12 - 2002-07
Profile • Taught students the courses offered by the institute. [HTML/Scripting/ASP/ XML/ Java/ Adv Java/ C++/ Visual Basic 6.0/ Oracle 8i]
Other Details
Other Details
Academic Background
M.Sc
Sikkim Manipal University
2019-07 - 2004-01
B.Com (Hons.)
Delhi University
2019-07 - 2000-01
Certifications
ITIL Foundation Certified
Foundation Certified
VMware/Cloud - VCAP4-DCA, VCP510, VCP 410, VCP 310, AWS SAA
Microsoft - MCTS - Windows 2008