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Lead IT Systems Architect at Netcracker Technology (CKA || Cloud Native || Azure, AWS)

About

Diligent & self motivated Technocrat; with over 20+ years of qualitative experience in: ~IT Infrastructure Management ~Cloud Infrastructure ~Platform Engineering ~WebScale Transformation ~Cloud Native Platforms ~Application Modernization ~Vendor Management ~DevOps Management * Forward-focused Public cloud IT Infrastructure Solution Architect Lead, DevOps and Cloud Native Platform with expertise in end-to-end Cloud & On-Prem Infrastructure Architecture & Design, Cloud-Native transformations and DevOps processes planning for overall technology transformation. * Lead pre-sales and post-sales (delivery) engagements – RFI/RFP submissions, defence presentations, contract finalisation, blueprint and designs, and final implementations of IT infrastructure solutions. * Design, architect & build Infrastructure & platform solution based on latest cloud-native OpenSource technologies and process and ensure its adoption across organisation. * WebScale Technology & Process transformations, based on best of solutions from DevOps principles & cloud-native technologies. * Pre-sales, contract and delivery process for IT & Cloud infrastructure domain for large scale enterprise engagements. * FinOps process to monitor and optimise public cloud utilisation and associated costs. * Technology partnership alliance with large technology and cloud companies and vendors globally. (AWS, Azure, RedHat, Oracle, etc.)

Location

Pune City

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Work experience

Lead (Principal) IT Systems Architect at Netcracker Technology, Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, As part of the Service Delivery & Solution Infrastructure group, working on various Pre-Sales & Delivery projects. Pre-Sales: * Lead multiple Pre-Sales RFI/RFP engagements for mid to large scale deals for IT systems & Cloud Infrastructure stream where providing compliances, defining IT infrastructure design for IaaS & PaaS layers. * Building solution description documentation for IT Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Platform designs proposed. * Customer discussions for solution designs, RFI/RFP defense discussions, and various other sessions. * Finalising on contract preparations and deliverables. * Defining end-to-end hardware and software capacity and cost estimations for Pre-Sales projects. Delivery Projects: * Lead the IT infrastructure and cloud platform Architecture activities ranging from defining blueprint, design, implementation and production go-live. * Define complete cloud infrastructure solution design and architecture for IaaS & PaaS layers for cloud-native solutions based on containers and Kubernetes orchestration layer. * Build solution blueprint documentations and Architecture & Designs for projects. * Drive the engagement with customers for final design & architecture approvals. * Implementing large scale projects on public clouds.

Sr. IT Systems Architect at Netcracker Technology, Oct 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Sr. Solution Architect - DevOps at Sterlite Tech, Jan 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Ahmedabad Area, India, • Part of “Centre Of Excellence – Platform R&D” team, where leading a team of DevOps engineers for designing & architecting end-to-end platform solutions based on DevOps & Cloud Native principals and technologies. • Carrying out DevOps technology and process transformation across products & projects by identifying gaps in present setups and closing them with industry standard processes and latest technologies and tools implementations. • Carried out organisation wide Web-Scale transformations Program where transforming 8 product lines to achieve WebScale & Cloud Native capabilities. • Build Sterlite’s own Private Cloud Platform based on RedHat OpenStack from idea-execution, with a goal of having a private cloud for hosting web-scale & cloud native enabled applications. • Evaluating latest tools and technologies by performing POCs and providing demos to various project teams & management and ensuring the adaption of new technologies up to production levels. • Helping pre-sales & sales teams for providing end to end Platform engineering solutions architectures for new RFPs and new upgrades for existing customers, showcasing platform capability demos to new customers. Participating in RFP defence customer meetings, and proposing solution designs and architectures. • Engaging with various technology companies and external vendors for partnerships for adopting open source and commercial enterprise solutions. • Implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines at across projects and ensuring their smooth execution on day-to-day basis and measuring KPIs via DevOps industry standards.

Consultant Specialist - DevOps, Environments & Release at HSBC Global Banking and Markets, Nov 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune Area, India, • Environments management for RIMS project with 30+ upstream & downstream applications across the trade life cycle. • Identify gaps in current process and technologies and move them to DevOps standards and automation. • Internal & external vendor management, for supporting multiple associated applications, to run the overall system smoothly. • Design service catalogues with services offered and SLA agreements. • Coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders about environments status, project updates and environments availability. • Scrum Master for “REDI – Release & Environments DevOps Initiatives” meeting for BU, tracking, helping individuals and teams in completing assigned DevOps initiatives. • As added responsibility managed a team of 5 production support analysts, handling all RIMS application production issues and ensuring their closer with SLA. • Escalating issues to external and internal vendors, chasing & following up on high priority issues for closer. • Successfully Completed Docker POC with demonstration to stakeholders and management for one of the BU application. Moved environments from physical server to internal cloud server + Docker container setup. • Contributed in IBM RTC to GIT/BitBucket & Jira migrations project. • Designed, developed and implemented a Jira project with BigGantt charts for environment bookings, replacing various excel forms and multiple trackers. • Increased success rate of daily environments smoke test by improving process.

Project Lead - Product Release at FIS (Previously knows as SunGard), Aug 2012 - Nov 2016 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, • Carrying out end-to-end activities for product release • Looking after the product deployment activities on test, QA, UAT, Staging & Production environments throughout project lifecycle as well as handling deployments during all releases • Handling capacity planning activities for new projects and fine tuning of existing infrastructure • Creating & documenting standards, best practices and procedures for all release, change & configuration management activities • Imparting training to Release Engineering Team on various procedures and new technologies • Administering & overseeing 60+ environments (including Integration, QA, UAT, Staging & Production) for customers • Communicating release calendar and schedules to all stakeholders • Designing, implementing & administrating software version control process

Group Leader - System Integration at Amdocs Development Center India., Dec 2007 - Aug 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Pune Area, India, * Lead all release and deployment activities, including product deployment on test, uat & production environments through out the project life cycle. * Responsible for handling System Integration team, day-to-day task allocation within team, and tracking till completion. * Leaded projects from end-to-end with responsibilities of delegating work in team, coordinating with different teams (IT, QA, OGS, Delivery, Product etc) to keep things on track and aligned towards plan. * Drive Innovation and automation initiatives from start to end. Executed a lot of improvement items to execute things faster and more smoothly. * Support L-3 level issues on infrastructure and release side.

Education

EPGDBM, Executive Management, Symbiosis institute of Management Studies

Bsc, Computers, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya