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Manchester, GB

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Lead a team of 10+ Cloud platform engineers based in India, UK & US responsible to architect, develop & deploy solutions across GCP and Azure
• Own & develop technical roadmap aligned with business strategy in collaboration with product manager and drive change required to execute
• Implemented refined multi-dimensional cost allocation model to showback the cloud spend to business, products, IT, finance, etc. and created dashboards to report on opportunities to reduce cloud spend
• Define best practices, standards and strategic initiatives to run services in best cost optimized way - delivered huge cost avoidance on cloud to keep the cost under control
• Developed central dashboards to have better insights on services hosted on cloud, e.g. resource utilization, right-sizing opportunities, compliance, etc.
• Improved security posture by implementing the right tooling and practices across cloud

Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Lead a team of 12+ Cloud platform engineers based out in different geographies responsible to architect, develop & deploy solution across multiple cloud hosting providers (Azure & GCP)
• Own & develop technical roadmap aligned with business strategy and collaborate with stakeholders within business & technology to drive change required to execute
• Implemented multi-dimensional cloud allocation reports to showback the cloud spend and identify cost optimization opportunities
• Review and articulate the OpEx and CapEx spend across Cloud Hosting Platform and improve efficiency to reduce operating cost for products and services
• Increase monitoring and test coverage across the platform to increase the reliability of system
• Improved Infra platform delivery by streamlining CI/CD process to provision infrastructure into different environments

Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Built a team of Site Reliability Engineers with focus to improve reliability and automation across cloud platform
• Leading a team of 15+ engineers based out of India, US & UK providing support on Cloud & Hadoop
• Developing and agreeing standards, guardrails, procedure and roadmaps
• Built resilient and reliable infrastructure using DevOps tooling (IaC, docker, k8s, ci/cd, monitoring, dashboarding, etc.)
• Automation framework to make infra self-serviceable and reduction of TOIL
• Substantially increased test cases and monitoring coverage across Infra

Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Contribute to company's Cloud only strategy to migrate workload to GCP
• Worked within Infrastructure Engineering team to design and implement cloud infrastructure
• Setup infrastructure deployment automation framework (terraform, ansible, ci/cd, etc.)
• Define & implement monitoring for workload to detect potential issues early
• Building containerized services leveraging Docker
• Contribute in defining standards, guidelines, support model, etc.

Gurgaon, India

• Administer Oracle Exadata Appliance and its components including storage servers, compute machines, administer using ILOM, etc.
• Support database environment that includes Oracle RAC clusters on Exadata, SAND CDBMS and Microsoft SQL Server
• Spin up Linux and Windows virtual machines using Vmware vSphere and manage the environment
• Install, support and administer Linux servers, troubleshoot users issue and perform day to day tasks including upgrades, patching, configure SAN disks and LVM filesystem
• Allocate storage on Oracle ZFS and EMC Isilon ONEFS and replicate ZFS storage on another appliance as per the requirement
• Manage database access using Oracle Directory Services OID/OVD and linux access through Quest VAS that is integrated with Active Directory

Noida Area, India

• Tech Lead for Database Engineering Team of 15+ DBAs
• Define IT Infra and & Database Automation Strategy & Roadmap and work with cross-functional business teams
• Automation initiative to improve efficiencies and reduce human errors e.g. Schema Refreshes, Database Cloning, DR Testing, etc.
• Monitoring initiatives to proactively address issues e.g. Health Check scripts, ORA- error monitor, Database/Listener Status, Standby monitor, etc.
• Analyse and design the Solutions for Database virtualization, HA and DR
• Perform database capacity planning to analyse growth trends and forecast resource requirements

New Delhi Area, India

• Administration and management of Linux servers
• Creating and managing new and existing users and groups
• Regular software upgrades, patches and tuning of servers
• Configured Linux firewalls based on IP tables
• Configuring and managing Logical Volume Management and NFS
• Documentation of solutions on day to day problems to internal Wiki

Master Of Computer Applications (Mca), Computer Applications, B

Bachelor Of Computer Applications, Computer Applications, B