16+ years of experience in IT Operstions & Infrastructure with senior level leadership.Demonstrated experience in leading and managing IT teams, including recruitment, training, performance management, and career development.Ability to foster a collaborative and productive team environment.Proven track record of mentoring and guiding team members to achieve both personal and team goals.Successful management of IT infrastructure projects from inception to completion, including budget management and resource allocation.Experience in optimizing IT operations for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and scalability.Experience in Identity and Access Management, networking, Storage, and compute infrastructure (servers, storage, databases, network, load balancers) for architecting/developing/maintaining in virtualized environments.Experience in architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable and secure distributed systems.Managing large-scale Windows/Linux/VMware/Netapp environments.Managing NetApp storage cluster environments in FAS2620, FAS2720, FAS2820 series environments.Managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environment on Linux platform with IBM LSF scheduler.Experience in understanding a complex customers existing software workloads and the ability to define a technical migration roadmap.Providing technical support to handle deployment, configuration, resolution of all CAx/CAD/CAE/PLM/PDM and 3DEXPERIENCE applications.Managing local license servers of various engineering applications by using FlexLM, DSLS and many more license manager tools.Experience with relevant tools and technologies, such as virtualization platforms, ITSM tools (Service Now), and cybersecurity measures.Assisted in setting-up proactive monitoring tools such as Nagios. Hydra, Grafana, Ganglia etc.Ability to develop and implement IT strategies aligned with organizational goals.Experience in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.Proven ability to manage and resolve complex technical issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring continuity of services.Experience in establishing and maintaining incident management processes.Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise effectively with senior management, stakeholders, and external vendors.Experience in preparing and presenting reports, updates, and strategic recommendations.Managing the budget for IT operations and infrastructure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and cost efficiency.