Navin Balakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Kuala Lumpur, My

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Spearhead leadership across all Cloud Platform Engineering functions, overseeing platform, operations, and security initiatives.• Lead a sizable technical team in steering the overall RHB enterprise architecture and orchestrating the migration to AWS and Azure cloud platforms• Align products and services offered by Cloud CoE with the dynamic needs of RHB's Cloud adoption, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.• Foster a culture of creative and transformative innovation across all Cloud technologies, spanning Infrastructure, Database, Data Analytics, Application, Networking, Generative AI, and Serverless domains.• Educate and garner mindshare among senior executives on key Cloud differentiators, emphasizing aspects such as security, reliability, availability, cost-efficiency, and time-to-market advantages.• Collaborate closely with Application teams, comprehensively understanding and gathering infrastructure requirements for implementation on Cloud platforms.• Facilitate the transition of Cloud workloads' operations to respective Infrastructure teams for ongoing support, ensuring a smooth and efficient handover process.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Technology Park Malaysia

• Manages the Infrastructure team in delivering and support operations for AWS Cloud, Servers, Storage, and Network hybrid services. Acts as an escalation point for incident, problem, change management and IT service continuity.• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure on AWS public cloud and Data Center services together with Solutions Architect.• Planning for AWS cost optimization to reduce on overall cloud spend by identifying mismanaged resources, reserving capacity for higher discounts, and right sizing computing services.• Leading annual budget plan for IT OPEX/CAPEX expenditure.• Manage 3rd party vendors and the relevant procurement activities of the responsible scope.• Assisting business development team with pre-sales activities and new RFPs.• Experience with cloud and server technologies (Amazon Web Services, Virtualization, Linux, Windows, SAN, NAS, and Backup)• Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate• Winner of Global Excellence award

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Manages and lead YTL Communications Storage, Backup, and Virtualization platform teams.• Part of a delivery team responsible for managing SAN/Backup on Dell, EMC, and HPE arrays, Netbackup, and Backup Exec. • Administration of Cisco MDS Director SAN switches.• Responsible for documenting and improving SOP and process related documents.• Responsible for new projects transition from solutions to infrastructure team.• Communication with vendors on POC, tech refresh, and re-consolidation of software licenses.• Evaluate staff performance on a quarterly basis and provide constructive feedback for staff improvement.

Technology Park Malaysia

• Deployed SAN and backup infrastructure for a leading media and broadcasting company.• Managing over 200TB of storage and backup capacity.• Preparing policies for backup including handling of media, data retention and offsite management.• Design and implementing Business Continuance Volume (BCV) on critical production databases.• Documentation of processes, methods, and troubleshooting guides.• Provide 24x7 on-call support and single point of contact for low and high priority cases.

• Administrating SAN/NAS infrastructure with NetApp Filer and HP StorageWorks EVA.• Managing SAN Fabrics via Brocade switches.• Provide SAN/NAS storage allocation for ESX Hosts, Windows, and UNIX based servers.• Understanding of Storage Technology and System Architecture.• Troubleshooting and managing backup with NetBackup and EMC Avamar.• Perform NAS restorations and basic monitoring of data-pointers.• Communication between vendor, users, Business Partners and other platform teams.• Technical Review of SDCS procedures and technical documentation.

• Support enterprise system infrastructure at 2nd level.• Remote administration of HP9000 Series which is running HP-UX.• Restoration of critical database, groupware, and home directory files.• Troubleshooting and managing backup servers and tape libraries.• Administration of full and incremental backup via Data Protector.• Solving SAN/LAN drive issues.• Managing reports involving Backup Success Rate to improve overall performance.• Assist L1 Backup team on any troubleshooting/issue related to backup.