Sumit Bhatia Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, US

* Architecting Azure stack hub deployment solutions for In-country setups. Solutioning entire ecosystem around Azure stack hub which includes (Security, Networking, Backups, Management)* Reducing datacenter foot prints and promoting Green IT.* As a CSP (Cloud service provider) for internal and external customers and providing in-region cloud services to.

Houston, Texas, US

• Capacity and solutions lead for Cloud and On-Prem infrastructure. Using Python, Azure DevOps, MS SharePoint and doing automation.
• Implemented Automated capacity management (called Capacity management as a service) for hybrid cloud deployments. Resulted in savings of around $1.5 Million per annum. Along with reduction in hardware foot prints and.
• Automated ON/OFF in cloud using SharePoint. Resulting in savings of $0.5 Million per annum and energy savings as machines were intelligently turned off when not in use.
• Implemented automation using ADO Pipelines and Azure Functions for application modernization. This increased hosting density on a single hardware therefore proved to be optimum approach with reduced energy and hardware.
• Reverse engineering and automated import of pre-existing VMs into Terraform for VMware. This allowed end to end automation of pre-existing workloads. Allowed to reuse the same hardware for multiple purpose as.
• Terraform module creation for automated deployment of VMware templates (Windows, Linux). And post provisioning.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Based on the Business requirements from sale team, delivered POC’s on Hitachi Storage and backup products with various software vendors like Cisco, VMware, MS Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, etc.
• Wrote White papers, Tech notes to be consumed by Sales team and HDS customers on HAD, VMware and Hitachi storage integration.
• Worked as a Functional manager for Product development for Hitachi’s backup product HDID. Implemented Hyper-V backup and restore solutions.
• Managed team of 15 with mix of developers and Testers to deliver solution with HDID software.
• Worked on Automating test cases to test HDID software. Approx. 80% of the test cases were automated using Python. This allowed the reuse of hardware for variety of testing needs. We no longer had to reserve one setup.
• Worked as a Scrum Master, followed Agile methodology of Software development.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Provide Storage (Netapp) and Backup (NetBackup) solution to client AEGIS Media.
• Designing HLD’s and LLD’s for Datacenter designing.
• Datacenter consolidation, Transitioning infrastructure to NETAPP and NetBackup. From 45 different small datacenter sites. Achieved migration of roughly 3000 workloads. Multifold savings in cost, energy and hardware.
• In addition, implementing their Disaster Recover (DR) solutions. After implementation doing capacity management, Monitoring solutions and handover to BAU teams for day-to-day activities.
• Automated reporting of DFM (NetApp) product using Perl scripting.
• Led team of 15 engineers to deliver quality infrastructure solutions to client.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Onsite Coordinator. Installing datacenter equipment (Storage, Chassis, Cabling, Backup library, networking, tape rotation)
• Datacenter building from scratch. Right from installation of Infrastructure components, testing it and getting them production ready.
• VM migration from different locations to the newly built datacenter site. Focused work on achieving sustainable IT.
• Found innovative ways and impressed client with solutions proposed and implemented for Workloads and NAS migration.
• Implementing Disaster Recover (DR) solutions

San Jose, California, US

• Testing and solution verification
• Work with pre-sales team, study solutions doc’s and worked in Eng. LAB for simulating customer environments using NetApp and other third-party solutions. Providing testing and performance results of the solutions.
• Involved in triaging bugs and ensuring code line stability of the ONTAP operating system.
• Working with Developers and ensuring bugs reported are tested and fixed.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Testing of HPE migration software product known as SMP.
• Simulating customer environment with multiple different technologies (Vmware, Citrix, Hyper-V, FCOE, FC, iSCSI).
• Test system behavior by migrating IT infrastructure (X2X migrations) using the software and provide results.
• Reporting defects and work with developers in getting the bugs fixed.
• Worked as QA team lead. Interaction with client, writing test plans, tracking and presenting team progress.
• Simulating different customer environments and testing SMP software.

Delhi, New Delhi, IN

Worked as research assistant for mission critical projects run in DRDO.Worked in LASTEC division.

Post Graduate Diploma, Information Technology And Systems Management

Diploma In General Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics And Communications Engineering

Science, Science