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Searce is a modern technology consulting firm with the mission to empower customers to accelerate towards the future of their business.Our people : 1400+ passionate, humble solvers across the globeOur scale: 10+ countries , 20+ locations including Sydney and Melbourne and very soon in NZOur customers: 4000+ customers globallyOur special focus:Software EngineeringData and AnalyticsCloud and App ModernisationApplied AILocation IntelligenceWorkspaceManaged services

Sales & Business Development:Member of Optus Enterprise - Cloud and Customer Solutions focussing on hybrid cloud salesHave been instrumental in AUD$10M+ deals with Enterprise Customers of Optus comprising of cloud and digital servicesHave contributed to multiple cloud tenders in technical and commercial aspectsInstrumental in placing Optus among the "List of Suppliers" in NSW Government panel - ICT Services SchemeContributed to multiple proposals and SOW's for Enterprise and Midmarket customersKey member of cloud-in-a-box solutions focussing on packaged cloud offerings for SMB/Midmarket customers of OptusPartner Development & Internal Enablement:Currently nominated as AWS Well-Architected program lead and Immersion day leadOrganized multiple AWS re:Invent recap sessions for Optus customersPart of the organizing team of AWS Immersion day for Optus customers - First in ANZContributed immensely to attain AWS Migration Competency , MSP competency for Singtel OptusKey member of Google partner development team focussing on establishing GTM and delivery partnership establishmentHave been a key member of "Optus Cloud Academy" providing technical and skills development guidance to whole of OptusOrganizing member of "Cloud Meet-ups" within OptusTechnical:Provided multiple cloud architectural and implementation solutions for Optus customersProvided solutions on multi-cloud & hybrid cloud- Orchestration , Cost management, Network management, Monitoring & Observability, Security & ComplianceAttained 6 technical AWS certifications and 1 Google certification during my period at OptusExpanding my skills in Kubernetes and OpenShift platformMember of Architectural guidance team - part of AWS business support function

--> Lead Cloud Operations team as Primary escalation point.--> Technical point of contact for AWS & GCP Commercial account managers, Technical account managers and Solution Architects.--> Enablement of application teams in cloud adoption by Technical training, Information sessions, Self-service Operations in Cloud space.--> Build, Operations, Security, Governance of 50+ AWS Accounts--> Hands-On experience in design, build & support of DNS Forwarders, Mail Relay, TrendMicro, Rapid7, reverse proxies, etc.--> Hands-on in Cloud Orchestration using Ansible, Jenkins, cloudformation, terraform.--> Experience in compliance, security & provisioning at scale using cloudformation stacksets, ansible playbooks and AWS Boto 3.--> Google Cloud Platform setup & management of Boral DataLake Infrastructure--> Data Center migration to AWS Cloud using Cloud Endure & transformation.--> Technical enablement of Cloud Operations team including automation, cost optimization, Integrations.--> Well Architected Review of key solutions and drive best practices.--> Setup of Cloud support model and Cloud Capability across Organization--> Shared Services build & support including Proxies, Mail Relay, Palo Alto, DNS Forwarder, Backup service, EC2 Schedule service, etc.

-> Lead Sydney DevOps team and drive AWS & DevOps best practices-> Cloud DevOps Consultancy to customers including Hungry Jacks, Foxtel, Australian Super, ANZ, PwC, TabCorp, etc.-> Terraform implementations in multiple projects aiming for zero touch deployments.-> Dynatrace setup and support for both IT & Sales performance management.-> AWS DevOps Toolset (Code Pipeline, Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy) implementation in multiple projects.-> ServiceNow integration with AWS & Dynatrace for Incident & Problem management.-> Integration with Mobile & Big Data division of ARQ Groups sharing & learning best practices in respective divisions-> Key member of Next-Gen Managed Service setup for AWS including automation in ITSM, SIEM, Infrastructure

AWS Cloud Engineer in a DevOps team for Technology Risk Mitigation Program in Qantas Airways.Major responsibilities include :-> Part of core technical team focusing on transformation of on premise applications to AWS-> Create design patterns for applications & migrations-> Coach team on DevOps tools & Cloud best practices-> Evaluate, design, retrofit new AWS services to Qantas cloud pipeline-> Cost, capacity, performance management of cloud infrastructure for the program-> Oversee cut-over to AWS and smooth BAU handover

An Enterprise Cloud Transformation program, involved in Evaluation, Analysis, Build and Support of Qantas Cloud Platform mainly on AWS. Objectives of this project is to provide Qantas with agility, self-service, low-cost, speed to market Capabilities for their IT services.Major responsibilities includes : Lead Cloud Service Integration team for a Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Offering Supported multiple application migration to Qantas Cloud Platform Stakeholder management of the platform services including AWS, network providers, third party vendors CICD of in-house applications using Bamboo & Bitbucket and maintenance of provisioning pipeline Performed capacity & performance management of AWS Infrastructure and its associated toolsets.  Reporting on Security, performance, costing and service Levels to Business using various toolsets Enabled cost optimization by enabling split-cost tagging for different business units Perform vulnerability management of AWS infrastructure using QualysGuard Support Internet proxies including Squid & Nginx Support MS Active Directory and Centrify for ADFS integration Designed and operated role based access control across the platform and its associated toolsets Build and support of various Cloud management tools like CloudMGR, Cloud protection manager, Cloudability, Crowd, Sophos UTM, etc Design patch management and process definitions. Provide patch reports and conduct non-compliance meetings Build and support of security tools including TrendMicro, crowdstrike, Evident.IO Event Management integration with ServiceNow & Splunk Request fulfillment using ServiceNow Enterprise Service Management tool.  Compliance management of Infrastructure based on Enterprise IT rules and regulations. Elicited and documented licensing requirements Developed Splunk Dashboards for pro-active and re-active analysis of process metrics and system/application health

Cloud evaluation program for Qantas Airways focussed on AWS and associated toolsets for orchestration, service management, SIEM, security.My responsibilities included :Developing Proof of Concepts (POC) for cloud migration including analysis, design, implementation.Documentation on key lessons learnt including derivation of business models on implementationMigrated a 3-tier architecture with complete network, compute and storage components of AWSFacilitated jboss installation, application deployment via Cloudformation, s3, EC2, puppetPerformed continuous integration using Atlassian Bamboo, StashPart of ServiceNow capability analysis with Cloud Operations ManagementAnalyzed Qualys Guard for Vulnerability management Analyzed anti-malware, intrusion prevention web reputation using Trend Deep SecurityDesigned and performed log analysis using Splunk & SumoLogic

Java/J2EE application deployment automation project. It was a migration from Interwoven ControlHub to BMC products including Bladelogic & BRPM. The deployment also included webserver and application server contents. Focused on reduction in deployment times, service management integration and enhanced user experience.My responsibilities included : Plan, prototype and implement the entire automation pipelineInstallation, patching of BMC tools in Windows 2008 R2 ServerFunctional , Non-functional, performance testingUsed Jython & REST Interface for integrations with Content management systemAutomation of weblogic, apache http server deploymentsMajor deployment enhancements in application and content deploymentsEnterprise service management tool integration and designed automation of problem management

Qantas Java/J2EE application development support including application hosting, release & deployment management, application server support, change & incident management.My responsibilities included:Team member & Lead of Configuration Management teamSupported Interwoven-ControlHub for release automation which included Perl programming and design of workflow templatesAdminister and deploy Middleware components including Weblogic, apache, Jboss, IBM HTTP ServerBuild activities which includes ant buildsVersion Control Management using IBM ClearcaseLead Change management and represented J2EE applications in CABRelease management of J2EE applications and conducted weekly release management meetingsPerform production releases of major applications and ensure high availabilityTroubleshooting and maintenance of development applicationsAutomation of system operations using unix scriptingL2, L3 support for middleware and database which includes Oracle Weblogic & 10g, 11g, 12c DB servers.