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Ameya Navalgund

Information Technology Professional
Bengaluru

Summary

Overall 12 years of experience NOC operations, Data Center monitoring, Service delivery assurance, Team management, Major Incident management, Knowledge management and Service Transition ,Service operations ,Escalation Management ,Problem and Change Management

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates
4
4
Languages

Work History

Major Incident Manager

NTT GLOBAL DATA SERVICES
Bengaluru , KARNATAKA
2023.05 - Current
  • Handled high priority incidents with exceptional poise and composure, making quick decisions in effort to reduce overall impact.
  • Assessed incident priority based upon impact to business and escalated issues as necessary.
  • Provided immediate emergency response and incident management.
  • Developed and coordinated response processes.
  • Increased visibility of major incidents through the creation of comprehensive dashboards and reports for senior leadership review.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams for faster incident resolution and improved service quality.
  • Gathered data from incidents that had been remedied for careful review and analysis to prevent future events.
  • Developed remediation plans for potential incidents ahead of time and made appropriate changes during emergencies.
  • Conducted post-resolution reviews with team members.
  • Reduced downtime during incidents by proactively identifying potential risks and mitigating them in advance.
  • Actively participated in post-incident reviews, sharing lessons learned and driving continuous improvements in response protocols.
  • Boosted customer satisfaction levels by ensuring timely and effective responses to major incidents.

Cloud Operations Team Lead /Incident Manager

Securonix
Bengaluru
2021.08 - 2023.04
  • Governance of queue and Actioning of Alerts and Incidents tickets as per defined SLA and OLA .
  • Coordinating with various cross-functional teams so as to get faster turnaround on issues.
  • .Worked as a Escalation Manager to push for faster resolution by using defined escalation matrix.
  • Have played a pivotal role to create dashboards on Jira tool which helped the team run day to day operations efficiently .
  • Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop and execute technical strategies aligned to client's vision.
  • Interviewed, hired and trained staff, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback.
  • Have worked with various teams to bring down high volume alerts by fine tuning the alerts.
  • Handled high priority incidents with exceptional poise and composure, making quick decisions in effort to reduce overall impact.
  • Assessed incident priority based upon impact to business and escalated issues as necessary.
  • Gathered data from incidents that had been remedied for careful review and analysis to prevent future events.
  • Developed remediation plans for potential incidents ahead of time and made appropriate changes during emergencies.
  • Joining Change Approval board calls to advocate operations perspective .
  • Sending Quarterly ,Weekly and day to day change communications to the Clients .
  • Participating in release Management and ensuring all upgrades are carried out as per schedule .
  • Performing Pre-validation and post validations and preparing for weekly maintenance.
  • As part of Service Improvement have led Alert workshops ,Automating day to day tasks via Jenkins., implementing new tools.
  • Have been a part of team reducing alert volume and implementing new communication tools like status page .

Cloud Operations Lead

NTT
Bengaluru
2017.07 - 2021.07

● Working Cloud operations lead

● Handling all escalated cases for all the client’s and driving them to quicker resolution.

● Handling Priority cases related to all technologies VMware, Networking, Linux, and Window servers and all the cases related to NTT Cloud products.

● Major role in handling coordinating with Technical teams across all technologies and across all tiers.

● Handling complete Incident Management/Major Incident calls in case of Outages and opening bridges and coordinating with client, sending timely notifications.

● Coordinating with client ‘on outage calls on day to day basis.

● Handling weekly calls with certain high profile calls for service improvement after reviewing the past outages and escalations.

● Coordinating with Incident Management and change Management for outages and Problem Management team for RCA

● Key role in preparing SOP and strategy for smooth running of major annual sport event like Tour de france

● Reviewing and joining AIR calls for all P1,P2 ,MI related incidents.

● Sending reports and analyzing all the Incoming tickets.

● Doing QA management on ticket quality and sending feedback on the same.

● Ensuring all tickets are updated in every 24 hours.

Cloud Operations Engineer

Dimension data/NTT
Bengaluru
2014.06 - 2017.07

● Working Cloud operations Engineer.

● Monitoring complete Internal cloud Infrastructure and supporting global client to get onboarded to cloud environment

● Trouble shooting client tickets for issues related to Window servers, VMware and Linux and

Data Base, Network

● Creating Standard operating procedure for L1 cadre for all technologies.

● Excellent Experience in handling client related to all cloud deployment Public, Private and Hybrid.

● Analyzing tickets and preparing reports on Daily, Weekly, Monthly basis.

● Good knowledge of working on vSphere client. Vrops, Jenkins

● Played Key roles in training new team members both offshore and onshore Employees on Internal cloud Infrastructure.

● Handling Bridge calls and one-one call with Customers on day to day basis.

● Coordinating with Incident Management and change Management for outages and Problem Management team for RCA

● Knowledge of working on Nimsoft, Nagios,Moogsoft Monitoring and correlation tools

● Hands on experience ITSM, Service now ticketing tools.

● Played key roles in handling independently annual sport related projects in coordinating various technologies personnel ,Vendor Management

Executive NOC and Windows Server Engineer

Microland
Bengaluru
2012.04 - 2014.07

● Working as an NOC in Microland .

● Handling Server alerts for all box (Unix, Windows, Linux) and escalating it to respective team.

● Monitoring Network Devices for various Customers.

● Measured on no of tickets handled & closed.

● Handling Change Management in Datacenter and Vendor escalations.

● Worked on Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management.

● Analyzing tickets and preparing reports on Daily, Weekly, Monthly basis.

● Worked on ticketing tools like Smart center, Horizon Clinic, Spice works, Kbox,

● Resolving specific issues remotely for Windows servers.

● Worked on monitoring tools like WUG, Nagios, Solar Winds, Alert site,

● Handling weekly server reboots for specific clients.

● Handling Bridge calls and one-one call with Customers on day to day basis.

● Worked on VM Migration tasks.

● Weekly Patching of Windows servers.

● Knowledge of DNS,DHCP

● Working on DRAC,ILO

● Worked on Zyrion Monitoring tool

● Actively worked on Window server related tickets and VMware migrations .

Application Support Engineer

Mphasis
Bengaluru
2010.02 - 2011.05

● Worked on ERP, CRM application.

● Application worked on PeopleSoft, Laas, Jira, resource management system ,Revenue management system.

● Knowledge of Active directory, Remote desktop connection

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Don Bosco Institute of Technology
Bengaluruu
2004.01 - 2010.01

Skills

Operations leadership

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Certification

Vmware DCV

Interests

Watching and Playing Sports

Reading Books and Driving Cars

Timeline

Major Incident Manager

NTT GLOBAL DATA SERVICES
2023.05 - Current

Cloud Operations Team Lead /Incident Manager

Securonix
2021.08 - 2023.04

Azure 900

2020-08

ITIL V3

2018-07

Vmware Certified Professional

2018-01

Cloud Operations Lead

NTT
2017.07 - 2021.07

Vmware DCV

2017-03

Cloud Operations Engineer

Dimension data/NTT
2014.06 - 2017.07

Executive NOC and Windows Server Engineer

Microland
2012.04 - 2014.07

Application Support Engineer

Mphasis
2010.02 - 2011.05

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Don Bosco Institute of Technology
2004.01 - 2010.01
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