Amit Gupta
Noida,UP
Summary
- Forward-focused professional with over 20 years of extensive experience in IT Infrastructure Management & Support, Data Centre Operations and Cloud Architecture & Administration
- Proficiency in planning & building IT Infrastructure at the enterprise scale involving the selection of appropriate technology & products, negotiating with vendors, finalizing SLAs, outsourcing tasks, and directing the timely completion of projects.
- Resourceful in directing & implementing large-scale, complex IT initiatives with a focus on technology transformation; liaising with leadership teams to evaluate technology challenges.
- Problem solver with a passion for technology; skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing, developing & implementing custom IT solutions, supporting end users, and developing/motivating technical staff to achieve performance objectives.
- Rich experience in governing & supporting to prepare of BCP plans and coordinating Service Continuity Plans, Information Security Audits and Risk & Compliance.
- Possess the ability to create & maintain Capex & OPEX budgets with TCO reports.
- Excels in multiple cloud technologies like AWS & OpenStack; skilled at managing AWS infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments
- Gained overseas exposure by working onsite at a client located in the USA for a span of 1 year while associated with Campus EAI
- Hands-on experience in managing IT vendor relationships, negotiating related contracts, and creating annual IT business plans & budgets for data center & corporate IT.
- Designed network, server hardware & SAN storage fabric for various infrastructure deployments consisting of more than 1000 servers.
- Optimized data center operations by implementing GPU clusters, reducing latency and enhancing processing efficiency for large-scale computational tasks.
- Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of Infrastructure Engineering
Indmoney
06.2024 - 01.2025
- Designing IT infrastructure solutions from scratch for multiple data centers.
- Part of various IT audits to ensure compliance
Senior Vice President (SVP) - Lead Data Centre
AU Small Finance Bank
10.2023 - 06.2024
- RBI Compliance - Implement security solutions in alignment with RBI guidelines and other compliance standards.
- Large Scale NAC and TACASImplementation - Spearheaded the implementation of NAC across 850 branches (30,000 endpoints) for both wireless and wired networks. Implementation of TACAS for 2000+ devices.
- IT Transformation - Lead a IT transformation project involving branch network expansion, cost reduction, and creating and implementation of various SOP and processes.
- Cloud to Cloud Migration - Migration of workloads from DC to Cloud and AWS to OCI.
- Team restructuring - Optimized team structures to manage daily tasks, including core operations, regular security maintenance, and new project implementation.
Head of IT, Cyber Security and Devops
Eureka Forbes
04.2023 - 10.2023
- Cost Optimization- Lead a cost-cutting initiative within the SAP environment.
- Vendor Consolidation-Successfully consolidates vendors by evaluating existing contracts, negotiating new agreements. Implement a vendor management strategy that focuses on reducing redundancy and ensuring quality service.
- IT tools consolidation- Assess the current landscape of productivity tools used across the organization. Contributed to consolidation strategy to streamline the productivity suite.
Director - Cloud and Infra
Snapdeal
07.2015 - 04.2023
- Leading 5 different teams involved in different segments like Data Center (Networking, Storage & Server and Monitoring), Private Cloud, Corporate IT and security.
- Working cross-functionally with Operations, Finance & IT to define project requirements & timelines to implement various network-related projects such as new site infrastructure deployments and technology integrations.
- Managing all IT systems within a company location (Gurugram) including hardware, software & security systems; ensuring that the company's network infrastructure & associated systems run smoothly, perform within agreed targets and providing a secure platform for the company's business operations.
- Administering the day-to-day service operations for data center and IT with best practices and standards linked to the ITIL discipline such as incident, problem, change, capacity and business continuity and disaster recovery management.
- DC Reliability Ensuring the IT Data Centre operations on a high standard and ascertaining 100% availability, reliability & maintainability. Making sure no disruption of critical systems, managing data center operations, physical security, facility management, hardware & equipment maintenance, administration of servers, database infrastructure and supervising systems administration personnel.
- Multi Million $ DC Project Spearheading the Data Centre Co-location Project for Snapdeal Hybrid Cloud (Cirrus), with a highly dense server architecture of 72,000 cores, 16 PB of storage, and a robust 100G network infrastructure (The project cost is approx. USD 16M and consists of 1000 Servers, Storage, Cisco Nexus Switches, Firewall & Load Balancers).
- Application-Specific Infrastructure Planning - Determining exact hardware requirement for each application type ranging from clusters, controllers, databases (Aerospike, Vertica, MongodB, Cassandra & MySQL), application, web servers (Tomcat, Nginx, Apache, Hadoop core infra with spark, GPU based serves for Machine Learning), load balancers (HA Proxy, F5), distributed file system (Ceph, HDFS), Network infra to support these servers.
IT Manager
Guavus Network Systems Pvt. Ltd.
05.2012 - 07.2015
Senior Specialist Infra
HCL Comnet Systems & Services Ltd.
09.2011 - 04.2012
Senior Associate
Sapient Corporation
06.2010 - 05.2011
Senior System Administrator
Nucleus Software
03.2009 - 06.2010
System Administrator
Campus EAI
08.2007 - 03.2009
Executive System Support
GlobalLogic India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2004 - 08.2007
Education
B.Sc. - IT
Manipal University
01.2003
Skills
- IT Infrastructure Management & Project Management - Overseeing end-to-end IT operations, ensuring system efficiency and scalability
- Data Centre Operations - Managing high-availability data centers, optimizing resources, and ensuring 24/7 uptime
- Cloud Architecture & Administration - Designing, implementing, and managing cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Management - Developing resilient IT strategies to minimize downtime and ensure operational continuity
- IT Infra Migration (on-prem to cloud and cloud to on-prem) - Leading on-prem to cloud and cloud to on-prem migrations with minimal disruption
- IT Audit & Risk Assessment - Ensuring compliance with industry standards, conducting security assessments
- Vendor / Stakeholder Management and Procurement - Handling IT procurement, contract negotiations, and vendor coordination for optimal service delivery
- Team Management - Building and mentoring high-performing IT teams to drive efficiency and innovation
Certification
- CDCP (Certified Data Centre Professional), 1562769
- RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), 805010987549407
- RHCSS (Red Hat Certified Security Specialist), 100-176-981
- ITIL V3 Foundation Certified, 872369
- Training on CISSP
- Training AWS Solution architect
Previous Experience
- Guavus Network Systems Pvt. Ltd., Gurugram, IT Manager, 05/12, 07/15
- HCL Comnet Systems & Services Ltd., Noida, Senior Specialist Infra, 09/11, 04/12
- Sapient Corporation, Gurugram, Senior Associate, 06/10, 05/11
- Nucleus Software, Noida, Senior System Administrator, 03/09, 06/10
- Campus EAI, Gurugram, System Administrator, 08/07, 03/09
- GlobalLogic India Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Executive System Support, 08/04, 08/07
Timeline
Director of Infrastructure Engineering
Indmoney
06.2024 - 01.2025
Senior Vice President (SVP) - Lead Data Centre
AU Small Finance Bank
10.2023 - 06.2024
Head of IT, Cyber Security and Devops
Eureka Forbes
04.2023 - 10.2023
Director - Cloud and Infra
Snapdeal
07.2015 - 04.2023
IT Manager
Guavus Network Systems Pvt. Ltd.
05.2012 - 07.2015
Senior Specialist Infra
HCL Comnet Systems & Services Ltd.
09.2011 - 04.2012
Senior Associate
Sapient Corporation
06.2010 - 05.2011
Senior System Administrator
Nucleus Software
03.2009 - 06.2010
System Administrator
Campus EAI
08.2007 - 03.2009
Executive System Support
GlobalLogic India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2004 - 08.2007
B.Sc. - IT
Manipal University
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