Performance-driven Vice President with 13 years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving DevSecOps adoption. Passionate about automating
infrastructure, reducing operational overhead and enhancing system performance,designing cloud-native solutions and enabling security across SDLC.
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
• Collaborated with AppDev teams to embed security controls in Kubernetes, Cloud Native and On-Prem Applications.
• Implemented shift-left security strategies, enabling early vulnerability detection and remediation resulted in reduced security risks in Production.
• Spearheaded Network Micro-segmentation initiatives for Payment classified Applications.
• Developed and Maintained automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, reducing manual deployment efforts.
• SAML Certificate management and migrating 15 applications from Bluecoat On Prem Proxy servers to cloud based IBoss proxy.
• Led and completed the DRO initiative of migrating our applications from using ftp to ftps to improve the security posture
• Transitioned monitoring and alerting for 10 critical EKS services and 18 RabbitMQ queues from Grafana to Datadog, enhancing system reliability and visibility.
• Analyzed 528 system accounts across 40 Applications within our division, Objective was to migrate the Non-IaC system accounts to IaC and perform cleanup where required to maintain a clean inventory.
• Helped team to optimize Cost and Time for one of our application running on cloud resulted in a daily cost reduction of $100 and time savings of 90 minutes.
• Enabled Multi-Region Access Points for 16 important S3 buckets, improving data redundancy and enhancing DR capabilities.
• Led a cost optimization initiative for RDS by downgrading over-provisioned instances, achieving monthly cost savings of $1,575.36 with projected savings increasing to $2,440.79.
• Indexed application and access logs for 10 critical services, enabling real-time alerts for 4xx and 5xx errors on 10 key services using Kibana to improve issue detection.
• Led a Project team for a product responsible to manage Travel and Expense of the employee globally.
• Designed and Implemented the Data pipeline on AWS to fetch the remediation data using Vendor APIs.
• Responsible for managing SDLC across all our projects and to ensure they meet the standard set by the firm. Including factors like code coverage should be above 85% for all the projects.
• Also, responsible as a TRO of our division to ensure we remediate the Tech Risk Findings/Vulnerabilities found for our Applications On-Prem or Cloud.
• Documented detailed procedures for major activities, ensuring knowledge transfer and operational continuity.
• Implemented end to end Infrastructure for a greenfield project of an internal
application by provisioning services like EC2, 53, EBS, Application Load Balancer
and Route53.
• Configured Dynatrace Agent to monitor AWS-hosted applications and set up
alerting for service degradation and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Leveraged AppDynamics flow maps and transaction snapshots to identify slow
services and optimize performance.
• Maintaining and managing AIX and Linux servers and virtualization.
• Setting up HA clusters and performing failover activities.
• Manged Datacenter activities - like Tape Backup , Hardware Failures , capacity
planning.
• Diagnosing and resolving hardware failures , connectivity issues , running
diagnostics and collaborating with Vendors for replacements of faulty device.
• Handling AIX/Linux BAU activities
• LVM activities like creating Volume Groups, Logical Volumes , File Systems, Disk
Usage Management , Adding Physical Volumes to VGs, Mirroring rootvg.
• Data backup and Recovery using T SM and Commvault
• Supporting and handling the Hardware Replacement activities
• Performing DR Drills
• Installing patches in AIX/Linux hosts
• Managing User authentication using NIS, LDAP, and AD on AIX/Linux/Windows servers.
• AIX Installation through NIM
• Creation and Management of LPAR in IBM Power5,Power6 servers using HMC
• Capacity changes in LPAR using DLPAR operations
• Checking errors using ERRPT and performing corrective actions
• Taking rootvg backup using MKSYSB
• Taking complete OS backup using EMC Networker
• Device Management , configuring devices.
• Mirroring and Performing Backups on VIO servers.
• Worked as a GTRC Analyst for Cisco
• Assisting Clients with network performance issues, VLANs and NAT configurations
• Handling L1/L2 support tickets related to network issues as a part of TAC team.
• Analyzing packet captures,logs and routing tables to diagnose problems.
• VPN setups and Basic application level support.