Ashish Sharma
Noida,Uttar Pradesh
Summary
Highly skilled solution architect and consultant with over 17+ years of experience in virtualization, cloud computing, DevOps, networking, and security. Expert in multi- cloud and hybrid infrastructure planning, designing, deploying, and automating datacentre migrations to different clouds or different datacentres. Proven ability to work with customers and teammates to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems. Strong VDI skills in VMware Horizon, Citrix, and Amazon Workspaces. Strong hold on Infrastructure Deployment with DevOps Methodology and Management tools like Terraform, Jenkins and Python.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Technical Architect/Senior Principal Consultant
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Noida
08.2022 - Current
- Served as OCI Presales Architect, partnering with sales to drive pipeline, qualify opportunities, and close complex cloud and hybrid deals.
- Led customer engagements for OCI IaaS, PaaS, OCVS, Hybrid, and Sovereign Cloud offerings.
- Designed & Implemented domain specific Autonomous & REACT based Generative AI Agents.
- Architected and delivered on-premises VMware migrations to OCI, OCVS, Oracle Alloy, and DRCC.
- Conducted customer discovery workshops to capture business, functional, and non-functional requirements and define target-state architectures.
- Designed end-to-end OCI solutions covering networking, security, DevOps, governance, and high availability.
- Delivered POCs, demos, and hands-on workshops to validate architectures and accelerate buying decisions.
- Implemented OCI landing zones with zero-trust security, IAM best practices, and scalable network design.
- Performed TCO and cost optimization analysis to build strong business cases.
- Enabled sales and technical teams through training, solution collateral, and field best practices.
- Designed and delivered sovereign cloud architectures using Oracle Alloy and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer (DRCC), ensuring data residency, regulatory compliance, and full operational isolation.
- Architected hybrid and multi-cloud solutions integrating OCI with on-premises and third-party cloud platforms to meet customer interoperability needs.
- Created enablement content such as blogs, whitepapers, workshops, and solution guides to drive customer and partner adoption of OCI and OCVS.
- Served as a trusted technical advisor, guiding customers through architecture decisions, risk mitigation, and production readiness.
- Engineered architecture and infrastructure for 5k workload for 300 different customers in Sovereign cloud.
- Improved business productivity for clients by 43% by re-engineering and designing infrastructures.
Software Developer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 08.2022
- Lead Migration project for VMware NSX, VMware vRA legacy VM, on-prime DC to SDDC Cloud, AWS & Azure.
- Organize team transition to SCRUM, play SCRUM Master role.
- Created and maintained an SLA for support procedures, timeframes, and scope of responsibility.
- Organize technical workshop to tackle problems (security, performance, architecture, ...)
- Ensure the infrastructure is meeting best security practices and standards are effectively monitored and meeting performance requirements.
- Assisting in product evaluation and finalization for infrastructure design from Physical DC to SDDC and underlay environment to SDN (NSX-V, NSX-T).
- Working closely with Senior Leadership and assisting in on-ground implementations.
- Assessment and preparation of IT blueprint for modernization and Technical refreshes.
- Evaluating new technologies and Running POC.
- Developed business and technical requirements based on project needs.
- Responsible for managing Data Center and IT operations, in addition to capital budget preparation.
- Planning, designing & setting up IT Infrastructure activities entailing installation of networking devices, communication/servers / messaging devices, and other peripherals.
- Assisting in capacity planning and infrastructure project management.
- Lead infra commissioning or Hosting Requisition Process.
- Leading and managed multiple relocation projects for the enterprise with zero downtime to business and users.
- Have a detailed understanding of Project Planning & Execution with detailed Risk Analysis and mitigation procedures for large service delivery projects.
- Develop and publish Information Security Policies, Procedures, Standards, and Guidelines based on knowledge of best practices and compliance requirements.
- Correlate identified risk scenarios to relevant business processes to assist in identifying risk ownership.
- Validate risk appetite and tolerance with senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure alignment.
Platform Administrator
Standard Chartered GBS Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
06.2019 - 06.2021
- Managing & Supporting the hybrid cloud, private cloud platform that runs on the virtual data center using VMware Cloud Suite tools like vRealize Automation (vRA), vCenter, vSphere & vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).
- Design and Implementation VMware vRealize Automation deployment, environment configuring vRealize Endpoints, Fabric Groups Reservations, Reservations Policies, Approval Policies, Blueprints Entitlements and Services Blueprints.
- Develop VRO workflows to automate the VM provisioning for different service levels (Gold, Silver and Bronze).
- Handle Operational tasks like adding new endpoints, Blueprints, Business groups, reservations and Entitlements.
- Provided the IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SAAS (Software as a Service) to the new customers in cloud platform.
- VMware vRealize Operation manager installation and configuration.
- Manage Incident and CR raised under JIRA and ServiceNOW for Virtual infrastructure.
- Maintain SOP and technical documents on team Confluence page.
Technical Service Specialist
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengluru
04.2015 - 05.2019
- Developed Technical solutions in virtualization/Cloud for project installations and migrations.
- Creating Visio Architecture diagrams for New Cloud setup and migration, basis selected technology, availability.
- Design and lead some critical project for VMware vRA build, NSX, PowerVC setup, AWS migration.
- Design Data Center virtualization for Some of IBM client; SE, Multichoice, DACH.
- Develop and publish Information Security policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines based on knowledge of best practices and compliance requirements.
Senior Specialist
HCL
Noida
08.2013 - 04.2015
- Management integrated ESX server, create a new storage space, creation of VMFS data store, Configuration networking for the virtual machines.
- Configure and manage User, Group, Permission, Role, Resource pool on VMware virtual center.
- Management of virtual machines, their resource pools and capacity planning.
- Ensuring highest availability of mail servers, monitoring exchange message routing, database backup and troubleshooting.
- Maintaining Server health by checking Performance monitor logs, disk- space utilization, Events viewer reporting and taking corrective measures.
- New Domino Server has setup for organization and tested successful mail routing/Replication.
Senior Engineer
Wipro
Gurugram
06.2012 - 08.2013
- Managing The VM infrastructure ( VMotion, DRS, HA, Virtual Center Server, VM Converter).
- Performing daily activities, performance monitoring like server availability, mail routing and space management.
- Management of Reports like Daily Activity Reports, Daily log Reports, Disk space on server, Mail boxes disk space, etc.
- Daily management, analysis, and troubleshooting of 20000+ Lotus Notes 8.5.2 mail files/users, and monthly server maintenance on Domino 8.5.2 Hub, Mail, SMTP, Application, Servers.
- Managing & maintaining Symantec Enterprise Vault for Domino Journal archiving.
- Domino Mailbox Archiving , Mailbox Ingestion and Discover Accelerator for legal and compliance purpose.
Contact Emp.
Wipro
Gurugram
06.2010 - 06.2012
Engineer
Renovision Pvt. Ltd.
New Dehli
05.2008 - 06.2010
Skills
VMware Technologies: vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T Advanced
Experience in Designing & Deploying Generative AI Agents Upper intermediate
OCI - Compute, Kubernetes Engine & functions, MultiCloud, Networking, Security, Storage and VMware Advanced
Automation & Orchestration: Python, Docker Containers & Kubernetes (Oracle Kubernetes Engine) Upper intermediate
Customer Success Architect & Technical Presales Upper intermediate
Solution Design & Delivery Upper intermediate
Multi-Site Planning, Cloud Architecture and Disaster Recovery Upper intermediate
AWS (EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) Upper intermediate
Certification
OCI 2025 Generative AI OCP
Accomplishments
- Awarded as Star performer in Renovision Automation Pvt. Ltd. In 2009
- Awarded as Start performer in HCL for FexEx project In 2013
- Awarded as ICDS Star performer-1H in IBM Ind. Pvt.Ltd. In 2018 for bringing 20% savings through Automation of build implementation
- Awarded for first hybrid cloud project (DACH) deliver by ICDS build team in GTS Labs
Personal Information
Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Technical Architect/Senior Principal Consultant
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2022 - Current
Software Developer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2021 - 08.2022
Platform Administrator
Standard Chartered GBS Pvt. Ltd.
06.2019 - 06.2021
Technical Service Specialist
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2015 - 05.2019
Senior Specialist
HCL
08.2013 - 04.2015
Senior Engineer
Wipro
06.2012 - 08.2013
Contact Emp.
Wipro
06.2010 - 06.2012
Engineer
Renovision Pvt. Ltd.
05.2008 - 06.2010