Bhagwati Prasad Pant
Noida
Summary
Experienced Senior Infrastructure Lead with thorough experience in managing large scale production systems
in Banking and Finance domain. Skilled in Engineering and Operations- system design, integration, upgrades and migrations. Extensive experience in handling risk mitigation plans, disaster recovery procedures.
Substantial ability in leading large teams in multiple domains like datacenter, unix, windows and DevOps with a dedicated focus upon service delivery of highest standards.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager
Paytm Payments Bank Ltd.
10.2020 - Current
- This role involves strategic planning in On-prem and cloud infra to ensure infrastructure aligns with company's goals and supports its business operations effectively, ensuring scalabililty of systems.
- Vulnerability and patch management, risk identification and mitigation, supervision of change processes, incident handling, compliance coverage and service delivery improvements.
- Deployment and orchestration of container platforms, cluster management, monitoring and troubleshooting, collaboration with all infra teams.
- Development and execution of operating system migrations-linux/windows, storage migrations, tech refresh of softwares and hardwares. Periodic reviews of operational documentation.
- Evaluation of new solutions for on-prem and hyperconverged infra, security solutions, cost optimisations. Automation of tasks through ansible, salt, terraform, jenkins.
- Leading a team of engineers, overseeing planning, execution and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring that they meet quality standards, stay within budget and adhere to timelines.
- Capacity assessment, scaling and management of datacenters and vendor engagements.
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd.
06.2015 - 10.2020
- Managed maintenance activities in business critical VCS, RAC linux /solaris clusters and Oracle exadata cluster nodes. Performed firmware upgrades, ASM disk management.
- Performed powerpath upgrades, Veritas Infoscale Upgrades, storage migrations in unix servers, zone reattach/failover procedures.
- Configured solaris zones, resource capping, performance tuning of solaris zones, VxFS to ZFS migration.
- Participated in DR activities.Performed QA audit of Incidents and changes.Crafted standard operating procedures.
- Involved in incident management, problem management, change management. Handled 2nd level unix escalations.
- Performed technically complex, high business visibility changes, complex changes involving VCS upgrades.
- Participated in weekly review meetings with client's unix Infrastructure with top management, representing HCL as part of service delivery improvements.
Senior Systems Engineer
Navisite India Pvt Ltd
11.2011 - 07.2015
- Managed solaris servers-UFS, ZFS and vxvm filesystems.
- Configured and managed VCS clusters, resources and service groups and performed upgrade activities in VCS.
- Configured services like IPMP, Bonding, kdump, NFS, NIS, FTP on Solaris and Redhat Linux servers.
- Configured solaris zones, resource capping and performance tuning of solaris zones.
- Performed upgradation, configuration, maintenance, patch management of solaris and linux servers and filesystem extensions in unix servers.
- Performed second Level QA Audit of deployments.
- Managed storage devices and performed admin level tasks.
- Performed filesystem related tasks in NAS devices like HP NAS, EMC NAS.
Systems Engineer
Zensar Technologies Ltd.
07.2008 - 10.2011
- Delivered 24x7 OS support to mission critical servers running database and applications on SUN and linux boxes.
- Performed system backups and restoration using ufsrestore commands.
- Automated hourly health check scripts and syslog scripts.
- Configured Solaris 10 on Sun sparc servers.
- Administered network Services-NIS, NFS, AUTOFS, NIS, FTP, SSH, telnet, printer services etc.
- Managed Virtual machines,performed cloning and snapshots.
- Maintained AMCs of Sun servers, tape drives and tapes. Performed hardware replacements like disks, memory DIMMs.
- Performed basic Installation and configuration of BigBrother, Nagios for monitoring.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
D.I.T. Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Dehradun06.2008
Skills
- Technology and People Management
Engineer Manager and Technical Lead
- Operating Systems : Redhat Linux 5/6/7, Oracle Solaris 10/11, CentOS 7
- Hardwares: Oracle T and M Series,HP Proliant, Dell Poweredge, Oracle Exadata, IBM Power
- Volume Managers : VxVM, LVM, SVM,ZFS
- High Availability Clusters : Veritas Infoscale 60, Oracle RAC Cluster, Redhat Cluster
- Cloud and DevOps: Ansible, Kubernetes, jenkins, terraform, AWS, Katello
- Scripting: Bash
- Virtualization: Linux KVM, Solaris LDOM
- Security: TrendMicro
- Storage: Dell EMC, Netapp
Certification
RHCE Certified,2008
ITIL v3.0 Certified Professional, 2009
Solaris 9/10 Administration,2010
Training on Oracle Exadata administration,2014
Training on Datacenter Administration,2021
Training on Kubernetes Administration,2022
Training on AWS Administration, 2023
Languages
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Paytm Payments Bank Ltd.
10.2020 - Current
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd.
06.2015 - 10.2020
Senior Systems Engineer
Navisite India Pvt Ltd
11.2011 - 07.2015
Systems Engineer
Zensar Technologies Ltd.
07.2008 - 10.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
D.I.T. Dehradun, Uttarakhand
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