Bhushan Sonawane

Directing and Leading a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) team, encompassing both Cloud Engineering and Cloud Operations specialists.

Overseeing and optimising AWS and Azure cloud platforms to ensure business application availability.
Designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud-based solutions utilising cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.
Cloud Migration: Plan and execute cloud migration strategies, ensuring seamless transition of workloads and applications to the cloud.
Assessing business requirements and proposing cloud Solutions aligned with business and security needs.
Establishing and implementing cloud policies, procedures, and standards to guarantee compliance and fulfil business requirements.
Collaboration with other Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, and Application Teams, to ensure a seamless and secure cloud environment.
Providing guidance and technical support to team members on cloud designs and operational issues.
Developing and maintaining a library of reusable platform architecture patterns and templates to expedite solution delivery for Business.
Keeping abreast of the latest cloud technologies and industry trends to ensure the team remains at the forefront of new developments.
Leading and managing cloud projects, encompassing project planning, resource allocation, Cost and risk management.
Optimising cloud spend and maintaining control over cloud costs.

Key Achievements:
Established cloud infrastructure for a modern data platform in alignment with organisational strategy.
Designed and deployed scalable Azure and AWS landing zones, incorporating a cloud-first strategy to accommodate future business requirements.
Successfully migrated on-premise hosted business-critical applications to AWS and Azure environments.
Contributed to the development of cloud financial management capabilities within the organisation.
Enhanced team skills in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps practices, and architectural knowledge.

Manage Cloud Infrastructure and Lead the day to day Operations for Enterprise multi account Cloud environments for Infrastructure Services and Cloud Native services.
Performing Cost Optimization, Security Review and workload migration planning from On-Premises to Cloud.
Participate Designing Solutions for migrating from on-premises or implementing new Systems on Cloud.
POC of new business requirements and applications as per strategic Business requirements and planning.

• Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews.
• Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
• Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
• Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
• Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.

Leading Wintel team and Managing Infrastructure. VMware, Exchange, Skype for Business, Data centre Consolidation and Migration.
Develop, Build and Deploy applications and Infrastructure Solutions.

• Maximized system availability through development and testing of contingency plans.
• Planned and implemented upgrades to system hardware and software.
• Analyzed complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.

· Managing Windows, VMware Infrastructure for Toll Group

· Optimized Solution for Business Requirements

· Leading Team and Delivering Projects as per Business needs

· Provide technical subject matter expertise wherever required.

· Actively Involved in Datacentre Migration and Transformation Project

· Exchange Environment Support and Migration Planning to O365.

· Datacentre Capacity Management

· Microsoft, VMWare etc. License Optimization

· Improving Infrastructure Stabilization, Upgrades, Consolidations

· Physical Servers, Blade, Rack Deployment and Management

· Exchange Environment Support and Migration Planning to O365.

Windows and Linux Server Setup and troubleshooting.
Data Centre support and Provisioning
Cloud Infrastructure management, deployment and designing.
VPS Configuration, cPanel, Plesk, SolusVM, Virtualizarion, KVM, OpenVZ, Xen,
Networking,
Network Troubleshooting, Security,
DDoS, Sync attack detection and mitigation,
nfdump, tcpdump, wireshark for monitoring and troubleshooting etc
Firewall Administration
Handling Escalated Tasks
Team Management

Providing support to Global IT Operations for an esteemed IT Telecom giant’s infrastructure spread across various locations providing Email, Chat and Telephonic assistance to remote users.
Windows Server Management and Administration
Active Directory, DHCP/DNS administration and maintenance
User Support for Email issues, Skype/Lync issues
Virtualization : vmWare, Hyper-V
AWS, Microsoft Azure
DFS Implementation and Management
Monitoring, administrate, troubleshoot, and manage infrastructure based systems
Assisting users upon tickets logged in Ticketing System
Work on tickets that are monitoring related, alert related
Coordination with Datacenter Team for alerts and tickets.

Managing Servers & Desktops
Active Directory
Maintaining IT infrastructure
VPN Network Administration
AWS/Cloud Server Management
DR (Business Continuity) Planning, Implementation, Management and Configuration
Production Deployment
UAT and Testing of Applications
SRS for new requirements
Managing Software Development Team and Day to day activity monitoring and development status
Planning new developments
Jira & Stash Administration
cPanel & WHM Management

• Comprehensively maintained stability of essential data backups on nightly basis.
• Maintained flexible schedule and responded to after-hours and weekend emergencies.
• Deployed antivirus and security solutions throughout entire system network.
• Devised scripts and automation tools to improve system efficiency.
• Implemented and maintained virtual private networks.
• Diagnosed and executed resolution for network and server issues.

Managed Services Provider in Nashik for Educational Institute, Automobile industries and SMBs.

Developing the system and policies for the organisation considering future growth plans.
Emerging as leading IT services provider in the region.
Business expansion plans.
Generating the new business and increasing the revenue and profit.

• Introduced management tools to create and manage virtual server computing environment.
• Worked with users to determine areas of technology in need of improved usability.
• Provisioned new software and hardware for use, following established security policies.
• Managed onboarding and offboarding of employees.
• Drove continuous improvement of IT governance processes.
• Monitored temperature and power draw to immediately detect faults and failures.
• Served as subject matter expert on proposed technology purchases.
• Maximized system availability through development and testing of contingency plans.
• Devised scripts and automation tools to improve system efficiency.
• Designed and evaluated WAN and LAN connectivity technologies.
• Implemented and maintained virtual private networks.
• Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues.