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Danish Inamdar

Pune

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Results-driven Platform Architect with 18+ years of experience in enterprise IT environments, specializing in Disaster Recovery (MRP), Cloud Architecture, and Data Center Migrations. Proven track record in designing and deploying resilient infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Strong expertise in Unix/Linux platforms, virtualization, and cloud-native technologies, ensuring uptime, performance, and business continuity.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

platform architect-Unix

1111systems
Pune
04.2024 - Current
  • Hands-on experience architecting and deploying AWS cloud solutions.
  • Knowledge of AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, API Gateway, etc.
  • Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools in Terraform.
  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
  • Familiarity with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implemented disaster recovery plans to ensure high availability of critical systems.
  • Coordinated testing activities prior to production deployments in order to verify stability and performance metrics.
  • Evaluated new technologies to identify potential solutions that meet the organization's needs.
  • Integrated third-party applications with existing infrastructure components to extend functionality.
  • Provided technical expertise in troubleshooting complex problems related to platform architecture.
  • Developed documentation outlining system configurations and operations procedures.
  • Designed and built cloud-based platforms using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, and Route 53.
  • Experience with multi-account AWS environments and landing zone configurations.
  • Demonstrated experience with Terraform.
  • Document and understand the customer's current, future, or desired state, business goals and challenges, capabilities, and IT investments.
  • Based on this understanding, provide technical and strategic direction from initial solution design to steady state, based on industry standards and 11:11 Systems' best practices.
  • Serve as the single point of ownership for technology solutions, and coordinate resources globally to optimize customer and 11:11 Systems value.
  • Implement and manage effective governance practices and procedures across the contracted scope of responsibilities (including change, incident, request, event, problem, and vendor management).
  • Develop highly productive customer relationships, and become a Trusted Advisor by providing thought leadership to help shape and grow our value to the customer.
  • Direct lifecycle management (LCM) activities to maintain up-to-date technical documentation, including production and recovery configurations, run books and procedures, overall solution architecture document, recovery strategies/plans, and contract changes.
  • Develop recovery strategies to meet customer RTO/RPO, and conduct periodic testing to document recoverability.
  • Manage service, relationship risk areas, and take steps to mitigate.
  • Contribute to securing renewals for expiring contracts by documenting and articulating our value to the customer.
  • Identify sales opportunities, and collaborate with Account Executives to grow revenue.
  • Process customer self-service sales requests when needed.
  • Meet or exceed SLA targets by driving service management disciplines around incident, change, and problem management.
  • Develop content, and effectively lead Monthly Service Reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), and other strategic client meetings requested by the customer.
  • Conducted capacity planning activities to forecast future resource requirements.
  • Analyzed existing systems and identified areas for improvement in terms of scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
  • Performed regular maintenance tasks including patching servers, upgrading hardware and software components.

platform architect -Unix

Sungard Availability Services
10.2010 - 08.2012
  • Build DR infrastructure and Data center migration.
  • Hardware provisioning and capacity management planning.
  • OS provisioning (New OS installation & restore on multiple servers), For example, Solaris 10, Solaris 11.x, RHEL 6,7,8 & 9.
  • Build control domain and configure services.
  • Migrate LDOM guest from one data center to another DC.
  • Configure and manage LDOM network component.
  • Setup LDOM guest on the OVM platform.
  • Restore and reinstall Solaris zone on the guest domain.
  • Patching & SRU update on the Solaris 10 & 11.x.
  • VLAN tagging on LDOM guest domain.
  • Restore Solaris 10 OS from the FLAR image.
  • Restore Solaris 11.x OS from the UAR image.
  • Solaris zone installation, restore & troubleshooting.
  • Worked on RHEL 4,5,6,7 & 8.
  • OS installation & OS migration from one DC to another DC.
  • Network configuration, including net bonding and VLAN tagging on the Linux system.
  • Knowledge on LVM.
  • Knowledge on Multipathing (Device Mapper, EMC).
  • Knowledge on REAR utility and critis BMR recovery.
  • Hands-on experience in Red hat OS patching.
  • Hands-on experience on Red Hat subscription manager.
  • Hands-on experience on RHEV & OLVM technology.
  • Good hands-on experience builds RHEV & OLVM infrastructure build.
  • Perform DR & Data center migration activity in RHEV & OLVM.
  • Hands-on experience in creating DC, cluster, storage domain and network components in the RHEV & OLVM.
  • Veritas cluster troubleshooting experience.
  • Troubleshooting experience in Pacemaker cluster.
  • VXVM, XFS, EXT.x & zfs file system creation and troubleshooting experience.
  • Real-time server performance issue work experience.
  • Liaising with stakeholders to elicit requirements for engineering tasks.
  • Scoping and work estimating engineering tasks.
  • Producing architecture visions in collaboration with technology domains.
  • Constructing architecture patterns and designs in collaboration with technology domains and transaction cycles.
  • Conducting proofs of concept of technology options to facilitate strategic direction.
  • Conducting experiments in test environments, with a focus on Unix capabilities.
  • Handled escalated incidents and high availability environment incident management on the UNIX Platform [ LINUX, Solaris, OLVM & RHEV].
  • Coordinate with customers and make disaster recovery plans.
  • Worked as Linux and Solaris PA to make disaster recovery strategy and explain that to the operation team.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Mphasis an HP Company
08.2008 - 07.2010

System Administrator

Micro Touch Technologies
01.2008 - 07.2008

System Administrator

INFOGAIN SYSTEMS PVT.LTD
08.2005 - 07.2008

System Engineer

ESTEL TECHNOLOGIES PVT.LTD
01.2003 - 08.2005

Education

MBA/PGDM - Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
06-2012

BCA - Computers

Vinayaka Mission University (VMU)
07-2008

Skills

  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
  • IaC and automation: Terraform
  • Containerization: Kubernetes (EKS)
  • OS and virtualization: Solaris 10/11, RHEL, LDOM, VMware, RHEV, OLVM
  • Disaster recovery planning

Certification

  • RHCE
  • MCP
  • ITIL Foundation
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Azure administrator associate (az-104) by microsoft
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • VMWARE Certification

Timeline

platform architect-Unix

1111systems
04.2024 - Current

platform architect -Unix

Sungard Availability Services
10.2010 - 08.2012

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Mphasis an HP Company
08.2008 - 07.2010

System Administrator

Micro Touch Technologies
01.2008 - 07.2008

System Administrator

INFOGAIN SYSTEMS PVT.LTD
08.2005 - 07.2008

System Engineer

ESTEL TECHNOLOGIES PVT.LTD
01.2003 - 08.2005

MBA/PGDM - Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)

BCA - Computers

Vinayaka Mission University (VMU)

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