Kirubakaran N
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic Delivery Manager with extensive experience at Saint-Gobain India, specializing in infrastructure modernization and cloud services. Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams, achieving a 15% reduction in costs through automation and effective project management. Skilled in DevOps practices and stakeholder engagement, driving operational excellence and business continuity.
Overview
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Certification
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
DELIVERY MANAGER – INFRASTRUCTURE
Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
Chennai
06.2026 - Current
- Lead infrastructure delivery activities across servers, virtualization, cloud, DevOps tools, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and enterprise integrations.
- Drove infrastructure modernization, migration, automation, and platform improvement initiatives, enhancing overall service capabilities.
- Manage end-to-end delivery of infrastructure services and technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with business requirements, timelines, quality, and operational standards.
- Manage infrastructure migration and upgrade activities while ensuring minimal business disruption and effective transition to new platforms.
- Coordinated with application, security, network, cloud, and business teams to deliver infrastructure projects and resolve critical technical issues, ensuring timely project completion.
- Ensure backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, security, and compliance requirements are incorporated into infrastructure projects and operational processes.
- Tracked project milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables, providing regular status updates to stakeholders to maintain transparency and alignment.
- Lead and mentor infrastructure engineers and coordinate cross-functional technical teams for successful project execution.
TOOLS & INTEGRATIONS LEAD – IT
Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
Chennai
- Led a team of 10 engineers and developers to design, develop, and maintain custom tools and integrations.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements for tooling and automation solutions.
- Spearheaded migration of legacy systems to cloud-based platforms, reducing infrastructure costs by 15%.
- Designed and implemented automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, minimizing manual intervention.
- Established automated testing and monitoring processes, achieving a 20% reduction in downtime incidents.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to identify opportunities for process improvement and operational efficiency.
- Executed infrastructure projects, including data center migrations and upgrades to existing systems.
- Participated in security audits, coordinating remediation efforts for identified vulnerabilities.
TOOLS & INTEGRATIONS ENGINEER
Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
Chennai
- Collaborated with software engineering teams to design and implement reliable, scalable, and efficient applications and infrastructure integrations.
- Supported DevOps enablement through automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure tooling.
- Developed and maintained automation scripts for routine operational tasks, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing manual effort.
- Implemented and maintained monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and address infrastructure and application issues.
- Performed incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews to prevent recurring issues.
- Supported development and enhancement of disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure organizational resilience.
SENIOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR
CareerOne Solution India Private Limited / Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
Chennai
- Implemented server virtualization using VMware, improving resource utilization and reducing hardware dependency.
- Administered and maintained enterprise Windows, Linux, and virtualization environments, ensuring reliable support for business applications and users.
- Managed infrastructure monitoring and incident resolution to maintain system reliability and minimize downtime.
- Supported infrastructure upgrades, expansion projects, and server migrations to enhance system capabilities and prepare for future technology needs.
- Collaborated with application development teams to troubleshoot server-related issues and improve system performance and reliability.
- Managed Active Directory, user accounts, permissions, and Group Policies to maintain secure access to network resources.
SERVER ADMINISTRATOR
CareerOne Solution India Private Limited / Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
Chennai
- Managed Windows and Linux server environments while maintaining high availability and operational stability.
- Supported infrastructure with a demonstrated 99.99% uptime.
- Executed server updates, patching, security audits, and vulnerability remediation to enhance system security and integrity.
- Monitored server performance and troubleshot infrastructure issues to optimize operational performance and minimize downtime.
- Configured and maintained virtualization environments using VMware and Hyper-V.
- Planned and executed server upgrades and infrastructure migrations to ensure seamless transitions and improved system capabilities.
- Automated routine administrative tasks using PowerShell and Bash scripting.
DESKTOP SUPPORT ENGINEER
CareerOne Solution India Pvt Ltd / I1 CareIT Solutions
Chennai
- Administered Active Directory users, permissions, and desktop deployments, streamlining access and enhancing security.
- Delivered L1/L2 support for Windows systems, hardware, software, and network issues, ensuring minimal downtime for users.
- Facilitated operating system installation, patching, troubleshooting, and IT asset inventory management to maintain system integrity and performance.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Engineering (Part-Time)
Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute
Chennai09-2026
Diploma - Computer Engineering
Murugappa Polytechnic College
AvadiSkills
- Infrastructure upgrades
- Cloud modernization
- Server & Virtualization Management
- Cloud services
- Microsoft Azure
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure Automation
- Infrastructure upgrades
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Incident management
- Disaster recovery
- Backup and Disaster recovery planning
- Business continuity planning
- Data center
- IT Infrastructure
- Infrastructure upgrades & Upgrades
- Scripting Automation
- Shell Scripting
- Scripting Languages
- Linux Administration
- Database Management
- Relational Databases
- Open Source Databases
- Performance Monitoring
- Data Protection
- Regulatory Standards
- Risk Assessment
- Vendor Management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Backup and Disaster recovery planning
- Disaster Recovery
- Regulatory Standards
- Risk Assessment
- Project management
Certification
AZ-104 – Microsoft Azure Administrator
Projects
- End-to-End DevOps Infrastructure | Implemented an end-to-end DevOps infrastructure chain to streamline software development, testing, and deployment processes., Established automated workflows to improve collaboration between development and operations teams.
- Rapid IT Infrastructure Restoration Initiative | Led infrastructure recovery activities during a major cyber incident in 2017, supporting rapid service restoration and infrastructure hardening.
- Veeam Backup Implementation | Successfully implemented Veeam Backup to improve organizational data protection, backup and recovery capabilities, recovery times, and business continuity.
- Zabbix Monitoring Implementation | Successfully deployed and configured Zabbix for real-time monitoring of India server infrastructure, improving visibility into system health and performance and supporting proactive issue identification.
Technology Landscape
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, SonarQube Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Virtualization: VMware, Hyper-V Servers: Windows Server, Linux Automation: PowerShell, Bash, Python Databases: MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL Monitoring: Zabbix Backup & DR: Veeam, Disaster Recovery Directory Services: Active Directory, Group Policy
Timeline
DELIVERY MANAGER – INFRASTRUCTURE
Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
06.2026 - Current
TOOLS & INTEGRATIONS LEAD – IT
Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
TOOLS & INTEGRATIONS ENGINEER
Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
SENIOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR
CareerOne Solution India Private Limited / Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
SERVER ADMINISTRATOR
CareerOne Solution India Private Limited / Saint-Gobain India Private Limited
DESKTOP SUPPORT ENGINEER
CareerOne Solution India Pvt Ltd / I1 CareIT Solutions
B.Tech - Computer Engineering (Part-Time)
Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute
Diploma - Computer Engineering
Murugappa Polytechnic College