Manoj Srivastava
Vice President - Cloud Engineering
Pune,MH
Summary
Results-driven professional with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology and nearly a decade specializing in Cloud Engineering, Digital Transformation, and Application Modernization within the Investment Banking sector. Currently leading initiatives for Cloud Product enablement and fostering cloud adoption across the organization. Expertise includes Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Container Orchestration, and Database Technologies, complemented by a strong commitment to mentoring and coaching teams to achieve excellence. A proven leader inspiring collaboration and innovation while driving strategic technological advancements.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Vice President of Cloud Engineering
Deutsche Bank
04.2024 - Current
- Experienced Vice President of Cloud Engineering with a proven track record in executing strategic initiatives of driving cloud adoption in the organization, cost optimization and modernizing application landscape. Skilled in designing and managing cloud solutions, leading cloud engineering team, enabling cloud products to be used in the bank and driving digital transformation.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Stakeholder Coordination: Act as a trusted advisor to internal clients and IT stakeholders, ensuring alignment with IT strategies and roadmaps.
- Cloud Engineering & Governance: Oversee the governance of clients' cloud solutions and support processes, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
- Team Leadership: Lead a team of Platform Engineers to deliver Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) services for faster cloud resource deployment through DevOps practices.
- Cost Optimization & FinOps: Guide internal teams on cost optimization strategies and FinOps and drive implementation of cost optimization solutions. Reduced Infrastructure cost by ~50% as part of cloud adoption and automation initiative.
- Product Ownership: Enabling and owning Google Cloud products in the bank by partnering with CISO and Group Architecture teams keeping GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) framework in mind. Defining strategy of Google Cloud product adoption in the bank
- Application Transformation: Drive the transformation of applications and database from on-premises to GCP.
- Enterprise Collaboration: Partner with domain architects and security officers to devise and deliver digital transformation solutions using GCP Cloud Services.
- Leadership: Mentoring and managing a team of Cloud Engineers in the region. Presenting the Cloud Transformation opportunities to the Senior Leadership.
- Achievements:
- Designed and established the CICD pipeline for automating repetitive tasks such as database changes, deployment of GCP Cloud resources using Github and Terraform.
- Implemented FinOps strategies that led to significant cost savings for clients.
- Streamlines the process for cloud migration to be used across the bank as part of Cloud Engineering squad. This resulted in fast adoption of cloud services and IT infrastructure cost optimization.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
Vice President
Macquarie Global Services
04.2013 - 05.2024
- Highlights:
- Engineering: Driven engineering practice for the Asset Management group of the organization globally including transformation and modernization initiative.
- Program Delivery: Driven programs for cross business collaboration to create awareness and implementation of Cloud First & Cloud Right globally.
- Cloud Adoption: Consolidation, Migration and Transformation of applications and databases to AWS cloud using Lift & Shift, Re-Factoring and Re-Architecting by analyzing the requirement for cost effectiveness.
- Automation: Infrastructure Automation using Python & AWS Lambda and CICD pipelines. Deployment of workload on EKS using GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Collaboration: Analysis of security requirements, DR Test Planning, feasibility of migrating to public cloud infrastructure in collaboration with application teams, risk managers and security consultants towards public cloud migrations.
- Team management: Built and grew a team of Cloud and Platform Engineers and managed a team of about 25 people regionally while heading Asset Management's technology team.
- Strategic Alignment: Represented the business unit in the Global Leadership Forum by presenting roadmap, achievements and transformation ideas aligned with strategic organization initiatives.
- Service Ownership: Owned the services offered as part of the Platform Engineering team i.e. Databases, EKS etc.
- Learning & Development: Initiated Learning Group and Workshops in the region to enhance cloud skills and awareness globally.
- Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
Lead Consultant
Computer Sciences Corporation
11.2011 - 04.2013
- Highlights:
- Part of Managed Services group and responsible for managing the database fleet of assign clients.
- Architecting SQL Server Databases (SQL 2008 & 2012) as a key member of engineering team. This involves, but not limited to, planning and building SQL Server instances including High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions.
- Developed an application using Visual Basic to automate the installation of SQL Server Software.
- Served as the escalation point while leading and mentoring the Database Operations team.
Service Delivery Manager
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
05.2010 - 11.2010
- Highlights:
- Managed a team of about 10 DBAs.
- Prepare the database recovery procedure in different scenarios. This involved point in time, point of failure recovery and BCP procedure including Risk analysis and database security considerations.
- Plan and implement the SQL server consolidation in a shared or virtualized environment.
- Provide consultation to the business to fulfill their requirements around the SQL Server & Sybase Database Infrastructure.
Sr. Engineer
Computer Sciences Corporation
12.2007 - 05.2010
- Highlights:
- Managed the SQL Server Infrastructure of the assigned client as part of Managed Hosting Services team. Responsible for troubleshooting database issues, performing DR Tests, configuring database mirroring.
Associate Consultant
HCL Technologies
11.2006 - 12.2007
- Highlights:
- Technical lead & escalation point for the offshore team of the assigned client.
- Installation, patching, monitoring and troubleshooting of client's SQL Servers.
Database Administrator
Wipro Technologies
03.2006 - 11.2006
- Highlights:
- Transitioned the project from onshore to offshore, analyzed the SQL Server Infrastructure of the client onsite to prepare the SOP, Support Documentation and guidelines and setup support team in India.
Support Engineer
Microsoft GTSC
02.2005 - 03.2006
- Highlights:
- Part of Product Support & Services Team to assist premier Microsoft Customers on Web Server, FrontPage Extension and SQL Server related issues. Take part in triages and prepare troubleshooting documents.
Education
MBA - Information Technology
04.2001 -
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Database Specialty
- Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
- Google Certified Generative AI Leader
- CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- CNCF Certified Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
- ITIL V3 Foundation
Skills
AWS Cloud – EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Data Migration Services, Schema Conversion Tool, CloudFormation, CloudWatch & Lambda
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate
Profile Summary
- A seasoned performance-driven professional for IT Infrastructure transformation and modernization as part of Cloud Engineering & service delivery.
- Initiated strategically aligned programs and projects for Cloud adoption in the organization.
- Built and managed engineering team from scratch spread over multiple locations, to work collaboratively for achieving strategic organization goal in Cloud Engineering.
- Driven cost optimization initiatives to bring IT infrastructure spend down while ensuring operational excellence.
- Built secure and scalable cloud solutions for the organization.
- Leveraging all-round expertise for driving impact & results in IT Operations with innate capabilities of turning innovative ideas into world class solutions
- Aligned IT with business strategy, designed and drove large and complex business-IT solutions and translated complex business requirements into innovative technology solutions
- An out-of-the-box thinker with a flair for identifying & adopting emerging trends & addressing industry requirements to achieve organizational objectives
- Hands-on experience in IT Infrastructure Migrations, Application Modernization, Automation and consolidation.
Timeline
Vice President of Cloud Engineering - Deutsche Bank
04.2024 - Current
Vice President - Macquarie Global Services
04.2013 - 05.2024
Lead Consultant - Computer Sciences Corporation
11.2011 - 04.2013
Service Delivery Manager - IBM India Pvt Ltd.
05.2010 - 11.2010
Sr. Engineer - Computer Sciences Corporation
12.2007 - 05.2010
Associate Consultant - HCL Technologies
11.2006 - 12.2007
Database Administrator - Wipro Technologies
03.2006 - 11.2006
Support Engineer - Microsoft GTSC
02.2005 - 03.2006
ICFAI University - MBA, Information Technology
04.2001 -
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