Mohammed Athiq Ur Rahman
Lead IT Infrastructure engineer
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Lead IT infrastructure professional with 20 years of experience specializing in data center design, build, migration, and transformation initiatives. Extensive expertise in planning and executing end-to-end data center migrations, including greenfield and brownfield builds, consolidations, and technology refresh programs. Proven ability to manage large-scale infrastructure projects encompassing networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and security while ensuring minimal downtime and strict SLA adherence. Highly skilled in capacity planning, risk management, vendor coordination, and change management. Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, driving cost optimization, and delivering resilient, scalable data center solutions aligned with business objectives. Known for strong stakeholder communication, operational excellence, and a results-driven approach.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates
Work History
Cloud Software Group
11.2018 - Current
Capgemini Business Solution
07.2017 - 11.2018
AXA Technologies Shared Services
02.2013 - 06.2017
Network Engineer- APAC
Informatica Business Solution Pvt Ltd
10.2005 - 02.2013
- Establishing New networks for the new offices and acquisitions of Informatica
- Performing Data Center Migrations and involving in Disaster recovery drills
- Ensuring optimal network operations of Data and Voice infrastructure for the offices at Bangalore, Hyderabad, and other APJ regions (e.g
- Singapore, Japan, Korea, China, Australia)
- Installation, Administration and troubleshooting of WI-FI Networks, Access Points, WLC
- Monitoring and troubleshooting Data and Voice network devices including routers Switches, Modems etc
- Using Network Management System tools
- Proactive and preventive maintenance of Network equipment including IOS upgrades, performance monitoring and improvements for ports, switches, Blades etc
- Assisting in designs for new private cloud environments (VMWARE Vcloud, ESX, and CloudStack Cloud) and implementing relevant designs
- Assisting Storage administrators in configuring Netapp NAS Storages
- Using Network Sniffing tools like Wireshark, etc in Troubleshooting NFS related issues
- Network Address Management, Inventory Management and Vendor Management for outsourced activities (Cabling, Links Provisioning, Procurement, etc)
- Active and Passive Structured Cabling (Panduit Copper and Fiber) within Data Center and Floor areas
- Network & Bandwidth planning, Hardware sizing, new link commissioning, designing & deployment
- Configuration and Troubleshooting Traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, and Route Maps
- Capacity and Performance (Throughput and Latency) reports, Availability reports generation and presentation to management
- Providing operational support for Global team for 24 x 7 support for sites in Americas and Europe during India day time
- Guiding L1/L2 Network Operations Center (NOC) resources for 24 x 7 Operations
- Managing Escalations and appropriately communicating on High Impact Incidents and ensuring the follow-up till Root cause is analyzed
- Follow ITIL framework for the IT operations
Education
B.E - Electronics & Communication
Bellary Engineering College
Bellary, KarnatakaSkills
Data Center Design, Build, and Migration (Greenfield & Brownfield)
Certification
CCNA Certification
Timeline
Cloud Software Group
11.2018 - Current
Capgemini Business Solution
07.2017 - 11.2018
AXA Technologies Shared Services
02.2013 - 06.2017
Network Engineer- APAC
Informatica Business Solution Pvt Ltd
10.2005 - 02.2013
B.E - Electronics & Communication
Bellary Engineering College
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 05/31/80
Awards
- Awarded SPOT Award for seamless data center migration.
- Awarded Monthly Award for seamless Nexus 5k upgrades.
- Awarded SPOT award for handling multiple operations issues.
- Awarded SPOT award for seamless workload migration.
Professional Snapshot
A competent Professional with 13.5+ years experience in Networking Administration and Trouble Shooting. Proficient in undertaking process improvement/cost saving initiatives and sharing best practices. Expertise in modern concepts of end-to-end project/program planning and implementation from scope management. Adept in analysing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting for complex information systems management. Proven success in handling several process migrations while ensuring compliance to the SLA levels. Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with proven abilities in team management, customer relationship management and planning.
Running, Football and Cycling
Have lost of about 25 kilo in a span of 6 months with roper diet and running
Played District level football
Major Achievements And Projects
- Colocation Data Center Evaluation & Finalization, Led end-to-end evaluation and selection of a new COLO data center to meet business scalability, latency, and compliance requirements.
- Migration from On-Premises DC to New COLO DC – 5000+ Servers, Successfully led the end-to-end migration of 5000+ physical servers from an on-premises data center to a newly built co-location (COLO) facility.
- Building Data Center from Scratch – 137 Racks at NTT COLO DC, Played a pivotal role in designing, planning, and deploying a 137-rack data center at the NTT Co-location (COLO) facility.
- Data Center Migration of 7000+ Servers, Led a large-scale data center migration project involving the end-to-end relocation of over 7000+ physical servers from an on-premises data center to a co-location (COLO) facility.