Naresh Kumar Viswanadha

• Lead a high‑performing team of 15+ SREs with 6 direct reporting with full responsibility for engineering, operations, and continuous improvement of Shell’s Enterprise Cloud Platform (ECP) on Azure, ensuring high availability, compliance, and cost‑efficient cloud services for mission‑critical environments.
• Successfully onboarded and migrated multiple high‑impact programs—including ENDUR (Trading & Supply), SMZ (Connectivity),S4/HANA(ERP), and COMO(Mobility)—onto the Enterprise Cloud Platform through strong cross‑functional collaboration, adherence to the Well‑Architected Framework, and design governance ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.
• Provided SME‑level design leadership for complex cloud solutions, offering architectural direction, reviewing designs, identifying improvement areas, and guiding teams in building optimized Azure infrastructures aligned with business and compliance requirements.
• Engineered and implemented Azure subscription security models, including RBAC, custom roles, and network segmentation, to support ENDUR–Citrix co‑hosting, a critical requirement that enabled ultra‑low‑latency connectivity essential for trading operations.
• Designed and implemented firewall connectivity for the SMZ (Secure Monitoring Zone), enabling secure communication for teams monitoring all Shell network devices—ensuring network availability, compliance, and operational integrity.
• Delivered multiple architectural contributions and hands‑on support for NKW (JV) implementations, designing various Azure-based solutions and assisting deployment teams—receiving strong appreciation from business and technical stakeholders.
• Led a major transformation of the Enterprise Cloud Platform organization by integrating operations and project engineering groups into a unified DevOps/Agile delivery capability, improving release velocity, ownership, and operational excellence.
• Delivered an Azure Cloud Cost Optimization program achieving ~$4M in potential savings (2024) and ~$5M (2025) by driving FinOps‑aligned initiatives, implementing 15+ automation solutions, optimizing compute/storage patterns, and improving evergreen compliance without impacting performance.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents, lead end‑to‑end troubleshooting, and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to enhance platform resilience and reduce recurrence through design fixes, automation, and improved governance controls.
• Ensure continuous compliance with InfoSec, architecture, and audit requirements by maintaining strong governance across change management, CMDB accuracy, subscription hygiene, patching, and vulnerability closure SLAs.
• Maintain cloud operations excellence by ensuring DR readiness, performance monitoring, proactive health reviews, configuration consistency, and operational alignment with Platform Engineering, SOMs, and InfoSec teams.
• Regularly work with GitHub Actions ,Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Terraform, and ARM templates, to manage CI/CD workflows ensuring safe, automated, and repeatable production releases.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams, suppliers, and vendors to drive cloud maturity, manage SLAs, and ensure high‑quality service delivery across the Endur operational landscape.
• Demonstrate strategic leadership by contributing to cloud strategy definition, risk assessments, platform roadmaps, and operational enhancement initiatives, supporting the Business SRE‑as‑a‑Service model.

• Providing support globally for Azure cloud and handling services like AAD, Azure Blob Storage, RSVs, Azure File Storage, Backup and Restore, Azure SQL Database, Virtual Network, Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, Network Security Groups, UDRs, ARM Templates, Azure Advisor, setting up MFA and configuring Identity Management, Resource Groups, and many others related to IAAS and PAAS.
• I was part of SME's handling escalations and guiding juniors on day-to-day operations work.
• Designed and developed automations for Cloud Database compliance report extractions for GC.067 control operations.
• Managed non-Oracle databases end-to-end, which includes provisioning of new servers, patching, upgrades, and performance improvements.
• Handling P1/P2 issues w.r.t Azure platform.

• I was part of the new Azure Cloud Operations team [ETSOM] involved in the Azure@Shell Project deliverables for Databases.
• Designed and developed a new backup solution for Azure SQL IaaS databases, which resulted in $150K savings for Shell.
• Completely responsible for making SQL Managed Instance ready for Shell's Business consumption. This was a major addition in the Cloud database landscape in FY2019-FY2020.
• Worked closely with architects and IRM for Azure@Shell database design and testing.
• Instrumental in identifying the major security glitch in the Azure@Shell Database auditing design and proposed required fixes.
• Defined database security baselines for cloud open-source databases.
• Developed required PowerShell tools to extract cloud open-source database security vulnerabilities.
• Proposed various migration approaches for migrating on-premise SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL MI.
• Defined various SOPs and QRGs on various features of Azure and databases for Shell Business User.

Roles and responsibilities as a senior DBA.

• Database Installation and Configuration: Expertly installed, configured, and maintained Oracle and SQL Server databases, ensuring secure and efficient database environments for multiple high-traffic applications.
• . Performance Optimization: Analyzed and optimized database performance by monitoring, identifying, and resolving slow queries, indexing bottlenecks, and resource-intensive tasks, improving query response time by up to 30%.
• Backup and Recovery Management: Established robust backup and recovery plans, including automated daily backups, point-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery strategies, reducing data recovery time by 50% in test scenarios.
• Security and Access Control: Implemented database security measures, such as user authentication, access control, encryption, and auditing. Ensured compliance with industry standards and safeguarded sensitive data from unauthorized access.