Pankaj Purohit
Gurgaon
Summary
Dynamic Senior Technical Manager with extensive experience at Comviva Technologies, specializing in data center management and hybrid cloud solutions. Proven track record in optimizing multi-technology architectures and leading high-performing teams. Skilled in AWS and VMware, with a strong commitment to operational excellence and continuous improvement under pressure.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Manager
Comviva Technologies
Gurgaon
12.2023 - Current
- Implemented Landing Zone with control tower for secure management of all accounts under security policy and MFA-enabled SSO.
Oversaw data center operations, ensuring compliance with ISMS and CIS audits.
Managed high-performing technical teams to enhance productivity and performance.
Developed optimized solutions through multi-technology architectures in hybrid cloud environments.
Ensured reliability and efficiency in complex server and storage systems across diverse platforms.
Demonstrated expertise in AWS Architect, Azure, and private cloud environments like OpenStack and OpenNebula.
Leveraged virtualization technologies (VMware & Nutanix) to drive operational excellence and innovation.
Fostered a technology-driven environment focusing on continuous improvement.
Sr. Technical Consultant/Technical Lead Engineer
MahindraComviva Technologies
Gurgaon
11.2015 - 12.2023
- Changes, monitoring, problem escalation/notification/resolution and all other aspects of Data Centre
- Experience with public and private cloud, including OpenStack and AWS-EC2,VPC, RDS, ELB, DynomoDB,Cloudwatch,Route53,SES,SNS
- Planning, managing and Installation of Servers Blade/Rack mountable using VMware VSphere suite.
- Administration and managing VMware server (ESXi 5.5 & 4.1) on production level
- Management of virtual machines, their resource pools and capacity planning security hardening and Monitoring of VMs & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance
- Installation/configuration of VMware Infrastructure in an Enterprise SAN environment
- Experience with configuring: OpenStack Ceilometer, Cinder, Glance, Heat, Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Swift
- Managing VMware Infrastructure (V-Motion, DRS, HA, Virtual Centre Server, Site Recovery Manager for Disaster Recovery)
- Assist in maintenance and monitoring of all Data Centre systems to include incidents/events, problems
- To provide team lead responsibilities where appropriate and lead the technical support recovery activities following failure, including disaster recovery
- Part of Installations & Troubleshooting of Red hat Cloud forms and Open stack
- Basic level of Administration on Nutanix including calm, era, prism central
- Manage and Administration of Red hat Cloud forms 3.2 with self-service portal
- Planning and provisioning of AWS services like IAAS, PAAS and Network as services with VPC and S2S tunneling with operators
- Maintaining VMware/OLVM Virtualization technologies
- Implementation of Nutanix HCI for large scale computation.
- Marinating all operations in DC with monitoring and maintain HP, Dell, IBM Rack Server, Blade center, Storage and etc
- Manage and Configure Critical Server backup through EMC Avamar & Networker
Linux Sr. Server Administrator
Wipro InfoTech Ltd.
Gurgaon
10.2014 - 11.2015
- Company Overview: On the Payroll
- Handling issues related to Linux Servers
- Linux Server build and configuration along with RAID level Configuration
- Support Linux related issues in Web Server, SVN and Fileserver
- Working on & providing support for Linux, Solaris, and Windows
- Allocated storage luns to be discovered on hosts & file system management
- Installations & Troubleshooting of Red hat Cluster
- Providing remote support through ILO, AMM and SP Console
- File system handling for LINUX servers
- Package management using rpm and Yum
- Creation and network configuration of Linux VMware servers
- Maintaining VMware/RHEVM (2.2 and 3.0) Virtualization technologies
- Marinating all operations in DC with monitoring and maintain HP, Dell, IBM Rack Server, Blade center, Storage and etc
- Configuration of Host file, Se-Linux
- Manage and Configure Critical Server backup through EMC Avamar & Networker
- Managing the RAID feature on the server (RAID 5 and RAID 1+0 mostly)
- Done LVM Configuration on server
- Managed and configured Hostname and IP address, Service, resource, Fencing Domain, Failover Domain
- On the Payroll
Linux Server Administrator
Wipro InfoTech Ltd.
Gurgaon
06.2012 - 10.2014
- Company Overview: On the Payroll of Progressive Info vision
- Handling issues related to Linux Servers
- Linux Server build and configuration along with RAID level Configuration
- Support Linux related issues in Web Server, SVN and Fileserver
- Working on & providing support for Linux, Solaris, and Windows
- Allocated storage luns to be discovered on hosts & file system management
- Installations & Troubleshooting of Red hat Cluster
- Providing remote support through ILO, AMM and SP Console
- File system handling for LINUX servers
- Package management using rpm and Yum
- Creation and network configuration of Linux VMware servers
- Maintaining VMware/RHEVM (2.2 and 3.0) Virtualization technologies
- Marinating all operations in DC with monitoring and maintain HP, Dell, IBM Rack Server, Blade center, Storage and etc
- Configuration of Host file, Se-Linux
- Configuration of Bonding for provide backup facilities of Ethernet card
- Managing the RAID feature on the server (RAID 5 and RAID 1+0 mostly)
- Done LVM Configuration on server
- Managed and configured Hostname and IP address, Service, resource, Fencing Domain, Failover Domain
- On the Payroll of Progressive Info vision
Network Engineer {RSWAN-Rajasthan State Wide Area Network}
Trimax Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
Jodhpur
07.2011 - 06.2012
- Maintain jodhpur District 10 Verticle PoP with 250 Horizontal offices
- Each Verticle PoP is Connects to DHQ with lease lines
- Support application and Database server DB2 issue related to Linux OS
- Configure Linux FTP Server for file transfer b/w each DHQ and BHQ
- All Horizontal offices connect with lease line and Optical Fiber
- Making Small Data Center with LAN Cabling Rack Installation, Configure IP Phones
- Network Optimization, Security, Restructuring & Support
- Maintenance of Cisco 3800, 3700, 3600, 2900, 2500, 1800 Routers, Catalyst Switches 3550, 2900, 1900 series
Network Engineer {Network Support NoC}
Sify Technologies
09.2010 - 07.2011
- Company Overview: on Payroll of Talent Maximums
- Maintenance of Cisco 7206 VXR (NPE-G1 & NPE-300), 3800, 3700, 3600; Routers Juniper J2320 Catalyst Switches 3550, 2900
- Network Optimization, Security, Restructuring & Support
- Install Linux OS and Maintain FTP, DNS server
- Troubleshooting Issues related to VPN and IVPN Enterprise Customers
- Support Linux related issue in Installations of Wireless devices
- Configuration and management of LDAP on servers
- Configuration and management of syslog on servers
- Handling Calls related of Broadband / Lease Line / ISDN
- Documentation, Asset Management, Report Generation of Critical Spares, Tools, Operation Manual, Disaster Recovery Plan as per ISO forms and processes
- On Payroll of Talent Maximums
System Administrator in the Govt. of Rajasthan at District Data center
S2Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
Nagaur
11.2009 - 09.2010
- The primary responsibility to be attending day today user related calls and address the same
- Technical support person at NIC (National informatics centre), Nagaur (raj.)
- Under Confonet project maintain by NIC, nagaur
- Setup configuration, implementation and monitoring Windows or Linux work stations/ servers
- Maintain the DATA BASE SERVER (IBM DB2) IN LINUX platform
- Maintaining DB Backup and volumes
- Creating LVM
- Implementing, Managing and Troubleshooting Local Area Network in the organization
- Maintain proper procedure and infrastructure for timely backups of specified critical Linux systems and data
System Administrator
IACM Smart Learn Ltd
Bangalore
02.2008 - 08.2009
- Managing groups and user accounts assigned permissions to users
- Installations of Linux OS on client machine and Servers
- Installation and configuring the DNS, DHCP servers and assigning IP addresses to client hosts
- Configuring FTP server to maintaining the shared folders in the Organization
- Configuring, managing and maintaining HP SAN Volume Manager & RAID etc
- Network installations of Kick start & NFS Configurations and installation scripts
- Linux Virtualization using KVM
Education
B.E. - Com. Sc.
Marwar Engineering collage & Research Center
Jaipur, Rajasthan01.2007
12th -
Ajmer, Rajasthan01.2003
10th -
Ajmer, Rajasthan01.2001
Skills
- Data centre management and Cloud (AWS & Azure) infrastructure
- Amazon Web Services Architect and Operations using Landing Zone/Control Tower
- Virtualization technologies (VMware, KVM, RHEV, OpenStack)
- Nutanix infrastructure management, Linux OS administration, and troubleshooting
- Business continuity using Backup and recovery solutions (EMC Networker & Veritas NetBackup)
- Server hardware installation (HP, Dell, IBM)
- Package management tools (RPM, YUM)
- OpenStack installation and management
- Deadline-driven efficiency
- Team collaboration under pressure
Certification
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), 07/01/07, 804007553627657
- CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associates (Professional training)
- RHCSS-Red Hat Certified Security Specialist
- RHS-333 (Red Hat Enterprise Security: Network Services)
- RHS-423 (Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication)
- RHS-429 (Secure Enable Linux and Policy Writing)
- AWS Solution Architect (Training & Hands-on practice)
- AWS Advanced Networking (Training & Hands-on practice)
- AWS AI Bedrock
- Kubernetes Administration
- Terraform (Infrastructure as code) Administration (Training & Certification)
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Management Services
- Submission of MIS Report to track the overall performance
- Capacity management
- CR, SR and incident management
- Consumable and Value Added Services
- Lead the support team for technical issues
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Natwar Lal Purohit
- Date of Birth: 08/20/86
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior Technical Manager
Comviva Technologies
12.2023 - Current
Sr. Technical Consultant/Technical Lead Engineer
MahindraComviva Technologies
11.2015 - 12.2023
Linux Sr. Server Administrator
Wipro InfoTech Ltd.
10.2014 - 11.2015
Linux Server Administrator
Wipro InfoTech Ltd.
06.2012 - 10.2014
Network Engineer {RSWAN-Rajasthan State Wide Area Network}
Trimax Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
07.2011 - 06.2012
Network Engineer {Network Support NoC}
Sify Technologies
09.2010 - 07.2011
System Administrator in the Govt. of Rajasthan at District Data center
S2Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
11.2009 - 09.2010
System Administrator
IACM Smart Learn Ltd
02.2008 - 08.2009
B.E. - Com. Sc.
Marwar Engineering collage & Research Center