Prashant Tiwari
Engineering Services Lead
Bengaluru
Summary
Highly skilled and experienced Cloud Architect with a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable cloud solutions. Seeking a challenging position in a dynamic organization where I can utilize my technical expertise to drive business growth and innovation.
Summary of Qualifications:
- Overall 12.9 years experience in Infrastructure Management
- 4+ years of experience as a Cloud Architect, leading the design and implementation of cloud-based solutions.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with expertise in architecting and deploying infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Proficient in designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud architectures, utilizing services such as VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more.
- Experience in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes.
- Deep understanding of networking principles and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and security.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tools like Jenkins, Git, and Ansible.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex cloud environments and provide efficient solutions.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Engineering Services Lead
Intel Technologies
09.2021 - Current
- Automate infrastructure in Amazon Web Services with Terraform
- Act as a Terraform, Ansible and DevOps / Automation subject matter expert.
- Capture and document current state infrastructure and application deployment workflows to act as a source of information informing automation development
- Develop Terraform automation content to support deployment of resources and applications in an AWS environment
- Provide guidance in the use and architecture of Terraform Enterprise or Cloud including deployment and configuration of these tools.
- Develop and document best practice SDLC workflows (Information gathering and analysis,Planning,Design,Development,Testing,Deployment)
- Maintenance (variable) to adopt across a team when developing automation content
- Work hand in hand with cloud architects to capture end-to-end deployment workflow informing how automation will configure ancillary capabilities such as monitoring tools, backups, security, identity and access management, etc
- Provide technical leadership and guidance in design, deployment, operations, and knowledge transfer to end clients
- Automate backup and restoration processes and test the recovery of those backups on a regular basis
- Write other non-templated documentation as needed to support tasks like: process and procedures documents for operational support, lessons learned, diagrams, systems administration guidelines, systems set-up documentation, hardware integration test plans and results.
- Develop documentation utilizing enterprise standardized templates including: Installation and Configuration Guides, white papers, design and engineering plans.
- Ensures the adherence to standards, policies and procedures
- Led the architecture design and implementation of a hybrid cloud infrastructure, leveraging AWS and on-premises resources, resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and improved scalability.
- Designed and implemented a highly available and fault-tolerant multi-region architecture on AWS, utilizing services such as VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53.
- Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, enabling consistent and repeatable provisioning of cloud resources.
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize cloud-based applications for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Implemented containerization using Docker and orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes, resulting in improved deployment and scalability.
- Conducted regular security assessments and implemented best practices for securing cloud environments, including IAM policies, network security groups, and encryption mechanisms.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to establish CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment and testing.
- Mentored and provided technical guidance to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
Senior Systems Engineer
Nuance India Private Limited
09.2015 - 09.2021
- Azure AD, Storage, Security, Network & Monitoring, Windows Servers all roles and features, Hyper-V
- Intune Device/Mobile management MAM, MDM, Windows updates
- Maintain up-to-date SOP for compliance records or Schemas/topologies and system configurations in terms of network diagrams and processes.
- Follow Security and Change Management guidelines/tasks/policies.
- Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Active Directory.
- Experience in administration of Active directory for users and computers.
- Configuring different types of RAID as per the requirement.
- Managing security using Group Policies.
- Installing services patches, server patches and antivirus.
- Scheduling backups and restoring backups as on required.
- File Server and file shares Administration
- Handling the Technical escalations from members.
- Installing, configuring, and managing ESX servers, virtual infrastructure, and virtual center.
- Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM's, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access.
- Installation and configuration of virtual machines in Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.
Technology Analyst
infosys Limited
09.2014 - 08.2015
- Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production. Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and coordinated with storage admin team. Extensively worked on VMware Update Manger for Host upgrades and patches.
- Configuring High Availability HA and Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS
- Creation of template Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers. Deploying virtual servers using template and cloning of virtual server.
- Providing and maintaining user access in vCenter server and maintenance of vCenter server.
- Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows cluster Servers.
- Involved in creating vSwitches and created different ports groups for different purposes.
- Installed and configure maintenance of Windows 2003, 2008 2012 Servers with Active directory Infrastructure, DNS, DHCP. Disk space increase using VMware converter and importing of virtual server using VMware converter. Monitored and managed performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
- Install applications, applied patches, and software updates for Windows and UNIX/Linux servers Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
- Designed and Implemented Microsoft Active Directory. Created RHEL and Windows Virtual Machines as per business requirements.
- Installed and Implemented VMware ESXI 5.0 host server with vSphere client.
- Configured HBAs and ISCSI San storage Planning and implementing Backup and Recovery procedures Hot, Cold Backups and RMAN, scheduling daily backups and performed periodic recovery tests.
- Defects. Performed LUN management, Metaluns, RAID groups, storage groups Developed technical notes and user guides for new software installations for end users.
Senior Technical Executive
NTT DATA
09.2011 - 09.2014
- Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003/2000 on HP ProLiant Servers.
- Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
- Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and configured FT for important VM's and Maintained FTP Sites, Web Servers and created Virtual Directories in IIS7.
- Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, VMotion, Storage VMotion , Configured NTP server in ESX Server for time synchronization between ESX and VM's.
- Involved in troubleshooting issues related to Servers, Local Services, Data Centers, and Server Configuration for Microsoft Windows Systems. Generated report summary and performance for ESX Servers and VM's.
- Deploying HA DRS Cluster, Managing resources. Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data store, Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter and Plate Spin.
- Involved in Customizing VM's Memory, hard disk, NIC and Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring. Up gradation of Active directory 2003 to 2008 and troubleshooting AD problems.
- Responsible in using BMC Remedy System for incident, change and problem management.
- Created new VMware virtual machines to meet specifications provided by Client, Troubleshooting Hung VM Sessions on ESX Host and sending files to VMware support for resolutions.
- Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA’s, created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping drives and Issues, which occur during software upgrades.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Bachelor of Engineering: Information Technology
Bhopal 09.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Terraform
AWS
Azure
DevOPS
PowerShell
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
GIT
Jenkins
Ansible
CI/CD
Certification
AZ-300
Timeline
Engineering Services Lead
Intel Technologies
09.2021 - Current
AZ-300
08-2019
Senior Systems Engineer
Nuance India Private Limited
09.2015 - 09.2021
Technology Analyst
infosys Limited
09.2014 - 08.2015
MCSE-2012
07-2014
ITIL-V3
07-2014
Senior Technical Executive
NTT DATA
09.2011 - 09.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Bachelor of Engineering: Information Technology
09.2004 - 05.2008