Rajat Wadhwa
Gurugram,HR
Summary
Highly accomplished Senior Cloud Security & Infrastructure Architect, multi-cloud certified with 25+ years of IT experience designing, implementing, and managing secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. Extensive expertise in data center, VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft technologies, enabling seamless migration and optimization of workloads to the cloud. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, deliver complex projects on time and within budget, and drive innovation through automation and best practices.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
37
37
Certifications
Work History
Senior Cloud Architect
Simplex Services Pvt Ltd
10.2024 - Current
- Involved in Cloud Migrations & working as Senior Cloud Architect in migrating applications from On-prem to other private cloud data center & to Azure Cloud
- Leading team of 10 resources as part of this migration team
Senior Cloud Architect
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
04.2020 - 08.2024
- Currently working as Cloud Security & Solutions Architect for US based Banking client (Santander Group) which included designing application authentication and authorization solutions including Single-Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Sentinel, Qualys, Key Vault and related technologies for workloads moving to the On-Prem, AWS & Azure Cloud
- Provide expertise for cyber security technical and non-technical solutions; review and provide guidance enabling business system in the cloud while leveraging Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) in a manner that adheres to Santander information security policy and standards
- Worked on a US based client project in Insurance Sector (BrightHouse Financials Ltd.) as Senior Infra & Security Architect for planning, defining, and communicating the solution architecture for an infrastructure or security related project
- This also included giving recommendations on Cost Optimization, Vendor Negotiation & Performance Efficiency
- Worked as member of IBM Cloud Migration Factory & prepared Cloud Journeys for migrating vmware workloads to VMWare Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solutions & IBM Cloud for VMWare Solutions for ICCA platform which is used by all solutioners & architects all across the globe
- Worked as Cloud Architect for Boeing to assist in preparing the infrastructure design of POC environment to migrate the on-premise application (Oracle Weblogic application) to Azure Cloud
- Conducted & participated in various workshops with customer to share my knowledge & gather information from customer to prepare the flawless design
- Designed & implemented the Azure monitoring solution for Boeing’s application to be hosted in Azure
- Conducted technical workshops with customer, prepared the design for monitoring & then implemented the solution to monitor the Infrastructure & Application in Azure
- Worked as Cloud Architect for US based retail company i.e
- Royal Canin to save cost of running resources in Azure & lead Infrastructure related initiatives in the cloud i.e
- High availability & Redundancy for various application servers, look after possibility of migration from IAAS to PAAS services etc
- Worked on a project for Western Power Project to migrate the source code of application from TFS to Azure DevOps using Git Repo
- Also, implemented the CI/CD Azure Pipelines for couple of applications in Azure Devops
Specialist Infrastructure Designer (Azure Product Champion)
BT India Pvt Ltd
10.2013 - 04.2020
- Designing Site Failover Strategy
- Designing Site Recovery Infrastructure
- Setup BCP/DR for VMware VM and Physical server on-prem to Azure, etc
- Setup Azure Traffic Manager with Azure site recovery
- Designed Citrix VDI solution in Azure + Citrix Cloud for 165 fully dedicated desktops
- Ownership of technical delivery, customer engagements and sales enablement
- Meeting with clients to understanding their needs (lead architect assessment meetings), and determining gaps between those and technical functionality, and collaborating with all stakeholders to generate mutually agreeable and advantageous solutions
- Led the design, architecture and deployment of solutions in Azure platform
- Architect and design n-tier applications grounds up using Azure IaaS and PaaS services
- Deploy Infrastructure using ARM templates for Azure PaaS services with deployment tools such as VSTS
- Deployed Cloud controls, Landing Zone, Cloud Governance and Azure Security
- Created Azure architecture blueprints and developer documentation
- Migrated applications from on premise to Azure Cloud
- Providing the Azure Training for global internal stakeholders
- Analyzing on premise cost and Azure cost as per customer requirements
- Helping Customers for application monitoring and providing the internal training
- Communication with client-side technical team on architecture point of view and signoff
- Migration Project's reviews and guide team on technical and functional perspective
- Windows Azure Environment setups and implementation
- Support system testing/Integration testing and UAT before deploying to production Environment
- Managing & Monitoring Daily events for Azure Technical Service
- Coordinate all vendor management tasks inclusive of working with external vendors and internal employees
- Ensuring enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and continuing vendor monitoring are being accomplished
- Experience in designing cloud, Web and middleware solutions, supporting them with solution approach, cloud assessment workshops, POCs and development/migration Plans
- Analyzing and identifying applications for cloud assessment and fitment, mapping the workloads across IaaS, PaaS and private clouds
- Engaging with customer base to understand their evolving business needs and align IT strategy on priorities
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
11.2006 - 10.2013
Senior Engineer Systems Support
CSC India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2005 - 11.2006
Senior Specialist - Systems
HCL COMNET Ltd
01.2003 - 09.2005
NetCare Executive
WIPRONET LTD.
04.2000 - 01.2003
Education
Graduate in Arts -
Delhi University
01.1995 - 01.1997
PGDCA - undefined
Kurukshetra University
01.2002 - 01.2003
MBA (IT) - undefined
Sikkim Manipal University
01.2014 - 01.2016
Skills
Azure Services
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
Virtual Machines
Azure AD
Networking
Storage
Security
DevOps
Automation
Cost Management
Site Recovery
Azure Monitor
Application Insight
Data Center
Virtualization
VMware vSphere
NSX
vSAN
Citrix XenDesktop
Hyper-V
Microsoft Technologies
Active Directory
Windows Server
SQL Server
Scripting
Automation
PowerShell
Terraform
Cloud Security
Azure Security Center
IAM
AWS Control Tower
Security Hub
Security Guardrails
Threat Protection
Compliance
Communication
Leadership
Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong leadership and team collaboration skills
Docker
Kubernetes
Containerization
Orchestration
Deployment
CI/CD
Hybrid
Multi-Cloud
Azure
AWS
GCP
Oracle Cloud
Security Frameworks
NIST
CIS
Monitoring
Datadog
Prometheus
Grafana
Cloud infrastructure design
Certification
MCSE in Windows NT 4.0, 1998
Recognition
- Client & Partner Success Cash Award, 2023, For contribution to client project i.e Brighthouse Financials.
- Client & Partner Success Cash Award, 2022, For contribution in IBM Cloud Migration Factory.
- Leader of the year, 2015-16, For Pre-Bid work efforts in BT Compute.
- Best Quarterly Performer of the month, 2016, From Vice President of BT Compute.
- Certificate of Excellence, 2016, From Vice President of BT Compute for producing quality design work.
- Recognition award, HCL, For consolidation of the Global Account Management Support function to India.
Timeline
Senior Cloud Architect
Simplex Services Pvt Ltd
10.2024 - Current
Senior Cloud Architect
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
04.2020 - 08.2024
MBA (IT) - undefined
Sikkim Manipal University
01.2014 - 01.2016
Specialist Infrastructure Designer (Azure Product Champion)
BT India Pvt Ltd
10.2013 - 04.2020
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
11.2006 - 10.2013
Senior Engineer Systems Support
CSC India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2005 - 11.2006
Senior Specialist - Systems
HCL COMNET Ltd
01.2003 - 09.2005
PGDCA - undefined
Kurukshetra University
01.2002 - 01.2003
NetCare Executive
WIPRONET LTD.
04.2000 - 01.2003
Graduate in Arts -
Delhi University
01.1995 - 01.1997