RIYAZ KHAN

• CDPNetworks.com provides IT training/Consultancy services from world-class expert trainers in Networking (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto, Fortigate, Checkpoint), Cyber Security, Private & Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP & VMware), SDN, and SDWAN
• Our aim is to help our customers enhance their skills and knowledge in the field of IT.

• Leading Infra design and architecture for digital platforms, specializing in VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) with vSphere ESXi, vSAN, and VMware NSX
• Designing and implementing BGP (Public & Private) peering strategies to optimize content delivery and traffic management across multiple ISPs
• Architecting scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions from inception to deployment
• Hands-on experience with NetMagic and NxtGen Data Centers, managing high-traffic environments with peak loads of 5 million concurrent users and over 10 million app downloads.

My responsibilities include:

1) Architecture Design and Implementation: Leading the design and architecture of cloud infrastructure solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. Designing for both public cloud platforms AWS and private cloud environments VMware.

2) Network Design and Optimization: Developing and implementing network architectures tailored to cloud environments, Configuring VPNs, VPCs, direct connects, and other connectivity solutions to integrate public and private cloud components.

3) Managed infrastructure: - VMware services are hosted in the NetMagic & NxtGen Data Center including service availability, deployments, capacity planning, troubleshooting and coordinating with development team and Nxtgen team.

4) Managing & Tshoot Infra’s: Servers, Networks and Storage, includes Product enhancement, troubleshooting technical flaws, upgrading services. Co-ordinating with product team for any defects and enhancements.

5) Infra & Application Monitoring: Infrastructure monitoring health checks, alerts and business reporting using Solarwinds, NewRelic & ScienceLogic.

6) Security Management: Coordinating with SecOps team for Implementing security best practices and compliance measures across Public/private cloud environments.

7) High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Designing and implementing high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, Testing and maintaining DR plans to ensure business continuity in case of disruptions.

8) Collaboration and Team Leadership: Collaborating with cross-functional teams including developers, architects, and operations to align infrastructure with business objectives, mentoring team members and providing technical guidance on cloud technologies and best practices.

9) Vendor Management and Budgeting: Managing relationships with cloud service providers and vendors, OEM’s, SI, Monitoring and optimizing cloud spending to align with budgetary constraints and business requirements.