Sabariraj VS

Leading a 20+ member global team across Development, Engineering, and Operations, driving innovation, automation, and security enhancements across PayPal. My team plays a pivotal role in building, maintaining and optimizing security-driven solutions at scale, covering Marketplace, Corp, Dev, and Business Units.

Team Structure & Focus Areas
🔹 Development Team – Designs and develops security tools, automation frameworks, and enterprise products to streamline security operations and compliance.
🔹 Engineering Team – Bridges Development, Operations, and Stakeholders, ensuring seamless integration, scalability and efficiency of security automation.
🔹 Operations Team – Manages incident response, monitoring, and operational support, ensuring high availability, security and performance.

Key Achievements & Impact
✅ Spearhead Autonomous Patching Tool for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, enhancing compliance and security at scale.
✅ Developed a proprietary security scanner for automated environmental health checks, assess Security posture, vulnerability detection and compliance enforcement across diverse infra.
✅ Led the rollout of Helium 2.0 & 3.0, automating infrastructure patching, reboot scheduling and security enforcement across PayPal.
✅ Built real-time vulnerability Dashboard, improving remediation timelines with automated alerts and proactive monitoring
✅ Optimized team structure and workflows, enhancing collaboration and reducing manual efforts across Dev, Engineering, and Operations.
✅ Drove the integration of security process, automation and compliance frameworks across entities.

Passionate about automation, security-first engineering, and process optimization, I focus on scaling teams, improving operational efficiency, and implementing next-gen security solutions that align with business and compliance goals. My expertise spans cloud security, Dev, SecOps, vulnerability management, infrastructure automation, and security-driven IT transformations.

As a technology leader, I drive transformation initiatives across people, processes, and technology to enhance organizational efficiency, scalability, and infrastructure resilience. I lead global teams responsible for managing and optimizing PayPal’s virtualization, private cloud, and infrastructure operations across diverse environments.

Key Responsibilities
🔹 Strategic Leadership & Transformation – Lead end-to-end transformation efforts across people, process, and technology, ensuring alignment with business strategy, KPIs, and organizational roadmaps.
🔹 Infrastructure & Cloud Management – Oversee 25K+ servers across five global data centers, 50+ PayPal remote offices, and POPs worldwide, supporting internal, external users, and critical business functions.
🔹 Technology Domains & Expertise – Manage Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Hypervisors, Virtualization Platforms (VMware, Cisco, Nutanix, OpenStack), Cloud Platforms (Azure & GCP), and Config Management (SCCM, DCM, Puppet, Ansible).
🔹 Operations & Automation – Drive onboarding, efficiency improvements, automation, monitoring, break-fix, and offboarding, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
🔹 Talent & Skill Development – Sustain and lead new technical skill-building initiatives, enabling teams to support evolving service delivery models, emerging technologies, and business-critical operations.
🔹 Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement – Serve as part of the SRCE leadership team for India & APAC, fostering cross-functional collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence.

With a strategic mindset and hands-on expertise, I focus on scaling infrastructure, optimizing processes, and driving security-first innovations to future-proof PayPal’s global operations.

• Managed global team responsible for Citrix Infra and CS environment deliverables across global locations.
• Define, Implement, coordinate and drive multiple IT Service Operation processes and standard operating procedures.
• Portfolio Management of more than 50 high profile Business and partners
• Partner with vendors, Business units and stakeholders to continually optimize IT governance and decision-making processes as business context and technology landscape changes
• Delivery of capabilities to agreed timelines, scope and budget.
• Define, monitor, drive and evolve IT Service management KPIs based on continuous IT service improvements and metrics.
• Key partner across all IT functions to coordinate projects, identify process bottlenecks, and align with Organization Goals.
• Managed 24/7 support functions catering Front office, Back office, External & Internal Customers in customer support and service environment across geographical locations.
• Consistent check on BCP by exercising DR and BCP drills and implement the analysis to redesign the infrastructure as required & execute.
• Identify and lead initiatives to develop new technical skill areas to support future service delivery, processes, technologies aligned with business strategy & Organization road map.
• Vendor Site & Internal Compliance and IT audit across Geo locations
• Periodic Business Review with stakeholders and Management
• Part of SRCE PayPal Site leadership team for India & APAC.
• Recruit, Train, Mentor and manage team members.
• Collaborate with Multiple Verticals, in-house, Cross-functional Teams, Stakeholders, Partners & Business units across Geographical locations.
• Team's scope to support 10000+ Servers serving 20000+ users round the clock across geo-locations.
• Peak season readiness drill to support critical business and market dependencies.

Clients:

PayPal, eBay Inc & CSC Internal Projects

Honors & Awards:

• Team awarded with "Best Performance for Sustaining Effort" - Year 2011

Key Highlights:

• Lead Infrastructure projects & deliverables within preset budgets and deadlines.
• Drive QBRs, HBRs and yearly review meetings
• Managed Services, Shared Services, Outsourced Delivery Models, BOT and Service Delivery Team management.
• Strategic Business development by bridging with Technologies, Support Teams, Business units & Vendor partners.
• Managed IT & Service Delivery Operations.
• Statement of Work (SOW) contract creation & negotiation.
• Capex & Opex Budgeting.
• Vendor Management
• Build relationship with Business Partners, Business units, Vendors, Key Stake Holders and Management verticals.
• Incident, Change & Problem management process.
• Participated in drafting service budgeting, advising on areas of possible improvement to reduce costs and service delivery times
• Planned and managed project lifecycles, from conception through final completion
• Maintained proper staffing levels to guarantee timely and accurate deliveries

• Been part of Implementation team and played SME role for multiple technologies and supported clients/projects.