Sagar Mondkar

A highly accomplished IT professional with 19 years of extensive experience in leading and managing IT infrastructure projects, operations, and teams. Seeking a dynamic role as Vice President of IT Infrastructure to leverage my technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership skills in driving innovation, enhancing efficiency, and ensuring the seamless operation of critical technology infrastructure.

Currently serving as an Deputy Vice President at Zurich Kotak General Insurance, delivering transformative business solutions while leading performance engineering, project management, people management, application support, and infrastructure solution architecture.

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for the architecture, operation, and support of the enterprise IT infrastructure and numerous critical business systems and technology enabled business processes.
• Managed daily IT infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability, performance, and security of critical systems.
• Directed the evaluation, selection, and deployment of cloud technologies, enhancing scalability, cost efficiency, and disaster recovery.
• Established and enforced IT infrastructure standards, policies, and procedures to maintain regulatory compliance and industry best practices.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to assess business needs, identify technology gaps, and implement innovative solutions for improved efficiency.
• Oversaw vendor relationships, negotiated contracts, and ensured IT infrastructure projects were delivered on time and within budget.
• Ensured compliance with security regulations and participated in regulatory audits.
• Provided strategic leadership to the IT infrastructure team, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth.

Attainments:

• Played a key role in the Zurich merger with Kotak General Insurance.
• Led the team in decoupling the domain from Kotak and establishing a new domain environment, ensuring seamless system migration within regulatory timelines.
• Planned, designed, and executed data centre migration, including a complete network stack overhaul.
• Successfully migrated Exchange from on-premises to an O365 tenant.
• Consolidated storage and migrated data from VNX to PowerStore 3000.
• Established a Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructure site on a hybrid cloud.
• Led the core application system migration from IBM Power series servers
• Deployed critical security solutions, including Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Deception Technology, and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR).
• Managed Oracle Database storage migration.
• Implemented a disk-based backup solution.
• Completed core and internal firewall migration without business impact.
• Deployment of reverse proxy & SMTP solution as part of migration project.

Cloud Migration:

• Led the planning, design, and implementation of IT infrastructure in cloud service providers (CSPs) such as AWS and Azure.
• Managed cloud identity and access control, networking, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Extensive experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, EBS, Managed Databases, Route 53, and AWS Backup.
• Administered AWS Landing Zone and Organization Service Control Policies for secure and efficient cloud governance.
• Implemented organization-specific best practices to optimize cloud security, performance, and compliance.