SAGAR MONDKAR

• Executive owner of enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, identity, security and disaster recovery for one of India’s leading general insurance companies.

Strategic Leadership:

• Defined and executed the company’s enterprise infrastructure and cloud strategy supporting underwriting, claims, finance, digital and regulatory platforms.
• Led Zurich–Kotak merger and separation technology program, ensuring uninterrupted operations, data security and regulatory compliance during complex enterprise carve-out.
• Built a secure, resilient hybrid cloud operating model across on-premises, AWS, and Azure for regulated insurance workloads.

Key Business Impact:

• Delivered zero-downtime separation of Active Directory, Exchange, network, security and core platforms between Zurich and Kotak within IRDAI timelines.
• Designed and deployed a hybrid Disaster Recovery platform ensuring regulatory RTO/RPO for all mission-critical systems.
• Modernized the data center network, firewall and security stack with no business disruption.
• Migrated core collaboration and messaging from on-prem to Microsoft 365, improving security, compliance and operational agility.

Infrastructure & Cloud Transformation:

• Led migration from legacy IBM Power systems to modern x86 platforms, enabling scalability and cost optimization.
• Consolidated enterprise storage from EMC VNX to Dell PowerStore 3000/5200, improving performance, availability and data protection.
• Built AWS and Azure landing zones with governance, networking, identity, logging and security controls.
• Implemented AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies and cost governance to prevent risk and spend leakage.

Cybersecurity & Identity:

• Deployed enterprise-wide Privileged Access Management (PAM), EDR, Deception Technology and Reverse Proxy platforms.
• Implemented zero-trust identity and access architecture across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Led security compliance for audits, regulatory reviews and internal risk assessments.

Commercial & Governance:

• Owned vendor ecosystem across CSPs, OEMs, system integrators and telecom providers.
• Controlled multi-crore infrastructure and cloud budgets while driving cost and risk optimization.
• Established IT standards, policies, operating models and audit controls for BFSI compliance.

• Owned service delivery and operations for enterprise data centers and cloud platforms.
• Led implementation of AWS cloud and application migrations.
• Built Disaster Recovery site for critical insurance applications on Netmagic Cloud.
• Implemented Linux patching, virtualization upgrades and compliance frameworks.
• Evaluated and deployed Office 365 and enterprise backup solutions.

• Delivered enterprise infrastructure projects for global clients across virtualization, server platforms and data center modernization.
• Led technical teams for critical production environments.

• Managed enterprise server and platform operations for telecom infrastructure.