Sandeep CH

• Lead a team of 25+ engineers responsible for managing Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and Automation & Configuration Management, ensuring high performance, security, and availability of enterprise-level cloud solutions.
• Architect and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, handling container orchestration, scaling, and automated deployments .
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, automating builds, tests, and deployments across multiple environments, reducing deployment time by 50%.
• Implemented Ansible and Salt for automated configuration management and provisioning of cloud resources, achieving 60% reduction in manual intervention.
• Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using Terraform and ARM Templates, standardizing resource provisioning and improving environment consistency.
• Automated container deployments using Docker and managed container lifecycle through Kubernetes, improving application scalability and fault tolerance.
• Established monitoring and alerting strategies using Logicmonitor, and Azure Monitor to ensure system reliability and proactively address issues.
• Collaborate closely with development, operations, and security teams to implement DevSecOps practices, strengthening the security posture and achieving full compliance with industry standards (ISO 27001, SOC2).
• Conducted regular performance reviews, mentorship, and training to upskill team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Achievements:

• Led the migration of critical applications to Azure , improving availability to 99.95% and reducing downtime by 40%.
• Streamlined deployment processes, reducing time to production from 4 hours to 30 minutes by automating end-to-end delivery pipelines.
• Drove a cost optimization initiative that saved 25% of monthly cloud expenses by using reserved instances, auto-scaling, and spot instances.

• Managed and optimized the Azure cloud infrastructure, including VMs, Networking, and Storage, for a global application with high availability requirements.
• Implemented and managed a robust Kubernetes environment (AKS) with integrated Docker containers, ensuring scalable and resilient microservices architecture.
• Spearheaded the adoption of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, enabling automated deployment and testing across development, staging, and production.
• Integrated Ansible for automating routine tasks such as patching, updates, and configuration management across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Configured Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, enabling version-controlled and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Monitored and troubleshooted cloud performance using Azure Monitor, Logicmonitor, and custom alerting systems to improve response time to incidents by 30%.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced manual intervention by 70% through automation with Ansible,Salt, python and shellscript, increasing overall operational efficiency.
• Successfully reduced cloud spend by 20% through resource right-sizing and cost management strategies.
• Played a key role in containerizing legacy applications using Docker, enabling smoother deployments and scalability.

• Respond to Audit request
• Maintenance and manage of Linux, windows and VMware ESX servers
• Provide L3 support for, virtual Center, Linux and VMware ESX servers
• Work with product Vendors to obtain solution for ongoing critical issues
• Create Technical documentation and tech shares within MultipleTeams
• Give Training to new joinners and to the team
• Analyzing the logs for ESXi servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem
• Work in coordination with the Hardware and Storage team to diagnose the cause and assist in resolving the issue
• Understanding of Nexus Products like Nexus 1000v Swtiches
• Maintenance and manage of Linux, windows and VMware ESX servers
• Provide L3 support for, virtual Center, Linux and VMware ESX servers
• Performing Snapshots Cloning, cold migration and hot migration
• Creating template for VM's and deploy VM's for template and allocate resource
• Creating and managing VMware cluster
• Enabling HA and DRS feature in a cluster
• Configuration of Virtual swtich, Distrubtion Swtich and network connection
• Moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using storage Vmotion
• Moving physical machine to Virtual machine using p2v converter
• Root cause & system Log Analysis and reporting
• Troubleshooting virtual machine issue
• Manage task, events and alarm.

• Manage and handle break fix situations
• Analyzing the Esx logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem
• Work in coordination with the Hardware and Storage team to diagnose the cause and assist in resolving the issue
• Work with the Infrastructure Architects for Design and deployment of VMware virtual Infrastructure
• Work With Capacity Planer for efficient capacity management of Virtual Infrastructure
• Provide technical leadership for on-going issues as an SME to various Steady state teams
• Provide process oriented guidance to the Steady state teams
• Provide Steady state support for Business transformation outsourcing
• Have the servers compliant to IBM security standards irrespective of clients they support or the role they play
• Make sure the servers are patched to the level and to work on closing the gaps found with the same
• Have the servers Audit ready all the time
• Respond to Audit request
• Maintenance and manage of Linux, and VMware ESX servers
• Provide L3 support for, virtual Center, Linux and VMware ESX servers
• Create Technical documentation and tech shares within MultipleTeams
• Give Training to new joiners and to the team.

• Experience in Implementing, Managing and Maintaining RHEL 4,5 & SUSE 10
• Managing NFS on LINUX Servers and Clients
• Experience in network management
• Experience in file system Management, Disk quota Management
• Experience in Swap file system Management
• Linux Network Installations (Kickstart and NFS installations)
• Configuring Syslog
• Upgradation of Linux OS (RHEL & SUSE)
• Up gradation of Hardware on Servers
• Creating and Managing Users/Group accounts and setting up user's work environment
• Adding/installing new applications and tools
• Installing, Checking & Removing Packages & Patches (YUM, PRM, YAST)
• Installing network printers and assigning rights to all network resources
• Maintaining and troubleshooting all kinds of Intel and AMD systems
• Maintaining hardware & software inventory
• Management of user calls and vendor calls
• Administration of heterogeneous network with different platforms like RHEL, SUSE & Windows
• Documenting all the activities
• Troubleshooting all kinds of Hardware and Network problems
• Installing & configuring Win NT, 200, 2003 & XP.