sanjiv kumar
Infrastructure Manager
GREATER NOIDA,Uttar Pradesh
Summary
Accomplished IT professional with 18 years of experience, specializing in multi-cloud infrastructure, technology consulting, and strategic solution design. Demonstrated expertise in driving infrastructure transformation and modernization, underpinned by a robust foundation in compute, storage, networking, and DevOps methodologies. Skilled in developing high-performance solutions and architectures to address complex business challenges, ensuring alignment with strategic technology plans
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Infra & Platform -Manager
Ingenico International India Pvt Ltd
Noida
12.2021 - Current
- Led pivotal infrastructure modernization and transformation projects, including data center setup & consolidation, cloud migration, which culminated in a marked reduction in operational expenses and bolstered system reliability and scalability
- Engaged in collaboration with global architecture teams and business stakeholders to institute best practices and strategic solutions for infrastructure deployment, ensuring the high availability and fault tolerance of critical payment services
- Directed the strategic design and oversight of multi-cloud infrastructure, achieving a significant enhancement in system efficiency through the optimization of compute, containers, databases, Kubernetes, and networking components
- Building, improving and sustaining ongoing operational support of infrastructure on-prem or cloud hosting Ingenico applications and products
- Ensure the security, reliability and scalability of infrastructure services are in place as per business and compliance
- Planning and building the solutions towards business continuity and disaster recovery model following RPO’s & RTO’s
- Architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures
- Develop, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab to deploy and manage Infra services and dev lifecycle
- Collaborate with business teams, solution partners and vendors to assess their requirements and deliver the services
- Implement high availability and fault tolerance mechanisms for all the payment critical services & components
- Evaluate Vendors, Tools and Cloud services as per business need for new product/solution hosting
- Developing road maps for the customers aligned with business requirements and future expansion
- Optimize cloud and Infra costs, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
Assoc Manager- Cloud Infra Engineering
UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
03.2012 - 12.2021
- Led the cloud engineering and infrastructure team to support UKG/Kronos applications from Infrastructure and platform standpoint
- Developed and executed a strategic cloud strategy that aligned with organizational goals, significantly improving the scalability, reliability, and security of UKG products
- Strengthened UKG's security posture and compliance with policies through effective management of Active Directory, IAM, SSO, and PIM services, fostering collaboration across engineering, operations/support, and security teams
- Designed cloud architecture and solutions to meet scalability, reliability, and security requirements of UKG products
- Planned and executed cloud migrations, including workload assessment, migration strategy and execution
- Built the solutions towards disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans for cloud environments based on committed RPO/RTO with external/Internal customers
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (engineering, operations/support, and security) to support business initiatives
- Monitored and maintained servers, networks, and storage systems to ensure high availability and performance
- Collaborated with cybersecurity teams to ensured compliance with security policies and regulations.
Sr. IT Engineer
Delta Power Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd.
02.2008 - 03.2012
- Developed and managed enterprise systems, infrastructure and Data Centre’s across locations
- Managed technology infrastructure and assets at across locations and coordinate with team to maintain and support company's Infrastructure and applications
- Analyzed technical requirements, and state of the server, storage and virtualization infrastructure design, integration, and operations and ensure delivery of these timely
- Deployed and maintained network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, and VPNs
- Technical evaluation and PoC of new services & applications before deployment in production
- Implemented and maintained security measures to protect systems and networks from cyber threats
- Monitored Infra and network performance, identifying and resolving issues to maintain optimal operation
- Managed and administered windows 2008 Active Directory, Exchange 2010, WSUS, DNS, WINS, DHCP
- Configured backup of virtual machine, Apps, Databases and ensure data /services recovery as per defined RPO / RTO
- Managed capacity planning of all productions like Computer, storage and network to avoid any issue due to resources.
IT Engineer
Reliance Info solution Pvt. Ltd.
01.2007 - 02.2008
- IT services rollout across End point computing devices including IT security layers and application rollout
- Configured and setup Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SQL server, exchange, and file server
- Upgraded servers and applications like MS exchange, DFS, Antivirus etc
- To address vulnerability and bugs
- Provided SAP support to Internal users and coordinate SAP core team if needed
- Prepared daily Incidents reports and shared with management
- Analyzed data to identify trends issues, and opportunities for the improvement
- Implement and maintain security measures to protect sensitive data
- Maintain detailed documentation of IT infrastructure, Asset inventory, configurations, and procedures.
Consultant
HCL Infosystems Ltd
10.2006 - 01.2007
- Managed ICRA’s Infrastructure (HCL one of the clients) as a project lead
- Identified areas for improvement and present findings and recommendations to senior management and implement after getting the approval form them
- Prepared daily and weekly reports of raised tickets/incidents and share with management and ensure all the ticket are close withing defined SLA
- Configured Domain controller, Exchange server, File server, Print server etc
- Installation and maintenance of servers and monitor their health and running services
- Performed system administration tasks (User administration, File System Administration, DNS administration etc.).
Education
Bachelor of Information Science (B.I.S) - IT
Dau Dayal Institute Of Vocational Education
Agra 07.2004 - 07.2004
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 12/03/03, 04/04/04
Expertisearea
- GCP & AWS Cloud IAAS
- Cloud Migration & Transformation
- Kubernetes & containerization
- SRE / Observability
- Infra delivery & management
- Cloud cost optimization
- Security and Compliance
- Business Continuity Plan & DR
- Cloudflare Edge Services
- IAM, SSO, PIM and DAM
- Networking Services and Firewalls
- Windows, Linux, VMWare & vSphere
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 12/03/03, 04/04/04
07-2024
Infra & Platform -Manager
Ingenico International India Pvt Ltd
12.2021 - Current
Microsoft Certified Azure Solution Architect, 07/04/04, 03/08/08
06-2015
Assoc Manager- Cloud Infra Engineering
UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
03.2012 - 12.2021
Sr. IT Engineer
Delta Power Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd.
02.2008 - 03.2012
IT Engineer
Reliance Info solution Pvt. Ltd.
01.2007 - 02.2008
Consultant
HCL Infosystems Ltd
10.2006 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Information Science (B.I.S) - IT
Dau Dayal Institute Of Vocational Education
07.2004 - 07.2004
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