SATHEESHKUMAR SANKARAN
Chennai
Summary
Strategic Lead Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years in enterprise IT operations and cloud platforms, including Azure and AWS. Expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, incident management, automation, and disaster recovery. Led global teams to enhance platform stability and service reliability while driving infrastructure modernization. Skilled in stakeholder management, audit readiness, compliance, and delivering secure, resilient infrastructure solutions.
Overview
1
1
Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Server Operations Engineer
Equiniti
Chennai
01.2014 - Current
- Led global Infrastructure Operations teams supporting Windows, Linux, Azure, AWS, and private cloud platforms across multiple regions.
- Managed and maintained the operational stability, security, and compliance of over 5,000 production and non-production servers across hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Provided strategic leadership, operational governance, and technical direction to ensure high levels of availability, scalability, security, and compliance.
- Developed and executed infrastructure strategies aligned with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Led Incident, Problem, Change, and Major Incident Management processes, consistently achieving SLA, KPI, and service availability targets.
- Exercised sound judgment in resolving complex, business-critical incidents and technical challenges with cross-functional impact.
- Drove automation and monitoring enhancements, improving incident response and platform reliability.
- Implemented Qualys Patch Management, enabling automated vulnerability assessment, prioritization, and remediation, significantly improving security posture, patch compliance, and audit readiness.
- Ensured compliance with audit, risk, security, and regulatory controls through proactive governance and operational oversight.
- Established risk-based operational processes ensuring transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement with proactive issue escalation.
- Collaborated with senior business stakeholders, solution architects, application owners, and technology leaders to deliver operational excellence and strategic outcomes.
- Led workforce planning, resource allocation, talent development, and succession planning across geographically distributed teams.
- Managed vendor and third-party service provider relationships, ensuring contractual compliance, service quality, and performance objectives were achieved.
- Influenced executive decision-making with data-driven operational reporting, capacity planning, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations.
Technical Specialist
New Wave Computing Pvt Ltd
Chennai
05.2010 - 01.2014
- Delivered datacentre virtualization, server/storage consolidation, and P2V transformation, enhancing operational efficiency for enterprise clients.
- Designed and executed ROCS, pre-implementation documentation, and end-to-end deployment plans to streamline project workflows.
- Provided L2/L3 support for server infrastructure while mentoring L1 teams to improve incident handling.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Anna University
06-2009
Skills
- Cloud migration
- Datacentre migration
- Multi-cloud engineering
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud Platforms
- Infra Platforms
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Terraform
- PowerShell
- CI/CD
- Automation DevOps
- Observability
- New Relic
- CloudWatch
- Azure Monitor
- SCOM
- Incident management
- Vulnerability management
- Disaster recovery
- Architecture transformation
- Global management
- Leadership
- Jira
- Confluence
- ServiceNow
- Windows
- Linux
- Windows
- Linux
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert
- Azure Fundamentals
Personal Information
- Title: Staff Server Operations Engineer
- Date of Birth: 07/07/87
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Staff Server Operations Engineer
Equiniti
01.2014 - Current
Technical Specialist
New Wave Computing Pvt Ltd
05.2010 - 01.2014
Bachelor of Engineering -
Anna University