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Someshwar Naiknavare

Pune

Summary

Dynamic Senior Manager with extensive experience at Amdocs, excelling in cloud operations and IT strategy. Proven track record in driving GenAI adoption and enhancing compliance through automation tools. Adept at team leadership and fostering high-performance cultures, delivering operational excellence while optimizing costs and improving service reliability.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager – Cloud & IT Operations

Amdocs
Pune
02.2025 - Current
  • Leading Cloud & IT Operations team across multiple client accounts, driving operational excellence and service reliability.
  • Driving Agentic AI Operations, designing and implementing strategy and technology architecture to enhance operational efficiencies across critical systems.
  • Governing end-to-end initiatives ensuring alignment with customer objectives and business KPIs.
  • Managing operational costs, budgeting, and forecasting activities; optimizing spend through FinOps practices.
  • Overseeing capacity planning, license management, and ensuring SLA compliance.
  • Implementing change management and leading service improvement initiatives to strengthen resilience and compliance.
  • Leading GenAI adoption for the IT unit: designing the agentic AI strategy for IT operations, building employee readiness and knowledge programs.
  • Hands-on contributor: creating governance and automation tools to accelerate reporting, compliance, and decision-making.

Senior Engineering Manager

LocoNav
Pune
08.2022 - 02.2025
  • Heading DevOps and Infrastructure practice for Loconav.
  • Leading team of DevOps and SRE professionals, providing guidance, mentoring, and support to ensure team's success.
  • Leading teams to design and build scalable, fault-tolerant and durable architecture infrastructure.
  • Designing, implementing and managing Loconav platform (SAAS) on various clouds (AWS, Azure, OCI and on-prem) using cloud-native practices and k8s, docker and other latest tech.
  • Defining DevOps roadmap and strategy to achieve Loconav platform's objectives and continuous improvements.
  • Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including Development, QA, Project Managers, Security, Compliance and fostering a culture of DevSecOps across the organization.
  • Designing and implementing scalable, secure CI/CD practices and automations for rapid deliveries and smooth rollouts in production.
  • Bringing in continuous improvements to optimize performance and cost of the platform infrastructure.
  • Performance management of DevOps team, identifying opportunities for skills development.
  • Mentoring team to adapt new tools, procedures, mindset in order to align DevOps culture.
  • Fostering collaborative and high-performance team culture.
  • Maintaining ISO 27001:2022 posture for Loconav organization for infosec compliance.
  • Tech stack: Github, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres, Kafka.

SRE (Solutions Architect)

Amdocs India
Pune
07.2021 - 08.2022
  • Guided multiple account SRE teams to implement best SRE practices.
  • Solutioning for environment management product developed for production support teams.
  • Provided expertise to resolve incidents in production, find the root cause and optimal solutions.
  • Tech stack: Jenkins, Ansible, Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres, Kafka.

Group Manager – DevOps

Netcracker Technology
Pune
09.2020 - 07.2021
  • Worked as DevOps head for Netcracker Pune.
  • Built DevOps competency in India for Netcracker delivery group.
  • Implemented DevOps toolset and practices for Netcracker product implementation.
  • Led team of DevOps professionals, providing guidance, mentoring, and support to ensure team's success.
  • Designed and implemented DevOps strategy, processes, tools, culture for various delivery projects.

DevOps Engineer → DevOps Manager

Amdocs
Pune Area
12.2006 - 09.2020
  • Built automations to implement CI/CD for Amdocs products (classic and cloud-native).
  • Assessed various tools and technologies for their fitment in different requirements.
  • Built high-performing teams capable of self-driving various DevOps initiatives.
  • Identified opportunities for improvements, creating automations, driving end-to-end automations.
  • Managed DevOps processes and methodology (continuous integration / deployment / delivery) for microservices projects.
  • Mentored team to adapt new tools, procedures, mindset in order to align DevOps culture.
  • Tech stack: Gerrit, Bitbucket, Perforce, Jenkins, Ansible, Azure, AWS, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres, Kafka.

System Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2005 - 12.2006
  • Part of team responsible for managing TCS-Nortel development data center.
  • Managed over 200+ servers with various Unix flavors like Sun Solaris, HP-UX and Linux.

Education

MBA -

Indian Institute of Management
01.2015

BE - Computer Science

University of Mumbai
01.2005

Skills

  • Cloud operations
  • IT strategy
  • Compliance management
  • DevOps practices
  • Infrastructure design
  • Automation tools
  • Team leadership
  • Organizational development
  • GenAI, agentic operations
  • Automation of governance and compliance

Websites

Timeline

Senior Manager – Cloud & IT Operations

Amdocs
02.2025 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

LocoNav
08.2022 - 02.2025

SRE (Solutions Architect)

Amdocs India
07.2021 - 08.2022

Group Manager – DevOps

Netcracker Technology
09.2020 - 07.2021

DevOps Engineer → DevOps Manager

Amdocs
12.2006 - 09.2020

System Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2005 - 12.2006

MBA -

Indian Institute of Management

BE - Computer Science

University of Mumbai

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