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Srihari Sharma

Srihari Sharma

Bengaluru

Summary

  • A keen, motivated and qualified Service Assurance Lead with 12
    years of experience in ITIL Service management.
  • Certified Scrum Master and ITIL Intermediate in Service Design.
    Primary role involves Auto Remediation , Major Incident Management & Operations
  • Cross-functional Incident Management Leadership Experience . Profound knowledge in Incident / Change / Problem Management,Production Support and Project Management.
  • Proficient in ITIL framework methodologies and implementation
  • Strong ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks during time critical and high-pressure situations
  • Working Knowledge on Service Now / Jira / Remedy / SM9 ticketing tools.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

ZeroOps Squad Lead - SRE

BT E−Serv
10.2022 - Current
  • Drive auto remediation across existing and New IT to ensure 35% of all business incidents are handled via auto remediation.
  • Ensured that we have a healthy backlog to target for auto remediation on JIRA.
  • Collaborated with ASG teams to identify pain areas and re-occurring tasks and auto remediated them.
  • Chair the daily scrum call to understand and clear the blockers if any.
  • Identify service improvement and auto remediation opportunities by performing trend analysis.
  • Monitor the defined SLO and define the approach for MI recovery by coordinating with respective stake holders.
  • Write and tweak ansible playbooks to auto remediate ASG alerts and day to day activities.
  • Ensure ASG teams effectively use dynatrace and help them set up monitoring alerts , dashboards.
  • Responsible for training the new team members .

Team Lead

T-Systems ICT India Pvt Ltd
12.2019 - 10.2022

· Driving a major incident to resolution through support engagement.

· Document key activities and events during the bridges.

· Send out notifications to senior leadership of current status to advise of the impact to business.

- Post incident documentation to assist problem management in root cause analysis

- Creating roster for the entire team and to ensure 24x7 coverage.

- Participate in interview activities

- Ensure team adheres to SOP and set quality standards

- Providing updates and progress reports to senior managers.

- Join daily calls with the clients and provide inputs on new SOP’s and suggestions on day to day activities

ITIL Consultant

Tech Mahindra
02.2019 - 12.2019


  • Certified in ITIL V3 foundation.
  • Primary role involves Process and Operations Management and managing the shifts and team.
  • Planning entire project activities viz.
  • Tracking, change management, delivery management & support Mapping clients’ requirements and providing them best solutions involving evaluation and definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements.
  • Experienced in handling critical issues leading to escalations.
  • Proven record of executing Transition Projects requiring smooth & seamless migration of business processes.
  • Working Knowledge on Service Now / Jira / Remedy / Assyst ticketing system., Driving a major incident to resolution through support engagement.
  • Document key activities and events during the bridges.
  • Send out notifications to senior leadership of current status to advise of the impact to business.
  • Post incident documentation to assist problem management in root cause analysis.
  • Managing the Change and Release management process.
  • Planning and coordinating deployment across test & production environment.
  • Ensuring end to end release management activities like integration testing, user acceptance testing and roll back testing followed by lower environments & production implementation.
  • Chairs the Change Advisory Board (CAB) ,ensuring all changes approved in CAB calls.
  • Initiate Testing and Validation on Production changes and release.
  • Communicate the plan to the Implementers and various teams who coordinates the changes.
  • Prepare success criteria reports for change and release deployments.
  • Initiate pre-deployment checks like resource availability, ensuring alerts are suppressed.
  • Communicate the timely updates from the start of the deployment until it is deployment.
  • Providing updates and progress reports to senior managers.

Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solution
11.2014 - 02.2019
  • Client : Canada’s largest food and pharmacy retailer and the nation’s largest retailer Description:.
  • Manage day to day operations and ensure sufficient staffing.
  • Ensure team adheres to SOP and set quality standards.
  • Responsible for all SLA/SLO targets which needs to be achieved by team with quality of service.
  • Conduct daily/weekly huddles on relevant process updates and team performance.
  • Responsible for quality checking of Incident tickets against a scorecard on a monthly basis.
  • Join daily calls with the clients and provide inputs on new SOP’s and suggestions on day to day activities.
  • Prepare roster for the team.
  • Providing updates and progress reports to senior managers.
  • Access check list for onboarding resources to the team.
  • Participate in interview activities.
  • Co-ordinated with client and internal teams during the service transition of the new setup.
  • Worked with technical teams and built/maintained knowledge repository.
  • Prepare all project related quality documents and work towards 100% Compliance Change management:.
  • Responsible for creating and co-coordinating in implementation of the change requests.
  • Review the change tickets before presenting to the CAB meeting for approval.
  • Ensures that all preparations have been made for a CAB meeting, including creating of agenda, circulation of change requests to be considered, and inviting of participants.
  • Interact with Project managers and Business analyst to understand the scope and impact of the change.
  • Ensuring all changes approved in CAB calls.
  • Defining the scope of the change management processes, get all the updated implementation and Back-out Plans.

Incident Manager– Senior System executive

IBM India Private Ltd
05.2014 - 11.2014
  • American global telecommunications company Cognizant Technology Solution, Bangalore Description:.
  • Classify the issue (e.g., Severity 1, Severity 2, Severity 3 or Severity 4) based upon impact to the customer.
  • Initiate and drive the technical & management bridge calls as per SLA in case of any outages.
  • Co-coordinating with teams to resolve major incidents at the earliest possible and help teams in identifying and documenting the RCA of the Incidents.
  • Mailbox monitoring for incident creation.
  • Monitor splunk dashboards and generate reports.
  • Supporting in reassignment of misdirected incidents.
  • Maintaining the knowledge basis and reviewing “Standard Operating Procedures”.
  • Experience in utilizing Splunk, Dotcom and Xplat, Sevone monitoring tools for investigation and first level resolution.
  • Provide training to new members in the team.

Senior analyst – Senior Operations Professional

NTT Data Global Delivery Services
3 2012 - 5 2014
  • One of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers Description:.
  • Handling all alert monitoring tasks.
  • Monitoring all Mainframe batch jobs.
  • Generate daily reports and provide it to the management.
  • Provided L1 support for iseries jobs.
  • Co-ordinate with L2 teams and disable monitoring alerts during downtime.
  • American multinational investment bank and financial services company Description:.
  • Provided Lotus Domino Mail and Application support for internal IBM since,.
  • Providing L1 support for all exchange, storage and backup related issues.
  • Monitor alarms using Netcool monitoring tool.
  • Configuration of mailbox and granting necessary permissions.
  • Co-ordinate and follow up with vendor for storage and back up related issues.
  • Perform daily health checks for different regions and applications and send a report to the management.
  • Use of basic unix commands to check infrastructure related alerts and escalate accordingly.
  • Document the actions taken in the ticketing tools and escalate to L2.
  • Expertise in using TTTS, Service now and Falcon ticketing tools.
  • Creation of user ID’s.

Education

BCA -

S.S.L.C - undefined

Bachelors - Computer Application

Skills

ITIL

Project Management

Scrum Master

Operations

MI Management

Production Support

Coaching and Mentoring

Ansible

Accomplishments

  • Received recognition for pushing automation playbooks and achieving the target ahead of time.
  • Received Customer Champion award in recognition of exemplary performance and contribution towards project from Cognizant VP and client.
  • Received multiple appreciations from clients for effectively handling Major incidents and providing timely updates to the stake holders.
  • Consistent & extra mile efforts fetched me role of Shift Manager in the early stages of my tenure in the company.

Certification

ITIL V3 Foundation Certified,

Timeline

ZeroOps Squad Lead - SRE

BT E−Serv
10.2022 - Current

Team Lead

T-Systems ICT India Pvt Ltd
12.2019 - 10.2022

ITIL Consultant

Tech Mahindra
02.2019 - 12.2019

Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solution
11.2014 - 02.2019

Incident Manager– Senior System executive

IBM India Private Ltd
05.2014 - 11.2014

Senior analyst – Senior Operations Professional

NTT Data Global Delivery Services
3 2012 - 5 2014

BCA -

S.S.L.C - undefined

Bachelors - Computer Application

Srihari Sharma