Vinoth Kumar
Bangalore
Summary
Enthusiastic and certified AWS Cloud Solution Architect with 15 years of experience in designing, deploying,
and managing scalable and secure cloud solutions. Proficient in AWS core services, infrastructure automation,
and cloud security best practices. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative
cloud solutions that drive business value.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infrastructure Architect
Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
03.2018 - Current
- Architected and deployed scalable, secure, and highly available AWS solutions for enterprise applications.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation and Terraform, reducing setup time by 40%.
- Implemented robust security protocols, including IAM roles, policies, and encryption, to ensure data protection.
- Optimized cloud resources to achieve a 30% reduction in monthly costs using AWS Trusted Advisor.Supported migration of on-premises applications to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
- Developed and maintained scripts to automate backup processes using AWS CLI and Python.
- Configured monitoring and alerts using CloudWatch to enhance system reliability and performance.
- Implemented lifecycle policies on S3 to reduce storage costs by 25%.
- Designed and deployed a highly available architecture using EC2, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Groups, and S3 for static content hosting.
- Good experience in handling clients/customers across the globe (UK, NA & Europe) in Solution as part Integrated Managed Services
- Design, Transition, Delivery Management, Quality (Operations Maturity Framework), Technology, Training and Talent Management for areas related to IBM IMI GTS practice
- Specialized in Cloud Computing, CI/CD Devops Integration Backup, DR solutions and virtualization and have designed/implemented multiple solutions for Small, Medium and Enterprise customers
- Expertise in Capacity planning and Performance tuning related to Cloud, storage and backup solutions
- Talent for identifying enterprise needs and presenting appropriate solutions and service offerings
- Track record of designing and implementing of Continuous service improvements that reduce Operational Cost and increase efficiency
- Ability to drive metrics and maximize performance by effectively managing and allocating resources
- Assisted in preparing Knowledgebase, best practices and training materials
- Developed kits and procedures for right sizing (Delivered services to customers with rightly skilled associates with right number of associates)
- Created health checks and audit procedures, helps customers to keep their estate in health state
- Experience in implementing and configuring/re-platforming large database solutions in Azure
- Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity between Azure and on premise using virtual networks, VPN and Express Route
- Customized solution for backup environment with AWS as part of customer reduced 'IT infra foot print'
- Technical conferrer for backup and storage platform, AWS during customer visit's & high severity incidents
- As an Infrastructure Architect, my responsibilities include end to end design and management related to Cloud and Datacenter operations
- Interact with client architects and support them in moving to latest technologies
- Enable the delivery teams get trained and certified on next generation technologies
- Provided value add to the customer with constantly ready infrastructure strategy for Cloud, Storage and Backup platforms
- Performed Infrastructure assessments for Datacenter, Compute, Storage, Backup, Network & Virtualization platforms
- Migration of on premise applications to AWS, SoftLayer, Azure
- Provide AWS costs estimations and implement cost control mechanisms
- Deployed hybrid systems with on-premises and AWS components
- Provided Disaster recovery solutions for various customers across NA, EMEA, ANZ regions and have a 100 % success milestone
- As a Technical Architect, my key responsibilities include, helping the delivery teams in handling high severity issues, developing best practices and ensuring all delivery teams implementing where ever possible
- Help delivery teams in identifying the right resources to deliver the tasks
- Review runbooks and other standard operating and health check procedures and suggesting right changes specific to the project
- Participate in Academy strategic meetings to identify right training for the delivery folks to support latest technologies for customers
- Interact with client managers and IBM managers in identifying transformation and key improvement themes for customers
- Maintain knowledge base and help community in gaining the knowledge and deliver effectively
- Analyze project risk, evaluate mitigations and take corrective action
- Periodic performance appraisal discussions giving constructive feedback and nominating direct team members for promotions
- Automated 6000 plus client migration from On-prem to Cloud with project time saving from '60 days to 3 days'
- Educated customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Conducted Many training sessions to transfer knowledge to peer team members
Infrastructure Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 03.2018
- Provided value add to the customer with constantly ready infrastructure strategy for backup & storage and Cloud platform
- Performed complete assessment for storage, backup & Virtualization infra platform (VMware and Cloud readiness)
- Presented, Enhanced, and remediated the recommendations
- Performed expert-level systems AWS development and design work that may include logic design, I/O design, cloud architecture analysis and design, and systems engineering
- Developed technical roadmaps for future AWS cloud implementations
- Developed business case analysis on potential projects
- Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
- Performed advanced systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
- Served as primary liaison with senior clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met
- Provided high level expertise to multiple projects and tasks
- Lead Data Source Exploration and Integration services by evaluating business value and feasibility of new data sources and collaborating with data modelers
- Implementing and hosting large, complex workloads (windows and non-windows) in Azure IaaS and configuring correct VM size and storage selection
- Experience in implementing and configuring/re-platforming large database solutions in Azure
- Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity between Azure and on premise using virtual networks, VPN and Express Route
- Experience in implementing one or more Azure PaaS services like web sites, web/worker roles, SQL Azure database, storage, service bus, Web Jobs, cloud services, Remote Apps
- Experience and understanding of security requirements for cloud like IAM, Web Application Firewalls, Data protection
- Experience in defining highly available, DR solutions in Azure
- Experience in defining cloud strategy for enterprise
- Experience in automation solutions using Azure Resource Manager, PowerShell
- Experience in doing comparative study between various technology options through market research, competitive analysis, pricing, in alignment with the project requirements
- Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
- Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms
- Deployed hybrid systems with on-premises and AWS components
- Best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
- Driven automation and service improvements for multiple engagements with multiple automations as an initiative of 'RUN BETTER'
- Provided dedicated technology consulting for complete backups and storage platform for multiple engagements as an Infra specialist across BFS, CIMET, Insurance and Retail domain
- Reviewing delivery assets created by delivery team such as Run books, Design (low level and high level) and build documents
- Customized solution for backup environment with AWS as part of customer reduced 'IT infra foot print'
- Technical conferrer for backup and storage platform, AWS during customer visit's & high severity incidents
- Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure for customers like M&S, Symantec, OCS, Cengage and Christies
- Migrated critical data from legacy hardware's to New generation data center and received customer appreciation by executing 'ZERO DOWNTIME' without disturbing any application and database
- Migrated 5000 plus servers and 250+ applications from physical servers to appliance and VMware / Azure, AWS infra
- Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
- Selecting appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
- Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
- Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
- Implementing cost control strategies
- Developed self-service portal 'Know your backup' as part of continuous service improvement plan
- Designed and restructured the backup platform from on premises to Azure platform without downtime and 0% data loss
- Planned, reviewed and enforced high level and low-level design as a part of datacenter refresh
- Converted fragile DNS and LDAP environment to stable agile environment using Azure AD, AWS services
- Performed capacity Utilization analysis for complete backup and storage environment - Helped customer on their capacity planning and purchase of new hardware's
- Automated 6000 plus NetBackup UNIX client migration with project time saving from '60 days to 3 days'
- Educated customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Conducted Many training sessions to transfer knowledge to peer team members
Technical Services Professional
IBM India Pvt Ltd
11.2012 - 03.2016
- Member of Architecture and Project Implementation Team & Level 3 Lead for RTE Team
- Worked Individually in 15 -16 Various short term projects as Superdome HP-UX Servers Consolidation, Sun Servers Consolidation, Linux Servers Consolidation, VMWARE Servers Backup Configuration, NAS Backup Configuration, and Various new client nodes configuration as HPUX, Linux, AIX, SunOS and Windows
- Develop TSM competency in Backup team in India
- 100 % Technical responsible for TSM, NetBackup and Avamar Backup Environment
- Additional Responsibility of Developing TSM Client Packages (BA, TDP SQL, TDP Exchange, TDP Domino)
- Additional Responsibility of Developing - Reporting For TSM Backup Environment
- Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting NFS servers and clients
- Configuring, troubleshooting snapshot backups using VXM
- Automated the 'NFS Server finder' to find NFS across the environment
- Configured, document, implement and support auto support and alerts sending and submitting Customer support ID information
- Create, document and implement best practices capacity & performance management model
- Involved in Datacenter consolidation project and consolidated 64 sites to 4 sites
- Created self-service portal of user backups and restores
- Handling peer member L3 team escalations like Backup / Restore issue, Multipath storage path issue
- Implemented multi-tenant monitoring layer using zones, science logic, HP SM, BPPM
- Centralized monitoring management using IBM Integrated operations console
- Designing and Implementing TSM Solutions
- Planning Capacity for Tape Library, VTL, TSM servers
- Leading BCP Tests
- Developing TSM Competency in Backup Team
- Worked on Backup Escalations and also the part of Technical Panel (IBM TSM recruitment Team) recruiting TSM candidates for various projects across India
- Day-to-Day TSM Administration and Implementation
- Took care of TSM Database and Recovery logs
- Worked individually 15-20 Backup configuration Projects
- Worked on Service calls and Change Orders/Work Orders for configuration/restoration and request for new change by Windows/Unix Team
Unix Administrator
IBM Info Services
05.2010 - 09.2012
- Implementation of Tivoli Storage Manager 5.X based on agreed business requirements
- Configuring Tivoli storage manager for backup and recovery for various operating systems (AIX, SUN OS, Windows)
- Complete TSM solution build-outs inclusive of base install library configuration, mgmt
- Classes, storage pools, etc
- Day-to-day support of for remote datacenter TSM instances running on AIX, with tasks inclusive of troubleshooting, upgrades, TSM DB maintenance as well as TSM client tuning
- Perform restores of customer data as well as assist in complete server recovery due to failures or as part of disaster recovery scenarios using TSM
- Configuring and scheduling workflows for automating backup processes which need to be run in regular intervals
- Worked in the integration of TSM 5.3 to TSM 5.5 and Assured client with 100 % data availability
- Installing the TSM clients in new machines and configuring the same for Backup and Restore activities
- Installation of SAN Agents for LAN free backups & TDP installations for databases which uses RMAN
- Trouble Shooting the Missed and Failed Backups, which includes LAN free backup, TDP for SQL & Oracle
- Designed and implemented backup infrastructure for BSNL
- Part of Global Backup and Archive, Product Engineering Team
- Draft and Drive Service Improvement Plans and Automation Projects
- Data center Migration of KLNOC and National Internet Backbone-II (Project Three)
- Identifying and developing low cost backup Solution
- Standardize Backup Environment
- Ensure Governance and Compliance rules are met within Backup Space
- Develop process and Design Documents
- Highest Level of escalation with Team for multiple backup products like TSM, VERITAS NetBackup, Backup Exec
Education
Bharathiar university -
Bharathiar university
01.2009
Skills
- AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
- Monitoring and Logging: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Trusted Advisor
- Security: IAM, KMS, Security Groups, Encryption
- Scripting: Python, Bash, AWS CLI
- CI/CD Tools: CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, Jenkins
- Networking: VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT Gateways
- Backup & System Recovery
- Design & Optimization of Cloud Computing
- Storage & Infrastructure
- Data Analysis & Storage
- Rubrik Backup
- Verital Netbackup
- Commvault
- Netbackup
- Python
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate - Amazon Web Services.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Infrastructure Architect
Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
03.2018 - Current
Infrastructure Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 03.2018
Technical Services Professional
IBM India Pvt Ltd
11.2012 - 03.2016
Unix Administrator
IBM Info Services
05.2010 - 09.2012
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate - Amazon Web Services.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Bharathiar university -
Bharathiar university
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