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Manikandan
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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I am a IT Enablers with over 14+ years of Technology transformation experience in Digital Technology. I help with customers all aspects of Cloud journey largely planning and moving applications and business services from current infrastructure to the Azure cloud and assist all the way with getting onto the Azure platform. I help small, medium businesses and Large customer with consulting and advice building infrastructure in Azure cloud Services .With a clear focus on delivering the best value to clients, I work through the complete consulting life cycle, including (but not limited to):
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2019 - ?
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Cloud Architect
IBM Pvt Ltd.
As an Azure Cloud Architect, on daily basis, I will:
Fast Track for Azure (FTA) Program - Work with customers onboard to Azure, getting them on track to "build it right, architect it right, the first time - Provide a solution-centric approach, providing customers with tools and best practices significantly increasing customer success with Azure.
Microsoft 's "hero" migration program - I lead and drive priority Azure Migration Program Engagements across UK region building, landing and sustaining strategic initiatives that enhance and accelerate customer migration experience
Customer Advisory Team (CAT) - I am part of the AzureCAT Team acts as feedback advisors to our product teams, based on what we learned from building ground-breaking Azure solutions with customers!
• Provide engineering/architecture advice for IT groups in the domain of Enteprise Cloud IT -Private and Public-; participate in design sessions, suggest integration options, liaise between our integrated platforms and IT applications owner
• Automate OpenShift Container Platform 4.x on Azure - Infrastructure as Code (IaC), achieving automation of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Azure Cloud, using Terraform
• Provide Azure technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc., in support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process
• Drive the deployment of customers' workloads into Azure and increase their consumption of the platform by providing architecture and deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers' cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers
• Provide technical oversight and guidance during clients engagement execution
• Technical Lead responsible for architecting and implementing fully automated solutions for deploying preconfigured environments for development, testing, and on-premise and across all three major cloud platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Providing professional advice and technical expertise on complex and often challenging transformation projects in your chosen field of expertise
• Provide Project technical support and escalation point for complex support issues and provide technical project documentation.
Fast Track for Azure (FTA) Program - Work with customers onboard to Azure, getting them on track to "build it right, architect it right, the first time - Provide a solution-centric approach, providing customers with tools and best practices significantly increasing customer success with Azure.
Microsoft 's "hero" migration program - I lead and drive priority Azure Migration Program Engagements across UK region building, landing and sustaining strategic initiatives that enhance and accelerate customer migration experience
Customer Advisory Team (CAT) - I am part of the AzureCAT Team acts as feedback advisors to our product teams, based on what we learned from building ground-breaking Azure solutions with customers!
• Provide engineering/architecture advice for IT groups in the domain of Enteprise Cloud IT -Private and Public-; participate in design sessions, suggest integration options, liaise between our integrated platforms and IT applications owner
• Automate OpenShift Container Platform 4.x on Azure - Infrastructure as Code (IaC), achieving automation of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Azure Cloud, using Terraform
• Provide Azure technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc., in support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process
• Drive the deployment of customers' workloads into Azure and increase their consumption of the platform by providing architecture and deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers' cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers
• Provide technical oversight and guidance during clients engagement execution
• Technical Lead responsible for architecting and implementing fully automated solutions for deploying preconfigured environments for development, testing, and on-premise and across all three major cloud platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Providing professional advice and technical expertise on complex and often challenging transformation projects in your chosen field of expertise
• Provide Project technical support and escalation point for complex support issues and provide technical project documentation.
Engineering, Platform, Customer, Tech lead, Google, Mentorship, Development, Testing, Infrastructure, OpenShift, Amazon, Support, Transformation, It, Design, Architecture, Integration, Google cloud, Sales, Google Cloud Platform, Consulting, Cloud, Automation, Microsoft azure, Deployment, Azure, AWS
2016 - 2019
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Cloud Architect
Microsoft Pvt Ltd.
• Deliver technical leadership and architecture on our engagements and provide feedback around the evolution of the solution.
• Shape end-to-end solutions and solution architectures for cloud transformation and modernization, solution planning and collaborating with the appropriate teams to create the optimal client outcome.
• Partner with other solution architects and global product management to define standardized solution and services baselines, application add-ons and industrialized delivery options
• Collaborate with delivery center solution architects and contribute to the Microsoft collaboration community, including authoring internal and public blog posts.
• Leading expert in Public and Hybrid Cloud technologies and their application within a client environment for Microsoft as part Secure Infra Excellence team.
• Have proven experience with migration of Data Centre and cloud migration projects.
• Contribute to work involves building new cloud solutions, migrating an application to co-exist in the hybrid cloud, deploying a global cloud application across multiple countries or providing design guidance / POC for continuous optimization.
• Responsible for designing, developing and cloud software applications for enterprise clients, from the technological evaluation stage through final production delivery and installation.
• Develop service offerings based on Microsoft's cloud strategy and position that enhance and facilitate existing and prospective clients to leverage the Cloud service offerings provided by Microsoft.
• Provide coaching and feedback to Team Members on Cloud.
• Support the service delivery team to initiate pilot projects, demonstrations, Proof- of-concepts (POC)
• As needed, speak at roundtables, conferences, and other events to represent the Microsoft Center of Excellence Cloud team.
• I lead and deliver low level platform design, define migration strategies, plan and lead the migration wave groups from on premise data center environment to private or public cloud platforms (Azure, Google, AWS)
Previous Project Experience in Microsoft
Nike US - Cloud Modernization
McDonald - Hybrid Cloud Foundation
Nottinghamshire country council - Cloud Navigator
Previous Organization Experience
• Shape end-to-end solutions and solution architectures for cloud transformation and modernization, solution planning and collaborating with the appropriate teams to create the optimal client outcome.
• Partner with other solution architects and global product management to define standardized solution and services baselines, application add-ons and industrialized delivery options
• Collaborate with delivery center solution architects and contribute to the Microsoft collaboration community, including authoring internal and public blog posts.
• Leading expert in Public and Hybrid Cloud technologies and their application within a client environment for Microsoft as part Secure Infra Excellence team.
• Have proven experience with migration of Data Centre and cloud migration projects.
• Contribute to work involves building new cloud solutions, migrating an application to co-exist in the hybrid cloud, deploying a global cloud application across multiple countries or providing design guidance / POC for continuous optimization.
• Responsible for designing, developing and cloud software applications for enterprise clients, from the technological evaluation stage through final production delivery and installation.
• Develop service offerings based on Microsoft's cloud strategy and position that enhance and facilitate existing and prospective clients to leverage the Cloud service offerings provided by Microsoft.
• Provide coaching and feedback to Team Members on Cloud.
• Support the service delivery team to initiate pilot projects, demonstrations, Proof- of-concepts (POC)
• As needed, speak at roundtables, conferences, and other events to represent the Microsoft Center of Excellence Cloud team.
• I lead and deliver low level platform design, define migration strategies, plan and lead the migration wave groups from on premise data center environment to private or public cloud platforms (Azure, Google, AWS)
Previous Project Experience in Microsoft
Nike US - Cloud Modernization
McDonald - Hybrid Cloud Foundation
Nottinghamshire country council - Cloud Navigator
Previous Organization Experience
Transformation, Platform, POC, Service Delivery, Hybrid, Enterprise, Production, Google, Software, Community, Support, Design, Blog, Service, Architecture, Management, Cloud, Leadership, Azure, Product Management, AWS, Coaching
2013 - 2016
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Technical Lead
Colt Technologies.
• Actively involve design, build, and/or enhance cloud solutions based on VMware vCloud and Microsoft Azure.
• Interaction with Client IT Team for Application Assessment for migration of Workloads to and fro
from VMware/Hyper-V to Azure Cloud.
• Design Low Level Detailed Migration Plans for Workloads from Physical or Virtual Servers (Hyper-V/VMWare) to Azure.
• Configure End to End all Aspects of Azure as: - Virtual Machines, Database, AD Integration, Replication of Data, network and Firewall Polices, Load Balancing and Snapshots for Backup purpose.
Interface with IT Infrastructure Teams for Day to Day Tasks related to Connectivity, operations and
• Working with IT Infrastructure Team and Application team for Solution Design and Migration strategies for new Projects/Assets/Features.
• Interact and Interface with AWS Cloud Teams and VMware Infrastructure for Migration of Applications to Azure Cloud Environment.
• Interacting with Customer and delivery teams (including partners) focused on solving mission-critical business and technology problems and provide solutions which center on the consumption of the Azure Platform
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving
identified workloads to Azure
• Deploy virtual datacenters environments
• Establishes a Site to Site (S2S) VPN between your company's network and the Windows Azure Cloud Service
• Develop a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions
• Interaction with Client IT Team for Application Assessment for migration of Workloads to and fro
from VMware/Hyper-V to Azure Cloud.
• Design Low Level Detailed Migration Plans for Workloads from Physical or Virtual Servers (Hyper-V/VMWare) to Azure.
• Configure End to End all Aspects of Azure as: - Virtual Machines, Database, AD Integration, Replication of Data, network and Firewall Polices, Load Balancing and Snapshots for Backup purpose.
Interface with IT Infrastructure Teams for Day to Day Tasks related to Connectivity, operations and
• Working with IT Infrastructure Team and Application team for Solution Design and Migration strategies for new Projects/Assets/Features.
• Interact and Interface with AWS Cloud Teams and VMware Infrastructure for Migration of Applications to Azure Cloud Environment.
• Interacting with Customer and delivery teams (including partners) focused on solving mission-critical business and technology problems and provide solutions which center on the consumption of the Azure Platform
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving
identified workloads to Azure
• Deploy virtual datacenters environments
• Establishes a Site to Site (S2S) VPN between your company's network and the Windows Azure Cloud Service
• Develop a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions
Technology, Platform, Customer, Tech lead, Development, Backup, Load balancing, Assessment, Infrastructure, It, Network, Hyper-V, Windows, Design, Service, Firewall, Integration, Cloud, Database, It infrastructure, VMware, Microsoft azure, Azure, AWS, Operations
2011 - 2012
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Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology.
• Monitor the Performance and Availability of Hyper-V Host And Guest Servers using SCVMM
• Monitoring of Guest Servers Hosted On Hyper-V and Configure and Update Virtual Machine Images.
• Configure New Virtual Servers and Troubleshoot Virtual Server Issues.
• Provide Information Pertaining To Capacity Planning on Utilization.
• Managing Windows 2008 Hyper Core Servers and VMs through SCVMM
• Perform the Live Migration for VMS depends on The Hyper-V Utilization.
• Monitoring of The High Availability Server and Applications, Check whether Have any Issue And Up
Running
• Upgrade the Hyper-V, templates and Application Tools and Update the templates with latest Update
• Monitoring of Guest Servers Hosted On Hyper-V and Configure and Update Virtual Machine Images.
• Configure New Virtual Servers and Troubleshoot Virtual Server Issues.
• Provide Information Pertaining To Capacity Planning on Utilization.
• Managing Windows 2008 Hyper Core Servers and VMs through SCVMM
• Perform the Live Migration for VMS depends on The Hyper-V Utilization.
• Monitoring of The High Availability Server and Applications, Check whether Have any Issue And Up
Running
• Upgrade the Hyper-V, templates and Application Tools and Update the templates with latest Update
Windows, Hyper-V, Monitoring, Server, Tech lead, UP
2005 - 2010
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IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Service.
• Experience in the installation, configuration, and administration of components in a large Vmwa environment centered around best practices, to include vCenter, VMware Update Manager, vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Cloud Automation Center, vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
• Ability to setup of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster,
Resource Management, Resource Monitoring along with VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
Experience in VM template design and leveraging vCenter Operations Manager to right size, virtual
Servers
• Server consolidation/virtualization for HW reduction and site migrations via V2V and P2V.
• Upgrading ESXi hosts and VM guests using VMware Update Manager.
• Ability to setup of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster,
Resource Management, Resource Monitoring along with VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
Experience in VM template design and leveraging vCenter Operations Manager to right size, virtual
Servers
• Server consolidation/virtualization for HW reduction and site migrations via V2V and P2V.
• Upgrading ESXi hosts and VM guests using VMware Update Manager.
Design, Administration, Operations, VMware, Automation, Operations manager, Cloud, Management, Virtualization, Resource management, It, Monitoring, Analyst, Server, Manager
My education
Anna University
Bachelors, Information Technology
Bachelors, Information Technology
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