Infrastructure and Cloud Transformation Architect

The candidate is an accomplished Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience in designing, transforming, and migrating data center and cloud environments, particularly in BFSI, telecommunications, retail, and aviation industries. With over 10 years of expertise, they have successfully led large-scale infrastructure transformation projects involving data center consolidation, hybrid cloud implementation, and workload migrations. Key responsibilities include assessing current-state architectures, creating high-level and low-level designs, project planning for data and workload migrations, and ensuring compliance with corporate and regulatory standards. They are adept at liaising with service providers, vendors, and cross-functional teams to deliver efficient and scalable solutions. The candidate has specialized in hybrid cloud architectures, EUC (End-User Computing) strategies, SAN and object storage platforms, and cloud migrations involving platforms like Azure, AWS, and VMware. They have extensive experience in IBM midrange systems, Unix to cloud transitions, and leveraging elastic capacity on-demand (eCoD) for cost optimization. Key skills include infrastructure and cloud architecture, SAN and object storage, virtualization, hybrid cloud platforms, VMware, Azure, AWS, Citrix VDI, Commvault, SAP, Oracle, Linux, and GDPR compliance. Their expertise spans solution design, project management, stakeholder engagement, and vendor coordination.