babu sabhapathy

infrastructure architect

About

IT professional with over 14 years of dedicated experience in the field of IT infrastructure services - Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Network, Security and IT process management domains with proven ability to analyze, assess their efficiency and relate them to business goals. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication and backed with certifications from leading IT industries. Currently, I am working as Solution Architect – IT Infrastructure Services at Mercedes Benz R&D India. For the last five years, I have been working extensively on Datacenter and Cloud Technologies - Virtualization, IaaS, SaaS & PaaS for internal private cloud hosting.

Country

india

City

bengaluru

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

firewalls, vmware infrastructure, cloud computing, cisco technologies, checkpoint security, microsoft technologies, microsoft server technologies, itil v3 foundations certified, hp blade, hitachi storage, vmware server, private cloud, netapp filers, hitachi nas, sccm, scvmm, sftp, hp cloud system matrix, ibm proventia, cisco routers, cisco mds san switches, brocade fibre switches, redhat visualization, f5 bigip, trend micro imsva, hp eva, symantec endpoint protection, ca service desk, redhat cloudforms, vpn, virtualization, servers, active directory, itil, data center, solution architecture, windows server, high availability, vmware, network security, disaster recovery

Experience

infrastructure architect

ibm

2016-11 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

technical executive

matha electronics

1998-6 - 2000-1 · 1 yr 8 mos

* Security initiatives, audits, documenting the tasks and ensuring process compliance. * Automated various regular manual processes by eliminating redundant steps, designing new process and developed utilities using UNIX shell scripts.

senior project manager

mercedes-benz research and development india

2015-1 - 2016-11 · 1 yr 11 mos

senior technology specialist â cloud services

infosys

2009-7 - 2013-4 · 3 yrs 10 mos

senior network administrator

infosys

2006-9 - 2009-7 · 2 yrs 11 mos

lead technology specialist â cloud services

infosys

2013-4 - 2014-12 · 1 yr 9 mos

* Led a team in building a Center of Excellence lab for demonstrating and running effective PoCs. * Consultant for the production cloud Initiatives – Technology and Products evaluations, recommendations and service improvements. * Participate in architecture design and review for private cloud hosting and solutions for various Business Platforms. * Creation of multiple automation tools/ scripts for effective management of Identity & access management in Production Cloud Services * Participated in gap and root cause assessments against performance, compliance and maturity findings to identify improvement opportunities. * Focused on Continuous Process Improvement. Suggested, defined and designed processes for daily IT development, maintenance and operational activities * Consultant for building datacenters in other regions to host Infosys Business Platform solutions to its clients – USA, India and Europe.

network administrator

infosys

2004-10 - 2006-9 · 2 yrs

* Implemented Windows 2000 domains in an enterprise network environment including installation and configuration of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and DHCP. * Provided day-to-day network operations support for a Windows 2000 based LAN/WAN of 50+ users. * Critical services were implemented on High Availability using Windows clustering. * Managed CIFS file system which includes user space creation, user permissions and quotas. * Worked on Norton Ghost utility to image critical systems for disaster recovery and quick replacement. * VPN implementation on Sonicwall Internet Security and Appliances – Pro 200. * Ensured all the systems on the network are regularly patched and meets the hardened guidelines as per the security standards. * Responsible for all the systems on enterprise network are antivirus compliance. * Responsible for Daily and weekly backups using Windows NTBACKUP. * Improving system performance by monitoring and suggesting hardware upgrades as needed. * Served as liaison between developers and management to ensure technical solutions meet the organizational needs.