Vipin Sharma

Security Platform, Cloud Infra, SRE, Observability, FedRAMP, Audit & Compliance

* Manage a team of SREs for project planning, task assignment, and status reporting. * Participate in designing, implement, deploying, and maintaining on-premise SDLC system infrastructure and services. * Research, experiment, and evaluate innovative technologies to enhance and streamline current processes and services with automation. * Measure, monitor, and optimize service performance and availability to meet defined SLA/SLO goals.

• Managing onsite and offshore team of SRE and Cloud automation engineers who are managing multiregional cloud infrastructure in AWS cloud. • Migrating on premise workload to AWS cloud infrastructure using managed and self-managed services. • Working across team specially with engineering teams to drive right solution for cloud. • Reducing cloud cost by choosing right solution and continues monitoring. • Continues motivating team to automate first mind set. Technologies: Centos, Hadoop Cloudera distro, IBM MQ, kafka, RDS, Kubernetes(EKS), OpenStack, microservices, Amazon AWS, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Splunk, Terraform, KEDA, KubeCost, ArgoCD, Jenkins, NewRelic, Pagerduty, WAF, DataDog, New Relic, cloud computing, Cloud migration, CDN, Python, Bash.

Managed team of SRE and Cloud automation engineers spread over 5 countries in different time zone who are managing SaaS offering for Aktana Inc. Automate first approach to transform the daily mundane activities into the repeatable process through automation. • Reducing cloud cost by choosing right solution and continues monitoring. • Drive functional and non-functional requirements with product engineering teams. • Improve Service Delivery by partnering with internal stakeholders to improve customer’s experience. • Leading the team and drive towards high level of operational efficiency. • Leading team, 24/7 supporting the customers with regulatory requirements, cloud security efforts. Technologies: Centos, kafka, Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Amazon AWS, Azure SSO, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Terraform, Rundeck, Jenkins, Lacework, JFrog, Pagerduty, Python.

Managing SAAS applications and team of SREs who are managing different SaaS applications of paloaltonetworks which compliments world’s best firewall. These cloud services e.g. wildfire analyze millions of files per day for malware and threats from thousands of customer’s firewalls across the world in real-time. Working on budgeting and reducing cost of running business, providing reports to senior executives. Working with team on critical technical issues * Managing multiple team of SRE for revenue generating applications. * Lead WildFire application to FedRAMP ATO * Architected cloud services based in AWS as front end and scaleable infrastructure in colo across four countries. * Working towards on CI/CD, making progress automated 90% of release deployments. * Saved multi million dollars by deploying active active solution instead DR based solution. * Maintaining 99.99% uptime through capacity planning right monitoring and metrics. Technologies: Centos, Hadoop Cloudera distro, Rabbitmq, kafka, mysql, Cassandra, vmware, Kubernetes, Salt, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Prometheus, Elasticsearch (ELK), Python, Bash, Nagios, Zenoss, Cactai, Zabbix, Datacenters.

Responsible for architecting and implementation of new solution based on new technology related to Operating system, storage and data protection, emphasis on virtualization in SAP environment. Providing technical inputs to UNIX, storage and data protection operations team. Following are the few of my achievements but not limited to • Managed remote team. • Architect Symantec Netbackup based VMware backup infrastructure. • Planned and moved existing data center to new colo. • Build migration plan for monitoring infrastructure which will save substantial money and man hours.

Responsible for providing system and architecting and implementation of new solution based on new technology related to Operating system, storage and data protection, emphasis on virtualization in Oracle ERP environment. Providing technical inputs to UNIX, storage and data protection operations team. Emphasis on automation and monitoring

Technical administration and management for Solaris and Linux systems, tier 1/2/3 Storage and Application infrastructure. Architecture, Design and Implementation of new Systems and Storage. Project planning and capacity management on SAN storage. Implementation and management skills. Additional skills include VERITAS products. Execution of projects including planning and deployment of Hitachi tier 1 storage USPv, VERITAS Cluster, SAN Switch migration to brocade director 48000 SAN switches.

Technical and engineering interface from the Partner product engineering group for SUN for the VERITAS Software Products VxVM and VxNBU The primary engineering interface from Sun to VERITAS, with specific focus on VxVM and VxNBU. Partner product engineering representative to coordinate all engineering activities related to sustaining and releases of VERTIAS Products

Masters in Applied Physics