Experienced Platform / Cloud Engineer with hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure. Proficient in Terraform, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, Azure DevOps, and Istio Service Mesh. Passionate about optimizing system performance, ensuring scalability, and automating deployment processes.
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Anand Patil
Sydney, Australia,NSW
Summary
Overview
17
Years of IT professional experience
8
Certifications
Core Competencies
Core Competencies
- Provide integration and solution architecture guidance for Integration projects.
- Create and develop technical architectures for advanced and complex Technical Services domain projects.
- Provide architectural oversight during solution fit, requirements, and design to ensure that the end-to-end solution remains aligned with the Technical Services domain strategy and target architecture.
- Utilizing extensive integration and application expertise, guide and influence application integration capabilities of the systems provided by major vendors and application owners.
- Identify and resolve complex and high-impact issues related to the inter-dependencies between systems on major projects.
- Monitor compliance of architecture solutions ensuring they align to Domain and Enterprise Integration architecture guidelines.
- Strongly advocate and proactively promote awareness of the Technical Services domain architecture portfolio to the COE Teams.
Work History
Cognizant Technology SolutionsSydney, NSW
Platform Engineer - Engineering Enablement
02.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Developed and implemented a platform architecture to ensure the scalability, reliability and security of the system.
- Designed and built automated deployment pipelines for new services to stage/Prod environments.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters for deploying applications in cloud environments.
- Develop new solutions using the latest Cloud technologies to support Dev / QA and platform teams.
- Collaborated with stakeholders from different departments to understand user requirements and suggest suitable
solutions accordingly. - Build as-is trader applications to platforms using Kubernetes clusters, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Fluxcd, Github.
Cognizant Technologies SolutionsSydney, NSW
API Lead - Change Team
08.2018 - 02.2021
Job overview
- Managing deliveries for the API Team (Delivery).
- Work with the change manager to execute change and release processes (ServiceWOW Change Process).
- Work with Scrum Master for task management and resource allocations. Able to run the scrum in the absence of a Scrum Master.
- Managing communication and Coordination with other teams for API-related tasks or change orders.
- Able to set the right expectations within the API team and the other teams about the deliveries.
- Helping Scrum Master in organizing daily scrum for the API Team and getting the ball rolling.
- Coordinate with API Tech Leads, Architects and Head of Technology for the technical discussion and decision.
- Communicate and take regular feedback from all the API team members and organize the required change to keep the team motivated and proactive.
- Organize weekly/forth-nightly Team meetings for discussion and presentation.
- Follow-up with other teams for the deliveries and approvals.
- Managing and working with the offshore team, keeping them up to date with the onsite progress and discussion.
- Coordinate with security, support and operation teams for the P1 & P2 production issue.
- Follow up on CATS/timesheet entry and approvals.
Managing escalations for the API Team and addressing it with the right approach and process.
Cognizant Technologies SolutionsSydney, NSW
Technical Lead - Axway Secure Transport Upgrade
11.2016 - 08.2018
Job overview
- Provided recommendations on the most appropriate MFT solutions for business documented findings and
provided information regarding the most suitable MFT solution and services. - Assisted in presenting a business case to the necessary decision-makers within the business.
- Implementation and deployment of MFT solution by integration with existing solutions and training for
administrators and end users during the migration process. - Assisted with secure file transfer needs as the business grew and new challenges arose by touching base regularly
to provide advice on new technology and how it may assist with the existing solutions. - Monitor and maintain multiple Axway Secure Transport MFT environments.
- Respond 24×7 to critical issues affecting MFT system integrity and availability.
- Assist with major version upgrades of Axway Secure Transport from version 4.92 to 5.1 and from 5.1 SP6 to 5.3.1.
- Create and maintain documentation repositories for multiple MFT products including Manuals, etc. Installing
patches and updates for Axway Managed File Transfer solutions.
Cognizant technology SolutionsBangalore, India
MFT / B2B Technology Specialist
09.2014 - 11.2016
Job overview
- Provided recommendations on the most appropriate MFT solutions for business documented findings and provided information regarding the most suitable MFT technologies and services. Assisted in presenting business cases to the necessary decision-makers within the business.
- Guided MFT engineers with the implementation and deployment of MFT technology by integration of technology with existing solutions and training for administrators and end users.
- Assisted with secure file transfer needs as business grew and new challenges arose by touching base regularly to provide advice on new technology and how it
may assist with the existing solutions. Monitor and maintain multiple Axway Secure Transport MFT environments. Respond 24×7 to critical issues affecting MFT system integrity and availability. - Assist with major version upgrades of Axway Secure Transport from version 4.92 to 5.1 and from 5.1 SP6 to 5.3.1.Create and maintain documentation repositories for multiple MFT products including Manuals, etc. Installing patches and updates for Axway Managed File Transfer solutions.
Accenture Services Pvt LtdBangalore, Karnatala, India
Software Engineering Team Lead [B2B / Implementation Analyst]
04.2013 - 08.2014
Job overview
- Gather details for preparing a transmission from internal infrastructure to external vendors and vice versa.
- Recommended solutions that will provide stable file flows between multiple interfaces within or external interfaces.
- Provided the solution to use message attribute to the business on to pull the files from multiple folders and push it to the internal server for processing of data or files.
- Provide end-to-end support on the file transmissions for all the interfaces. Prepare and automate the transmissions for AS2, and SFTP protocol and use sentinel to store the data in monitoring, making sure the required data is available in sentinel monitoring.
- Supported Axway Passport tool for IAM activities and integrated the tool to other integration
tools and performed creating or updating users, groups, and roles.
GT NEXUS SOFTWARE PVT Ltd [An Infor Company]Bangalore, Karnataka, India
[Systems Engineer [B2B Integration / Application Support]]
01.2007 - 03.2013
Job overview
- Analyze and translate business and functional specifications into testing requirements.
- Execute test cases and test that the results are as expected. Document defects clearly and concisely and should be able to do re-execution of test cases after the resolution of the defects.
- Represent Test function in multi-discipline agile/SCRUM teams. Thoroughly understand the new product features being implemented in Sprints and become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the product areas involved.
- Develop Test Designs and Cases for new framework features as part of the development processes used within the QA / Engineering centre. Executed Automation Test Scripts for Smoke and Regression.
- Reported bugs to the bug tracking tool Experience in managing test and Production infrastructure, testing (Integration/System) before rollout, minimizing incidents affecting users and requiring less reactive support.
- Managed and supported integration data flow in logistics company production environments. Created virtual machines for test and production environments using Vsphere client.
Education
Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBelgaum, Karnataka,India
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science And Engineering
09.2001 - 06.2006
University Overview
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps
- Service Mesh: Istio, Solo Gloo mesh
- Version Control: Git
- Monitoring and Logging: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Kiali
MFT / B2B Tools: Axway Gateway Interchange, Sentinel and CFT
Certification
- Axway Gateway Interchange [B2Bi], Sentinel and Tranfer CFT.
- Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity
- Fundamentals AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Certified for ArgoCD
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 AI Foundations Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Foundations Associate Oracle
- Cloud Data Management 2023 Foundations Associate
Timeline
Platform Engineer - Engineering Enablement
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2021 - Current
API Lead - Change Team
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2018 - 02.2021
Technical Lead - Axway Secure Transport Upgrade
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
11.2016 - 08.2018
MFT / B2B Technology Specialist
Cognizant technology Solutions
09.2014 - 11.2016
Software Engineering Team Lead [B2B / Implementation Analyst]
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
04.2013 - 08.2014
[Systems Engineer [B2B Integration / Application Support]]
GT NEXUS SOFTWARE PVT Ltd [An Infor Company]
01.2007 - 03.2013
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science And Engineering
09.2001 - 06.2006
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