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SAANDEEP HARISH

Senior Cloud Consultant
Melbourne

Summary

Experienced Cloud Architect and Technology Leader with 16 years of experience leading initiatives for APAC Enterprise Customers using Cloud technologies. Expertise in team leadership, project management, and strategic goal achievement. Skilled in streamlining processes, maintaining high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational objectives. Known for collaborative problem-solving skills and dedication to excellence.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
10
10
Certifications
7
7
Languages

Work History

Senior Cloud Consultant

Allegion Australia
02.2023 - Current
  • Part of Allegion Americas Global team Leading Australia, New Zealand, China APAC regions as Senior Cloud Consultant.
  • Design reference architectures and solution frameworks.
  • Azure Architecture capabilities to build solutions using EA
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive practice growth strategy, focusing on emerging data technologies and industry trends.
  • Leading management with identifying and mitigating risks and issues Design Solution using multiple technologies according to the business needs & requirement.
  • Mentoring and facilitate the transition of Cloud Data Architecture Services into production, ensuring
    compliance with Cloud frameworks Standards and guidelines.
  • Enable and facilitate the transition of Cloud Data Architecture Services into production, ensuring compliance with Cloud frameworks Standards and guidelines.
  • Incorporates automation into strategic and operational plans for cloud environments.

Cloud Architect

Advanced Technology Consultancy
11.2018 - 01.2023
  • Pre-Sales/Solutions Architect member of Portfolio & Solutioning team, handling the responsibilities of providing technology consulting to Various teams.
  • Design Cloud Data Solution using multiple technologies according to the business needs & requirement.
  • Conducting assessment for cloud readiness for customers and evaluating existing infrastructure.
  • Responding to RFP/RFI/RFQ which includes compliance/design to meet customer requirement.
  • High level Solutions which include Architecture Design, Scope of Work, Exclusion & DAIR Solution presentation, briefings, value proposition & key differentiation to IT Head & CIO
  • Designed and developed scalable cloud solutions for enhanced performance and cost optimization.
  • Researched and understood emerging technologies and end-user needs.
  • Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.

Systems Architect Presales

Emircom LLC
11.2017 - 10.2018
  • Design, Implement and maintain cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Provides support for the design of Cloud and Data Centre infrastructure services, encompassing activities such as defining service catalogue items, Availability Management, Capacity Management, and Design Coordination.
  • Cloud enablement and migration.
  • Analyzing the requirements of large systems and breaking them down into manageable units.
  • Lead technology refresh and migration projects.
  • Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
  • Translated business requirements into detailed architectural specifications, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
  • Mentored junior team members and provided guidance on best practices in systems architecture design.
  • Identified opportunities for process improvement through regular system audits, streamlining workflows and increasing productivity.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies and made strategic recommendations for their incorporation into existing systems.
  • Improved business productivity for clients by 80% by re-engineering and designing infrastructures.

Pre Sales Consultant

SecureTech
09.2010 - 07.2015
  • Supporting sales and pre-sales team for Preparing RFI, RFPs & RFQs which includes compliance/design to meet customer requirement & budget and differentiation to the customers about solution & CxO level interactions.
  • High level Solutions which includes Architecture Design, SOW, Exclusion, DAIR, Customer responsibility.
  • Supports senior management with reporting and optimising of financial management of cloud workloads.

Sr. Engineer Storage Management

Wipro Infotech
09.2010 - 07.2015
  • Expertise in implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, SANCopy, Snap mirror, and Snapvault.
  • Extensive knowledge on implementing EMC NAS, Synology and NetApp.
  • Storage Hardware & HCI sizing for (DELLEMC, NetApp, Huawei.
  • Performing new incoming change requests like Creation of new VM for any requirements, User creation, New storage, Protected LUN Expansion on Netapp and VNX, Backup configuration, DR requests.
  • Planning to enhance and adopt new technologies in IT infrastructure.
  • Supporting On call 24x7 for production environment.
  • Provide monthly report based on client-server- storage-space.

Infrastructure Engineer

Allied Digital Services
05.2008 - 05.2010
  • Evaluated existing procedures and made proactive adjustments to meet changing demands.
  • Creating test labs for testing prospective to support upcoming projects on VMware platform on different OS flavors Linux/Centos/Windows.
  • Working on AD & AAD Infrastructure related support/changes aspect also Actual configuration/system changes on the AD and AAD side.
  • Working on Document the Integration from an AD point of view for future references including support for BAU where ability to follow a structured change management / deployment methodology.
  • Perform daily system monitoring and reviews; verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes; reviewing system and application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
  • Developed proposals for clients outlining project scope and timeline.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Bachelor of Computers Application
04.2001 -

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Multi-cloud strategy

Cloud Storage

Compliance and governance

Cloud Dataflow

Analytical thinking

Teamwork and collaboration

AI/ML

Innovation management

Cloud cost optimization

Compliance and governance

Certification

AWS Certified Professional

Accomplishments

  • Running one man show as Infrastructure Presales Cloud Solution Architect, Post sales, Implementation and successfully completed federal govt projects (SDDC) at Advanced Technology Consultancy, Abu Dhabi UAE.
  • Handling L2,L3 - 24/7 Enterprise Dell support throughout INDIA and SPOC for any escalation with 97% customer satisfaction at Wipro Infotech Bangalore.
  • Lift and Shift Macquarie DC without any escalation and always available to support the business at any time at Allegion Australia.

Projects Handled

  • Dataflow project - process real-time data from a streaming source like Google Cloud Pub/Sub, transform it, and load it into BigQuery for analytics.
  • Use Pub/Sub as the data ingestion source for streaming events (e.g., IoT sensor data, user activity logs).
  • Apply transformations in Dataflow, such as filtering, aggregating, or enriching data.
  • Write the processed data to BigQuery for real-time reporting and visualization.
  • IaaS (Lift and shift) on premises to cloud and DRaaS, National Ambulance Abu Dhabi, Design Solution, Deploy, Support and Maintain, Assessing the existing infra using Microsoft tools and preparing the BOQ using Azure pricing calculator. Design new infra based on customer requirement and migrate existing workload. Deploy landing zone on Azure infra as per initial design. Deploy network architecture like VNET, NSG, Firewall, AGW, WAF. Deploy Azure file storage considering topology and IOPS.
  • IaaS and PaaS (Lift and shift) on premises to cloud, Khalifa port Abu Dhabi, Design Solution, Deploy, Support and Maintain, Assessing the existing infra using Microsoft tools. Design and Deploy Azure IaaS and PaaS services: Azure VMs, Azure Storage, VNET, Resource Manager, Azure SQL, Azure Backup, Traffic Manager, Cloud & App Services.
  • SaaS, IaaS and PaaS - Application modernization, Dubai Metro, Design Solution, Deploy, Support and Maintain, On prem static/Dynamic application running on VM using .Net to be migrated to Azure app service. Configuring WAF.
  • DB migration, Oil and Gas Industry, Design, Deploy and Maintain, Perform assessment using DMA to check the compatibility for moving the database to Azure SQL. Conducting assessment on existing DB and migrating to Azure SQL. Optimizing existing DB. Backup existing DB.
  • DC Assessment and Application migration Lift and Shift to Azure, Khalifa University and MOE – Ministry of Education, Design, Deploy, Perform assessment using Azure migrate, provide detailed pricing of design AS is and TO BE Design infrastructure solution and migrating current workload to Azure, AWS.
  • Build a Software Defined Datacenter with VMware cloud and Hybrid cloud setup, Abu Dhabi Airport, Support and Maintain, Project scope included Cloud Provider Selection, Application Migration, Performance Testing, Identity Access Management, Auto Scaling, Disaster Recovery, Storage Service, Database, Infrastructure automation using Terraform on Azure for RG,VNET,SUBNET,VM,APP Services.

Timeline

Senior Cloud Consultant

Allegion Australia
02.2023 - Current

Cloud Architect

Advanced Technology Consultancy
11.2018 - 01.2023

Systems Architect Presales

Emircom LLC
11.2017 - 10.2018

Pre Sales Consultant

SecureTech
09.2010 - 07.2015

Sr. Engineer Storage Management

Wipro Infotech
09.2010 - 07.2015

Infrastructure Engineer

Allied Digital Services
05.2008 - 05.2010

Bachelor of Science -

Bachelor of Computers Application
04.2001 -
SAANDEEP HARISHSenior Cloud Consultant