IT Infrastructure Leader

As a Technology leader, Systems platform engineering as part of Mastercard technology operation Business unit, I am responsible for operations of Global Data center and corporate office infrastructure, to build and maintain systems and platform technologies and environments, design and renew platforms to meet internal and external customer needs, deployment of software and hardware solutions that are optimally standardized and system/platform updates to meet project deliverables, Leads information security posture, which includes proactively identifying security risks and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions, Development of troubleshooting guides and project plans to enable product management teams and customers to utilize new and existing hardware and software independently, Guides the resolution of complex problems to prevent future system and platform performance issues. Partner with Global stakeholders and third party vendors, actively provide guidance and directions to other functional units to meet customer requirement. I track the priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global platform system technology domains and sub-domains. Partner with global leaders for potential opportunities for improvements i.e. automation, innovations and reduction in time to deployment. Conducts meeting with functional units to understand and address their pain-points. Manage the multiple vendor relationship.
I am managing team of Managers, senior engineers, Engineers and associates. Setting team objectives, performance management, coaching to team
Experienced on Data center management, IT Service management, IBM Enterprise Servers, IBM /EMC Storage, Virtualization (VMWare, NSX), Converged(UCS), hyperconverged(Nutanix), Unix/Linux( AIX, VIO,MHC, Power HA Openstack, Cloud, CI/CD and Windows Server, WebSphere Application servers, DB2 /Oracle DB and networking devices.