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Arun Kumar Lakshmi Narayanan

Arun Kumar Lakshmi Narayanan

Colchester,UK

Summary

Forward-thinking Senior Manager adept at managing teams of 105 employees with 6 direct reports to accomplish challenging objectives in Product Development, IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture and Engineering. Able to impart clear vision for cohesive, high-performance team. Ready to apply 15+ years of experience to challenging new role.

Offering strong skills in leadership, strategic planning, and team development. Knowledgeable about managing cross-functional teams and driving project success. Ready to use and develop skills in communication, problem-solving, and decision-making in Director role.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Senior Manager Engineering

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP
London
06.2022 - 06.2025
  • Developing clear and compelling vision for engineering is essential for success in managing and leading portfolio technically.
  • Automation using Infrastructure as Code for cloud deployments.
  • Design, Solution Architecture & Implementation using delivery teams.
  • Expert in assisting organisations to navigate complex world of business, ensuring informed decisions that yield desired results with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence.
  • Ensure (Tier1 and Tier2) public-facing websites are operationally resilient, scalable and secured at any given point in time.
  • Managed conflict resolution within teams, ensuring smooth workflow.
  • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration leading to improved operational efficiency.
  • Oversaw budget preparation and control, ensuring financial discipline within the team.
  • Implemented cost-saving initiatives to drive profitability.
  • Negotiated major contracts, achieving favourable terms for the company.
  • Improved staff productivity through effective workforce management techniques.
  • Successfully managed risk assessment procedures by adopting industry best practices.
  • Directed project management activities for timely delivery of projects.
  • Streamlined operations by introducing efficient resource management strategies.

Manager Technology

PUBLICIS SAPIENT
London
06.2020 - 06.2022
  • Established as DevOps Engineer in Publicis Sapient.
  • Responsible for architecting and implementing accelerators for GCP (IAM, GKE, Storage bucket, ILB, Cloud NAT, VPC [Peering and Tunnelling]), which in turn shall be used by the financial industry for quicker cloud adoption.
  • Actively interact with clients for feature enhancement & product improvement and deployment of accelerators.
  • Help the team in setting the process to deliver the automation pipelines without any flaw in an Agile way.
  • Cloud Consultant.
  • Automation using Terraform and for cloud deployments (Infrastructure as Code).
  • Design, Solutioning Architecture and Implementation.
  • Build and customise Elastic Search cluster in GCP cloud environment using GKE.
  • Facilitated staff training, resulting in better customer service.
  • Led performance reviews, identified areas for improvement.

Advisory Consultant

DELL TECHNOLOGIES
Bengaluru
11.2019 - 02.2020
  • Established as an Advisory Consultant in Dell Technologies.
  • Responsible for architecting and implementing automation pipeline for client infrastructure.
  • Actively interact with clients for feature enhancement & product improvement and deployment of applications.
  • Help the team in setting the process to deliver the automation pipelines without any flaw in an Agile way.
  • Provide consultation on the tools to be used for the projects to form the DevSecOps pipeline.
  • Provide technical guidance to the team and enable them to deliver the features on time to the product team.
  • Cloud Consultant (AWS & GCP).
  • Automation using Ansible and for UNIX & Windows Servers.
  • Design, Solutioning Architecture and Implementation.
  • Design and implement voice recognition software (Cortana, Alexa, Siri) which shall invoke the automation pipeline to provide the infrastructure.

Devops Engineer - Expert

DXC TECHNOLOGY
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 09.2019
  • Established as a DevOps Engineer in DXC Technology.
  • Responsible for implementing DevOps pipeline for client applications.
  • Actively interact with clients for feature enhancement & product improvement and deployment of applications.
  • Help the team in setting the process to deliver the applications without any flaw in an Agile way.
  • Provide consultation on the tools to be used for the projects to form the DevOps pipeline.
  • Provide technical guidance to the team and enable them to deliver the features on time to the product team.
  • Cloud Consultant. (AWS, GCP & HPOO)
  • Automation using Ansible and for UNIX (LINUX, Solaris and AIX) & Windows, which has shown a 40% increase in revenue by reducing team members and rotating them for useful work.
  • Design, Solutioning Architecture and implementation.
  • Optimised infrastructure cost by implementing Terraform IAC tooling in AWS environments.
  • Improved system stability to handle peak loads by load-balancing strategies.

Technical Manager - Devops

APPLIED MATERIALS INDIA LIMITED
02.2017 - 01.2018
  • Established as Technical Manager in Applied Materials.
  • Responsible for implementing DevOps pipeline for in-house applications.
  • Actively interact with Product Development Teams for feature enhancement & product improvement and deployment of applications.
  • Manage a team for automation, build and release management.
  • Help in setting the process to deliver the code without any flaw in an Agile way.
  • I provided consultation on the tools to be used for the projects based on the technologies.
  • Provide technical guidance to the team and enable them to deliver the DevOps features on time to the product team.

Application Consultant - Devops

IBM INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
11.2014 - 02.2017
  • Established as an Application Consultant in IBM India.
  • Responsible for build and release management activities for various applications.
  • Actively interact with Software & Product Development Teams for feature enhancement & product improvement and deployment of the application.
  • Manage a team for automation, build and release management.
  • Help in setting the process to deliver the code without any flaw in an Agile way.
  • I provided consultation on the toolchain implementation to implement the DevOps principle based on the technologies.
  • Automate the build, release and configuration management process using the DevOps pipeline with toolchains like RTC, Jenkins, Puppet and Udeploy.
  • Release planning.
  • Define process in release management.

Technical Lead

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
10.2011 - 08.2014
  • I established myself as a technical lead in Cognizant Technologies Solution.
  • Responsible for build and release management activities for various applications.
  • Actively interact with Software & Product Development Teams for feature enhancement & product improvement and deployment of the application.
  • Manage a team for build and release management.
  • Help in setting the process to deliver the code without any flaw in an Agile way.
  • Interact with clients and roll out the release plans and branching strategies.
  • Maintain the webservers to be up and running without any interruption.

Senior Systems Engineer

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
09.2008 - 10.2011
  • Actively provide technical support to ensure proper implementation and up-gradation of software for Network.
  • Interact with the client to understand their requirements and accordingly provide solutions in association with the project and sub-vendor technical teams.
  • Successfully implement web server and configuration changes to support traffic growth and perform software and hardware impact study after network changes.
  • Actively interact with Software & Product Development Teams for feature enhancement & product improvement.
  • Worked on different enhancements, new functionality additions required by the customer and issues that were raised by the testing team and the customer.
  • Involved in Maintenance activities, Minor enhancement, Major enhancement and development projects depending on Service Level Agreements on Long term Basis.
  • Involved in Configuring, Maintaining & Troubleshooting Windows 2000/2003 Servers, Win XP, and Windows 2000 Professional computers.
  • Accountable for managing, maintaining & Troubleshooting web servers and client servers.
  • I deftly maintained & configured the Web Server.

Education

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS

Dr Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Pollachi Tamilnadu India
08.2004 - 05.2008

HIGHER SECONDARY CERTIFICATE - Computer Science

Nyruthi Higher Secondary School
Tiruppur Tamilnadu India
06.2003 - 05.2004

SENIOR SECONDARY CERTIFICATE - Maths & Science

St. Joseph Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Tiruppur Tamilnadu India
06.2001 - 05.2002

Skills

  • Product development experience
  • IT infrastructure
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Continuous Improvement implementation
  • Operational strategy
  • Budget governance
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Cross-functional communication
  • 360-degree feedback implementation
  • Strategy execution
  • Leadership development
  • Negotiation mastery
  • Performance metrics analysis
  • Process improvement knowledge
  • Decision-Making expertise
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strategic thinking
  • Organisational change management
  • Project delivery reporting
  • Budget oversight
  • Financial oversight
  • Statistical analysis
  • Influencing and negotiating
  • Project portfolio management
  • Cost-reduction strategies
  • Strategic leadership
  • Performance appraisals
  • Business process reengineering
  • Complex problem resolution
  • Agile project management
  • Profit and loss understanding
  • Digital transformation projects

Summary

  • LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP, London, England, Engineering Lead, 06/01/22, Present, Interact with stakeholders for feature enhancement & product improvement., Set processes to deliver automation pipelines in an Agile way., Develop a clear vision for engineering., Implement automation using Infrastructure as Code.
  • PUBLICIS SAPIENT, Manager Technology, 06/01/20, 06/01/22, Architect and implement accelerators for GCP., Interact with clients for feature enhancement & product improvement., Set processes to deliver automation pipelines in an Agile way.
  • DELL TECHNOLOGIES, Advisory Consultant, 11/01/19, 02/01/20, Architect and implement automation pipeline for client infrastructure., Interact with clients for feature enhancement & product improvement.
  • DXC TECHNOLOGY, DevOps Engineer - Expert, 01/01/18, 09/01/19, Implement DevOps pipeline for client applications., Interact with clients for feature enhancement & product improvement.
  • APPLIED MATERIALS INDIA LIMITED, Technical Manager - DevOps, 02/01/17, 01/01/18, Implement DevOps pipeline for in-house applications., Interact with Product Development Teams for feature enhancement.
  • IBM INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, Application Consultant - DevOps, 11/01/14, 02/01/17, Build and release management activities for various applications., Interact with Software & Product Development Teams.
  • COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, Technical Lead, 10/01/11, 08/01/14, Build and release management activities for various applications., Interact with Software & Product Development Teams.
  • INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Senior Systems Engineer, 09/01/08, 10/01/11, Provide technical support for software implementation., Interact with clients to understand requirements.

Personal Information

Visa status: Indefinite Leave to Remain

Affiliations

  • Gardening
  • Playing Cricket
  • Listening to Music

Languages

English
Fluent
Tamil
Native
Hindi
Intermediate

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Manager Engineering

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP
06.2022 - 06.2025

Manager Technology

PUBLICIS SAPIENT
06.2020 - 06.2022

Advisory Consultant

DELL TECHNOLOGIES
11.2019 - 02.2020

Devops Engineer - Expert

DXC TECHNOLOGY
01.2018 - 09.2019

Technical Manager - Devops

APPLIED MATERIALS INDIA LIMITED
02.2017 - 01.2018

Application Consultant - Devops

IBM INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
11.2014 - 02.2017

Technical Lead

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
10.2011 - 08.2014

Senior Systems Engineer

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
09.2008 - 10.2011

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS

Dr Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
08.2004 - 05.2008

HIGHER SECONDARY CERTIFICATE - Computer Science

Nyruthi Higher Secondary School
06.2003 - 05.2004

SENIOR SECONDARY CERTIFICATE - Maths & Science

St. Joseph Matriculation Higher Secondary School
06.2001 - 05.2002

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