Sameer Batta
London
Summary
As a seasoned Infrastructure Architect, I bring over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing and optimizing IT Infrastructures that drive business success. My expertise spans across diverse environments including cloud, on-premises and hybrid Infrastructures ensuring robust, scalable and secure solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of each organization.
In my recent roles, I lead, design, and secure large-scale infrastructure initiatives for leading Insurance firms, using Microsoft Azure as the primary cloud platform. I prioritize a holistic approach to Infrastructure design, working closely with stakeholders to understand their unique challenges and goals. I create and deliver high-quality solution architectures, proposals, and presentations that align with the customer's objectives and the company's standards and strategy. I collaborate with internal sales, pre-sales, and technical teams to win and execute complex projects and bids. By staying at the forefront of technological advancements, I ensure that the solutions I provide are innovative, future-proof and aligned with the latest industry standards.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
BCDR Consultant for Arch Insurance
COFORGE
04.2024 - Current
- Perform Business Impact Analysis to determine the criticality of various business functions and processes
- Design and develop Disaster Recovery solutions and plans for services/products ensuring business continuity by designing resilient architectures.
CTO Infrastructure Architect for MS Amlin
COFORGE
04.2022 - 03.2024
- Develop comprehensive infrastructure solutions and design cloud solutions that align with the MS Amlin's business objectives and technology strategy
- Develop cloud architecture blueprints incorporating best practices for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Design solutions that integrate with on-premises infrastructure, creating hybrid architectures ensuring seamless integration of infrastructure components with existing systems and applications
- Design and implement security measures to protect MS Amlin's infrastructure and data ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and policies
- Create and maintain Solution Architecture documents, High-level Designs, Low-level Designs, configurations, and procedures
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Azure Bicep) practices to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources
- Develop and implement disaster recovery plans for cloud-based systems ensuring business continuity by designing resilient architectures
- Selecting and implementing appropriate technologies and strategies for disaster recovery, such as backup systems, data replication, cloud services, and redundant infrastructure.
Cloud Architect for Towergate Insurance
Mphasis
11.2019 - 03.2022
- Develop and execute a cloud strategy that aligns with the business goals of an insurance organization
- Implement a Microsoft-first approach, utilizing Azure IaaS, PaaS, and other services to meet specific business and technical requirements
- Facilitate seamless integration of various cloud services within Azure to create a cohesive and interoperable environment
- Implement robust authentication and identity management solutions for on-premises SaaS, off-premises SaaS, and group resources
- Leverage Azure Active Directory and related services for identity and access management
- Deliver comprehensive High-Level Designs (HLDs) outlining the overall architecture and structure of Azure solutions
- Provide detailed Low-Level Designs (LLDs) specifying the technical implementation details for Azure components
- Conducting risk assessments to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities to the organization's systems, infrastructure, and operations
- Creating comprehensive disaster recovery plans that outline procedures for responding to various types of disasters
- Develop and maintain architectural reference materials, including documents, guidelines, and best practices, to guide project teams and operations staff
- Support projects and operations teams in implementing successful cloud models by providing expertise, guidance, and troubleshooting assistance
- Stay abreast of Microsoft Azure updates, new features, and industry best practices.
Technical Architect
Mphasis
07.2018 - 10.2019
- Architecting solutions, leading large bids, analyzing industry trends & creating solutions / frameworks that help sales to take the solution to the prospective customers
- Work with sales teams and technical pre-sales specialists to qualify opportunities, position capabilities, and customize product offerings and solutions as needed
- Lead/Create proposal content and deliver client presentations to help close deals by building credibility and comfort with the client
- Proposal solution design including managed services model, with clear focus on delivering and articulating the value to the customer, Solution mapping across multiple towers and co-ordination with tower leads to ensure end-to-end solution build.
Consultant
EMC Corporation
03.2015 - 06.2018
- Leading and executing successful engagements in large-scale enterprise data center build outs, re-locations, consolidations, application migrations and deployments of virtualized environments
- Delivering end-to-end IT projects that includes requirement gathering, due diligence, preparing architecture design, building target infrastructure, and getting the applications and servers migration executed
- Selecting and implementing appropriate technologies and strategies for disaster recovery, such as backup systems, data replication, cloud services, and redundant infrastructure.
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
Accenture
10.2014 - 02.2015
- Requirements Gathering, VMware, Infrastructure, Application Migrations, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Storage Area Network, Private Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Backup Solutions, Network-Attached Storage, Data Center Operations, Data Migration, Server Migration
- Application Migration and Transformation Factory
- Data Center Operations
- Consulting engagements related to server consolidation and relocation, data center migrations from planning to execution, data collection and validation, migration design and strategy along with efforts and estimation, detailed migration planning and execution
- Assessing the impact of disruptions on critical systems and create recovery plans for infrastructure / applications
- Analyze customer requirements and provide support, design and implementation for storage products & technologies
- Assessing the impact of disruptions on critical systems and create recovery plans for Infrastructure/Applications.
Infrastructure Engineer
Wipro Technologies
07.2009 - 06.2011
- Analyze customer requirements and provide support, design and implementations for storage products and technologies
- Responsible for provisioning, configuration management, troubleshooting and monitoring the health of the client's storage infrastructure.
Technical Support Officer
HCL Technologies
11.2008 - 06.2009
- Network devices configuration and deployment support
- Network monitoring & maintenance, troubleshooting, issue resolution, user support and trainings.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications
Jaypee University of Information Technology
India08.2008
Skills
- Solution Design & Implementation
- Cloud Architecture (Azure, AWS, OCI)
- Systems Integration
- Virtualization, Containerization & Storage Solutions
- Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Network Architecture
- IT Security & Compliance
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- Project Management & Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design
- AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- EMC Proven Professional Storage Technologist
Timeline
BCDR Consultant for Arch Insurance
COFORGE
04.2024 - Current
CTO Infrastructure Architect for MS Amlin
COFORGE
04.2022 - 03.2024
Cloud Architect for Towergate Insurance
Mphasis
11.2019 - 03.2022
Technical Architect
Mphasis
07.2018 - 10.2019
Consultant
EMC Corporation
03.2015 - 06.2018
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
Accenture
10.2014 - 02.2015
Infrastructure Engineer
Wipro Technologies
07.2009 - 06.2011
Technical Support Officer
HCL Technologies
11.2008 - 06.2009
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications
Jaypee University of Information Technology
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