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Vishal Vashisht
London
Work Preference
Summary
I am a results-driven professional with extensive experience delivering end-to-end projects worth tens of millions. With strong leadership and interpersonal skills, I excel at collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership. Focused on growth and mentoring, I adapt designs and strategies to overcome new challenges. My creative approach and critical thinking have contributed to major project successes, and I am committed to fostering team development and supporting the advancement of junior colleagues.
Currently studying for the CISSP, CISM, Azure Architecture (AZ-305), AWS & Azure AI Solutions as well as Data Management and transformation such as Databricks and Snowflake. A lot but I believe it’s fundamental to know everything that is going on in the environment to either work it or secure it. Experienced with DevOps, APIs, OAuth etc.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Consultant
Phat monkey IT Ltd
London
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Working as a free-lance consultant on several small customer projects.
- Endpoint Security & Management
- Working with vendors to create partnerships and reselling opportunities for the company.
- Attending events such as Infosec, Black Hat, Data & AI London, Tech London, Snowflake World Tour
- Speaking with leaders at vendor events such as CrowdStrike & Darktrace
- Working with VMWare & Nutanix & attending their events
- Cloud & AI training & upskilling
- Data management training & architecture
- AI Agent creation using Mistral & ChatGPT
- Local AI modelling using Ollama and Apple ML to train models
- AI automation in SIEM & infrastructure management
- AI security work with Sentinel & Threat Hunting
- Writing Blogs and Training Material
Infrastructure Architect
UK Cabinet Office
London
09.2023 - 09.2024
- Led the discovery and design of the new WAN as well as being responsible for the test plans.
- Planned and executed database migration testing with lead users.
- Responsible for collaborating with Government and external partners to facilitate continued access to the new Cloud environment, including the MOD & policing.
- Responsible for reviewing & signing off vendor HLDs & LLDs for client infrastructure & wrote internal documentation for the migration.
- Responsible for the designing network testing scripts & organising the schedules with 3rd parties.
- Led the governance for IAM to the new environment as well Disaster Recovery Processes.
- Designed AWS architecture and security for transitional projects with DevOps Teams.
- Administered AWS and Oracle environments during migration.
- Documented proof of DR/Backup of Saas Providers and internal applications for compliance & Governance.
- Working within AGILE & TOGAF methodologies as well as with MACH principles and using C4 modelling.
Data centre Migration Architect
Haringey Council
London
12.2022 - 07.2023
- Led the design, discovery & planning for a Datacentre migration.
- Responsible for selecting vendors for the migration project.
- Owning the datacentre requirements and planning the capacity.
- Writing presentations for Senior and Executive leadership teams to drive the project forwards & deal with management objections.
- Demonstrated multi-million-pound budget savings against alternative consultancy designs.
- Coordinated with vendors on requirements & designing best practices.
- Developed secure VMware design with NSX.
- Designed backup and cybersecurity improvements.
Virtualisation & Migration Specialist
NHS England & Improvement
London
02.2019 - 06.2022
- Responsible for upgrading the existing infrastructure and redesigning it as the department grew.
- Owned the total infrastructure & training permanent staff to take on more technical responsibilities.
- Led the design & built 6 environments across 2 greenfield datacenters including installation of servers, networking & firewalls.
- Collaborating with BT, HPE and other suppliers during the pandemic.
- Investigations into MS365 licenses, saving £50,000 within a day.
- Soley responsible for the logistics to deal with suppliers & ensure correct delivery of £5 million hardware to datacentres.
- Developed and implemented critical environment that subsequently required a 10-person engineering team to maintain after my contract concluded to cover the work I was doing.
- Led the migration of the big data solution used by the NHS from the legacy in office server room location to Crown Hosting. During COVID, while it was the location from which the NHS & Government derived all their data.
- Owned the project to migrate infrastructure, including VMware to Hyper-V, saving £100,000s on licensing.
- Developed and implemented cybersecurity measures including EDR & Firewall Management.
- Responsible for PKI & certificate management, including renewals & upgrades.
- Collaborating with 3rd party suppliers and several NHS organisations.
- Managed Microsoft Infrastructure (WSUS, DNS, DHCP, Direct Access, AOVPN, SCOM).
- Worked on several public facing COVID projects, including mass provision of iPads around the country.
- Significantly contributed to Project Nightingale's COVID response at the Excel Centre.
- Managed Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Exchange Online, and multiple tenancies.
- Administration of Firewalls, Networking, Servers & all Infrastructure including remote access, VDI and Cloud as well as IAM and Identity Management.
Senior Infrastructure Project Consultant at London Metropolitan Police
DXC
London
06.2016 - 11.2018
- Worked with architects to design and develop infrastructure for MPS Digital Transformations.
- Analysis of the existing environment to help DXC come in as the Server Tower.
- Acting as the lead senior engineering contact for other vendors.
- Collaborated with other vendors (towers in the SIAM Model) to provide fixes and investigations into legacy environmental issues.
- Drove the migration of legacy Hyper-V & physical environments to VMWare after failure by an alternative provider.
- Ownership of the implementation of VMWare & upgrading the environments to modern standards.
- Led the Datacentre remediation and server migration using VMware and Platespin tools.
- Owned the Citrix VDI implementation and upgrades, gold image creation for Citrix.
- Security & Anti-virus within the remit & procedures of the MPS.
- Monitoring and management of the environment.
- Working to AGILE and ITIL frameworks. TOGAF standards and NIST/NSCS/Met Police security standards.
Metropolitan Police Senior Infrastructure Team Lead
Lockheed Martin
London
07.2014 - 07.2016
- Managed a team of 8 Engineers to deliver the infrastructure for the CAD project.
- Managing the logistics of delivery of equipment to datacentres.
- Responsible as the Infrastructure Technical authority for decisions related to the infrastructure of the project ensuring best practices and security.
- Drove the redesign of the Oracle Databases to save the project £4 million pounds on licensing as well as redesign of the VMWare & Storage from initial plans.
- Managed the planning and implementation of Server, Hardware & application installations.
- Collaborating with 3rd parties to arrange and test inter data centre equipment move.
- Took responsibility for HP-UX & working with the CAD provider to develop it for the Met Environment and with HPE for hardening and installation as well as upgrades during the project.
- Ensuring that the environment meets the MPS’s security requirements and accreditation conditions including MPS auditing.
- Documentation of the design and continual updates to project documentation. Ensuring that all infrastructure team documentation is delivered as per customer requirements.
- Working closely with the CAD Vendor to test, redevelop and design their product to meet MPS Requirements.
3rd Line Infrastructure Consultant
London Metropolitan University
London
01.2013 - 04.2014
- Working via Specialist Consulting Ltd, brought in to deliver VMware upgrade projects, audit the current environment and advise as necessary.
- Architecture upgrade of vSphere environment to 5.1 then 5.5 & implemented.
- Architecture and install of VMWare SRM.
- Audit and upgrade current environment to meet correct standards for vSphere.
- Saved new server costs by studying current bottle necks and advising accordingly.
- VMWare Horizon View Installation, testing and administration and production roll out.
- Dell Server installations and capacity planning.
- Full Documentation for handover to replacement permanent employee & junior employee.
3rd Line Infrastructure Consultant
The Travel Corporation
London
09.2012 - 12.2012
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
The Electoral Commission
London
04.2012 - 06.2012
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hachette UK Limited
London
01.2011 - 02.2012
Interim Infrastructure Manager
TP Bennett
London
06.2010 - 10.2010
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Global Aerospace
London
06.2009 - 12.2009
Senior System Administrator
London City Airport
London
11.2008 - 05.2009
3rd Line Senior Systems Administrator
Kelway
London
07.2007 - 11.2008
Senior Project Engineer
The Nursing and Midwifery Council
London
06.2008 - 10.2008
3rd Line Wintel Engineer
COLT Telecom
01.2006 - 01.2007
System Administrator
FFTW
01.2002 - 01.2006
Customer Engineer
Basilica Computing Ltd
01.2000 - 01.2002
Colour Support Engineer
Xerox
01.1999 - 01.2000
Education
Bachelor’s degree - Computing & Management BSc (Hons)
Loughborough University
Skills
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle OCI
- M365
- Exchange Online
- Intune
- Apple Business Manager
- Workspace One
- JAMF
- Action1
- Acronis
- N-Gage
- Hornet Security
- Active Directory
- Entra ID
- MFA
- RSA
- FIDO
- Azure AD
- OKTA
- One Identity
- Cisco DUO
- AzureAD
- OAuth
- SAML
- Microsoft Windows
- Red Hat
- Ubuntu Linux
- Apple Mac
- IOS
- VMware
- Nutanix
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Citrix
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- OpenAI
- Mistralai
- Claude
- Ollama
- Local LLM
- MSSQL
- Oracle
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- MS Fabric
- Cisco
- Meraki
- F5
- Kemp Load balancers
- Juniper
- Azure Express Route
- AWS Direct Connect
- TCP
- LAN
- WAN
- BGP
- WIFI
- SD Wan
- MPLS
- HPC
- InfiniBand
- FTP
- SMTP
- POP3
- IMAP
- SNMP
- SSL
- TLS
- TailScale
- Veeam
- HPE
- Backup Exec
- SRE
- Failover
- Dell
- Apple
- Cohesity
- Lenovo
- Build
- Rack Design
- Heat and Power implications
- Firewalls
- Checkpoint
- FortiGate
- Palo Alto Cortex
- MS Sentinel
- SIEM
- CASB
- ZTNA
- AWS Cloud Guard
- MS Purview
- MS Defender
- PKI Infrastructure
- CIS Hardening
- ISC2
- Bloodhound
- SolarWinds
- SCOM
- ManageEngine
- CrowdStrike
- Dark Trace
- SASE
- SOAR
- Exchange
- SCCM
- WSUS
- GPO
- DNS
- DHCP
- JIRA
- Confluence
- GitHub
- GitLab
- CI/CD pipelines
- Chainguard
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Python
- SQL
- PowerShell
- YAML
- PySpark
- Pandas
- Numpy
- Scikit-learn
- Confluent
- LLM
- Chatbots
- LocalStack
- Anaconda
- Grafana
- Aiven
- OpenText
- AGILE
- TOGAF
- MITRE
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
- VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCF9 2V0-17.25)
- VMWare VCP (VCP-DV 2021)
- Nutanix Certified Professional - MultiCloud Infrastructure 6.10
- Nutanix Certified Master – Multi Cloud Infrastructure 6.10
- Nutanix Certified Professional - Artificial Intelligence 6
- Cyera Certified DSPM Architect
- Cyera Certified Security for AI Fundamentals
- MS Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
- MS Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
- MS Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
- MS Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Foundations Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Generative AI Professional
- Confluent Data Streaming Engineer
Education And Qualifications
The Linux Foundation - Understanding the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) (LFEL1001), Kafka Fundamentals with Confluent Cloud Accreditation, Pulumi Practical Platform Engineering Foundations, Databricks Academy Accreditation – Platform Administrator, Databricks Academy Accreditation – Platform Architect, Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn, AWS Knowledge: Migration Foundations, AWS Well Architected Proficient, AWS Knowledge: Serverless, AWS Knowledge: Architecting, AWS Knowledge: Data Protection & Disaster Recovery, Deep Learning.AI: Generative AI with Large Language Models, Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a Data Warehouse in MS Fabric, Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a Real-Time Intelligence Solution in MS Fabric, Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement information protection and data loss prevention by using Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement retention, eDiscovery and communication compliance in Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Applied Skills: Prepare Security & Compliance to support Microsoft 365 CoPilot, Zscaler Mastering the Fundamentals of Zero Trust, Netskope Academy – SASE Accreditation, Machine Learning, Build and Extend your own Copilots using Pro code capabilities – Microsoft, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Get Started with Databricks for Data Warehousing, Get started with Microsoft Security Copilot, Help Secure Your Data in an age of AI – Microsoft, Leveraging AI to deliver superior cybersecurity – Sophos, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) through Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) – ISC2, Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft AI fundamentals, Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer, 210W-05 ICS Cybersecurity Risk, Acronis Cloud Tech Fundamentals, Advanced Administration & Performance Management (AAPM) Online, Ansible Basics, Building AI Systems with Databricks, Building Enterprise-Grade AI Agents with Snowflake Cortex AI, Databricks Fundamentals, Defeating COZYBEAR with the power of an AI Native Platform – CrowdStrike, Getting Started with VCF Automation, Provider Management & Administration with VCF Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation Networking, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence Management System Awareness, Implementing Centralized Secrets Management for Your Team Scheduled – Pulumi, Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering LFS162, Introduction to Kubernetes, Introduction to Quantum Computing, Kaggle Introduction to Machine Learning, Keepnet - NIS2 Compliance for Executives and Senior Leadership, Learn Kafka from the ground up, Live Kafka eWorkshop with Aiven, London Okta{camp} – Okta, Navigating DORA and NIS2 Compliance for financial sector organisations in the EU webcast – SANS, Nis2 Unlocked, OT Ransomware on the Rise, how to protect your Operations and Business – SANS, Palo Alto: Hands-On Investigation & Threat Hunting Workshop – Palo Alto, Quickstart guide for building agents with generative AI - Microsoft Copilot Studio, SASE Accreditation - Netskope Academy, Secure Your Environment: Leveraging CSPM for contextual and prioritised security posture management across your entire cloud application lifecycle, Secure Your Fortress: Building Robust and Resilient Defenses for 2025 Webcast – SANS, SingleStore Architecture Overview, Snowflake Introduction, Virtual Machine Management with Openshift Workshop – Redhat, Zero Trust for Identity: Strategies & Leadership to Protect Businesses, Other Courses Include AI, Data Engineering & Governance, Snowflake, DevOps & Cybersecurity, OKTA., Loughborough University, Computing & Management BSc (Hons)
Detailed Technical Skills
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle OCI, M365, Exchange Online, Intune, Apple Business Manager, Workspace One, JAMF, Action1, Acronis, N-Gage, Hornet Security, Active Directory, Entra ID, MFA, RSA, FIDO, Azure AD, OKTA, One Identity, Cisco DUO, AzureAD, OAuth, SAML, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat & Ubuntu Linux, Apple Mac & IOS, VMware [vSphere, Horizon, VDI, NSX, Aria, Cloud Foundation, vSphere Foundation, Live Recovery, VCF, HCX], Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenAI (chatgpt), Mistral.ai, Claude, Ollama, Local LLM, MSSQL, Oracle, Databricks, Snowflake, MS Fabric, Cisco, Meraki, F5 & Kemp Load balancers, Juniper, Azure Express Route, AWS Direct Connect, TCP, LAN, WAN, BGP, WIFI, SD Wan, MPLS, HPC, InfiniBand, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SNMP, SSL, TLS, TailScale, Veeam, HPE, Backup Exec, SRE, Failover, Acronis, HPE, Dell, Apple, Cisco, Cohesity, Lenovo, Build, Rack Design, Heat and Power implications, Firewalls (Checkpoint, Cisco, FortiGate, Palo Alto Cortex), MS Sentinel, SIEM, CASB, ZTNA (Zero Trust), AWS Cloud Guard, MS Purview, MS Defender, PKI Infrastructure, CIS Hardening, ISC2, Bloodhound, SIEM, SolarWinds, SCOM, ManageEngine, CrowdStrike, Dark Trace, SASE, SOAR, Exchange, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS, GPO, DNS, DHCP, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, Chainguard, Terraform, Pulumi, Python, SQL, PowerShell, YAML, pySpark, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, Confluent, Chainguard, LLM, Chatbots, LocalStack, Anaconda, Grafana, Aiven, OpenText, AGILE, TOGAF, MITRE, NIST, ISO27001, ITIL, C4 models, NIS2, DORA
Web
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Timeline
Chief Consultant
Phat monkey IT Ltd
01.2024 - 01.2025
Infrastructure Architect
UK Cabinet Office
09.2023 - 09.2024
Data centre Migration Architect
Haringey Council
12.2022 - 07.2023
Virtualisation & Migration Specialist
NHS England & Improvement
02.2019 - 06.2022
Senior Infrastructure Project Consultant at London Metropolitan Police
DXC
06.2016 - 11.2018
Metropolitan Police Senior Infrastructure Team Lead
Lockheed Martin
07.2014 - 07.2016
3rd Line Infrastructure Consultant
London Metropolitan University
01.2013 - 04.2014
3rd Line Infrastructure Consultant
The Travel Corporation
09.2012 - 12.2012
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
The Electoral Commission
04.2012 - 06.2012
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hachette UK Limited
01.2011 - 02.2012
Interim Infrastructure Manager
TP Bennett
06.2010 - 10.2010
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Global Aerospace
06.2009 - 12.2009
Senior System Administrator
London City Airport
11.2008 - 05.2009
Senior Project Engineer
The Nursing and Midwifery Council
06.2008 - 10.2008
3rd Line Senior Systems Administrator
Kelway
07.2007 - 11.2008
3rd Line Wintel Engineer
COLT Telecom
01.2006 - 01.2007
System Administrator
FFTW
01.2002 - 01.2006
Customer Engineer
Basilica Computing Ltd
01.2000 - 01.2002
Colour Support Engineer
Xerox
01.1999 - 01.2000
Bachelor’s degree - Computing & Management BSc (Hons)
Loughborough University