Amit Pal Singh
Prague
Summary
Expert in the design and delivery of cost - effective, high-performance information technology infrastructures and applications to address complex business problems by assessing current capabilities and designing future technology architectures to achieve strategic technology plans that align with the business's strategic initiatives. Spearheaded an Gl lead of middleware, waf/lb & Public Cloud Plat from last year. During this time, team created the services from scratch and helped the application team migrate to SDZ new Infra ERA.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Gl Lead Database,Middleware,Waf/LB & Public Cloud
Sandoz
05.2023 - Current
- Identified opportunities for innovation in cloud technologies, driving continuous improvement within organization.
- Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
- Contribute to technology independence by supporting site and application migrations from hosting perspective.
- Providing 24/7 support with major Oracle and MSSQL, as well as cloud-based Pass DB.
- Web application security support, especially web application firewalls including Tomcat, JBoss, IIS, Apache, and WebLogic.
- Evaluated emerging trends in market to inform strategic decision-making regarding technology investments.
- Integrated diverse software systems into cohesive solutions using API-driven architectures and microservices patterns.
- Streamlined deployment processes with automated tools, reducing time-to-market for new applications.
- Supported disaster recovery planning efforts by designing robust backup systems and failover mechanisms for critical infrastructure components.
- Managed vendor relationships, negotiating contracts, and service level agreements that maximized value while maintaining budgetary constraints.
- Ensured GXP compliance with industry standards by conducting thorough audits of security protocols and data protection measures.
- Resolved complex technical issues through diligent troubleshooting and root cause analysis methodologies
Infrastructure Architect Lead
Siemens Mobility
5 2020 - 04.2023
- Lead cross-functional team of 10+ teams in cloud engineering to provide Public Cloud Service.
- Communicated with operations team to ensure proper skill set to meet existing project and forecast requirements, resulting in 93% utilization for practice.
- Design, implement, and maintain Azure/AWS infrastructure and services within managed service environment.
- Implement process and quality improvements through task automation.
- Institute infrastructure as code, security automation, and automation for routine maintenance tasks.
- Created recommendations on how to duplicate subset of on-premises machines to Azure Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) offering, which will be used for disaster recovery.
- This analysis included specifics to synchronize on-premises data with SQL Server and SharePoint instances hosted in VMs.
- Exceptional project management skills, with ability to prioritize multiple complex projects, are required.
- Translate those requirements into business change and IT requirements and produce solid IT roadmaps to plan and commission internal and external IT providers to deliver desired outcomes.
- Work with other technology teams to analyze Cloud adoption risk implications, both Cyber and Operational Technology risks.
- Installed, configured, administered, and monitored Azure IAAS and PAAS, and Azure AD.
- Led implementation of Office 365 and Azure Active Directory for single sign-on, authentication, authorization, and Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC).
- Application Migrations and Data migrations from On-premises to AWS Cloud.
- Hands-on experience in implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services, including EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, EFS, AWS Kinesis, Lambda, Directory Services, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, Code Pipeline, CodeBuild, Code Deploy, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Data Pipeline, DynamoDB, and Redshift.
- Hands-on experience in architecture and securing infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, Trusted Advisor, Security Groups, NACL, etc.
- Identifying appropriate use of Azure/AWS architectural best practices.
- Estimating Azure/AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms.
Database Service Delivery Manager (Freelancer)
Novartis
01.2016 - 04.2020
- Track Database project deliverables, monitor progress, KPIs, and report progress to customers and senior management. Communicate continually with our Validation Management, Operations and Execution, Design and Engineering, and System Engineering and Estate Management teams as to the status of and potential risks to projects and key deliverables.
- Participated in analysis and designing of Oracle Exadata Server for infrastructure and related projects.
- Assisted in the integration of Exadata applications into current IT actionable events and solutions.
- Deep expertise in the AWS components and API. Expert, working knowledge. Of Operating Systems (Windows and Linux). Advanced knowledge of databases (Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL), and knowledge of relevant web services, mail, backup, and application monitoring.
- Conceives of and designs projects that typically require extensive systems integration, large teams, and multiple technical platforms, multiple stakeholders with potentially competing needs, and with substantial risk and implications for business.
- Implements an enterprise-wide definition of security, establishes and maintains data, network, and system security-related infrastructure, and applications and processes.
- Perform monitoring of GXP/SOX compliance for application access and provide monthly reporting.
Data Modeling
Zurich Insurance
10.2015 - 12.2015
- Performed data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and data modeling for data warehouses
- Data Architect and platform manager, scalable and high performance.
Senior DBA and Project Lead (Oracle)
Commerzbank
02.2012 - 09.2015
- Database design, architecture, installation, configuration, upgrades, replication, cloning, backup/recovery, performance tuning and database security
- Oracle 11g warehouse builder and knowledge of ETL
- Developed scripts for database status, standby log apply; sync check, latency detection and RMAN refresh DB
- Perform deep impact analysis of problems, projects or technical solutions.
Senior Database Administrator
IBM
11.2007 - 12.2011
- Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL 3rd Level Shift Lead
- Creating and managing RAC and Data Guard Databases with using RAW or ASM storage, Performing Tuning using Explain Plan, TkProf, Stats pack, AWR, ADDM
- Performing installing, patching, up-gradation, migration
- Performance tuning - SGA, init parameters, slow database response, resize redo logs, ADDM and AWR reports
- Configure new builds into OEM 12c and configure/test monitoring alerts.
Junior Database Administrator
Trigma, TSC And Access InfoTech
11.2004 - 08.2007
- Support DB Server at BSNL Telecom
- Application And DB Patching, Database security, Backup & recovery procedure
- (Oracle 6-9i)
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
SS International University
Delhi 06.2004 - 06.2007
Skills
IT architecture and Governance
Operations Support
IT Procurement
IT Compliance
IT Budgeting
IT Infrastructure Management
Digital Transformation
Cost Optimization
Web Application
ITIL Framework
Multi-cloud Management
Disaster Recovery Planning
Organizational Skills
Continuous Improvement
Project planning
Virtualization, Terraform and API
CI/CD,Gitlab,Jenkins and Ansible
SAP ERP
Oracle Exadata
Dynamics 365
Sql/PLsql, Shell Scripting and C
Databases, Data modeling and warehouses
TSM and Commvault
Certification
OCP (Oracle Certified Professional)
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Czech
Elementary
A2
Punjabi
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Gl Lead Database,Middleware,Waf/LB & Public Cloud
Sandoz
05.2023 - Current
Database Service Delivery Manager (Freelancer)
Novartis
01.2016 - 04.2020
Data Modeling
Zurich Insurance
10.2015 - 12.2015
Senior DBA and Project Lead (Oracle)
Commerzbank
02.2012 - 09.2015
Senior Database Administrator
IBM
11.2007 - 12.2011
Junior Database Administrator
Trigma, TSC And Access InfoTech
11.2004 - 08.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
SS International University
06.2004 - 06.2007
Infrastructure Architect Lead
Siemens Mobility
5 2020 - 04.2023
OCP (Oracle Certified Professional)
OCE (Oracle Linux administrator)
MCITP/MCSP certified in Sql server 2008
PRINCE2 2017 Foundation and Practitioner Certified
ITIL Service operation/Design and AWS Cloud Training
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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