Ravi Kumar A.

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Pune, Maharashtra, India13 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

14+ years in Azure Cloud architecture
Expert in HPC & AI Infrastructure
Proven track record in cloud modernization

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect specializing in Azure solutions for BFSI and regulated industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud MigrationTechnical Architecture

Other Skills

Disaster RecoveryAzure VMWare SolutionMicrosoft Azureazure securityHPCBig DataHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Azure EntraArtificial Intelligence (AI)azure aiMicrosoft DefenderAzure SentinelHigh AvailabilitySANData Migration

About

Senior Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Architect with 14+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud platforms, Data Center modernization, and mission-critical workload migrations across BFSI, government, telecom, and regulated industries. Strong expertise in Azure infrastructure architecture, landing zones, identity and security, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and enterprise-scale governance. Actively specializing in HPC & AI Infrastructure Architecture, with hands-on exposure to Azure HPC services, GPU-based compute, high-performance networking, and AI-ready platforms. Adept at designing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient architectures for compute-intensive and data-driven workloads.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Cloud4c services

2 roles

Azure Architect

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Technical Architect Cloud

Nov 2020 – Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Lead solution design, Assessment, migration planning, and cloud modernization projects for BFSI, government, and enterprise clients across India and Southeast Asia.
Designed and implemented Landing Zones, Azure VMware Solution (AVS) migrations, DR architecture (SAP and non-SAP), and Entra ID-based identity models.
Automated deployments using Terraform and GitHub, performed risk/gap analysis, delivered pre-sales support and project documentation.
Assessment for Cost Optimization and building practices, documents, SOPs.
Mentored internal teams on Microsoft specializations and performed technical audits.
Provide technical architecture inputs for pre-sales engagements, including RFP responses, solution design reviews, estimations, and customer technical discussions, while remaining the technical owner of delivered architectures.

Cloud MigrationDisaster RecoveryTechnical ArchitectureAzure VMWare SolutionMicrosoft Azureazure security

Yash technologies

Senior Consultant (Azure Cloud SME)

Jul 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

o Working as Senior Consultant for Cloud Services (Cloud SME).
o Working with multiple clients to understand the requirements.
o Work with Cloud Architect and implement solutions.
o Implement, Administration, Support for IaaS services on Azure cloud for different requirements.
o Migrations of on-premises VMware and Hyper-V workloads to Azure Cloud.
o Provide Managed Services Support.
o Automation of cloud delivery.
o Identifying scope for cost optimization.
o Identifying key areas for performance optimization and scope for improvements in current infrastructure.

Insync healthcare solutions

Cloud Specialist

Aug 2018 – May 2019 · 9 mos · Vadodara, Gujarat, India

o Build IaaS infrastructure on Azure
o Setup and Configure Azure components
o Migration workloads on-prem to Azure
o On-prem Infrastructure Management
o Building Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Proxmox, Ceph Storage, Windows 2016 S2D.
o Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster environment deployment, management and troubleshooting.
o Setup SCVMM Managed Infrastructure.
o Administration of Multiple Web, DB, Hyper-V, ESXi, vCenter Servers.
o Tech Support and Troubleshooting.

Collabera inc.

Lead IT Infrastructure Cloud Servers & Storage

Aug 2017 – May 2018 · 9 mos · Vadodara Area, India

o Deployed IaaS Infrastructure in Azure Cloud.
o Manage Azure Active Directory.
o Create clustered environment on cloud for IIS applications.
o Configure and manage DR of on premises Hyper-V servers with Azure Site Recovery to replicate VMs on cloud.
o Liason: Communicate and coordinate with OEM Vendors for various POCs and requirements.
o Implementation of S2D Hyper Converged Infra.
o Disaster Recovery: DR setup for Virtual Environment and Internal Applications along with Azure BCDR services.

Znet technologies private limited

2 roles

Sr. System Admin (Infrastructure Azure Cloud)

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

Planning, design, Implement and architect IaaS Azure Pack Infrastructure.
Planning, design and deploy Hybrid cloud with Azure public.
On demand POCs for R&D on various MS products and scenarios for revenue generation purpose.
Documentations of POCs, products, deployments, technical policies, process.
Training to Tech, Sales, CRM teams to get aware about products.
Handling Office 365 project as CSP partner and coordinate with Microsoft for various things.
Provide technical support for organization's other products.
Planning, implementing for improvements in current DC infrastructure.
Co-ordinations with DC and other teams for various tasks.
Design Hosting environment and deploy Web Servers, Application Servers, DNS, AD, DHCP, Database Servers, HyperV Server.
Clustering SAN, Dell Storage Enclosures and application role for SOFS, HyperV Servers.

Sr. Windows Administrator- L3

Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 · 11 mos

Technical Responsibilities:
o Server Administration (Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, management, Migrations):: Windows 2003/2008/2012/Web Server/DNS/Mail Server/MySQL/MSSQL
o Managing Data Center in India and Co-ordinate with DC team in US.
o Virtualization:: Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Virtual Network Settings (Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi Server)
o Cloud Infrastructure Plan, manage and implement: Azure, MS Private Cloud, Office365.
o Windows Updates and Patch Management, Backup & Restore, Monitoring for suspicious activities like failed login attempts, DDOS, mail server spoofing, mass mailing, server resource consumption, bandwidth monitoring etc.
o Securing/optimizing Servers.
o Managing Storage: RAID, SAN, NAS.
o Troubleshooting Protocols related issue: SMTP,HTTP,FTP,IMAP,POP
o Scripting- Power-Shell, Batch, VBScripts.
o Handling Client’s day to day technical queries via chat, phone, and support ticket CMS like Kayako, WHMCS and provide L-3 support.
Managerial responsibilities:
o Manage Tech Team and TAT Time for support
o Plan new Tech policies, prepare documents and get implement them.
o Plan new strategies to handle, manage the errors, find the problematic server, root cause analysis of issues and implement the best solution.
o Plan for improvements in current IT infra, process and IT policies. Prepare complete documents.
o Prepare & provide required reports to senior manager.
o Plan, prepare documents for tech team training.

Pugmarks

Sr. System Engineer

Dec 2013 – Oct 2014 · 10 mos · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

o Server Administration:: Windows 2003/2008/2012
o Plan High Availability Infrastructure
o Manage Tech Team and TAT Time for support
o Plan new Tech policies and implement them.
o Managing Data Center in India and Co-ordinate with DC team in US.
o Server Management, Migrations and Troubleshooting:: IIS/DNS/Smarter Mail Server/MySQL & MS SQL Servers (2000/2005/2008)
o Virtualization:: Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Virtual Network Settings (Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi Server)
o Cloud Infrastructure Plan, manage and implement: Azure, MS Private Cloud.
o Windows Updates and Patch Management.
o Backup & Restore
o Server UP Time Tracking, monitoring against attacks like DDOS etc.
o Securing and Managing Mail Server against spmas, spoof etc.
o Securing/optimizing Servers.
o Managing Storage: RAID, SAN, NAS.
o Troubleshooting Protocols related issue: SMTP,HTTP,FTP,IMAP,POP
o Scripting- Batch, VBScripts.
o Handling Client’s day to day technical queries via chat, phone, and support ticket CMS like Kayako, WHMCS and provide L-3 support.
o Installation, configuration, upto date of antivirus (Macafee, Symantec- End Point Solutions).

Znet technologies private limited

Server Administrator- Server Security, Backup and Management

Mar 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Jaipur

o Handling and managing around 800+ Dedicated/VPS/Shared Serves.
o Server Administration:: Windows 2003/2008/2012- Handling, Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting.
o Managing Servers though KVM VoIP for console accesses.
o Co-ordinate with Data Center Team.
o Server Management and Migrations:: IIS/DNS/Smarter Mail Server/MySQL & MS SQL Servers (2000/2005/2008)
o Microsoft Hyper-V Management- Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Virtual Network Settings.
o Vmware ESXi Server- Managing ESXi Server through vSphere.
o Analyzing system logs for application & server break down, security logs for DDOS attacks, failed login attempts on SQL Server and Windows Login.
o Windows Updates and Patch Management.
o Backup & Restore- Microsoft Hyper-V’s VM’s Live Backup, Web Data (Website), Database Data, Server and Application Configurations Backup- Server Logs Backup, IIS Backup, DNS Backup, Server Registry Backup, FTP Backup, Smarter Mail Server, MySQL/MSSQL etc. Taking Backup on Hourly, Daily, weekly & Monthly Basis.
o Keeping Servers Up, monitoring for any malicious activities like DDOS attacks, failed login attempts, Service down/hang/stop, Server Performance/Health checking for CPU, RAM, Bandwidth Utilization.
o Monitoring Mail Servers for Spam/Mass Mailing/Spoofed Mails, Tracking and blocking malicious activities on Mail Server.
o Keeping Server Security UP through Windows Firewall Rules and Policies Management, by blocking IPs, websites, users etc. Tracking IPs of system for hacked attempt done on server, closing open ports and Server Customization.
o Managing Storage: RAID, SAN, NAS.
o Troubleshooting Protocols related issue: SMTP,HTTP,FTP,IMAP,POP
o Writing and scheduling running scripts- Batch, VBScripts.
o Handling Client’s day to day technical queries via chat, phone, and support ticket CMS like Kayako, WHMCS, RackNap and provide L-3 support.
o Installation, configuration, upto date of antivirus (Macafee, Symantec- End Point Solutions).