Nirbhay S.

Director of Engineering

Delhi, India16 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in IT Infrastructure and Operations
Expert in strategic planning and solution architecture
Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Leader with extensive experience in cloud and on-prem solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

It Infrastructure OperationsProject DeliveryData Center OperationsNetwork Security ImplementationServer Administration

Other Skills

Data Center InfrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data Center VirtualizationDatabase AdministrationWeb Application FirewallsHyper-VBackup & Recovery SystemsVirtual Private Network (VPN)Incident ManagementInformation TechnologySecurityInfrastructureWindows ServerActive DirectoryVendor Management

About

I’m a process-driven technology leader with over 17 years of experience in IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Engineering. I specialize in strategic planning, solution architecture, and execution of enterprise-scale projects, including complex migrations, performance optimization, and security hardening. I have a proven track record in leading cross-functional teams, optimizing resources, and aligning engineering efforts with business goals. I focus on building high-performance teams, driving operational excellence, and delivering scalable and secure technology solutions. • Led On-premise, Microsoft Azure and AWS implementation, integration, and migration . • Built and managed cutting edge-solutions, infrastructure for national, and international clients and companies. • Experience in Designing and Implementing Hybrid infrastructure to support business continuity also participated in a large scale deployment, Business continuity, and Disaster Recovery planning • Earned several awards/rewards for effectively handling complex projects in both direct employment and consultative roles. • PMP, ITIL, MCSE, MCTS, CCNA, AWS, Azure awarded certified professional. • Ability to learn independently and come up to speed on new technologies and applications without formal training or instruction.

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Paytm

2 roles

Director - Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

Leading national-scale payment infrastructure operations supporting 24x7x365 transaction systems across HP Pay and DTPlus. Responsible for ensuring uptime, platform security, regulatory compliance, and modernization across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.

Data Center OperationsData Center InfrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Network Security ImplementationData Center VirtualizationDatabase Administration+36

Sr. Manager - TechOps

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · On-site

A core strength of mine is bridging infrastructure, security, and application engineering to create scalable, secure, and cost-optimized platforms. I work closely with DevOps, SRE, product, and security teams to deliver reliable systems, predictable deployments, and compliance-ready architectures that meet stringent financial and regulatory expectations.

Data Center InfrastructureData Center VirtualizationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Network Security ImplementationDatabase AdministrationWeb Application Firewalls+4

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Manager IT Operations

Dec 2017 – Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos · India

Direct IT projects and technical activities across multiple project sites - in support of
the multi-million-dollar Online payment process (Petro Project), Identifying gaps, handling
implementations and day to day administration and operations, and resolve business needs
to achieve organizational goals.
Manage strategic planning to optimize resources, improve throughputs, and enhance system performance parameters.
Direct IT projects and technical activities across multiple project sites to maintain and exceed SLA for production systems and services availability, and performances.
Appropriately assess costs, risks, time constraints and backup solutions. Communicate effectively both to your teams and upper management.
Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure, AWS Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
Created and maintained a budget tracking system to assist with tracking available funds for
all IT-related expenditures.
Recommending governance and ethics principles, developing information systems strategies, identifying enterprise and global system applications, applying knowledge of telecommunications, IoT, networks and databases into daily tasks
As well as solving technological problems and performing maintenance, Information Technology Managers are also responsible for planning and implementing projects to further develop an organization’s information technology network and security.
Develop consistent operational reporting against standards and establish Service Level Agreement (SLA) management approach Manages third-party vendors that provide IT Service Desk and network, infrastructure and Global Data Centers.