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ABHILASH KURIAN

Dubai

Summary

Versatile Technology Evangelist, certified and specializing in Cloud Architecting, Cloud Security, DevOps, Service Reliability Engineering and Enterprise Infrastructure and skilled at planning, implementing, and overseeing key improvements to drive business growth and efficiency. Pursuing new professional challenges with a growth-oriented organization.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager - Cloud Center of Excellence

Nakheel PJSC
2023.05 - Current

Taking care of cloud transformation for the organization, who is one of the world's largest master developer.

  • Planning, Designing, Implementing Cloud architecture for the organization.
  • Assessing the existing On-Prem workloads and certifying for the migration to the cloud platform.
  • Modernizing the on-prem monolith applications and make them to cloud native.
  • Managing and Monitoring effective usage of budget allocation for cloud transformation and application modernization.
  • Rollout DevOps culture.
  • Migrate on-prem worlkloads to multicloud environment.
  • Hiring cloud platform and DevOps engineers.

Technology Evangelist - Cloud Platform Engineering

Mashreq Bank
2007.04 - 2023.04
  • Engage in designing and implementation of organizations Cloud journey to both public and private cloud, Cloud Infrastructure readiness, Cloud Security review and implementation.
  • Responsible for executing technology roadmap to meet the company's cloud strategy, roadmap and goals.
  • Responsible for leading Mashreq’s information management and cloud computing product architectures.
  • Independently manage DevOps organization, Projects and CICD operations
  • Leading the SRE operations adoption and implementation in the organization.
  • Preparing and making the Organization a Cloud Native Org.
  • Responsible for developing Technical Solution, Design, Approach and BOQ; prepare HLD, LLD required for the solution and migrate the on-prem applications to cloud using Rehost, Re-platform, Relocate, Re-purchase and Re-factor methods.
  • Works with executives and other business stake holders in Mashreq to formulate enterprise-wide business and/or information technology enabled product/services and/or solutions.
  • Supervise ongoing Cloud Implementation, including production, development and testing workload migration and update the status to senior executives.
  • Interact with various application and business streams and vendors and participate in solution clarification workshops and applies industry and enterprise knowledge to identify and recommend integrated solutions, products and services to support the enterprise's accomplishments of business goals.
  • Conducts research, perform analyses, recommend new technology solutions, standard processes, tools and techniques to develop a compelling solutions and response to customer business requirements.
  • Providing SaaS hosting and integration expertise across Mashreq’s Cloud vendors and Client platforms.
  • Implement and maintain the cloud observability platform.
  • Proactively identify and document solution assumptions, issues and risks that may impact a successful program/project completion with mitigation plan under minimal supervision.

Support Engineer

Microsoft India GTSC
2004.12 - 2007.03

Senior Engineer, Network Management

Wipro Infotec
2004.10 - 2004.12

IT Officer

The Energy and Resources Institute
2004.02 - 2004.10

Senior Server Engineer

PC Solutions Pvt. Ltd
2003.07 - 2004.01

Assistant System Administrator

Morepen Laboratories Pvt Ltd
2002.02 - 2003.06

Customer Support Engineer

Corona Systems and Services
2000.08 - 2001.12

Education

Post Graduate Program - Cloud Computing

Great Lake Institute
2021

B.Sc. - Electronics

Mahatma Gandhi University
2000

Skills

AWS, OCI, Microsoft Azure

Cloud native principals, designs and deployments

SRE Operations and Engineering

Cloud Security

DevOPs, DevSeOps

Hashicorp Vault

Infrastructure Automation (IaC)

Docker, Kubernetes

Terraform, Ansible

Azure DevOps, Jenkins

Cloud Migration

Azure AD

Cloud App Security

Azure Information Protection

Microsoft 365 , Zero Trust Network

Vendor Management, Evaluation and Selection
Integration patterns, tools, technology & trends
Azure Information Protection
VMware, Server Virtualization
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Citrix Xenmobile ,Microsoft Intune
Active Directory , Windows Servers
Microsoft Exchange Server,Microsoft System Center
Microsoft PKI Infrastructure
HP/IBM Servers
HP Storage, EMC Celerra VNX
Infoblox
Cisco ESA
Microsoft SQL Servers and Oracle
Infrastructure Architect, Solution Architect

Accomplishments

  • Submitted a private cloud based hosting solution for Mobile banking using Re-factoring method.
  • Initiated SRE adoption and implementation in the organization.
  • Assisted in migrating various monolith applications to cloud.
  • Ongoing Cloud Implementation and workload migration, Covering Prod/Test/Dev and Disaster Recovery Environment setup.
  • Rolled out M365 (Exchange online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for business, EMS Suite etc) via Exchange online Hybrid setup, made Mashreq as the first banking institution to adopt M365 and migrated 7000 mailboxes to exchange online.
  • Centralized Active Directory Domain Federation for various cloud applications.
  • Took care of Modern workplace adoption, implementation and operations of the organization.

Certification

AWS:

  • AWS Certified Solutions - Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Site Reliability Engineering

  • DevOps Institute Certified Site Reliability Engineering - Practitioner
  • DevOps Institute Certified Site Reliability Engineering Foundation

Azure:

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect - Expert
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer - Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft Identity Access Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator - Associate

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • OCI Certified Architect Professional
  • OCI Certified Architect Associate
  • OCI Foundations Certified Associate

Hashicorp

  • Hashicorp certified Vault Associate

FinOps

  • Certified FinOps practitioner

Messaging:

  • Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate
  • MCSE Messaging
  • MCITP Messaging
  • MCSA Messaging

Affiliations

Chapter Lead - CNCF Dubai chapter

Mentor -Providing mentorship to AWS Solutions Architect Aspirants

Meetup Events Organizer – Organizing and manage meetup events for Dubai DevOps , AWS UAE User Group and Azure Emirates meetup groups

Timeline

Senior Manager - Cloud Center of Excellence

Nakheel PJSC
2023.05 - Current

Technology Evangelist - Cloud Platform Engineering

Mashreq Bank
2007.04 - 2023.04

Support Engineer

Microsoft India GTSC
2004.12 - 2007.03

Senior Engineer, Network Management

Wipro Infotec
2004.10 - 2004.12

IT Officer

The Energy and Resources Institute
2004.02 - 2004.10

Senior Server Engineer

PC Solutions Pvt. Ltd
2003.07 - 2004.01

Assistant System Administrator

Morepen Laboratories Pvt Ltd
2002.02 - 2003.06

Customer Support Engineer

Corona Systems and Services
2000.08 - 2001.12

Post Graduate Program - Cloud Computing

Great Lake Institute

B.Sc. - Electronics

Mahatma Gandhi University

AWS:

  • AWS Certified Solutions - Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Site Reliability Engineering

  • DevOps Institute Certified Site Reliability Engineering - Practitioner
  • DevOps Institute Certified Site Reliability Engineering Foundation

Azure:

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect - Expert
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer - Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft Identity Access Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator - Associate

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • OCI Certified Architect Professional
  • OCI Certified Architect Associate
  • OCI Foundations Certified Associate

Hashicorp

  • Hashicorp certified Vault Associate

FinOps

  • Certified FinOps practitioner

Messaging:

  • Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate
  • MCSE Messaging
  • MCITP Messaging
  • MCSA Messaging
ABHILASH KURIAN