AMIT AMAN
Senior Solutions Architect
Abu Dhabi
Summary
Experienced Senior Pre-Sales Consultant with over 8 years of experience in Cloud & Edge Computing, 5G and Digital Transformation. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Sr Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales
Enterprise Solutions, Alpha Data LLC
Abu Dhabi
03.2019 - Current
- Designed End to End Packet core network comprising of 5G, IoT, E2E Orchestration and Edge Computing
- Devised Digital transformation journeys for top customers focusing on leveraging Cloud Services ranging from Infrastructure, Modern Applications deployment and DevOps
- Attended internal meetings with Engineering, Product Management, and other teams to provide product information, presentations, demos, or other crucial feedback
- End to End migration of VNF/CNF from traditional telco cloud infrastructure to Hybrid Cloud
- Engaged at Operator C-Level during Opportunity and Pre-Sales Phase to align offerings and proposals with their network evolution strategy of customers
- Drive through-customer deployment and utilization of Azure & AWS services by supporting customers in pre-sales technical efforts, Proof of Concepts and reviewing designs/providing guidance in RFP/tender responses
- Cloud strategy and assessments related engagements
- M365 Onboarding & Migration projects
- Gained customer acceptance by demonstrating cost reductions and operations improvements
- Identified sales opportunities by assessing environment and devising and implementing winning strategy
- Saved 30% of project implementation cost by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service
- Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins
- Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions
- Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules
- Developed specifications, drawings and engineering artifacts and reports
- Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements
Senior Specialist
HCL Technologies
Bangalore
01.2018 - 02.2019
- Assisted in increased sales by 17% during tenure
- Define cloud architecture, design and implementation plans for hosting complex application workloads on MS Azure / AWS
- Participate in internal and customer meetings assisting with ongoing evolution of technology offerings
- Define cloud network architecture using Azure V-Net, VPN and express route to establish connectivity between on premise and cloud
- Requirement analysis to find feasibility to migrate On-prem apps into Azure / AWS Cloud in terms of Cost, Security and availability
- Define logical workflow and designed network diagram for Azure / AWS cloud
- Provide Migration plan and strategy for cloud, and strategy to migrate infrastructure and data from On-prem data center/VM to Azure Cloud
- Design highly scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, highly secured, distributed infrastructure
- Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions
- Hands-on experience on migrating Servers, DBs and storage
- Identified areas in need of critical improvement and implemented strategies to achieve targets
- Oversaw work of junior personnel, helping to motivate strong performance and improve overall knowledge with focus on mentoring and coaching
Cloud Solution Architect
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
04.2014 - 12.2017
- Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing
- Assisted leadership with ongoing development of policies and procedures for purpose of consistent product delivery
- Participate in internal and customer meetings assisting with ongoing evolution of technology offerings
- Provide technical guidance on building solutions using Azure PaaS and other services
- Requirement analysis to find feasibility to migrate On-prem apps into AWS / Azure Cloud in terms of Cost, Security and availability
- Provide Migration plan and strategy for cloud, and strategy to migrate infrastructure and data from On-prem data center/VM to AWS and Azure Cloud
- Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions
- Educate customers of all size on value proposition of managed services on Azure and AWS, participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in cloud
- Act as liaison between customers, sales, service engineering teams, and support
- Work on various pricing model including Dedicated (ODC) model, shared (GCC) model
- Conduct Onsite Due Diligence, Solution Workshops, SOWs and BAFO
- Managed more than 60 customer discussions and proposals during tenure
- Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions
- Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints
- Maintained compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes
- Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements
- Developed specifications, drawings and engineering artifacts and reports
- Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions
- Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
Education
B.TECH - Mechanical Engineering
Graphic Era University
Dehradun, Uttarakhand 07.2009 - 08.2013
S.S.C -
Jesus & Mary Academy
Darbhanga, Bihar 03.2007 - 03.2009
H.S.C -
St. Joseph's Sr. Secondary School
Samastipur, Bihar 03.2005 - 03.2007
Skills
Scripting Language: PowerShell, Python
Certification
AWS Associate Cloud Solution Architect
Accomplishments
- Design and implementation of End to End Packet core network comprising of 5G, IoT, E2E
- Orchestration and Edge Computing for Enterprise customers along with the major telco provider of the region
- Migration of VNF/CNF from traditional on-premise telco cloud infrastructure to hybrid cloud for a major Telco provider in the region
- HPC requirement for 55,000 cores for hosting Oil & Gas simulation software’s for one of the largest Oil & Gas Customer of the region
- API Management platform to publish all internal & external APIs along with the integration with Marketplace and monetization for one of the largest Telecom company of the region
- Deployment of Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to migrate ~4800 On-Premise servers to Azure Cloud
- Slashed project delivery costs 30% by negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services.
Timeline
Deploy 5G Services with Azure for Enterprise
02-2022
Business Considerations for Edge Computing
01-2022
AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical & Business)
01-2022
Microsoft Azure IoT Developer
07-2021
Azure Security Engineer Associate
07-2020
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
10-2019
Sr Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales
Enterprise Solutions, Alpha Data LLC
03.2019 - Current
Senior Specialist
HCL Technologies
01.2018 - 02.2019
AWS Associate Cloud Solution Architect
09-2016
Cloud Solution Architect
Wipro Technologies
04.2014 - 12.2017
B.TECH - Mechanical Engineering
Graphic Era University
07.2009 - 08.2013
S.S.C -
Jesus & Mary Academy
03.2007 - 03.2009
H.S.C -
St. Joseph's Sr. Secondary School
03.2005 - 03.2007
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