Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline

Doki Sankar

Dubai

Summary

With more than 15 years of experience managing service delivery for IT and cloud infrastructure, is an authority on application support, establishes a team of motivated workers, works on difficult assignments, , and helps the team reach goals. Knowledge in multiple cyber areas as well as in a variety of IT domains (including banking, Insurance, Telecom and Retail ).

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification

Work History

Head of Infrastructure and Security

Switz Group (FMCG)
Dubai, UAE
2023.10 - Current
  • Manage the staff and equipment that handles Network Switch, Access Points and in some cases perimeter devices like firewall and end point services
  • Responsible for establishing strong partnerships with those vendors to set clear expectations
  • Managing cloud infrastructure for Data Analytics and AI Platforms across various international locations
  • Overseeing internal audits of core infrastructure, ERP services, and systems, as well as managing ERP cloud services and e-business applications
  • Analyzing enterprise business strategies to identify necessary changes in infrastructure architecture to meet ongoing service demands
  • Management and implementation of infrastructure and security measures within the organization
  • Responsibility of leading infrastructure and security initiatives, ensuring the robustness and integrity of the organization's IT systems and data
  • Experts in cloud computing technology, infrastructure, and security
  • Ensure that all the company's cloud systems are running efficiently and effectively in accordance with company policies and requirements.
  • Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.

Cloud and IT Manager

Wipro LTD
Dubai, UAE
05.2017 - 09.2023
  • Managing Cloud Infra Structure for Data Analytics and AI Platform for 3 countries (UAE, India and Oman)
  • Responsibilities also include building centers of excellence offshore for the critical technologies and operations.
  • Apart from smooth delivery and day-to-day operations, responsible to achieve business and hiring targets
  • Handling of 32+ Resources for Application Support and Infrastructure (Cloud and OnPrem) support for and handling 76 applications and 7 different Technology
  • As a Banking client, responsibility for internal Audit of core Infra and Application
  • Gathering business requirements and implementing them in a Production environment
  • Implementing Base-line security for all Major banking applications
  • International Project Delivery and Middleware Infra design for country Egypt, USA and India
  • Responsibility for Open Risk and Mitigations
  • Ensure that all of the company's cloud systems are running efficiently and effectively in accordance with company policies and requirements
  • Managing all features and aspects of cloud-based systems and applications, including configuring, installing, migrating, setting up and monitoring.
  • Customized and repaired technology based on staff requests.
  • Facilitated seamless transitions during system upgrades or migrations by coordinating between stakeholders and mitigating potential disruptions to business operations.
  • Implemented robust backup strategies to safeguard critical data against loss or corruption, minimizing potential risks.

Technical Lead

Wipro LTD
09.2012 - 09.2016
  • Providing consultancy to the client at a time of launch or planning of new application
  • To understand business requirements, And implement on Production environment
  • Responsible for tuning different application parameters to achieve accepted performance level of the application
  • Responsible for timely delivery of overall middleware segment.
  • Handling of 13 Resource for Application Infrastructure and handling multiple technology in Sun LDAP, Web-Sphere XD and Portal for 33 applications
  • Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
  • Designed support structure needed to confirm scalable application rollouts.
  • Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
  • Supervised architecture, design and implementation of company-wide platforms and applications.
  • Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.

Manager and Application Lead

HTC Global Services
10.2011 - 09.2012
  • Responsible Application Infrastructure set-up for taking care of 11 applications using different middleware technologies such as Web-Sphere Portal and Application server, IBM Lotus Quicker, along with SSO environment consisting of IBM Tivoli Directory Server for having more than 1000 users
  • To understand business requirements, coordinate development & testing and responsible to create/support different environment
  • Providing consultancy to the client at a time of launch or planning of new application
  • Responsible for tuning different application parameters to achieve accepted performance level of the application
  • Responsible for timely delivery of overall middleware segment
  • Resource planning and Staff management.

Systems Operations Specialist

IBM India
05.2011 - 08.2011
  • To understand business requirements, and implement on Production environment
  • Providing consultancy to the client at a time of launch or planning of new application
  • Responsible for tuning different application parameters to achieve accepted performance level of the application
  • Responsible for timely delivery of overall middleware segment
  • Resource planning and Staff management.

Technical Lead

Wipro InfoTech Ltd
08.2006 - 04.2011
  • Responsible for taking care of 13+ applications using different middleware technologies such as Web-Sphere Portal and Application server etc
  • Along with SSO environment consisting of Site-Minder Policy Server, Sun and IBM Tivoli Directory server having more than 50k user database
  • Database Migration for Portal application server
  • Implementation of High-availability Web environment along Cluster setup
  • Back-up and Recovery plan implementation for all production application.

Education

Masters in computer application (M.C.A) -

Biju Patnaik University of Technology Odisha, Orissa, India
01.2005

Bachelors in computer application (B.C.A) -

Berhampur University of Technology Odisha, Orissa, India
01.2002

Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha, Orissa, India
01.1999

Board Of Secondary Education, Odisha
01.1997

Skills

  • Virtualization
  • IT Procurement
  • Change Management
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Operating system management
  • IT Asset Management
  • Information Security
  • User Support

Certification

  • Azure Cloud Administrator
  • Azure Security Engineer (P)
  • AWS Cloud practitioner.
  • IBM WebSphere System Administrator
  • Application Management
  • Sun Identity & Access Management.
  • CompTIA Security+(P)
  • CompTIA Network+(P)

Timeline

Head of Infrastructure and Security - Switz Group (FMCG)
2023.10 - Current
Cloud and IT Manager - Wipro LTD
05.2017 - 09.2023
Technical Lead - Wipro LTD
09.2012 - 09.2016
Manager and Application Lead - HTC Global Services
10.2011 - 09.2012
Systems Operations Specialist - IBM India
05.2011 - 08.2011
Technical Lead - Wipro InfoTech Ltd
08.2006 - 04.2011
Biju Patnaik University of Technology Odisha - Masters in computer application (M.C.A),
Berhampur University of Technology Odisha - Bachelors in computer application (B.C.A),
Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha - ,
Board Of Secondary Education, Odisha - ,
Doki Sankar