Prabhat Pathak
IT Director - Infrastructure And Cyber Security
Dubai
Summary
19+ years of experience in IT with mix of consulting ,implementation, advisory, transformation strategy, security maturity etc. Experience of driving large scale Cyber Security Programs, Data Privacy program (GDPR) and DPO offices, GRC Programs , Security posture assessment Cloud adoptions and maturity journey. Experience of handling very complex programs and operations across ERP's of Oracle and SAP across domains of Retail , Logistics , FMCG , BFSI etc. Executive Board Management reporting, Strategy planning, budgeting , Large Team management, KPI design, SLA and Process reviews and control, Budgeting & Negotiations.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
IT Director - Infrastrcuture and Cyber Security
GMG
Dubai
08.2021 - Current
- Head of Technology and Cyber security for global operations across 11 countries with team of 50+
- Strategy and roadmap design for Cyber Security , maturity assessment and gap analysis.
- Governance Council and security board advisory as CISO and technology head.
- ISO 27001 framework design and implementation across 5 business verticals
- Data Privacy and GDPR principles setup, DPO office setups , cookies, consent, DSR modules implementation.
- Governance and risk assessment , mapping , mitigation plan , SOD design for SAP.
- Secure by design principles across modern workloads of dev-ops and traditional.
- Modern secure store and ecommerce store technology , Digital transformation , Cyber Security ,SAP , Salesforce , Data Lake and modern analytics
- Implemented Cyber Security program for security maturity and assessment including SIEM,SOC,PAM,DAM,DLP etc
- Threat Intel , Incident response , emergency and disaster response design and mock drills
- SAP ERP/EWM security architecture review and upgrade to secure platform and critical operations.
- Secure Data Lake setup of the platform and modern analytics platform on AWS and Azure
Head Enterprise Infra ,Security Ops,Applications,
IFFCO
Sharjah
09.2014 - 07.2021
- Responsible for enterprise infra and security operations across 15 countries and team of 40+
- Cloud security , WAF , Shield , VAPT , architecture design for modern infrastructure
- Group Enterprise infrastructure for Data Center , Cloud , SAP , Oracle , AWS , Azure , Factory Integrations across geographies
- Strategy and design of technology roadmap for enterprise including ERP , Middleware's , Cloud , Network
- Key stakeholder of IT Security Maturity assessment , roadmap design and implementation across group
- Lead SAP Audit ,Oracle Audit, SOD , GRC Framework design and implementation across group
- SAP GRC design across business for Access control modules
- External audit SPOC for all applications , Secure checklist ,quality control and release management
- Application security for Oracle and SAP on 3 tiers architecture spread across Data Center and Cloud
- Secure Code practice design and tool based enhancement
- SAP S/4 setup on AWS and global rollout with fully integrated and automated solutions
- Oracle ERP , SAP ERP upgrades , Migrations , B/4 Hana Upgrades , Migration
- Data Lake infrastructure and baseline setups on AWS with first few in the region
- KPI/SLA design and optimization , improvement to meet uptime and demand for global businesses distributed in GCC , Europe , Asia
Tech Lead
Rackspace
Gurgaon
03.2010 - 09.2014
- Responsible for handling 22+ US customers for ERP, Middleware , Transportation management , Database , Infrastructure , Clusters with very complex setup across industries and functions.
- Lead various Data center migration including HA and DR for customers spread across multiple Nodes and integrated with many third-party applications using SOA.
- Part of Global COE advisory services for multiple technologies.
- Designed and Setup multiple DR's and HA for various large and small customer and datacenters spread across US.
- Lead many Implementations and upgrades various oracle databases/applications from all possible versions to latest on various platforms and infrastructures including Linux. Solaris, AIX , Exadata , exalogic , HP-Unix .
Senior Consultant
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2007 - 02.2010
- Key member of Service engineering group of Oracle Corporation and Lead of new technologies and automation division of team.
- Responsible for handling new technology implementations for On Demand customers. Handled many complex projects including ERP , SSO/OID .
- Initiated many automation processes for patching, cloning L3 escalations and SME support for group.
- Automation of various oracle components, Design & POC of new technologies for customers across new releases of Oracle DB, Oracle ERP, Fusion middleware, OID/SSO etc.
- Automated RAC setup across 8 nodes from current supported 2 nodes. This gave massive benefit to customers where they can install cluster on multiple nodes
Tech Lead
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Mumbai
08.2004 - 08.2007
- Handled multiple BFSI global customers like Citi Bank, ABN AMRO , CLSA , HSBC , Merrill Lynch, ICICI , HDFC etc.
- Handled complete implementation and setup in Citi group, HDFC and ABN Amro group for eIBS . Worked on Veritas Cluster setup for ABN Amro Bank
- Designed and Developed program for automatic garbage data filter for Bloomberg seed data for Merrill Lynch data inflow unit . This helped processing delay and real-time analysis of data by engines.
- Designed & Developed NSE/BSE complex TCP/UDP network handling system for the product unix C on AIX platform with multithread, socket, pipes, queues, semaphores etc.
Education
GMP - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad 09.2021 - 03.2022
B.Tech. - Information Technology
R.C.C.I.I.T
Kolkata 07.2000 - 07.2004
Skills
Cybersecurity Programs - SIEM/SOC/DLP/DAP/PAM
Data Privacy and GDPR Programs
GRC Programs , SOD Setups
License Audit and Compliance management
Data Center operations and Cloud operations
ERP (Oracle/SAP) architecture and operations
Secure by design principles - Retail and ecommerce
Budget management and Supplier management
Timeline
GMP - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
09.2021 - 03.2022
IT Director - Infrastrcuture and Cyber Security
GMG
08.2021 - Current
Head Enterprise Infra ,Security Ops,Applications,
IFFCO
09.2014 - 07.2021
Tech Lead
Rackspace
03.2010 - 09.2014
Senior Consultant
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
07.2007 - 02.2010
Tech Lead
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
08.2004 - 08.2007
B.Tech. - Information Technology
R.C.C.I.I.T
07.2000 - 07.2004