Vinod Sikka

Bis 2023, Sr. Consultant, Avanade Deutschland GmbH - ein Joint Venture von Accenture & Microsoft
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Skills

Azure
AWS hyperscalers
Solution Design
Technical consultation
Product Management
Azure Cloud Infrastructure
Technical leadership
Agile tools Jira & Scrum & Kanban
IaC - Terraform
GIT version control tool
PowerShell
Active Directory services suite AD DS AD CS GPOs
Windows Networking service DNS & DHCP
VMware Infrastructure
SCCM
Windows Networking service DNS & DHCP
Azure governance security networks & monitoring
Microsoft 365
DevOps
IT systems
Leadership
Responsible

Timeline

Professional experience for Vinod Sikka

  • 2 years, Jan 2022 - Dec 2023

    Sr. Consultant

    Avanade Deutschland GmbH - ein Joint Venture von Accenture & Microsoft

    Design end-to-end Cloud-native and hybrid Cloud architectures encompassing infrastructure, networking, data, security components, migration, and alignment with industry best practices and client requirements. Advise senior leadership on cloud infrastructure trends and emerging technologies, enabling informed decision-making, and driving innovation within the organization. Infra architect for on-prem file service migration to Azure.

  • 11 years and 11 months, Feb 2010 - Dec 2021

    Sr. Cloud Engineer

    McKinsey & Company

    Worked on developing, implementing, and operationalizing cloud solutions that are highly available and resilient by utilizing best practices in systems engineering, network engineering, and multi- region design strategies. Worked as lead Cloud Architect in overall security posture designing and deployment on Azure landscape including central logging, monitoring through custom policies, Splunk integration, and defender for Cloud and Sentinel.

  • 3 years and 1 month, Feb 2007 - Feb 2010

    Associate Consultant

    HCL Technologies India

    • Virtual infra build including ESX servers, vCenter and their configuration. • Configuration of HA, DRS cluster, resource pool, and networking based on best practices. • Implementation of update manager, consolidation, and taking care of patches implementation of ESX/VCMS. I did the P2V project as well. • Configuration of access permission, alerts and monitoring on VCMS.

  • 1 year and 2 months, Jan 2006 - Feb 2007

    Sr. Engineer Server Administrator

    Wipro Infotech

    • Managed the Windows 2003 domain controller. Responsible for Active Directory management tasks • Managed Exchange Server 2003, internally and externally inbound and outbound mail flow. Responsible for making the routing groups, their connectors, and SMTP connectors. Managing the recipient policies as per business needs. Blocking the spam mail IDs in the Exchange server.

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

  • Hindi

    First language

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