Vinod Sikka

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. Development, planning, and implementation of infrastructure projects in Cloud & on-prem.

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. Worked on IAM governance, policies, and access review.

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 Was responsible for AD infra management, group policies, and delegation of access to AD in a multi-forest environment.

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.