Chandra Shekhar Singh

About Chandra Shekhar Singh

With over 19 years of progressive experience in IT services, infrastructure architecture, and cloud-based solutions, I\'ve consistently delivered successful outcomes. My expertise spans cloud consulting, DevOps, infrastructure automation, and guiding enterprise clients in migrating applications and legacy systems to the cloud.My background includes proficiency in IT infrastructure design, standardizing server builds, implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring high availability, driving automation, consolidating resources, and executing storage migrations. I\'ve played a pivotal role in transforming data centers through virtualization.I\'m well-versed in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure services, and big data solutions. Currently, I\'m contributing my expertise as a Senior Cloud Architect/Consultant at TCS. Prior to that, I held roles as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect/Senior Manager at Cognizant, Tech Manager - Cloud Architect at Tech Mahindra, and Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Wipro. Throughout my career, I\'ve collaborated with global enterprise clients like Avaya, Google, Thomson Reuters, Telstra, Bank of America, MTN Africa, ANZ, and more.My passion for IT drives me to continually update my knowledge and skills in alignment with the latest industry trends.Specialties:Multi-Cloud Architecture (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack)Seamless migration of on-premises multi-tier applications to AWS, GCP, and AzureEstablishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with DevOps best practicesDesigning and deploying scalable, high-availability, fault-tolerant applications in the cloudServer provisioning, upgrades, infrastructure automation, and feature deployment using Puppet and AnsibleProficiency in disaster recovery, data center consolidation, and storage migrationMentorship, team leadership, and managing cross-functional teams in diverse environmentsTechnical Skills:AWS Services: EC2, S3, VPC, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, SQS, Route53, ELB, IAM, CDN, and CloudWatchGoogle Cloud: Compute Engine, GKS, IAM, Resource Monitoring StackdriverAzure Services: VMs, SQL DB, Storage, and ARMInfrastructure as Code and DevOps tools: AWS CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Git, and JenkinsCertifications:Cloud Architect (AWS 5X, GCP-5X, AZURE-5X, EMCCA, TOGAF, ACE)EMCISA, Big Data, NCDA, VCA, ITIL, SCNA, VCS, SCSA, VSF, MCSE, and CCNA

Experience

1. Sr Multicloud Architect Consultant at Tcs

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Mar 2022 — Present · IN

   Telefonica: As a Technical Architect - Consultant at TCS, my focus centers on Telefonica\'s Multi Cloud (AWS, GCP, and Azure) Landing Zone. My responsibilities encompass establishing Test and Prod Environments on Telefonica\'s Telco Cloud Platform, developing AWS Landing Zone capabilities, and conducting infrastructure assessments for Telefonica\'s migration to Google Cloud Platform. Actively contributing to IaC module development for AWS (using CloudFormation), Azure, and GCP (leveraging the Google Cloud Foundation Toolkit), I lead the planning, design, and deployment of code through Gitlab CI/CD pipelines and Terraform across the multi-cloud platform. Throughout the project lifecycle, I provide technical leadership and support, collaborating closely with the Telefonica Cloud COE team to architect and implement a multi-cloud platform based on GCP, AWS, and Azure. Additionally, I am instrumental in creating new accounts, onboarding IAM Users, defining roles/permissions, and offering operations support for the Telco landing zone.As a Cloud Architect (Kingfisher Plc, UK, Retail, Automation and Cloud Build )- Consultant, I help TCS\'s customer with current infrastructure assessment, design, and architect target infrastructure, develop a migration plan and technical lead to manage and deliver successful implementations and migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)• Develop of IaC modules for GCP leveraging Google Cloud Foundation Toolkit (CFT), Landing zone design in Google Cloud• Plan Design and Deploy the code through Gitlab CI/CD pipelines and terraform from dev to prod in GCP • Provides technical leadership to project team to perform design to deployment related activities, provides guidance, perform reviews, prevent and resolve technical issues.

Education

• Great Lakes Institute of Management

  Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, https://www.mygreatlearning.com/eportfolio/chandra-shekhar-singh2

  2024 — 2025

• Center for Electronics Design and Technology of India (CEDTI), is now known as CDAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing).

  Advanced Diploma Hardware Electronics and System Design, IT Infrastructure Designing and architecting Enterprise IT Solutions in Server and Storage

  1997 — 1998

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Awarded the Certificate of Merit (CoM), Hands-on AI for real-world Applications Program, Hands-on Approach to AI for Real-World Applications by AI4ICPS IIT Kharagpur & TCS iON.

• Caltech

  Post Graduate In Cloud Computing , Multi-Cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP), California Institute of Technology - (Caltech CTME)

• Indian Institute of Management Nagpur

  Post Graduate In Blockchain Technology

  2022 — 2023

• Swiss School of Business and Management

  Global Master of Business Administration (Global MBA) , Geneva, Switzerland

• Jawahar Lal Nehru Polytechnic

  Three Years Diploma in Electronics Engineering

  1994 — 1997

• Alliance School of Business, Alliance University , Bangalore

  Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management with specialization in Information Systems Management

  2017 — 2019

• Big Data University

  •Certified Big Data Fundamentals (IBM's recognized Explorer Badge) from Big Data University, Big Data Fundamentals

  2015

Skills

• Management
• Data Center
• IT Architecture Delivery
• Cloud Computing
• Team Management
• Vendor Management
• Virtualization
• Unix
• Vmware
• Project Management
• Sdlc
• Benefits Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition
• Solution Architecture
• Recruiting
• Storage
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Servers
• Crm
• Itil
• Executive Search
• Linux
• Disaster Recovery