Sk Firoj Ali

About Sk Firoj Ali

A Technology enthusiast with 15+ years of professional experience with a career track and an outstanding record of accomplishment for providing value-add to the business at every opportunity. Updating my knowledge and skills in accordance with the latest IT trends.• Good understanding of private, public and hybrid cloud architectural models.• Proficiency in Cloud technology stack (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Open stack ).• Experience in P2V & V2V conversion of Linux servers (SAN & Local disk servers).• Experience in re-platform of existing Solaris & AIX environment to Linux environment.• Expertise in transformation of the traditional data centre to virtualized data centre.• Working knowledge of processes and procedures (ITIL and DevOps).• Experience in establishing best practices and guidelines for selecting of IT Infrastructure. • Experienced UNIX Infrastructure Support and Project Lead with a proven track record in large-scale enterprise project management and global production support.• Environmental oversight and root cause analysis for stability, reliability and capacity related bottlenecks.• Experience in Delivering improvements, service excellence in a cost-effective way that deliver greater value to the customer.Specialties-Operating Systems- Unix, Oracle Solaris, Linux (Red hat, CentOS, Suse and Ubuntu) & AIX.Storage management- VERITAS Storage Foundation, Solaris Volume Manager and Linux Volume Manager.High Availability- VERITAS Cluster Server (SFHA, SFCFS, SFRAC), Oracle Sun Cluster.HA/Disaster recovery- VERITAS Global Cluster Operations, VERITAS Volume Replicator, and EMC SRDF.Cluster Technologies- Oracle RAC Cluster, Veritas Cluster, Oracle Cluster (Sun Cluster)Virtualization- Oracle Solaris Container & LDOM, Red Hat KVM, Linux Container, VMWARE.Configuration Management Tools-Puppet, Ansible & Chef.Continuous Integration Tool- JenkinsVersion Control Tool- GitSystem Monitoring Tool- Nagios

Experience

1. Cloud Infrastructure Architect

   Cognizant

   Nov 2021 — Present · Kolkata, IN

   GCP Infrastructure end lead the migration of enterprise workloads from Teradata/SAS to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as part of IHG’s analytics transformation. Collaborated with IT, development, and business teams to architect and provision GCP infrastructure aligned with project requirements and cloud best practices.• Delivered hands-on implementation across key GCP services including IAM, VPC, VPC-SC GCE, GKE, App Engine, Cloud run, Big Query, Dataflow, Data Fusion, Filestore, Pub Sub and AI tools.• Ensured cost optimization and compliance through FinOps and cloud security governance.• Managed deployment and integration of Data Fusion and Dataproc clusters.• Troubleshot daily pipeline issues and coordinated with Google engineering for product fixes.• Enabled secure data access for business users via Cloud Functions and Big Query views.• Supported multiple POCs including Vertex AI, Gen AI, and Duet AI.• Worked on Composer Environment setting up and migration workload from CAWA to composer.• Worked on VPC-SC control design and implementation & ongoing support.Working on Data fusion pipeline design, deployment and handle the L3 escalated issue for troubleshooting, RCA and provide the parament fix for the issue.

Education

• Gurukul Vidyapeeth Institute of Management and Engineering

  Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering , Electronics and Communication Engineering

  2010 — 2013

• LinuxAcademy

  Cloud Technology

  2016

• Calcutta University, Kolkata

  B Sc (Math, Phy & Chem)

  1997 — 1999

• RAMAKRISHNA MISSION SHILPAPITHA

  Three Years Diploma in Electrical Engineering , Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Xml
• Team Management
• Data Center
• Storage Area Networks
• Aix
• Hybrid Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Storage
• Network Security
• Unix
• Disaster Recovery
• Troubleshooting
• Cloudstack Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Zerto
• Shell Scripting
• Cluster
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Nagios
• Computer Hardware
• Google Cloud Platform
• Saas
• San
• Sql
• Linux
• Big Data Analytics
• Virtualization
• IT Strategy
• Cloudstack
• Pre-Sales
• Puppet
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Tsp
• Infrastructure
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Servers
• Itil
• Vmware