Kishore Buddharaju
IT Operations and Engineering Executive with 20 years in Infrastructure, Security , End user compute and Employee Experience Operations and management roles.
- Role
- Sr Director - Infrastructure and Identity Operations at Electronic Arts (EA)
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kishore Buddharaju
What I do Today• As a CIO team executive, I lead IT Operations (ITO) team to transform the Operations function to create secure, agile, and reliable IT infrastructure and applications that power the EA’s mission of inspiring the world to play!• Deploy the next-generation ITO operating model and technologies to reduce operational costs while increasing execution speed.• Lead ITO squads (size > 100+) of infra, security, and EE application engineers in compute, network, storage, database, active directory, collaboration, service desk, mission control center, SRE engineering domains • Manage 30M+ annual spending.• Plan and execute the Operation transformation initiatives, develop operation playbook, and direct operation readiness work for new tech product introductions.• Build and run an Automation Center of Excellence• Manage partners that support EA IT Leadership Experiences• EA CIO leadership team member• EA Security Blue Team member• EA IT Proteus leader focused on driving the Future-of-Work model• Tech Mahindra NA regional delivery leader• CSI Member - South India regionDomains of Practice• Create executive-aligned Operations roadmaps and budgeting• Improve velocity and reliability by deploying SRE and DevOps.• Continue to optimize operations operating model for speed of execution.• Drive Infra & App transformation initiatives and process change governance across EA• Design CIO metrics dashboards and drive a closed-loop from insights to action.• Recognized for influential people management and team-building practices.
Experience
Sr Director - Infrastructure and Identity Operations
Jun 2023 — Present · US
Education
Vizianagaram
SSC, Mathematics and Science
1980 — 1990
Karnataka Technical University
Associate’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering
1990 — 1994
Skills
- Pmp
- Vendor Management
- Project Delivery
- IT Service Management
- Pre-Sales
- Program Management
- Management
- Resource Management
- Software Project Management
- Itil
- Project Governance
- Service Delivery
- Global Delivery
- Transition Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Sdlc
- Solution Architecture
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