Sukesh Kunjukrishna Pillai

About Sukesh Kunjukrishna Pillai

Sukesh Pillai is Senior Director at Oracle, responsible for engineering IT infrastructure operations, DevOps tools development, security and compliance operations, DC operations, IT budget and project management. Since the past 12 months Sukesh is leading the efforts to migrate on-premise datacenters to Oracle cloud infrastructure (OCI).Since joining Oracle in Sukesh has managed development, operations at different levels. His initiative on datacenter consolidation has resulted in reduction of datacenter footprint by 28%. He has collaborated with different business units to budget and adopt private clouds platforms like OpenStack, Hyper-V and migrated more than 30% of legacy instances resulting in efficient capacity utilization and reduced development cost.Sukesh has championed Agile based DevOps tools development to transform IT operations into “Infrastructure as Code” to reduce the operating cost. His initiatives on self-service” IT solutions to reduce incident lifecycle by eliminating wait time for resolution and empowering users to schedule downtimes for security patching and upgrades is a huge win among internal users.Defined security standards for source code management and consolidated repositories. worked with corporate security to define common practices, process for security incidents, vulnerabilities remediations to deliver highly secured development platform for Oracle.Sukesh has successfully developed and managed high performing large global organizations, and driving business transformations, innovation and improving IT capabilities. Sukesh is an effective leader and has successfully challenged his team to re-baseline the IT practices to enable Oracle to deliver products with reduced IT operating cost.Specialties: IT strategy, cloud IT operations, budget Capex & OpEx, IaaS, DevOps, technology adoption, innovation, project management, global leadership, security, compliance operations, BCMP and disaster recovery.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Cloud IT Engineering and Operations

   Oracle

   Jun 2014 — Present · Redwood shores, CA, US

   Driving a project to migrate on-Premise Oracle engineering IT Engineering and Enterprise infrastructure to Oracle Cloud (OCI). Leading compute operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, private cloud, technology adoption, datacenter management & consolidation, compliance and Vulnerability management operations and budget.

Education

• All India Management Association

  PGDITM ( MBA), Information Technology Management

  2000 — 2003

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  EGMP - IT, Executive General Management

  2007 — 2008

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

  Accelarate Executive Insight, Organizational Leadership

  2019 — 2019

• Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

  PGDCA, Computer Applications

  1991 — 1992

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  B.Sc, Physics

  1988 — 1991

Skills

• Oracle Database Adminsitation
• Pl/Sql
• Unix Shell Scripting
• High Availability
• IT Infrastructure Management
• Databases
• Perl Script
• Software Development
• Xml
• Automation
• Oracle Sql Developer
• Weblogic
• Netapp Storage Administration
• Oracle Applications Dba
• Sun Storage Administration
• Management
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• Application Architecture
• Linux System Administration
• Project Management
• IT Project & Program Management
• Unix
• Oracle Applications
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Data Center
• Unix Operating Systems
• Testing