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Rajesh Lakshmanan, Solutions Architect

Rajesh Lakshmanan

Solutions Architect·British Telecom

India

Bachelor's degree, Information Science and Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 18 years, 7 months

Solutions Architect

September 2016 - Present

British Telecom

India

September 2016 - Present

• Delivering High Level Design, Low Level Design and Blueprint Designs for IAAS Solutions.
• Solutioning designing and implementation of AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud services.
• RFP, RFQ, RFI Responses.
• Designing Enterprise Cloud Solutions for BT Cloud using Cloud Automation Mosaic Tool.
• Providing end to end design and implementation of Active Directory, DNS, DFS, DHCP, PKI and WSUS solutions to customers.
• Perform Active Directory migration from 2008/2012 to 2016 environments
• Complete management of Sow (Statement of Works) for the Presales’ engagement on BID/Proposal/BOM/POC for end customers.
• Creating execution roadmaps for IT support, purchases and budget controls to reduce overall operational costs of resources, infrastructure and applications as well as create an alignment between business and technology plans.
• Ensuring that IT systems, applications, and communication equipment within the organization are managed and maintained in accordance with documented processes, procedures, guidelines, and instructions.
• Implementation and support of Vmware infrastructure.
• Mapping the requirements and providing customers the best solutions involving evaluation and definition of scope of project and finalization of program / project requirements.
• Managing design & implementation of problems and conflicts; suggesting improvement in the operations and processes to make the system foolproof.
• Interfacing with clients for educating them of new products & features; delivering Presentation and Webinar to clients on various topics related to BT products and designs.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Information Technology

Technical Lead

July 2012 - September 2016

Societe Generale Global Solutions Center

India

July 2012 - September 2016

Responsible to design and implement IT infrastructure needed to deliver IT Services in the Compute area.
•Accountable to provide Level 2 Support for IT teams across the Globe for Societe Generale
•Provide IT Service Support through Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Level 2 Remote Support, Hot Fix/Patch Deployment etc
•Handling technical support for over 6, 000+ Windows servers and for application running on Windows Platforms including Vmware support.
•Maintain and evolve the components based on Windows (VMware, SCCM, HPSA, WSUS and servers).
•Supports VMware ESX environment servers on various activities like Install/Upgrade of VM and its hardware tools, P2V, etc
•Maintain, Manage, and Support Microsoft Windows Failover clusters
•Conduct RCA’s of server crash, BSOD and server hangs etc., using various Problem Management techniques
•Administer remote Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Server systems.
•Advise IT business teams about technical topics and standards to respect, Install, deliver and maintain IT platforms needed to host business and infrastructure applications
•Propose and release upgrades on technical platforms (firmware, patch, release changes, architecture evolutions…)
•Write installation and operation documentation delivered by project team
•Implement changes and new releases on production environments

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Information Technology

Technical Lead

November 2007 - June 2012

Societe Generale Global Solution Center Pvt. Ltd

Bengaluru, India

November 2007 - June 2012

Travelled to France thrice, acquired knowledge of multiple project from Paris Counter parts, provided the knowledge transfer to the whole team and played a major role in starting the Retail Banking project in Bangalore
•Provide Technical direction to N1 and N2 Teams.
•Main responsibility is to implement and support IT technical infrastructures that are needed to deliver IT Services on the Windows area.
•Accountable to provide Level 2 & 3 Support for IT teams across the Globe for Societe Generale
•Played an active role in the CTB (Change the Bank) drive by providing improvements at architectural level
•Perform DR’s (Disaster Recovery) Tests on a monthly basis between the different datacenters for Windows & VMware environment using SRM
•Provide IT Service Support through Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Level 2 Remote Support, Hot Fix/Patch Deployment etc
•Handling

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

VTU

July 2007

July 2007

Bachelor's degree, Information Science and Engineering

India

Skills

Cloud Computing
Expert
Cloud Computing
Expert
Server Virtualisation
Expert
Server Virtualisation
Expert
Microsoft Technologies
Expert
Microsoft Technologies
Expert
Windows Azure
Expert
Windows Azure
Expert
AWS
Expert
AWS
Expert
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Expert
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Expert
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Expert
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Expert
DOCUMENTATION
Expert
DOCUMENTATION
Expert
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Expert
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Expert
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000
Expert
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000
Expert
SERVERS
Expert
SERVERS
Expert
Powershell
Intermediate
Powershell
Intermediate
UPGRADES
Intermediate
UPGRADES
Intermediate
WSUS
Expert
WSUS
Expert
DFS, DNS
Expert
DFS, DNS
Expert
Migration
Intermediate
Migration
Intermediate
AWS
Intermediate
AWS
Intermediate
Microsoft Azure
Intermediate
Microsoft Azure
Intermediate

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Malayalam
Intermediate
Kannada
Intermediate
Telugu
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
May 2020 - May 2023
AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
Dec 2020
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024

Hobbies

  • Indian Classical Music
    I play Indian Mirdangam instrument. Received Distinction in Junior Mridangam Exam. I also play Harmonium