Rajanikanth K

Rajanikanth K has 23+ years of service in data center & cloud Infrastructure. Specializes in data center migrations & cloud migration projects & global operations. Has strong experience conducting workshops & current state architecture assessments at client sites, future state architecture, application profiling, detailed implementation planning to cutover support & troubleshooting infra problems during migration.

Has 13+ yrs exp. in customer facing consulting roles worldwide mainly migration projects. Another 10 yrs. exp in operations in administering data center infrastructure – compute, storage, networks, firewalls, monitoring, public cloud infra solutions. Recently in building infrastructure decision intelligence systems leveraging AI/ML for infrastructures use cases.

Worldwide technical lead for large scale DC transformation projects. In previous role was Infra Ops manager for team of 20+ at Telstra International. Responsible for initiating AIOps. Before that with Cisco Systems for Cloud Migrations, DC infra-Architecture, Cisco Tetration deployment at customer sites.

Has worked on large scale DC migration & consolidation, on-prem to cloud migrations and hybrid cloud projects for various clients in the US, Europe, and APAC. This includes discovery & assessment, application dependency mapping, migration strategy, detailed migration planning, move groups & runbooks development and execution both on-prem and to the cloud. Has exp. in DC pre-sales, RFP solution design.

Highly intensive work ethic at maximum efficiency levels. Early career worked as Unix/Solaris Administrator, Migration/upgrade projects. Extensive exp in production support of high-end Solaris/Unix servers, VERITAS Storage Foundation, EMC SAN Storage, UMTS RNC.

Systems, Storage & Network.

Principal IO Engineer - United Health Group – Optum - Bangalore

(2025-05)

Technical Advisory for Cloud Migrations as part of Merger &

• Acquisitions.

Cloud

Migrations &

• Data Center Migrations, GCVE, Architecture &

• Design of Hybrid Connectivity between on-prem & cloud, HA/DR, Data Migration, GCP Landing Zone, GCP to Azure via (Equinix) Partner interconnect &

• Express Route, Cloud Routing, Firewall rules validation among other migration tasks. Using tools like GitHub copilot, MS copilot, &

• LLM models for automation & faster insights. Experimental AI – The idea is leverage LLMs to automate certain phase of cloud migration. The tech stack includes Python libraries, ML &

• Generative AI LLMs and data from discovery phase such as inventory, network flows connections data, application data & data from internal tools – InfraRed, Tanium, armis centrix etc.

• Application Dependency Mapping (ADM) – Python NetworkX
• Cloud Migration Infra Design Patterns – Hybrid Connectivity, HA/DR, Landing Zones based on Vector RAG and LLM for reasoning and summarization
• Inventory Intelligence (Assessment) – based on discovery data & using python
• Firewall Intelligence – Comparing Palo FW with armis centrix network flows to find missing rules
• Network Intelligence – Design based on current state & best practices, routing
• Sizing – compute sizing
• Move Group Design – based on various parameters – app complexity, criticality, env etc.
• Tech Stack - GitHub copilot, MS copilot, python libraries, NetworkX, Pandas, Numpy, Scikt-Learn, matplotlib, Azure Open AI for embeddings & LLM models. Vector DB – Chroma.
• Coding – AI assisted but logic of the step/phase/tool is controlled & deterministic based on migration workflows.
• UAIS – Hosting platform with governance & guardrails & exposing LLM endpoints & various other APIs.

Senior Infrastructure Architect - Cognizant Technology Solutions - Chennai

(2023-02 - 2025-05)

• Clario Cloud Ops – Jan 2025 – Present – Cloud (AWS, OCI) day to day operations in advisory role to team.
• Anthem EDW Migration – short term project - Datawarehouse apps migration to AWS from on-prem & Azure to AWS for some apps. HA design, troubleshooting network link (direct connect, express route) issues, application performance issues post migration.
• Carrier cloud migration – By partnering with AWS PS, migration of 3500+ workloads from on-prem & azure to aws using AWS CMF (cloud migration factory) via direct connect and data sync. Cutover and hyper care support. Troubleshooting issues (OS, Network, DNS etc.) during migration. Automation of migration tasks using cloud migration factory, python & shell scripts like software removal, file shares etc.
• Technical project manager – AVEVA cloud latency test project Phase1, and Phase2. Technical PM, Architect and Solution Design / Implementation to test latency from aveva customer locations worldwide to AWS & Azure regions.
• Data Center Infrastructure & Cloud Infra Ops – Sanofi project. Part of RRT (Rapid Response Team). Helps delivery teams in troubleshooting and rapidly fixing P1, P2 Major incidents of global technology infrastructure – compute, storage, networks, performance etc. Also architecting AIOps solution to reduce MTTD, MTTR, leverage RCA and predictive analytics for fast incident resolution.

IT Infrastructure Operations Manager - ACL Digital (on contract with Telstra International) - Bangalore, Chennai

(2022-03 - 2022-09)

DC &

• Cloud Infra Ops Manager at Telstra. Key Focus – Adopting AIOps in infra ops &

• Splunk to optimize infrastructure operations. Hands-on approach to managing day-to-day operations of DC infrastructure in HK, SG, AU which includes Unix and Storage, Backup &

• DR, Wintel, Network &

• Firewalls, Aws Cloud and Databases. Work with respective track leads to run day to day ops. Also responsible for Incident management (ticketing systems), automation and orchestration using BMC orchestrator, checking vulnerabilities. Optimizing alerting systems such as with Zenoss.

Using

Splunk for checking logs and report dashboards for various tracks. Transformation activities for modernizing legacy infrastructure to cloud. Managing team size of 20+, escalations and issue resolutions, incident management, problem management, Life Cycle of assets management, metrics and reporting, change management meetings.

• Monitoring Tools leveraged for operational insights – Zenoss, Splunk, SolarWinds and BMC Orchestrator for workflow development for automation tasks.
• Splunk Enterprise – deployment, data visualization, dashboards, searching
• Using APIs to get relevant device list from tools.
• AIOps (Artificial Intelligence in IT Operations), Observability Engineering – IT InfraOps operational excellence using AIOps techniques such as event correlation, predictive thresholds, alerts reduction, anomaly detection, root cause analysis and reducing MTTR, MTTTD. Tools used are Zenoss and Splunk among others.

Cisco Systems - Bangalore, Malaysia, Bangkok, Australia

(2015-09)

Master's Degree - Civil-Structural Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (1998)

Bachelor's Degree - Civil Engineering - GITAM, Vizag

Kendriya Vidyalaya No1 Nausenabaugh, Vizag