Sudarsan Sanyal

Seasoned Managed File Transfer (MFT) Specialist with 5 years of experience in secure B2B file exchange, platform reliability, and automation within global banking and financial organizations. Expert in IBM Sterling suite — Connect:Direct (CD), Secure Proxy (SSP), File Gateway (SFG), Sterling Integrator (SI), and Globalscape EFT — ensuring seamless, compliant, and automated data transfers across enterprise ecosystems. Successfully led multiple platform upgrade and migration projects (CD 4.2→6.2, SSP 3.4→6.0, EFT 7.4→8.1, RHEL 6→9), achieving improved performance, encryption compliance, and operational efficiency.

Skilled in cluster configuration, high-availability design, and disaster recovery planning for large-volume, multi-tenant environments. Experienced in Venafi-based SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management, PGP/SSH key rotation, and vulnerability remediation to maintain platform security and compliance. Automated file transfer and validation workflows using Bash scripting and CI/CD tools, minimizing downtime and manual intervention.

Proficient in monitoring and reporting through Splunk, Grafana, and Google Chronicle, improving visibility, error detection, and incident response. Adept at collaborating with mainframe and distributed teams to ensure smooth integration between ESP-scheduled jobs and MFT workflows.

Site Reliability Engineer - Wipro Technologies, Bengaluru - Bengaluru

(2021-02 - 2025-01)

Client: Charles Schwab – US-based Investment Bank

• Enterprise MFT Administration: Administered and maintained enterprise-grade IBM Sterling Suite — Connect:Direct (CD), Secure Proxy (SSP), File Gateway (SFG), and Sterling Integrator (SI) — ensuring secure, compliant, and high-throughput B2B file transfers across global banking networks.
• Platform Upgrade & Modernization: Led multiple platform upgrade initiatives, including Connect:Direct (v4.2→6.2) and SSP (v3.4→6.0), achieving enhanced encryption, improved performance, and stronger operational resilience.
• Globalscape EFT Migration: Managed Globalscape EFT (7.4→8.1) migrations with High-Availability (HA) configuration, automated event-driven workflows, and end-to-end system validation to ensure zero downtime during transition.
• File Transfer Automation: Automated complex file transfer pipelines and post-transfer validation using Bash scripting, reducing manual effort, improving reliability, and enhancing process consistency across environments.
• Encryption & Key Management: Designed and implemented complete PGP and SSH key lifecycle management — creation, import, rotation, and decommissioning — to ensure secure data exchange with internal and external trading partners.
• Certificate Lifecycle Automation: Integrated Venafi-based SSL/TLS certificate automation with Connect:Direct Secure+ and SSP, streamlining renewals and maintaining enterprise-wide security compliance.
• Monitoring & Transaction Visibility: Created Splunk dashboards and alerting mechanisms for real-time monitoring, transaction visibility, and proactive detection of file transfer failures or performance degradation.
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning & Execution: Performed DR simulations and replication validation, ensuring high availability and SLA compliance for mission-critical file transfer systems across production and DR sites.
• Mainframe & Distributed Integration: Collaborated with Mainframe (ESP/ChangeMan) and Distributed teams to achieve seamless integration between batch job scheduling and automated file transfer workflows.
• Documentation & Audit Readiness: Authored detailed SOPs, runbooks, and DR documentation, strengthening knowledge sharing, operational consistency, and audit readiness for regulated banking environments.
• Security & Compliance Governance: Partnered with InfoSec and platform security teams to remediate vulnerabilities, enforce access control standards, and align MFT operations with SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001 compliance frameworks.

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Accenture, Bengaluru - Bengaluru

(2025-01 - 2026-05)

Client: Truist Bank – US-based Investment Bank

• IBM Sterling Suite Administration: Managed Connect:Direct (CD), Secure Proxy (SSP), File Gateway (SFG), Integrator, and OPTx environments supporting secure, automated B2B file transfers across enterprise systems.
• Platform Upgrade & Migration Projects: Led major upgrades — Connect:Direct (4.2→6.2), SSP (3.4→6.0), Globalscape EFT (7.4→8.1) — optimizing performance, encryption, and stability in production and DR setups.
• File Transfer Automation: Developed Bash-based scripts to automate MFT workflows, validations, and health checks, reducing manual operational load and improving accuracy.
• Key & Certificate Management: Managed PGP and SSH key lifecycles, integrated Venafi-based SSL/TLS renewals into Secure+ configurations, ensuring continuous encryption compliance.
• Monitoring & Issue Resolution: Built Splunk dashboards for file transfer tracking, latency analysis, and error correlation; implemented automated alerting for failed transfers and connection drops.
• Disaster Recovery (DR) & High Availability: Configured multi-node HA clusters and DR simulations, validating replication readiness and meeting SLA/SLO targets.
• Vulnerability & Patch Management: Executed remediation tasks across IBM Sterling and Globalscape components, enhancing security and platform resilience.
• Cross-Platform Integration: Coordinated with Mainframe (ESP/ChangeMan) and distributed systems for seamless data exchange between batch and MFT workflows.
• Governance & Compliance: Authored SOPs, DR plans, and audit-ready documentation; standardized configurations across environments to support SOX and PCI compliance.

B.Sc. - Physics - Kazi Nazrul University

MTech - Software Systems - BITS Pilani, Bangalore