Ramesh Palani

Infrastructure and cloud migration professional with 20+ years of experience across AIX, IBM Power Systems, Enterprise infrastructure, and migration programs. Currently working with Kyndryl in a migration-focused role involving discovery, design, POCs, AIX migrations, landing-zone builds, cutover planning, and cloud transformation across on-premises, IBM Cloud, and Azure environments. Strong hands-on background in AIX, PowerHA, PowerVM, HMC, NIM, MIMIX, TDMF, storage, automation, and infrastructure troubleshooting, with experience managing large-scale banking infrastructure environments.

Senior Lead, Infrastructure Specialist - Kyndryl India Solutions Ltd - Bengaluru, India

(2021-09)

• Lead AIX migration activities spanning on-premises to on-premises and on-premises to cloud environments, including IBM Cloud / Skytap on Azure / Skytap on IBM Cloud.
• Participate in discovery and dependency analysis using HMC Scanner and CloudScape to support migration planning.
• Plan and execute POCs for Test / QA environments, documenting issues, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Perform migrations using TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility), MIMIX, AIX Native and storage-level replication approaches.
• Build AIX servers in landing zones and maintain wave plans, cutover runbooks, and migration documentation.

Senior Lead, Infrastructure Specialist - Riyadh Banking Infrastructure Assignment - Kyndryl India Solutions Ltd - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

(2025-05 - 2025-12)

Managed and supported 2,000+ AIX and Linux servers for a large banking-sector environment in Saudi Arabia, coordinating with platform, application, storage, and network teams to maintain operational stability and support infrastructure initiatives.

IT Specialist - IBM India Pvt Ltd - Bangalore

(2012-08 - 2021-09)

• Deployed and supported infrastructure servers for IBM Cloud Managed Data Centers (Cloud Manages Services).
• Installed, configured, upgraded, and troubleshot AIX, HMC, VIO, PowerHA, PowerVM, and IBM Power hardware environments.
• Performed system firmware / microcode upgrades, LVM and system dump management, and production handover / security compliance activities.
• Co-ordinated with Network, Storage, Application, and DC (Hands & Eye) teams
• Supported TSM design testing and maintained SOP / Knowledge Base documentation.
• Provided knowledge transfer for NIM installation and synchronization and supported Linux VM installation and agent configuration.

Consultant - Sonata Software Ltd - Bangalore

(2011-11 - 2012-05)

Technical Services Specialist - IBM India Pvt Ltd - Bangalore

(2010-12 - 2011-11)

UNIX Infrastructure Engineer - Barclays Technology Center - Pune

(2008-06 - 2010-12)

Analyst Systems - HCL COMNET Ltd - Chennai

(2007-03 - 2008-06)

Engineer - Helpdesk Management - Wipro Infotech Ltd - Chennai

(2006-03 - 2007-03)

System Administrator - Gojan Engineering College / Saranathan Engineering College - Chennai / Trichy

(2004-08 - 2006-03)

Customer Support Engineer - HCL Infosystems Ltd - Trichy

(2002-04 - 2004-08)