Anoop Bharathan

Facilitating Seamless Transition: Leading the cloud transformation initiative for ManpowerGroup across 75 countries, whilst ensuring smooth transitions and security measures

Infrastructure Management: Developing & implementing a secure landing zone strategy across five critical regions bolstering with rigorous disaster recovery protocols.

Integration of Cutting-edge Technologies: Overseeing integration of the landing zone with advanced SD-WAN solutions, including Meraki, to enhance network efficiency and security.

Strategic Consolidation Initiatives: Conceptualized strategy to integrate CSP and MSP DR sites, resulting insubstantial annual cost reductions totaling USD 150K.

Implementing Top-tier Security Measures: Orchestrating the integration of leading security services such as ZIA, ZPA, Splunk, Tanium, and advanced vulnerability scanning tools like Wiz.io, ensuring robust protection against cyber threats

Enhancing Web Application Security: Valued contributor in migrating 350 distinct web applications to Cloudflare for Web Application Firewall (WAF) and DDoS protection, ensuring the integrity of online operations

Continued Migration Progress: Monitoring the migration of development (DEV) and user acceptance testing (UAT) workloads across 25 countries, spanning diverse geographical regions

Security Policies: Charting out stringent processes and policies for the management of secrets and certificates using Azure Key Vault, ensuring data integrity and compliance with industry standards

Cost Reduction: Resolved complex cloud data transfer and performance issues, accelerating migration and cutting on-premise costs—achieving $0.9M in annual savings

Artificial Intelligence: Developed AI-driven scripts to optimize firewall configurations, enhancing security and compliance while reducing manual effort and operational costs.

Partner engagements for POCs & demonstrations to customers on next generation technologies &  business use cases across Enterprise BFSI customers

Solution Advisor to customers for Network & Security Infrastructure requirements, cloud adoption & digital transformations while adhering to regulatory compliances

Translate Business requirement from customers into technical requirements & define technical specifications to deliver  solutions to meet the expected outcome

Drive Customer Success by collaborating with Product, Engineering & Partner ecosystems

Drive Customer transformation by conducting GAP analysis & evaluate technology solutions to bridge gaps & minimize Risk to business

Collaborate with Product & Engineering teams in responding RFPs & RFIs from Enterprise BFSI Customers

Engaged in collaborative efforts with stakeholders, including end-users, developers, and senior leadership, to ascertain their network & cybersecurity requisites.

Introduced Zero-Trust capabilities in the enterprise infrastructure via Zscaler adoption (SIPA, ZIA & ZPA) & empowered 10,000+ business users to be productive in hybrid work environments.

Formulated & enforced network and disaster recovery protocols, methodologies, and industry best practices

Steered the audit processes for ISO &  PCI DSS Compliance, focused on network and security facets

Consulting with businesses from different vertical for new requirements related to Data Network & Security within the Enterprise & Data Centers

Planning technical project deployments in Network & Security domains & create migration strategy to ensure minimal business disruption.

Lead Network & Security Infrastructure Audits for Customers periodically to help meet compliance norms for Network & Security facets