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.

Global Operations: Playing a key role in streamlining cloud operations on a global scale, enabling countries to leverage unified services from the Global Landing Zone, resulting in significant annual cost savings of $0.5 million.

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: Conceptualizing strategy to integrate CSP and MSP Disaster Recovery sites, resulting insubstantial annual cost reductions totalling 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

Workload Efficiency: Exhibited excellence in completing the migration of 450 workloads from the APME Data Centre, optimizing 50 workloads to leverage Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions such as App Service and API Management

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: Successfully tackling intricate challenges surrounding data transfer and performance within the cloud environment, accelerating migration timelines and significantly reducing costs associated with on-premise data centers

Artificial Intelligence: Utilizing cutting-edge AI technologies to develop bespoke scripts aimed at optimizing firewall configurations and rulesets, resulting in elevated levels of security and compliance, while reducing manual intervention and operational overhead

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

Educate Partners & Customer on latest technology trends & adoption by hosting Field Tech Day

Engaged in collaborative efforts with stakeholders, including end-users, developers, and senior leadership, to ascertain their network & cybersecurity requisites, ensuring alignment with infrastructure upgrades for financial transactions

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 & publish HLD, LLD UAT & AS Built Documents for Project Deployments

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

Collaborate with Managed Services Teams at customer locations to optimize operation efficiency & achieve SLAs committed to business