It Infrastructure Data Center

RAJIV RASANAYAGAM

650-***-**** *****@********.***

Summary: Senior-level Enterprise Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience in IT infrastructure and cybersecurity systems with public cloud and on prem private cloud technologies.

Work Status: US Citizen

Technical/Professional Experience:

Cloud Architecture: Amazon AWS, Azure.

Infrastructure Design for HA in public clouds, co-located environments & on-prem data centers private cloud (Flexpod).

Data Center Migration, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning.

Zero Trust Architecture

Database administration (Informix, Oracle, mySQL)

RHEL/CentOS Linux, Solaris, Aix, HPUX, Windows administration.

NAS/SAN(NetApp/EMC/Hitachi/Pure Storage) based Storage administration.

Knowledge of config management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)

Corporate Industries worked in are ecommerce/retail/financial/oil/engineering/construction/software/technology.

Education/Certifications:

AWS Solution Architect Associate - 2018

Sun Certified Systems/Network Administrator (SCSA/SCNA) - 2003

SAP Technical Core & Performance Tuning – 1998

National Institute of Information Technology (Computer programming) - 1987

Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology (Aeronautical Eng.) – 1987

Management positions:

Director Operations - Zinio

Sr Unix Manager – Bare Esscentuals, Chevron

Work History:

ARPWorkz - Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Remote Role (11/2014 – Present)

Consulted to various clients over the years to provide IT infrastructure consulting services, developing strategies roadmaps, plans to reduce risk and manage infrastructure availability for business-critical applications.

Granite Construction

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Remote Role (11/2018 – Present)

Infrastructure/Cybersecurity Architect for Granites EA team with direct responsibilities in

Producing overall IT and infrastructure, cybersecurity roadmaps, strategies, technology analysis & blueprints & diagrams.

Standardizing IT infrastructure from prior corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Zero Trust Architecture for Companies Cybersecurity Network Segmentation Program.

Data Governance Program (Varonis/Purview).

Cybersecurity Architecture and Solutions for Granites Plant Automation and Field Sites.

oOverall DC-Strategy and enhance infrastructure for growth. Evaluated & Recommended clients transition from an on-premise CAPEX to OPEX cloud-based model, with Cloud migration from on-prem DC to multi public cloud (AWS and Azure).

oDisaster recovery and Business continuity for all business applications.

oIdentity Access Management. (AAD, Okta)

oEnterprise-wide backup and recovery strategy and standardization.

0365 SaaS and overall corporate backup strategy.

Network transformation to maximize availability

Enterprise wide unified communications solutions

Centralize and reduce redundant infrastructure and application needs across the various corporate divisions for IT services.

Field services applications, infrastructure consolidation.

Service NOW CMDB & IT assets management.

State Compensation Insurance Fund, Pleasanton CA (08/2011 – 09/2018)

Lead Architect (Consulting Position)

Lead Architect for Company's Cloud Engineering Group and leading a team of 7 architects.

• Member and Team Lead for the Company’s Cloud Engineering Group

•Project Lead for the Big Data Cloudera Infrastructure implementation.

•Feasibility study and proof of concept for migrating state fund applications to AWS for both DR and Pre-Production workloads.

•Implemented Company's Flexpod Private Cloud Infrastructure.

•Architected, Planned, Implemented HD zone within the current Data Center to house Next Generation Infrastructure.

•DR Planning to failover the Next Gen Infrastructure to Companies DR Data Center.

•Provided Tier 3 support for IT Unix/Linux/Storage/VMWare Operations.

•Advisor/Mentor Unix/Linux/Storage members on Team

•Helped resolved various production problems

•Define standards/Policies and procedures for the Linux/Unix/Storage/CE Team

Celera, Alameda CA (04/2010 – 08/2011)

Sr Linux/UNIX Infrastructure Architect (Consulting Position)

Member of a team of Infrastructure Architects responsible for help architect, plan, and implement the companies new reference architecture,

•Collapsing multiple datacenters from companies’ prior acquisitions to one in aurora Colorado.

•Virtualization, SAN infrastructure, network consolidation across the enterprise

•Implemented Open source OpensNMS network monitoring solution.

•Provided 3rd level support for IT Unix Operations

Tivo, Alviso CA (12/2009 – 04/2010)

Sr Linux/UNIX Administrator (Consulting Position)

Part of a Team for TiVo Broadcast Center which is responsible for Tivo Production and staging environments that are customer facing.

•Resolving all software related issues related to Tivo Devices.

•Push production/staging builds out on a weekly basis.

•Troubleshoot application and open bugs for Service Engineering

UC-Davis, Davis CA (06/2009 – 09/2009)

Sr Linux/UNIX Administrator (Consulting Position)

Responsible for Unix/Linux (CentOS 5) issues for UC-Davis Medical

research labs.

•Setup Monitoring using Open Source monitoring tools for capacity planning

•Fedora core Linux HPC Cluster servers

•Resolving both hardware and software related issues

•Planning and implementations of Labs NFS array

Bare Escentuals Inc., San Francisco (07/2008 – 03/2009)

Sr Operations Manager, Unix/Linux (Consulting Position)

Responsible for Unix (AIX)/Linux servers, storage (NetApp Filers) for the Production, Development and QA environments and for day-to-day administration.

•Directly responsible for stabilizing company’s Oracle E-Business infrastructure which were on IBM Blade centers running RH AS/ES Version 4, 5, Oracle RAC 11.

•Day-to-day firefighting, problem solving of various production issues.

•Architected and proposed solutions to separate storage network/backup VLANS from Application/DB data network.

•Planned and separated DEV/QA from production network.

•Setup monitoring using Open NMS for Capacity planning.

•Setup infrastructure for companies International Oracle R12 implementation on IBM P series hardware running AIX v5.3

•Team Lead for a team of 3 System Administrators

Zinio Systems, San Francisco (12/2007 - 07/2008)

Director of Operations

On hands Technical Director with direct reports for Teams which included

Helpdesk, Unix, Network, Release Engineering.

Responsible for Production, Development, QA and Corporate systems

San Francisco, Sunnyvale collocation and New York

•Planned, coordinated moving the company offices Server Rooms both San Francisco, New York.

•CDN network move from Akamai to Level3 saving the company over $400k annually.

•Solaris X86 based architecture implementation.

•Backup Disaster Recovery planning and implementation for Corporate Systems.

•Architected solution for HA and Disaster Recovery, Business continuity for the Company.

•Maintained Uptime during DOS Attack on the Company website.

•Re-Architected a simplified network and Storage for both Corporate and Production,

•Grew the IT/OPS team to meet Companies Production Helpdesk and Unix/Network personnel. Prepared Operational Budget and directly involved in hardware/software purchases.

PayPal Inc., San Jose CA (07/2007 – 12/2007)

Application Security Engineer (Consulting Position)

•Worked with PayPal’s protected (crypto) packages for application and server deployment.

•Wrote Custom scripts Shell/Expect, Telecommuted 100%.

Chevron, San Ramon CA (08/2006 06/2007)

Sr. Systems Administrator/Operations Manager (Consulting position)

•Substitute for Operations manager who was on sabbatical leave.

•Wrote scripts to automate transfers, weekly bulk data loads

•Recommended changes for improved uptime, backup, Disaster recovery.

Part-Time Consulting Project Work

Consulted to various clients over the years to provide consulting services mainly for infrastructure and Unix/Linux related project with recent work in AWS Cloud space some of the Clients are listed below.

Jostens Inc (2023-2024)

FurstPerson, Inc. (04/2017 – 07/2017)

Restoration Hardware, Inc. (12/2006 – 05/2007)

MobiTV, Emeryville CA (06/2006 07/2006)

Innovative Interfaces Inc, Emeryville CA (05/2006)

Placement Pros Inc., Pleasanton CA (07/2006)

GiftTrend Inc., San Francisco CA (11/1999 – 03/2000)

References & Additional Work Experience: Available on request

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