Naga Ramesh KB

Experience

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  ICSA Inc

  Jan 2003 - Mar 2007

  WebSphere Administrator
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  IBM India Pvt Ltd.

  Aug 2007 - Jun 2008

  Middleware Specialist

  IBM WebSphere Application Server AdministratorIBM WebSphere Portal Server Administrator

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  Wells Fargo India Solutions

  Feb 2009 - Apr 2022

  VP - Head of Middleware Services (India)

  In this 13 year tenure, I've had the opportunity to head the following unitsMiddleware Services:Part of the CTO Leadership teamHeaded a portfolio of around 100K Middleware Assets. (Application Servers, Web Servers, Queue Managers, Brokers etc.)Team Functions: | Feature Engineering | Operations | Compliance - Baseline Drift remediation, Vulnerability & Patch Management | SRE | Observability | BCP/DR ~2000 Applications supported (Infra Build, Application deployment/maintenance, Decommission)Tech Keywords: IBM WAS, Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache HTTPD, IBM MQ, IBM MB, Confluent Kafka, Puppet, Ansible, Full stack dev, python, jython, jclApplication Product Centre of Excellence:Accountable for the lifecycle management of around 1M software assets, across 4K products and 1.5K Software vendorsTeam Functions: Config Drift Remediation | Patch Deployment | Vulnerability Management | Control Testing | Reporting & Dashboards | KPI Compliance | Interactions with FLOD & SLODSolution Lifecycle Group:Headed the team which was accountable to set the Secure SDLC policies for the bank and also make sure no code with P1 vulnerabilities are deployed into production, by being an approver in the change management process, verifying test artifacts etc. Tech Keywords: Secure SDLC, SAST, DAST, SCA - IBM Fortify, Sonarqube, Checkmarx, BlackduckDistributed Storage Support Services:SAN, NAS & Backup Infra and operationsTech Keywords: Hitachi G1000, Oracle ZFS, EMC VMAX,Isilon, Data Domain, Avamar, TSM, NetbackupLending Infrastructure Build & Support Services:Headed the OS (Win & Unix) & Middleware teams for the Lending LOB.Tech Keywords: Windows, Unix, AIX, Solaris, IBM WAS, Weblogic, python, IHS, Apache httpd Show less

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  Societe Generale Global Solution Centre

  Apr 2022 - now

  VP & Deputy Global Head - Compute and Software Defined Networks

  Accountable for various generations of VMWare and Openstack Private Cloud implementations in Societe Generale (within GTS) hosting more than 80K VMs across multiple geographies (EMEA, AMER, Asia etc.).Accountable for the security of Compute and SDN components (VAPT, CIS benchmark implementation, Hypervisor Security Program, Admin Chain security, Persistent Privileged Accounts, Risk Register)Knowledgeable in NIST SP 800-53, Cyber Security Framework 1.1, Risk Management Framework & ISO 27001/27002Heading several engineering teams delivering Compute and SDN features for the private cloud platform for both VMWare and Open stack clouds.Heading several traditional Operations, Delivery, Automation teams covering commission, decommission, maintenance of both traditional virtualization and bare metal offers.Tech Keywords: VMWare ESX, VMWare NSX, Openstack CloudPlatform, Python, Microsegmentation, Service Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, Zero Trust Model Show less