AbuTalha M

Cloud Solutions Architect

Freelancing Career • Freelance

Oct 2021 - Present • 4 yrs 9 mos

Directed Enterprise cloud initiatives for 3 government agencies, strengthening security compliance and accelerating enterprise cloud adoption. • Migrated 60+ legacy applications to Azure, reducing operational costs by 30% and improving platform availability by 40%. • Engineered scalable Azure architectures, increasing application performance by 25% while optimizing infrastructure utilization and operational efficiency. • Implemented governance frameworks achieving 100% compliance with IM8, SOC2, HIPAA, and GDPR security standards. • Accelerated production deployments using CAF Landing Zones, reducing implementation timelines and improving deployment consistency. • Streamlined cloud environments through cost-control strategies, lowering infrastructure spending by 15% across enterprise workloads. • Collaborated with Microsoft and government stakeholders to align cloud transformation initiatives with long-term business and technology objectives. • Authored comprehensive enterprise architecture documentation (DR, security, monitoring, networking) for 40+ mission-critical systems, accelerating compliance audits by 85% and establishing standardized deployment baselines. • Resolved complex cloud infrastructure challenges, improving deployment stability, operational resilience, and customer satisfaction.

Team Lead | | Jul 2018 – Oct 2021

Lenovo • Full time

Jul 2018 - Oct 2021 • 3 yrs 3 mos

• Administered a resilient hybrid enterprise infrastructure comprising of 1,000+ enterprise servers, including 900+ virtual machines across VMware, XenServer, and AWS cloud environments. • Led infrastructure operations for a Singapore government agency, ensuring high availability, system stability, and secure platform performance. • Upgraded 40+ VMware ESXi and vCenter hosts, improving virtualization performance, scalability, and infrastructure reliability. • Modernized 15 Citrix XenApp/Desktop servers, enhancing application delivery performance and end-user experience. • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Shell scripting, reducing manual administration efforts. Enhanced resource utilization and tuned server performance across 400+ virtual machines, improving infrastructure efficiency by 25% and seamlessly scaling workloads to accommodate enterprise growth. • Supported Azure and AWS cloud services, including networking, monitoring, backup, firewalls, DevOps pipelines, and container platforms. • Orchestrated zero-disruption patching and upgrade cycles across 1,000+ servers, successfully maintaining a 99.99% uptime SLA and reducing scheduled deployment downtime by 40%. Executed disaster recovery drills, failover testing, and root cause analysis, strengthening business continuity and incident response readiness. • Streamlined operational tasks through automation scripts for backups, reboots, and disk cleanup, improving system maintenance efficiency.

Senior Datacentre Engineer

NTT DATA • Full time

Dec 2016 - Jul 2018 • 1 yr 7 mos

• Architected and deployed scalable VMware vSphere and ESXi virtualization environments for enterprise banking and insurance clients across the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) region, ensuring high availability and robust disaster recovery readiness. • Orchestrated complex physical-to-virtual (P2V) datacenter consolidations and early cloud migration initiatives, strictly adhering to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and CPS 234 compliance frameworks for financial data sovereignty and security. • Reallocated physical and virtual hardware resources utilizing DCIM tools, slashing Operational Expenditure (OpEx) by 15% and increasing overall hardware lifecycle efficiency.