Sandeep Joshi

I am proactive, organised and client focused, balancing business needs against corporate policy and stakeholder requirements. I have with over 20 years of experience in the IT field. Possessing extensive knowledge of cloud security, with a focus on AWS, GCP and Azure. Adept at developing and implementing security policies, procedures, and controls to safeguard enterprise systems and data. A proven track record of providing leadership and guidance to security teams, as well as collaborating with stakeholders to achieve business objectives. As an experienced Architect IT and Project Management throughout my career, I Understand the technical problems, challenges and complexities that exist and be able to manage and liaise with technical teams to arrive at an integrated technical solution that meets the business requirements. Has ability to form good working relationships at all levels and work collaboratively with external suppliers, third parties and key business stakeholders. Worked across different platforms like Cloud, IT infrastructure and services, SaaS, PaaS, hands on experience on Cloud, Railway Infrastructure. I have experience working on Agile and Waterfall methodology. Worked on EO projects, transformation programme and projects, DC, Upgrades, Release management, security, cloud projects.

Bank Of England                                 Project Manager                                               Sept 2023- Nov 2023

Working with BOE Obsolescence Programme, working on core DC CITRIX Upgrade project to ensure that the end-to-end lifecycle building the new infrastructure for Citrix Platform, Initiate the Discovery, and migration process of almost 600 application deployment and managed project in controlled manner.

• Prepare and conduct requirements workshops, to confirm and document scope, objectives, and detailed requirements of the project with all key Stakeholders.
• Identify key stakeholders and build the resource plan, high level plan and detail plan for delivery of the project.
• Prepare the SOBM, Initial Business Case and resource requirements, create timeline and Agile framework to deliver the project. 
• Manage risk, issues, dependencies, and assumptions.
• Prepare PID and execution plan and with team and secure resources with resource managers and define.

the Gate assurances with Quality assurance team. Align business objectives to team objectives and individual         objectives. 

• Prepare the Business case for approval for funding and estimate the Project cost and lifetime Project cost.
• Manage Budget around 1.5M to 2M, monitor expenditure against the resource allocation.
• Maintain open and transparent communication with customers, providing regular project updates and addressing their concerns.
• Create and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and change requests.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and manage expectations.

East West Rail              IT Architect (Strategy, development, and security)                  April 2022- Sept 2023 

Working as IT Architect overseeing IT Framework and strategy. Manage Suppliers onboarding, IT contracts and service agreement. Manage IT Change Management Process. Support Data Architect and Engineering team with IT support, enhancement, release management process. Lead the CAB Board and overseeing any changes within IT space.  Plan for future development and enhancement programme within IT and engineering team. Ensure the solution is compliant with ISO27001, Cyber Essential and GDPR standards. Act as a subject matter expert on cloud security, with a particular focus on Azure.

• Involved in design reviews and approvals to ensure new applications on Cloud are secure-by-design.
• Develop and implement security policies, procedures, and controls to safeguard enterprise systems and data.
• Provide leadership and guidance to security teams, ensuring that they are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform their duties effectively.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that security measures are aligned with business objectives.
• Perform risk assessments and develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the latest security threats and vulnerabilities and implement appropriate measures to address them.
• Act as a subject matter expert on cloud security, with a particular focus on GCP and Azure.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, including policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, such as ISO27001, Cyber essentials, and GDPR.
• Collaborated with development teams to ensure that security was built into software applications from the outset.
• Conducted vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to identify weaknesses in enterprise systems.
• Developed security solutions and implemented security controls to mitigate identified risks.
• Led incident response activities and ensured that security incidents were appropriately managed.
• Contributed to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and standards.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of the latest security threats and vulnerabilities and implemented appropriate measures to address them.
• Represent the Cloud Solutions architecture in all pan-EWR discussions, and initiatives related to Deployment, Enhancement& Security on Cloud.
• Work closely with cloud platform engineering teams to ensure quality and security assurances are consistently applied across all Cloud services before services are operationally available for application teams to consume.
• experiment with technology – running trials, proofs of concept and even building minimum viable products to accelerate our journey.
• involved in Cloud Migration projects to ensure the projects comply with recommended EWR standards security best practices.
• work closely with application refactoring teams to assist them to adopt implementation, deployment, and security best practices as part of their refactoring journey to cloud.
• Work alongside with new service providers and ensure service delivery to end users.
• Onboard new service providers develop the ways of working for delivering target state.
• Conduct security audits and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities and remediate them.
• Manage security incidents and ensure that they are promptly resolved.
• Involved in integration of key applications and ensure EWR common data environment which is digital hub where multi-disciplinary business information comes together to allow improved business analysis and insights to be developed.  

Zaizi Ltd                                   Cloud Engineer                                                            Nov 2021- March 2022

• Working on Projects with Zaizi to implement key business application on AWS Platform.
• Managing Key stakeholders, working on mix of agile and waterfall methodology, bringing efficiency within, automation of services and moving targets to AWS cloud services and Kubernetes Clusters.  
• Working on number of projects and ensure the development and deployment of services are running in different environment QA/Test & Production smoothly, managing Jira & Kanban boards, managing risk and issues and any blockers.
• Agree KPI’s and reporting requirements and communication plans. Prepared project status reports and kept team, management, clients, and others informed of project status and related issues.
• Ensuring the Jira and Kanban board are update on daily basis lead the daily stand-ups and capture any blockers and mitigate those blockers. Review sprints, review backlogs, do the retrospectives and lessons learnt exercise.
• Ensure all the application is going through complete lifecycle process of development test building CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, Concourse, Code Pipeline) and deployment.
• Support on build UAT strategy, building test cases and ensure the environment is ready for UAT, working with third party pen tester and ensure that environment is ready for Application pen testing and once the testing is completed work with UAT Manager to fix the defects, ensure resources are in place, tickets are logged in Jira and all the artefacts are maintained. Ensure vulnerability remediation and migration processes are in place before go-live dates.
• Work with Developers and Automation team for Continuous Integration and Continues deliver using Code Pipeline, Concourse, Jenkins and Code Deploy, Bit Bucket, for automation.
• Analysed and identified enterprise technical and operational risks, then provisioned the best architected AWS infrastructure.
• Designed and edited blueprints for IT infrastructure and networking architecture according to requirements and demands.
• Support in technical review of designs to ensure adherence to standards and best practices and strategic direction.
• Engaged with Security and DevOps teams to ensure secure cloud environment.
• Used DevOps Principles in implementing security controls in the cloud infrastructure.
• Engaged with the customer to understand their evolving business needs to align cloud infrastructures.
• Build a project plan with deliverables and resources assigned to each task aligned to achieve respective milestones within the scope.
• Managed both internal and external supplier relationships to solve complex technical issues resulting in minimal business impact and increased customer satisfaction. 
• Worked closely with the end users, business technologies, and others to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs related to the project.
• Organising workshops for new projects and initiate Kick-off meeting for new project. Capture milestones and deliverables come up with Project plan from initiation to delivery and closing the project.

Capita                                      Technical Delivery Manager                                         Feb 2021- Oct 2021

Working with Capita Security Watchdog on number on SAAS/PAAS/IAAS platform, working on core front end application services to ensure that the end-to-end lifecycle process of application development/test and deployment is managed in controlled manner.Maintain the project controls and use them to drive the delivery of the project, putting project controls in place. Prepare and conduct requirements workshops, to confirm and document scope, objectives, and detailed requirements of project with all key users. Coordinate and manage the development process, oversee, and conduct User Acceptance Testing with UAT manager and manage the deployment and implementation. Working on project for transition of IT support team to move to new organisational model. Managing the Engineering team/Developers and testers. Have 1-2-1 individually with the team members, align business objectives to team objectives and individual objectives. Do the appraisals and review the performance and training plans.

• Working on Projects with Security Watch Dog to implement key business application on Azure Platform.
• Managing Key stakeholders, working on mix of agile and waterfall methodology, bringing efficiency within, automation of services and moving targets to Azure cloud services reporting direct to Head of Technical Solution development.
• Working on number of projects with Security Watchdog ensure the development and deployment of services are running in different environment QA/Test & Production smoothly, managing Project plans, managing risk and issues. 
• Work with overseas developers and onsite DevOps and Architect and working collaboratively with third party supplier. Working on third party supplier support contracts in place.
• Agree KPI’s and reporting requirements and communication plans. Prepared project status reports and kept team, management, clients, and others informed of project status and related issues.
• Ensure all the application is going through complete lifecycle process of development test building CI/CD pipeline and deployment.
• Support on build UAT strategy, building test cases and ensure the environment is ready for UAT, working with third party pen tester and ensure that environment is ready for Application pen testing and once the testing is completed work with UAT Manager to fix the defects, ensure resources are in place, tickets are logged in Jira and all the artefacts are maintained. Ensure vulnerability remediation and migration processes are in place before go-live dates.
• Build a project plan with deliverables and resources assigned to each task aligned to achieve respective milestones within the scope.
• Report on finance
• es, resources, change request, project plans and stakeholder management on weekly basis.
• Identify risks and manage issues effectively. Manage change effectively throughout project lifecycle. Represent changes to CAB. Produce regular reports to stakeholders.
• Managing Stake holder and report weekly at board level on project progress on key milestone, risk & Issues, escalation that needs urgent attention.

DXC (Network Rail)                              Project Manager                                               March 2020- Jan 2021

Working on Network rail account managing number of EO, Infrastructure/ DC/Migration upgrade and transformation, cloud projects at a time, managing finances and budgets from 5K to 700K worth projects, managing plans, risk, and issues, managing dependencies with third party. Provide support and guidance to Technicians and Technical Architects and technical direction and expertise to development teams. Working collaboratively with different stakeholders, third party vendors and overseas resources. Ensure that your projects are delivered on time and to budget while controlling cost. Carry out detailed planning: clearly set objectives and goals, defining roles, and producing the schedules and timelines appropriate to the project. Produce and actively manage all project documentation. Managing Developers implementation teams’ frontend/backend and testers. Have 1-2-1 individually with the team members, align business objectives to team objectives and individual objectives. Do the appraisals and review the performance and training plans. Lead and motivate project teams from internal and external organisations.

Computacenter                                    Project Manager                                               Aug 2017 – Feb 2020

Worked with Banking service HSBC on major transformation programme and working on agile project bringing efficiency within storage, automation of services and moving targets to GCP and AWS cloud services reporting direct to Head of Storage services. I have worked on number of projects with Civil service in PMO, worked on delivering Hybrid cloud solution POC for a law firm, worked on multi-million programme to support large retail financial service in Transformation and Transition project. Deploying new Windows 10 devices across 27K branches in UK and deploying across 22 countries 

for British Forces Post Office branches. Worked on security project bringing datacentre network estate under PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance. Worked on FW and vulnerability remediation and migration project. Delivered service transition of sites with new deployment solution across international sites. Delivered project in large financial retail service management domain to ensure that 27000 branch counters are fully compliant with different releases of patches.

Network Rail                                         Project Manager                                               Nov 2007 – July 2017

Worked on number of roles as Project Manager, Analyst, Data Technician, IT engineer.

Worked on multi-million programme TRIP (Timetables Rules Improvement Programme) to deliver the project to time, cost, and quality in a safe manner. Through corporate reporting systems and guidelines, monitor and report on project progress and generate, manage project, and programme documentation.

HP Cds                                  IT Support Engineer, Sainsbury’s Head Office                     June 2007 to Nov 2007

Responsible for the day-to-day management of the system maintaining IT systems and assisting the users in resolving any system related issues.

Barclays Capital                                   Site Support Engineer                                          June 2006 – May 2007

Responsible for the day-to-day management of the IT system and assisting the users in resolving any system related issues.

Busy Wires Infosys                              Own Business India                                            March 2000 to May 2006 

Bachelors In Commerce