🧩 Strategic Leadership

• Oversee IT infrastructure across data centres, firewall policies, provisioning, and endpoint security.

• Lead and manage L1/L2 IT teams; enforce high operational standards via KPIs and SOPs.

• Create and continuously refine SOPs for governance, disaster recovery, and security compliance.

🖥️ Data Center & Server Operations

• Lead deployment and maintenance of enterprise-grade servers (Dell, Cisco, Supermicro, Huawei).

• Manage co-location setups (NSE, BSE, STT, Yotta): racking, liquid cooling, cabling, power planning.

• Configure BIOS overclocking, IPMI/iLO access, network booting, and remote diagnostics.

🐧 Linux & System Administration

• Expertly install, tune, and secure Linux distributions (Rocky, RHEL, Ubuntu), with kernel upgrades and repo/yum management.

• Deploy trading platforms and monitoring agents on custom-tuned Linux boxes.

• Support Windows Server environments and virtualisation stacks (VMware, Xen, Hyper-V).

🌐 Networking & Security

• Manage deployment and optimisation of SFP/QSFP, Twinax, MM/SM cabling, and breakout patching.

• Oversee firewall rulesets, VLANs, routing policies, and endpoint protections.

• Work closely with trading teams to troubleshoot and minimise system/network latency.

📦 Procurement & Vendor Management

• Lead procurement of compute/network/storage infrastructure in alignment with trading needs.

• Maintain vendor relationships, warranties, and SLAs for all hardware/software systems.

🔍 Audit & Compliance

• Conduct system-level audits, performance benchmarks, and capacity

• Ensure compliance with NSE/BSE regulatory requirements for co-located environments.