Azure & Hybrid Cloud Migration
Delivered head-office and multi-branch migration planning and execution, modernizing business services across Azure and hybrid-cloud platforms.
Infrastructure built for resilience
Sajid Sarwar.
Senior IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Resilience Leader with more than 20 years of experience designing, modernizing, and protecting business-critical enterprise platforms across Azure, hybrid cloud, Microsoft 365, VMware, backup, storage, and disaster recovery.
Oil & GasGovernmentHealthcareRetailService Providers
Based in Kuwait · Open to relocation across the GCC and globally
Kuwait-based · Infrastructure leadership
Selected outcomes
Resilient infrastructure with practical business impact.
Representative delivery outcomes across cloud modernization, recoverability, and operational handover.
Data Protection & Recovery
Designed and operated enterprise backup and disaster-recovery capabilities with immutable retention and recovery validation.
Greenfield Healthcare IT
Delivered a new healthcare IT environment from the ground up, including servers, networking, security, backup, telephony, and operational handover.
Professional profile
Infrastructure that keeps operations running.
Senior enterprise infrastructure, cloud, and data-protection capability across business-critical environments.
I design, modernize, and protect the infrastructure that keeps business-critical operations running.
Senior IT Infrastructure, Cloud and Data Protection professional with more than 20 years of experience across oil and gas, government, healthcare, retail, and service-provider environments. I design, implement, operate, and improve secure, resilient platforms across Azure and hybrid cloud, Microsoft 365, VMware, Windows and Linux, storage, networking, enterprise backup, and disaster recovery.
My project experience includes head-office and multi-branch cloud migrations, data-centre modernization, hybrid-cloud and data-protection architecture, and the delivery of a new healthcare IT environment from the ground up, covering servers, networks, security, backup, telephony, and operational handover. I combine hands-on engineering with technical consulting, project delivery, vendor coordination, documentation, and service transition.
Open to senior opportunities, professional connections, and relocation across the GCC and globally.
Career impact
Experience translated into delivery.
Senior infrastructure leadership across modernization, recoverability, and dependable day-to-day operations.
20+Years in enterprise IT
98Branches migrated to Azure
45 daysMulti-branch migration delivery
Azure + DRCloud modernization and recoverability
Cloud transformationHead-office and multi-branch migration delivery
Recovery resilienceEnterprise backup, DR validation, and immutable retention
Greenfield deliveryHealthcare IT environment delivered from the ground up
Selected work
Featured work
Sanitized reference designs and operational resources that demonstrate how I approach resilient infrastructure, governed recovery and day-to-day platform readiness.
PUBLICATION 01
Multi-Tier Azure Data Protection Architecture
A practitioner technical report with a sanitized reference architecture for snapshot orchestration, immutable recovery, long-term retention and restore validation.
PROJECT 01Azure Data Protection Reference Architecture
A multi-tier protection model combining workload discovery, snapshot-based recovery, immutable cloud copies and long-term retention.
PROJECT 02Infrastructure Operations Runbooks
Practical operational guidance and a read-only PowerShell readiness check for Windows recovery, VSS and backup health.
PROJECT 03Hybrid Infrastructure DR Playbook
A structured approach to recovery governance, continuity readiness, test planning and evidence capture across hybrid environments.
Case studies
How I deliver technology outcomes.
Sanitized delivery summaries focused on modernization, recoverability, and operational readiness.
Azure Multi-Branch Migration
Led planning, migration waves, cutover governance, validation, and handover for a head office and 98 live branches migrated to Azure in 45 days.
Read case study →Enterprise Data Protection & DR
Multi-tier backup and recovery leadership across NetBackup, Cohesity, Veeam, immutable retention, recovery validation, and long-term archive.
Read case study →Infrastructure Service Delivery
Windows and Linux operations, vendor coordination, network and security delivery, documentation, and service transition.
Selected certifications
Azure Solutions Architect ExpertMicrosoft 365 Enterprise Administrator ExpertAzure AdministratorAzure Security EngineerCCNP EnterprisePMPITIL 4VMware & EMC
Research & technical reports
Selected publications
Public technical reports on resilient infrastructure, backup, data protection and disaster recovery. Each record is published on Zenodo with a persistent DOI.
READ TECHNICAL REPORT
Designing a Resilient Hybrid-Cloud Backup and Disaster-Recovery Architecture
Zenodo technical report · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22010576
READ TECHNICAL REPORTProtecting Microsoft 365 Data in Enterprise Operations
Zenodo technical report · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22010593
READ TECHNICAL REPORTA Multi-Tier Data Protection Architecture for Microsoft Azure Workloads
Zenodo technical report · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22010598
Capabilities
Built for secure, recoverable operations.
Architecture and delivery experience across cloud, datacenter, data protection and operational handover.
Cloud & Microsoft
Azure and hybrid cloud, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, private networking and operational resilience.
Data Protection & Recovery
NetBackup, Cohesity DataProtect, Veeam, recovery validation, immutable retention, enterprise tape and BC/DR planning.
Infrastructure & Virtualization
VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, storage, Fibre Channel and datacenter modernization.
Networks & Delivery
Cisco, Fortinet, secure connectivity, vendor coordination, technical documentation, service transition and operational handover.
Connect
Open to senior infrastructure, cloud and data-protection opportunities.
Available for professional connections and relocation across the GCC and globally.