Rizwan Nordin
IT operations and service management professional with 20 years in IT, ITIL practitioner, and automation builder, experienced in incident & problem management, vendor & stakeholder management across diverse industries.
Summary
IT Operations Lead specializing in high-availability application environments and enterprise infrastructure. Hands-on manager of L2 support teams with a track record of maintaining zero critical outages while enforcing global SLAs. Combines deep technical oversight across the software lifecycle with automated solutions to reduce operational friction and align day-to-day delivery with business strategy.
Experience
Service Owner, Asset Discovery
- Owned global IT asset discovery using BMC Discovery for about 700,000 assets across 8 business units.
- Leading the L2 team, sustaining 98%+ SLA compliance on resolution time over the full year.
- Established real-time ticket monitoring against SLA targets, enabling early escalation of at-risk incidents and cutting SLA breaches by 93% year-over-year (15 to 1).
- Replaced a daily 30-minute manual source check across 200+ jobs with Zabbix and Grafana alerting, saving about 10 hours a month and catching failures before business escalation.
- Reduced dependence on L3 support by building SOPs, a knowledge base and a problem management process, and cross-training L2 engineers on the full service.
- Initiated a structured daily morning service check across critical jobs and interfaces, resolving issues before business impact.
- Closed a knowledge gap behind breaches by updating the process and SOP; reconciled about 40 new user accounts a month against approved requests across a 1,400-user base to keep provisioning audit-ready.
- Reviewed and approved monthly security patching plans, rescheduling any patch that clashed with internal processes and notifying users of risks.
- Built a Python and Teradata automation that replaced a manual post-production RTP check with a scheduled report and automatic alerts on zero counts and anomalies, saving about 1 hour a day.
Team Lead
- Managed a 7-member IT team, driving performance, training and operational KPIs.
- Coordinated monthly sprints covering upgrades, migrations, releases and outages.
- Developed staff training programs that improved team capability and reduced recurring operational issues by 20%.
- Produced and presented weekly operational reports using Splunk to senior management, improving visibility of system health, incidents and trends.
- Implemented automation, analytics and process improvements that reduced manual operational effort by 25%.
- Acted as first escalation point for critical customer issues while maintaining 95%+ SLA compliance.
- Ensured IT operations complied with applicable policies, standards, laws and regulatory requirements.
Senior Service Support Specialist
- Received the “Very Exceptional Employee” (VESPA) award for the successful delivery of a €10 million project.
- Tracked and monitored vendor progress on a €50k Teradata upgrade project, covering scope, timeline, risk and SLA, improving decision-making efficiency and management satisfaction.
- Supported incident tickets (BAU), change requests and problem tickets, coordinating system patching, upgrades and service improvement plans.
- Raised the sales user success rate to 75% through consultation and understanding of user issues.
- Redesigned the Net Promoter Approach scripting, reducing processing time by 80%.
- Automated web sanity testing with Selenium, cutting average testing time by 50% and reducing human error.
- Former service owner, ensuring services followed company IT policies, procedures and security framework standards.
Analyst Programmer
- Telekom Malaysia Berhad, TM iCARE (Technical Architect)
- Green Packet, P1 WiMAX (Technical Architect)
- Japanese Tobacco International, Trade Marketing Excellence (Tester)
- Telekom Malaysia Berhad, TM iCARE (Technical Architect)
Technical expertise
Cloud & platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows Server
Automation & integration: PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST API integration, Power Automate, CI/CD automation
Data & databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQL, Teradata
Collaboration & tools: Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, SharePoint
Certifications
- Scrum Master · April 2026
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials · July 2021
- Project Management Professional (PMP) · June 2013
- ITIL v3 Intermediate: Service Offerings & Agreement (SOA) · September 2011
- ITIL v3 Foundation · January 2010