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Prudential Financial2016 – 2021 · Platform Architect & Migration Lead

Standardized Enterprise Monitoring Across a Fortune 100 Infrastructure

Defined the org-wide monitoring standard and led a zero-disruption platform migration.

The Problem

Prudential's infrastructure monitoring was fragmented across teams. There was no unified standard for how services were observed, alerting was inconsistent, and hardware lifecycle decisions lacked an orchestrated migration strategy.

Different teams maintained their own monitoring configurations, creating blind spots during incidents and making it impossible to reason about infrastructure health at an enterprise level.

The Approach

Defined and deployed a monitoring platform as the enterprise standard for infrastructure observability. This meant establishing monitoring standards, alert policies, and deployment playbooks that would be adopted across all teams.

Supervised hardware selection for the monitoring infrastructure, establishing criteria for performance, cost, and lifecycle longevity. Designed and led the migration from legacy monitoring hardware to a new standardized platform with a zero-disruption rollout strategy.

The Impact

  • Unified monitoring coverage across the enterprise infrastructure
  • Hardware migration completed with zero disruption to monitoring continuity
  • Established a reusable deployment model for future monitoring infrastructure expansions
  • Alert policies and dashboard standards adopted as the enterprise default
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