Vikas Arora

Background

About Vikas Arora

17+ years of Professional experience in IT industry and have a very strong experience in managing LINUX/UNIX Platform & closely working with Client. • Technical Manager for the Linux Infrastructure Team, hands on. • AWS: Setup/Managing Linux Servers on AWS (EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, Cloud Front, IAM, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch). • AWS: Setup/Managing VPC, Subnets; make the connection between different zones; Blocking suspicious ip/subnet via ACL. • AWS: Worked on Virtualization (LVM, Bridge, KVM, Disk, Ram, Cpu, Swap) on Superb DC. • AWS: Creating an S3 bucket and managing policies for S3 bucket • AWS Services EC2, S3, VPC using cli. • AWS : Experience in managing and maintaining IAM policies for the organization in AWS to define group, create users and assign roles and define rules-based access to AWS resources. • Ansible: Automation of Complete Linux Hardening, user creation, ssh-key setup using Ansible Playbooks (400+ servers). • Ansible: Automation of Domain Join & AD authentication setup using Ansible automation. • Build, Configures SUMA-SuSe manager 4.2/satellite from scratch & register salt agents/clients to perform the Linux Patching. • Storage Migration of Linux Physical servers using multipath. • Quarterly Channel freeze for Linux Patching. • Streamlined Linux OS provisioning tasks, prepared OS Build document for team to follow. • Hardening of Linux Servers, applying password policies to bring under compliance. • Unix Audit Expert, working as Audit and Compliance SPOC for the Corelogic team. • Supported Production environment and responsible for managing Veritas Volume manager, LVM and Server Troubleshooting. • Updating iDRAC/ BIOS and Network Firmware from iDRAC and OS interface on M620 and M820 Dell Servers. Rollback of firmware from iDRAC. • Experience working in a highly challenged environment in Bank of America and Dell International services following the ITIL process Terminology. • Performing OS patching of Redhat 6.x and 7.x, using approved content view on satellite server. This involve subscribing client server to satellite and for specific content view • Possess excellent technical skills and great understanding of client’s requirement. • Got Awarded with Global Recognition Platinum Award (Highest level award) for migration of the Unix User management Web tool in Bank of America. • Got Awarded with Dell Services Superstar Award & STAR Performer.