Vikas Arora☁️♾️

Experience

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  IOL

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Sr. Software Developer

  Responsible to develop and maintain a module of the travel package.

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  Capgemini

  Jul 2004 - Mar 2013

  Managed an IT transformation for an Investment banking client, involving claim tracking system used to create and edit claims and payment processing Managed a 12 member team to develop and implement GLTO (Global Locate to Order) application designed to locate the dealers, new vehicles and used vehicles of GM across geographies As a Sr. Consultant in Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. I have worked as a Team lead on "Marks & Spencer" and "TheTrainline" projects handling management of offshore/on site team deliveries, Co-ordination with customer to identify requirement gaps & hence bring in clarity.

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2012 - Mar 2013

  • Project Coordinator

    Jul 2010 - May 2012

  • Sr. Consultant

    Jul 2004 - Jun 2010
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  Capgemini

  Jun 2013 - May 2018

  Managed DevOps team handing AWS operations and automation. Managed a portfolio of 4 customized applications and 1 product (IBM Connections based). Handled development and support teams spread across France, Vietnam and India. Managed a team spread across across India, UK, Singapore and South Africa, to implement Mobile banking solution in 9 African countries, for a Banking client

  • Technical Project Manager

    May 2016 - May 2018

  • Service Manager

    Mar 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2013 - Feb 2014
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  The Cherry Hill Company

  Jun 2018 - Dec 2019

  AWS Solutions Architect

  Updating current AWS architecture to make it more secure and automated. Following activities being performed on regular basis:o Migrated fleet of EC2 instances from public subnet to private subnet in stageso Secured them from external attacks (mainly DDoS) by implementing Web Application Firewall (WAF)o Devised and automated a multi-region backup strategy for EBS volumes and RDS instances using CloudFormationo Automated security patch implementation on different Linux servers (Amazon Linux, Linux2, Ubuntu 16.04 etc.) using AWS Systems Manager’s Patch baseline utilityo Provided day-to-day support for Infrastructure issues like problems in EBS snapshot creation, high CPU utilization, handling DDoS attacks, etco Provisioned Infrastructure using Terraform/Ansibleo Built and managed virtual machine environments using Vagranto Updated documentation Show less

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  NEC Software Solutions (India)

  Feb 2019 - Jul 2023

  Cloud DevOps Consultant

  o Automated migration of 18 containerized applications (having 4 environments each) from AWS Beanstalk to ECS using Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, AWS ECS, ECR and ALB, resulting savings of over $50000 per year in EC2 servers cost, Load balancers and getting rid of outdated tools and technologies.o Automated AWS services using Terraform and created secure and responsive AWS environmento Set up SNS topics and SQS subscriptions on different protocolso Implemented REST API using AWS API Gatewayo Created IAM Groups, users, roles, and policies for granting least privilegeo Managed Load Balancing and auto-scaling between the instanceso Analyzed CloudWatch and CloudTrail logs for debugging issues, incident, and security monitoringo Scripted automation tasks using Python/Bash for AWS Services/cron/batch jobs and ad-hoc taskso Enabled applications CI/CD using Github Actions o Automated Hardened AMI creation process using Packer, Github and AWS CodeBuildo Installed Crowdstrike Endpoint Protection on over 500 Linux servers using AWS Systems Managero Implemented Blue-Green Deployment for Solr product, JBoss Wildfly App server deployment Show less

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  OSP

  Jun 2019 - Jun 2019

  AWS Solutions Architect

  To design a Secure and Cost-effective AWS architecture for their end client.o Placed the EC2 instances and Databases in private-subnet under a VPCo Assigned EC2 instances to an Application Load Balancer (ALB)o Put Web Application Firewall (WAF) in between ALB and EC2 instances in order to allow only genuine requestso Configured a SSL certificate using AWS Certificate Manager and assigned to the domain name in Route 53o Configured ALB to forward all http requests to https

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  Incepta Solutions

  Aug 2023 - Mar 2024

  Senior Terraform Developer