Arpit Mehra

Experience

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  HCLTech

  Jun 2006 - Feb 2022

  • Working as an Infrastructure and Cloud Team Lead.• Work with Apps / Business team to gather requirements and design a solution for new project implementations to AWS.• As part of Core Cloud team, define strategy / process for new cloud services.• Define an implementation model using Terraform / AWS CDK / Ansible for Infrastructure as Code for all on-prem as well as AWS implementations.• Reduced Deployment effort 80% by creating a framework for end-to-end lifecycle management of a server (includes OS provisioning, configuration, DR workflow, patching, hardening etc) using Remedy, AO, BMC server automation and Ansible.• Designed and implemented a framework for infrastructure configuration management using Ansible to ensure audit and compliance requirements for all projects.• Liaise with other teams to use the existing tools / functionality and pass on the knowledge to the team.• Manage the team, solve their issues and act as an escalation for them.• Motivate the team to take on new responsibilities.• Create a knowledge sharing platform and develop cross platform skills in the team.• Create resource matrix and allocate project to the resources accordingly.• Plan for new projects and seed new ideas to help automate day to day activities.• Implement Incident management and change management process at the operations level.• Implement a process for smooth transition of BAU. Show less • Working as a Senior Technical Lead of the Linux System Administration team for HCL.• Responsible for Implementation of infra starting from racking / stacking in DC, setting up network profiles, logical splicing of network card, setting up BIOS, firmware upgrade, ip assignment, OS provisioning, bonding, tools installation, to application installation in the system.• Configure the environment as a low latency system this includes OS customization and solarflare card tuning.• Upgrade firmware and perform OS patching using tools like yum and BladeLogic.• Supporting Red Hat Linux Servers and Titan DTDC application in Cluster environment.• Write custom script for OS hardening, network interface bonding, tools installation and health check monitoring (includes ansible playbooks and shell scripts).• Technical documentation of all installations, updates, and troubleshooting methods and procedures with an emphasis on best practices.• Provide a High Availability clustering solution for an application component and setup / configure Veritas cluster for the same.• Write menu-based health check script for operations team. Show less • Interaction with OMX development team at Stockholm to identify solution for improving the system performance.• Performed excellent as the onsite coordinator of the team and was thereby sent to onsite for a duration of 5 months to develop new functionalities and gain customer faith in third line activities• Developing modules for OMnet and doing enhancements in the current system.• Providing support to OAPI’s (OMNet API) for different platforms.• Carried out white box testing for OMnet. • Responsible for performance testing using tools like NUMEGA and WINDBG.• Responsible for effective coordination between development team and testing team.• Ensuring adherence to NOMX Quality Process and Standards to ensure quality deliverable. • Mentored other team members and gave them domain training in the project. Show less

  • Consultant

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2022

  • Senior Technical Lead at HCL Technologies

    Aug 2010 - Sept 2018

  • C++ Developer

    Jun 2006 - Aug 2010
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Feb 2022 - now

  Senior Technical Account Manager