Vikas Sharma Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, CA, US

San Diego, California, US

★ Designed and implemented Ansible for configuration management across Linux and Windows systems.★ Built Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to provision and manage GCP-based Linux environments.★ Architected a new Debian Linux environment to support a major upcoming product release.★ Acted as service owner for Linux and configuration.

San Jose, CA, US

Lead a team of experienced DevOps engineers and system administrators while providing guidance, roadmap, assistance at various projects and operation levels. Involved in several projects and initiatives within organization to enable workloads move between public clouds and on-prem data centers as per business requirements. ★ Partnered with engineering.

San Jose, CA, US

In my new role, I am working on AWS, EC2, Serverless / Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, S3 and other AWS technology stack. Also, serving as SME of Cloud & Linux for local site operations. In addition to Cloud, working on Puppet Enterprise and related new Linux technologies including but not limited to Docker and Containers to migrate legacy apps to.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Linux / Unix / VMware operations and managing two datacenters (Santa Clara, CA and Puyallup, WA). Involved in global initiatives like monitoring, configuration management and licenses renewals apart from day to day System administration & troubleshooting etc.★ Proposed, architected and deployed Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) solution for Business.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Focused on setting up a new data center in Puyallup, WA for active-active use and also serve as DR for few Business applications ★ Involved in setting up new datacenter – servers, storage, VMware, NIS, VLANs.
• Initial install/ cluster setup/ Ontap upgrades/ Firmware upgrades (disk shelves & disks)
• Setup Aggregates/ Volumes/ Qtree creation and administration
• Snapmirror, iSCSI, DeDuplication (a-sis), NDMP configuration as and when needed
• Filers head swap / diskshelves upgrade/ migration/ merging etc.
• Quota/Exports/NFS/VIFs configuration/ troubleshooting

Santa Clara, CA, US

Daily operations, projects, initiatives around Linux / Unix / VMware operations Responsibilities include: ★ Unix/Linux servers and service delivery for 2500+ users using 3000+ physical servers ★ RedHat Linux (RHEL 4, 5, 6) OS installation, upgrade and administration using kickstart★ Architected, installed and maintained backup solution to backup 1.

Hanover, MD, US

★ [Client] HSBC Finance Corp. | Unix Administrator | Feb 2008 to Mar 2008 ★ Responsibilities & project details: As Unix System Administrator, my role was to assist HSBC to move their data center from the leased place to their own data center. I was responsible for implementation of server moves and their reconfiguration in the new data center in Volo, IL..

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

★ [Client] Pfizer, Groton, CT | Consultant – Grid Computing | Apr 2006 to Jun 2007 ★ Job responsibilities: Solaris 8 & 9 based compute Grid nodes administration, Solaris 10 system administration including zone administration, resource management. LSF support, batch jobs monitoring and administration. ★ [Client] Walgreens, Deerfield, IL | Consultant – UNIX.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Worked as a Systems Engineer. Involved with Facility Management team at its client Container Corporation India Limited, Delhi. Job responsibilities included System administration of Sun Solaris on Sun servers (Sun Fire 280R, 3800, Enterprise 3500, 450), Daily backups on Sun Servers for Oracle Financials and others customized file systems and daily log.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN

★ [Client] Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd | Resident Engineer | Oct 2002 to Jun 2003 ★ Brief Description: Project by CMC Limited for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Korwa, Distt. Sultanpur (U.P.) for implementing backbone networking of various blocks and divisions. The main objective of the project is to provide interconnection between all offices / plants.