Vikrant Aggarwal

Software Engineer

Canada15 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Strong background in Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
Proven track record in incident management and ITIL processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in high-performance computing and observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)ObservabilityIncident Management

Other Skills

High Performance Computing (HPC)StorageAutomationReliabilityKafkaElasticsearchLoggingMetricsITILShell ScriptingOpenstack (IaaS)Redhat LinuxOracle SolarisOracle Virtualization Manager x86VMware

About

Working as Openstack (IaaS) STSE. Specialties: Openstack (IaaS), Redhat Linux, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Virtualization Manager x86, VMware

Experience

Tower research capital

Sr. Systems Engineer

Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site

Driving end-to-end ownership of infrastructure at massive scale -- from designing and deploying storage, compute, and k8s clusters, to implementing observabiilty, automation, and reliability practices that power mission-critical workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.
I manage large-scale storage clusters at the petabyte level, providing multiple protocols high availability and performance. Responsible for benchmarking the storage systems to find best fit for our use cases. I have designed and currently oversee compute schedulers running 100K+ cores in both on-prem and cloud environments. Extending this infra with all available high end GPUs in the market.
Actively contribute in building and optimizing Kubernetes clusters, focusing on capacity planning, reliabliity, and storage availability. Strong expertise in Google cloud.
In addition, I have strong knowledge of observability platforms and technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch and other log/metrics pipelines. I have designed and currently manage end-to-end logging and metric solutions that provide deep visibility, reliability and actionable insights into distributed system at scale.

KubernetesHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)StorageObservabilityAutomation+1

Ciena

System Engineer

Jun 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Red hat

2 roles

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Dec 2016 – Jun 2017 · 6 mos

Providing collaboration on complex issues.
Helping team-members to reproduce the issues in house.
Joining mult-vendor calls.

Technical Support Engineer

Nov 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs

Providing support to Redhat Customers.
Majorly dealing with Openstack (IaaS) cases.
Analyzing the Customer provided data and providing the solution to fix the issues.
Joining the multi-vendor calls in critical situations to fix the customer issue.
Preparing articles for knowledge reference after fixing the customer issues.
Taking remote sessions to provide the quick solution to customers.
Coordinating with engineering team to expedite the bug fixes.
Simulating the customers issue in test lab.

Sungard availability services

Sr. System Engineer

Oct 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India

Developing Shell Scripts for internal activities
Daily calls with Onsite Team for improvements on ongoing processes .
Mentoring the bridges for Incident management
Attending meetings with Service Managers.
Mentored the fresher’s in team for ITIL processes , Services and Incident managements
Strong knowledge on Incident management, Problem Management , Change Management , Event Management .
Installing software, OS version up gradation, and package management.
Configuring and maintaining services.
Implementation, configuration and maintaining of LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

Tata consultancy services

IT System Engineer

Sep 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs

Operating Systems: Solaris 10, RHEL,
Ticketing System: Service Now
File Systems: ZFS,ext3,ext4,xfs
Server Virtualization: Solaris Zones, OVM x86, VMware
Job Schedulers: CRON, AT
System Health Check up: PRSTAT, TOP, SAR, VMSTAT, MPSTAT, IOSTAT
Shell Scripting: SH, BASH
System Hardening: Customization based on client's standard
Run Control Scripts: Administration of System run-levels & Deployment of Custom scripts based on Apps request.
Management Skills:
Key driver for business process design and solution identification.
Process vision and design, enhancement strategy and transition strategy.
Troubleshooting problems during installation etc.
Auditing customer system, workflow and processes for suggesting solutions.
Providing technical support to team.
Conducting weekly review meeting with Team.
Negotiating SLAs for large and medium-size business transformation projects.
Responsibilities:
Provide services for management of server environment to maintain performance at optimum levels on a 24x7 basis.
Operating system administration, including management of users, processes.
The re-installation of OS in the event of system crash/failures.
Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.
Assist the Application team, Storage and network team with various deployments and configuration as needed.
Actively monitoring the systems for any memory, cpu, disk space etc and taking corrective actions.
Creating Server knowledge base for team.
Evaluate System Performances & report metrics to management.