Rishi Kapoor

Operations Associate

Delhi, India20 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in systems and infrastructure.
Expert in cloud automation and provisioning.
Red Hat Certified Engineer with extensive Linux expertise.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and Automation Specialist with extensive experience in DevOps and System Administration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Oracle CloudAutomationSystem ProvisioningDevopsCloud ManagementDatabase ManagementInfrastructure ManagementService DeliverySystem AdministrationTraining

Other Skills

WindowsOracle Enterprise LinuxOracle VirtChef.ioGitTerraformChefAnsibleAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWSBashTemplate CreationOracle SGDOS patchingOracle EM

About

A Red Hat Certified Engineer and Computer Graduate having rich and insightful experience of 2 decades in systems, infrastructure, cloud, automation.

Experience

20 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Oracle india pvt. ltd

2 roles

Principal System Administrator

Nov 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Noida

Individual contributor in the GBUCS systems provisioning and automation team have a responsibility to provision systems for customers in various Global Business Units (HGBU/FSGBU/PGBU/RGBU/FBGBU etc.)
Provisioning linux and windows systems using terraform and configure systems using Chef and Ansible automation tool.
Provision and deploy Oracle Linux and Windows OSs on virtual machines in OVM, VMWare, and physical machines on various Oracle Sun Hardware and instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
JIRA tickets to update chef cookbooks and terraform changes as and when required.
Deployment of Oracle standalone and Oracle RAC cluster 11g and 12c databases using automated python scripts.
Converging systems post operating systems deployment to the standards according to the type of builds using configuration automation tools such as chef, PowerShell scripts and bash shell scripts.
Troubleshoot all operating systems-related issues, join outage calls and rebuild systems in priority as and when required.
Review and update work instructions/SOPs/documents, support and mentor team members.

WindowsOracle Enterprise LinuxOracle VirtChef.ioOracle CloudGit+1

Principal System Administrator

Jul 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs · Noida

Individual contributor in Oracle Cloud for Industry(OCI) department.
Create and maintain OVM pre-bake templates for Oracle databases (RAC and Standalone) and application installs.
Create procedures to install Oracle RAC/Standalone DBs and application servers using the pre-bake templates created.
Work with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities identified in application and oracle DB installs.
Work with DevOps, chef team to perform QA on various cookbooks released before its pushed to production.
Work with various product teams to resolve any system related issues and help team deploy various applications on Linux systems.
Support systems production operations and systems provisoning team as needed.
Patch Linux systems for all customers using Oracle EM and improve overall patching process.
Write bash shell scripts to automate tasks.
Support and maintain Oracle product Oracle SGD.
Provide value adds, identifying improvement areas and increase the overall service delivery of the project.
Documentation: Create and maintain work instructions documents used to support operations and product deployments.

Template CreationOracle Enterprise LinuxOracle SGDOS patchingOracle VirtOracle EM+2

Gemalto (now thales digital identity & security)

Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

Jul 2018 – Nov 2018 · 4 mos · Noida

Individual Contributor in Software management and optimization department.
Management and administration of Gemalto's internal product, Sentinel in a DevOps environment.
Provisioning of Linux systems in AWS Cloud via Ansible.
Authoring and modifying ansible scripts as per the requirements.
Automate infrastructure with bash shell scripts and Ansible as per the business needs.
Troubleshooting customer incident issues on AWS cloud infra.
Work on problem tickets and take corrective actions.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleDevOpsCloud Management

Hcl technologies

Consultant

May 2008 – Jul 2015 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Worked as a individual contributor and team lead for remote/on-site system support services. Accountable to ensure that SLA for all the tickets are meet by monitoring the tickets as a daily routine and providing solutions to the team so that it can be closed within the SLA.
Providing value adds to improve the services, part of the technical interview panel & take interviews and ensure skilled resources are hired in the project/HCL
Taking ownership and lead on all kind of escalations, incidents, change and problem cases.
Work with software and hardware vendors/OEM and to ensuring corrective actions are taken to avoid reoccurring problems.
Documentation of task/jobs/activities by preparing Standard Operation Procedures/updating KEDB/Runbooks.
Proactively analyzing infrastructure and take actions to minimize production impact.
Regular operations meeting with clients, to showcase tasks performed, understand client expectations and area of improvements.
Mentoring team members to resolve technical cases in standard best practice procedures.
Delivering technical sessions ,sharing experiences with team members.
Accomplishments:
Awarded as a best change planner for account General Electric(GE).
Appreciated for an onsite data center build project for account Lafarge.
Awarded as an outstanding HCL infinity award for account Statoil.

UnixInfrastructureRed Hat LinuxITILVMwareInfrastructure Management+1

Tricore sol

Systems Administrator

Oct 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Worked as a Linux/UNIX system administrator supporting RHEL and legacy UNIX systems of multiple US clients.

UnixRed Hat LinuxSystem Administration

New horizons computer learning centers

Linux trainer

Oct 2005 – Sep 2006 · 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

IT trainer for various IT courses, especially in redhat Linux. RHCA/E course. An additional role of IT technical head and Linux system administrator, responsible for administration and support of the entire IT infrastructure of the company.

Red Hat LinuxTechnical Traininginstallation serverlab setupbootp/pxe bootTraining+1