Vishal Vora

Summary
• IT professional with more than couple of decade’s experiences.
• Specialization in IT Operations, Automation, Scripting & Solution Delivery.
• Experienced services Professional -Platform (PaaS), Infra (IaaS), DevOps, SysOps.
• Expert in Solutioning of enterprise Intel & RISC (ARM) Device & Datacenter Management.
• Expert is designing architecture for solution as Solution Architect.
• Expert in analyzing exact bill of material (BoM) & building line of service (LoS).

Experience

Autoenginiea Pvt. Ltd. [India] Oct-2015 – Present

Azure AWS GCP Cloud Consultant
• IT Infrastructure Technology consulting alike Design, Build & Run Maintain IT Infrastructure.
• Specialized Consulting on various technologies
o Cloud: AWS, Azure, Rackspace, Openstack,
o Virtualization: VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM
o Storage: EMC, IBM, HP, NetApp, TrueNAS, Synology
o Networking: Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, Riverbed (WAN/F),
o Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac, Unix
o Backup solutions: Veritas, Symantec, TSM, Veeam
o DR Solution: Converged, Non-Converged, Metro based, Cloud based, Redundant, Disruptive
• Instrumental in Continual Integration & Continual Development (CI/CD), Automation using Ansible,
YAML & majority automation tools.
• Application Monitoring Using Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana and different Cloud monitoring tools
• Extensive experience in ELK and Chef Automation.
• Defining and designing Elastic search Index Distribution Architecture.
• Defining Cluster topology - configuration for master nodes, client nodes, and data nodes and various
configuration parameters to optimize performance.
• Performance Optimization for ELK Cluster and configurations optimization for ELK Cluster.
• Migrated Exchange based environment for a Startup in Singapore with within VDI solution delivery.
• Provided TrendMicro Deep Security Solution in Azure cloud to a Large Customer.
• AWS Security aspects for BAU, Guard Duty, CloudTrail, VPC & DNS Flow logs, Config, WAF etc.
• With recent customer Setup AzureAD, migrated mailboxes & deployed Azure Intune for Corporate
productivity. (250 User base) .
• Formed Security & ISMS Procedure as a CISO for various organization.
• Malware control & Penetration testing for Web based (3tier) application for various clients.

NIIT Technologies PTE.LTD [Singapore] Dec-2014-Oct-2015

Technical Manager – IT Infrastructure
Responsibilities that includes the Datacenter Virtualization and Cloud compute practices with.
• Solution Designs and Support for Services projects with Govt. and Banking Customers
• Lead Datacenter upgrade from Physical to Virtual at Customer Location.
• Resource Planning & Scope Defining for the up-coming projects.
• Costing and budgeting for the resources based on ARC & RRC Standardization.
Skill exploited to success:
• Enterprise architecture consulting with a Govt. & BFSI MNCs for modernizing and re-engineering their
core business platform built on AS/400, AIX and Various Linux Support(latest hardware).
• Solution Manager in presales engagement with IBM P series platforms, one for migrating existing
platforms to upgraded infrastructure, other was for Data Center consolidation.
• Lead Architect with Various Unit of Govt. of Singapore, involved in New Deployments, re-engineering
and migrating IBM P570 and P650 to P720 and P740 servers, modernizing and consolidating multiple
data centers & building DR (BCP) and application landscape, prepare application portfolios for
migration to hybrid cloud platform.
 • Established interconnect & integration of HSM (i.e. : SafeNet LUNA EFT, Futurex-SSP9000) for the
Banking retail payment system.
• Managed Customer’s Applications that is provided by NIIT for some govt. Unit (including Prod, UAT,
SIT& DR), includes customer IT infrastructure management starting from BoM till Retirement.
• Managed the Backup infrastructure team that uses VERITAS NetBackup, Symantec Backup Exec and
other backup software’s support for baking customer.
• Managed cloud infrastructure services (AWS, Azure, & G-Cloud ) for Various customers includes BFSI
& Hospitality industries & Govt. of Singapore.
• Deployment & Post Deployment Support for eCommerce Applications (e.g. IBM WebSphere v6.0 and
above, MQ ,HTTP, MQ, MB,CM, DB2, JBOSS, WebLogic)
• Security Audit /Analysis for the Web Servers & Application Server, Hardening, Patching & up-scaling
infrastructure.
• Designed a Solution for a Global IBE Vertical of Five Star hotel on Azure with DR Setup.
• Migrated Mailing & Office Solution based worked to Azure cloud for one of the SME Client.
• Submitted RFP for CITRIX Based solution on Azure for one of the Singapore based European Client.

Symphony Teleca Corp, [Bangalore, India] Feb 2011 to Sep 2014

Architect (Customer: SCM Company Europe , AutoTransporter USA , SCM Company USA, European
Reatailer)
Responsibilities that includes the Datacenter Virtualization and Cloud compute practices with.
• Lead the project for Migration for one of the client for their Datacenter move to Managed hosting
service provider.
• Lead Datacenter upgrade from Physical to Virtual at Customer Location.
• Resource Planning & Scope Defining for the up-coming projects.
• Costing and budgeting the resources as per ARC & RRC Standardization
Skill exploited to success:
• Building, support and upgrade highly available enterprise scale VMware vSphere clusters and doing the
transition from onsite to offshore team as SME.
• Deploy & Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure components and related products including vCenter,
DRS, High Availability (vHA), Data Recovery (vDR), vConverter, Disaster/Site Recovery (SRM)
• Capacity Planning & forecasting for customer, P2V using legacy & new tools such as VMware
Converter, PlateSpin.
• Manage escalations on vMotion, Storage vMotion, maintenance of VMs, and monitoring of ESX/ESXi
systems for performance and Capacity Planning.
Accomplishments:
• Built PoC on OpenStack for a Customer.
• Individual contributor for RFP based on complex environment like AWS, Azure and OpenStack.
• Migrated Customer Accounting & Supply chain application on Azure for a US based Auto Transport
Company since had 400+ Soho sites to update transport Data )
• Created Azure based Infra (Active Dir) for Texas based Supply Chain startup.

Saasworks, [Bangalore, India, Solna, Sweden] Mar 2010 to Feb 2011

Solution Consultant (Customer: IBS AB)
Responsibilities that includes the Management around Virtualization and Cloud compute practices with.
• Lead the Transition for India Offshore center for one of the client based at Europe.
• Lead Datacenter upgrade from Physical to Virtual at Customer Location in Europe and Australia.
• Managed the Team as proxy manager and Transitioned to the Vertical head.
Skills Exploited to success:
• Executive presentations and overview with customer stakeholders for building the startup organization.
• Led multiple potential and new customer engagements in a customer facing role.
• Conducted multiple 3, 5 and 10 day Proof of Concept showcase presentations demonstrating cloud
computing and virtualization with VMware, Microsoft Hyper-v & AWS Cloud.
• Presented and taught on AWS Deployment technology education and validation for perspective
customers.
 • Deliverable signoff from & to the respective stakeholder
Accomplishments:
 Demonstrated the non-premise-based AD model build on AWS using Windows 2008 R2 with customer
success validation.
 AWS Classic based off –premise Infrastructure Success using VPN-Cubed environment for a customer.
 VMWare to Hyper-v migration for a Web Product customer.

Accenture, [Bangalore, India] Nov 2009 to Mar 2010

Senior Systems Analyst
Responsibilities that includes the Management around Virtualization & Datacenter at Cincinnati via remote.
 P2V Migration for one some of the SMEs for their Datacenter move to Cincinnati.
 Lead VMWare and Windows Patching & upgrades for many change process.
Skills Exploited to success:
 A Size of 3000 Servers Including Hosts and VMs management
 Administration of ESX servers & VMs, VMware Virtual centers, including vCenter 4.0 & 5.0.
 Responsible for P2V, V2V migrations, cloning, template creation etc.
 VMware ESX 3.x Hosts and VM’s Administration and Monitoring with Tools Like esxtop, Performance
Dashboards & BMC Remedy lined up with Host alerting tool (SNMP).
 Coordination and assists with planning virtual infrastructure initiatives (P2V initiatives)
 Responsible for change management for virtual infrastructure, Peer review, CAB meetings.
 Responsible for development and maintenance of Virtual Infrastructure Blueprints.
Accomplishments:
 It was a very short association, however was able to mentor the team to become technically niche.

HP Enterprise P Ltd, [Bangalore, India] Feb 2008 to Nov 2009

Technical Support Specialist
Responsibilities that includes the Support around Windows & Virtualization:
 Exhibit major expertise around Windows Server, Active Directory design and Complex Solutions.
 Pro-Active involvement for performance analysis, change & configuration management & Problem
management for servers including physical HP G4 & G5 Gen server across the globe for one of the
biggest account of HP for this days.
Skills Exploited to success:
 Preparing RCA’s and Contacting Vendors regarding new updates on tools.
 Co-ordination on Host Forklift and Storage Array remediation to migrate to a new Infrastructure.
 Installation of ESX/ESXi server version 3.5 / 4.0 & vSphere, Windows 2003 & 2008 Server.
 Virtual center for ESX server hosts as per the client Base standard guidelines.
 P2V & V2V Migration using VMware converter tool/ Novell Platspin.
 Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources as well tool up-gradation.
 Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS and Resource pool.
 Root Cause & System Log Analysis and Reporting
 Upgrading Firmware on HP environment and replacing blade with HP Vendor support.
Accomplishments:
 A successful tech-talk on HP-SIM which is very similar to SCCM of those days.
 Been part of Top-Technical team member, used to mentor the junior resource & make them speed up
to fast boarding in the team.
 Achieved kudos for reducing the drastic numbers of age-ticket.

Indus systems & Services Pvt. Ltd., [Mumbai & Ahmedabad, India] July 2004 to Feb 2008
Systems Engineer (Multiple Sites Location)
Responsibilities that includes:
 Managing the team of Field engineers
 Led the project for Migration of 300 the desktops for client for their factory environment at Mithapur
(Tata Chem).
Skills Exploited to success:
At Site: (L&T)
 Led the Desktop & Site Service Management team.
 Managed VMware Infrastructure Server ESX V.3.0.1 /Windows 2003
 Performed all types of backup/restore using VERITAS Backup Exec.
 Deployment of new servers, Active Directory & OS, Hardware Problem escalation
 Reporting /maintaining server inventory for Wintel as well VMware infrastructure server.
At Site (HSBC, Ahmedabad)
 Performed` off-site storage tape management for BCP strategy planning.
At Site (Surat Mercantile Bank, Surat 16 Branches)
 Spearheaded the Desktop & Site Service Management team.
 Overall gap analysis to bring productivity and profitability to project.
 Removed pain points of the functionality part with 70% success.

Accomplishments:
 Key Success for the BCP with 100% fault tolerance at Site HSBC, Ahmedabad
 Successful implementation of Backup Exec 11D at site J M Financials.
 Successful restoration of service within SLA for Primary Domain controller, crashed at Tata chemicals,
Mumbai.
 Sales for the outside states to bring more business to organization.

The Mehta Group LTD. Aug 2000 to Dec 2003

EDP Officer (IT Contract)
Responsibilities that includes:
 Infrastructure Management
 Vendor engagement
 Resource management
 Server Firmware /Patch /Release management for Novel 4.1 (RPL Boot ROM using dosgen).
 Branch location visit for new project deployments.
 Documentation on strategic review to answer the audit team for the same
Accomplishments:
 Successful install of Windows 2000 Advance server with EMM feature configuration that supported
exclusive memory for ERP (Ramco) Implementation success.
 Successful install of NetFinity 5000 Server at Main Office.
 Integration of Two Novell domain of Sidhee & Hathi Cement using NDS.

Nigam Technologies Dec 1999 to Jun 2000

Field Engineer (IT Trainee)
 Server & System Installations using Windows NT , 2000 & Novell ,
 Hardware Troubleshooting,
 Software Installations,
 Preventive maintenance,
 Configuring drivers,
 Reporting & repairing of all repairable spares.
Education
• Masters in Computer Applications, Sikkim Manipal University, Bangalore, India
• Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting, Gujarat College of Commerce, Ahmedabad.
• 12th, Gujarat High. Sec.Edu. Board
• 10th High School Education, Gujarat Sec.Edu. Board

Skills
 IT Org Management: Unit/Tower wise SLA, IT Budgeting & Forecasting, CAPEX vs OPEX comparison,
Contracting, Sustainability, ITO Visioning & Roadmap Planning, and Audit.
 Cloud: Amazon AWS, Azure, Google, Rackspace, OpenStack, Open nebula
 DevOps: Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Saltstack, Jenkins CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, Shell,
Python and JS.
 Web Stack: IBM WAS, DNS, HTTP/S, routing, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, NGINX, Apache, Jetty,
Tomcat, SSL, Load Balancing, Layer 7, NetScaler, Riverbed, F5
 OS /MS: Windows Server All Edition including legacy version starting from the oldest ones.
 OS / Linux: Debian, Fedora, RedHat, Centos, FreeBSD, Kali,
 Virtualization: VMware ESXi, vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels, Xen,
 Configuration management tools: Python, Ruby, Chef, Puppet
 Network Security: Routing, Switching, SSL offloading, Load Balancing, Pen Testing, Security Domain
based approach (all 8 domains), Network (snort) Web (WebInspect, AppScan) & Malware (Yara Rules)
pattern audit, defender, PFsense, Firewall ASA
 Enterprise Applications: eCommerce, WebSphere (7.x,8.0,8.5), HTTP, MQ, CM, JBOSS, WebLogic

Certification
VMWare Certified Professional
Microsoft® Certified Solutions Expert: Private Cloud 
ITIL® Foundation v3 Certificate in IT Service Management
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco Incorporated
License / ID:
VCP -151816, MCP – 6299487, CISCO –Expired.

Training

Attended Training on VMware vSphere 5: Install Config & Manage (ESX 5.0)
Appeared VTSP online Training: VMware Tech Sales Professional
Attended Training on Microsoft Private Cloud: MCSE Private Cloud 2012
Attended Training on AWS Essentials: AWS Basics.
Attended Training “Introduction to Openstack.”
Attended Training on Fundamentals of Chef From Opscode.

Additional Information:
Pursuits:
Traveling , Netsurfing (Net Savvy).
Attending Seminar/Webinars, meet-up, delivering tech-talks.
Technology blogger for Solutions around Virtualization and Cloud.
Languages:
English: Speak fluently, Read/Write with high competency
Gujarati: Native Speaker
Hindi: Speak, Read, and Write with basic competency
Personal information:
Passport No: L5719618 (05-Feb-2014 till 04-Feb-2024)
Visa Status: US B1 – till Jan-2024 / Singapore EP Till Dec-2015 / Malaysia Till Dec-2015
Clearance: Baseline G-50 Singapore
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian-Indian
DoB : 14-Dec-1978
Mobile : +91 9484666157
Skype: vishalnvora
Notice Period: Available Immediately
Social Connections:
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalvora
Twitter :
Email : vishalnvora@gmail.com