Ali A.

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DataCentre Operations, Migration & Relocation Projects | Cloud Infra Services | Technical Consultant | Sr System Engineer - Server | Virtualization | HCI-Hyperconverged Infra | Dell EMC Unity @ Queensland Police Service
brisbane, queensland, australia
Ali A.'s Location
Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia, Australia
About Ali A.

Ali has demonstrated commitment and strong drive assisting on different roles in IT Operations, Design, deployments, SDDC Infra upgrades, Security Audit remediation, DataCentre Relocation and time bound projects deliveries.Highly skilled and hands on in Datacentre Operations, VMware Cloud Infrastructure Services environment with years of experience in IT Operations, Technical Support, Planning - Strategic road map, Infra Projects deployment/Design for SDDC, Major incidents management, Critical SR/Change, Physical/Virtual Infra in 3-Tier & HCI Migrations, Physical/Virtual Infra Upgrades, Team and Vendor Management.Certified on VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, Nutanix, AWS Solution Architect and ITIL.Ali is a self-motivated enthusiastic professional with quick grasping skills, proactive mind-set to address challenges by owning the job til completion, team player with a customer & goal focused approach and can-do attitude.

Ali A.'s Current Company Details
Queensland Police Service

Queensland Police Service

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DataCentre Operations, Migration & Relocation Projects | Cloud Infra Services | Technical Consultant | Sr System Engineer - Server | Virtualization | HCI-Hyperconverged Infra | Dell EMC Unity
brisbane, queensland, australia
Employees:
2027
Ali A. Work Experience Details
  • Queensland Police Service
    Senior System Engineer
    Queensland Police Service Jul 2022 - Present
    Australia
    Leading DataCentre Relocation Project (Documented a plan for Prod infra move with platinum services up and running with Existing Hardware-Lift & Shift and New H/W) DC Redesign (VMware Virtual infra, Nutanix infra, Physical Servers, Dell Unity880F/PowerStore SAN Array)BAU Operations Stabalization (vCenter Upgrades to 8.x, Dell/HP chassiss, Esxi Upgrades, physical Servers - Oracle Clusters with SAN Storage.Contributed in Upgrading Legacy Network switches to ACI - Server Infra Uplinks (VMware Infra, Nutanix-HCI infra, DEL-MX7000/HP chassis and Physical Servers Uplinks)Upgraded Production Unity SAN Array Code , rdms migration from VNX to Unity for Oracle Clusters), VNX decommissioning project.Build/Developed and Documented the Migration Plan for Datacentre Physical Relocation and Server Optimization Project # Green Zone.Build a plan to lift and Shift existing Hardware without impacting BAU operations - DataCentre Relocation Project.Zerto Infra Deployement:-Deployed/Configure VMware 8.x Infra -Greezoneuplift versions for existing VMware infra to 8.x Deployed & Build Zerto Infra for VMware 8.x Infra #Workload MigrationMigration/Move of Legacy VMware 6.x/7.x infra to VMware 8.x infra
  • Maybank
    Head Of Cloud Infra Services & Delivery
    Maybank Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
    Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Leadership | Team Management | Technical Roadmaps | Technical Project Implementations |Datacenter Design/Maintenance |Datacenter Migration - Building new Site | IT Strategy for Infra Support/Operations | DC Design and Deployments | - VMWARE infra, Capacity Calculations | Service Delivery Mangement & Security |Active Directory | Microsoft Failover cluster for MS SQL AlwaysOn | Citrix & Horizon Infra Management | L3 Support Zerto/UCS infra/HCI Infra
  • Maybank
    Operations And Technical Lead, Cloud Infra Services
    Maybank Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Operations and Delivery Cloud Infrastructure:-Responsibilities:-- Successfully implemented SDDC upgrade plan for Datacenter covering - vCenter, Esxi, Nsx-V, Nutanix AOS | NCC | Foundations, New Fabric interconnect Deployments, Firmware/Chassis/Blades drivers for MBB cloud infrastructure Services.- NSX-T infra install, configure and manage for Citrix Infra- New Infra deployment for VMware Horizon- Contributed in Datacenter relocation from Cloud Infra perspective- vSphere vCenter/Esxi 6.5 U3/6.7 U3/7.0 infra install, configure and manage- NSX 6.4.5 install, configure and manage | VRA/VRO administration – VMware SDDC- Upgrade VMware vCenter/Esxi from 5.5 to 6.0U3 and 6.7U3 - Esxi hosts network standardization | Integrated of Virtual Infra with DNS- Design change for existing prod Microsoft failover cluster to a new 3 Node design- Wintel servers GPO settings | security finding remediation’s – Active directory- Tripwire & VA scan remediation’s – server hardening – WSUS | SCCM patches- HCI – Nutanix/Hyperflex install, configure, manage and maintenance- Technical support and maintenance for Cisco UCS, Fabric Interconnect infra - Test simulation | Component | Live Disaster Recovery exercise via Zerto Manager- Manage internal Infra projects E2E | Manage escalated system infra related issues- L2-L3 Support for all major incidents – Change and Incident management and RCA- Technical Leadership | Vendor and growth management |Problem management
  • Aig Global Services (Malaysia)
    Sr Technical Analyst Vmware Operations
    Aig Global Services (Malaysia) Jun 2015 - May 2018
    Malaysia
    Responsibilities:-Support for VMware vSphere ESXI 4.1/5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5.i. VMware VCenter Server 5.0/5.5/6.5 design/deployments/support/upgrade.ii. Vmware VSAN Datastores Depoyment/Maintenance and Technical Support.iii. Vmware NSX Manager 6.2 Deployment/Maintenance and Technical Support.iv. VMware Update Manager Server design/deployments/support/upgrade.v. VMware VCenter Server 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 configuration for HA/vMotion/SDRS.vi. VMware Syslog Dump Server Configuration/Security Profile Configuration.vii. ESXI patches via VMware Update Manager.viii. Virtual Machines performance Report via VCenter Operation Manager VCOPs.ix. VMware Realize Operation Manager (vROPS) support.x. Site Recovery plans Recovery/clean up exercise for DR drills.xi. Microsoft SQL Server Preparation for VCenter Server Installation.xii. ESXI 5.5 Hypervisor hosts Networking Configuration/VLAN settings.xiii. ESXI Hosts storage LUNs troubleshooting/health check/Logs bundle retrieval.xiv. Dell Enclosures/Blades Half/Full Chassis Maintenance/Configuration.xv. ESXI Hosts Performance/resource monitoring.xvi. VMs Ops Support (Vdisk/vRam/vCPU/Snapshots/VMotion//Provisioning/Decom).xvii. Performance tweaking for Esxi Hosts/Virtual Machinesxviii. Developed framework for LUN’s reclaiming processGIS Enironment Hardware/Software suits:-i. VMware Vcenter/VMware HyperVisor 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5ii. Vmware Site Recovery Manager/Update Manager/Vcenter Operational Manager/vRealize Operation Manager(vROPS)iii. Xen Servers/Desktops.iv. Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012 R2.v. Symantec End Point Security.vi. VMAX SAN/Infinidat Storage.vii. Dell chassis- Blades/Rack mounted.
  • Fujitsu
    Field System Engineer
    Fujitsu Aug 2014 - May 2015
    Fujitsu Malaysia
    Projects implementations/deployments/Upgrade for our customer's Infra i.e. AD/DNS/File Servers/Windows Clustering on Windows Server 2003/08/12 Symantec Storage/Backups/VMware 5/5.x and HP/DELL/Fujitsu Chassis/Blades Server Support.
  • Amd Global Services
    Sr. System Engineer
    Amd Global Services May 2012 - Aug 2014
    Amd Global Services Malaysia
    Supporting AMD Global Services Infrastructure and worked with internal projects team tasks including1. Windows(Server support 2003/2008/2012/Print/File/Ms cluster etc)2. Virtualization (VMware Esx/Esxi 4.X/5.X, Vcenter 4.X/5.X, HA/DRS)3. Server Hardware(Enclosures, Blades configuration/Firmware/driver updates etc) 4. Data center consolidation5. ITSM projects.
  • Timatch Resources Sdn Bhd
    System Engineer
    Timatch Resources Sdn Bhd Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
    Malaysia
    Supported all the infrastructure i.e Windows Server Support/ AD support/ Network Support with Zywall Vpn Support/ Smartmail Support/Communicator Support.
  • Itswitchers And Company
    System Engineer
    Itswitchers And Company May 2009 - Mar 2011
    Pakistan
    Supported Windows Infra and Cisco Infra (Routers /Switches-RIP/OSPF/EIGRP/VLAN/Etherchannel implementation) with a cluster of deployment/implementation projects
  • Csm Pvt Ltd
    Network Engineer
    Csm Pvt Ltd Dec 2008 - Apr 2009
    Peshawar, Pakistan
    Work on projects for Windows Server implementations/LAN Design/WirelessLAN Design/Config.
  • Electrical And General Services (Egs) Pvt Ltd.
    Network Engineer
    Electrical And General Services (Egs) Pvt Ltd. Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
    Peshawar, Pakistan
    Work on a Range of projects for LAN/WLAN Design, Windows Server 2003 Support with Oracle DB and Application server backups and other routinely tasks for file/print server
  • U&U Software House
    Network Administrator
    U&U Software House Jan 2006 - Mar 2008
    Peshawar, Pakistan
    Cisco Switches C2900/C3500, Routers c2600, c2800, c3745, Cisco firewall and zywall VPN client Configuration/Maintenance/Support

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Ali A. works for Queensland Police Service

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Ali A.'s current role is DataCentre Operations, Migration & Relocation Projects | Cloud Infra Services | Technical Consultant | Sr System Engineer - Server | Virtualization | HCI-Hyperconverged Infra | Dell EMC Unity.

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Ali A. attended University Of Peshawar.

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Ali A.'s colleagues are Shannon Lacey, Anna Saunders, Christine Cross, Nyall Appleyard, Shane Bancroft, Mathew Kippen, Edyta Gradowska.

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