Asad M. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Capsifi transforms your enterprise by seamlessly integrating fragmented knowledge into a unified operating model. The platform enhances communication and collaboration, aligning strategies across your organization. This clarity simplifies complex challenges and turns them into actionable insights, empowering you to innovate and drive business transformation efficiently and effectively.

Sydney, Australia

* Infrastructure automation with Ansible, docker, EC2, ECS (Fargate), EKS clusters and Jenkins. * ELK configuration and elastalert configuration/integration with slack for alerts.* Successfully transformed software build-test-release cycle to Continuous Integration Continues Deployment.* Transformed single tenant architect Java application to Multitenant Architect application with minimal application code changes.* Written the whole code for Multitenant Application provisioning, Application release update and decommissioning in fully automated way utilising Jenkins, Ansible, docker containers and kubernetes.*Successfully implemented security around the whole infrastructure which helped to pass penetration and network vulnerability. Configued and migrated infrastructure to PCI-DSS compliance servers.* Utilised AWS’s EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Autoscalling, ALB/ELB, ECS,EFS,Cloudformation/Ansible infrastructure as code and S3 and Lambda for automated backups.* Infrastructure automation in Microsoft Azure Cloud for provisioning and automation.* Automation tasks development with a push of Jenkins button to fully automate infrastructure in a secure and online state.* Designed and developed automated deployment and scaling processes based on Ansible, Kubernetes for a wide range of server types and applications.* Setup completely automated Continues integration and Continues Development pipeline (multiple pipelines for multiple projects) in action utilising GitHub as source repo and Jenkins and Ansible for CI/CD. Also AWS Codepipeline, Codebuild and Codedeploy been utilised for a few other projects.* Created automation and deployment templates for MarkLogic databases and OpenLDAP servers.* Architected and configured Highly available environment with fine tune performance.* Security implementation to provide more secure and reliable applications and infrastructure.* Cost analysis and reduced cost by at least 1/3 in just two months time for capsifi.

Sydney, Australia

♣Successfully completed a number of new projects from solution architecting to system provisioning and backup plans both On-premise and AWS cloud.♣ Contributed to the operational design and implementation of software systems written in Python, bash and other languages♣ Worked with the team to maintain and uplift existing systems (both on-premise and in the cloud) including: incident response, problem management and escalation of incidents from others.♣ Introduced DevOps methodologies and successfully configured transitioned traditional applications to docker containers.♣ Travis CI, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Docker and GitHub to setup CI CID pipeline.♣ Provisioning of highly available applications utilising docker-kubernetes.♣ Infrastructure provisioning in fully automated fashion with Ansible♣ Introduced infrastructure monitoring utilizing Datadog tools.♣ Provisioned and configured Graylog2 for logs management .♣ Security assessment and patches for Appen’s Infrastructure from Linux systems (Centos (6.x,7.x), RHEL 5.x, Debian 7, Debian 8 and Ubuntu), Windows servers (Server 2008R2, server 2012) and TCP/IP devices.♣ Was lead on Penetration testing for Appen’s applications and fixes.♣ SSO implementation, configuration and maintenance for Appen’s infrastructure with Office365,Dropbox, datadog, jira, confluence etc.♣ User management simplification project. Successfully setup single source of truth for multiple operating systems Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.♣ Developed Server patching policies and setup server patching team for actions♣ Architecting and successfully migrated On-Premise servers to AWS cloud to provide high availability and reduced infrastructure cost.♣ On-Premise virtualizations to provide cost effective and highly availably solutions♣ Developed Server patching policies and setup server patching team for actions.♣ Backup policies and backup scripts for both on-site and off-site backups on daily (incremental), weekly and monthly basis.

Supported a wide range of computers and network operating systems to include Linux systems (Centos 6.x, RHEL 5.x and Ubuntu), Windows servers (Server 2008R2, server 2012) and TCP/IP devices.Managed technical services of Windows network infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy and Microsoft exchange server 2010Handled the installation of operating systems and post configuration on Microsoft and Linux platforms.Possess practical experience on Cisco Routers (1700, c2600, c2691, c3600 series), switches (1800, 1900, 2900 series) and Firewalls (ASA 5500 series) as well as Sophos products.Firewall implementation utilizing Sophos UTM 425, and Cisco ASA 5500, Sophos enterprise network protection as well as end user protectionManage Network Administration utilizing Windows server 2008R2 and server 2012.Implemented VMware ESX / ESXi (5.1, 5.5) servers to provide multiple virtual hardware platforms while keeping hardware costs and energy consumption down.. Cloud Computing utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) computing, Virtual Private Coulds(VPC) and networks instances(EC2 instances), Storage (both Amazon EBS and S3) and Amazon RDS databases and elastic Load balancing configuration Configure, optimize, administer, and troubleshoot Avoka Transact manager, Avoka Transact composer and also installation of third party softwares including Jboss server, Apache server and Adobe Live Cycle ES3. Daily operations consisted of checking backups, latest service pack or patch releases, maintaining system integrity and documenting all changes or upgrades for future reference.Troubleshooting network hardware, software and operating systemsManaged SQL Servers databases including MySQL, MS SQL server and Oracle DB.Ticketing systems utilizing Atlassian products configuration and troubleshooting on daily basis including Confluence, Agile, JIRA and KanabanApache web server configuration and advanced rewriting and redirection rules

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Extensive experience of a wide range of Cisco routers and switches.• Configuration of Cisco routers c1700, c2600, c2691, c3600, c3700 series etc.• Configuration of Cisco Switches 1800, 1900, 2900 series etc.• Detailed knowledge and working experience of TCP/IP.• Practical experience of routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, RIP and BGP.• DHCP and DNS configuration, installation and maintenance.• Network configuration diagrams using Microsoft Visio and Project professional.• Small and medium network configuration in Local Area Networks LAN and WAN.• Experienced in Frame Relay Hub and spoke technologies• Switch technologies and spanning tree protocols (802.1d and 802.1w).• VPN (Virtual Private Networks) installation, configuration and troubleshooting.• Practical experience in VLAN's designing and configuration.• Critical onsite and offsite customer support for servers, PCs, telephone systems and printers• Knowledge of ITIL incident, problem & change management.• FTP (File transfer Protocol) setup and daily usage for secure deliveries.• Intermediate level active directory experience utilizing MS server 2008 R2 for network administration purposes.• Experience with MS Exchange 2010 and Group policy.• Exposure to Virtualisation and cloud computing (VMWare, Citrix)• MSSQL Server Database maintenance and updates, queries writing in MS Access.• Moreover to ensure execution of smooth processes by providing assistance to the manager and customer services team