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Dubai, Ae

Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Client : Dubai Airports (DXB and DWC)Job Responsibilities:Designing infrastructure solutions based on VMware product line including VCF, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vRealize Suites across multiple sites and datacenters for Dubai Airports.Strategize the implementation of Azure Cloud [Compute, Network, Storage, backup and Restore, Firewall management, High Availability and Load Balancing]As part of App modernization strategy of Dubai Airports, designed 3 sites VMware Tanzu solution for Kubernetes operations considering the high availability requirements of the critical containerized applications. Lead the team that implemented VMware and Storage Stretched Clusters across multiple datacenters for Dubai Airports.Effectual collaboration with Server, Storage, Networks, DataCenter, Facilities, Audit and Compliance Teams while designing and implementing the infrastructure solutions.Strategize the DR solution for Dubai Airports and designed the resilient Software Defined Datacenter using VMware product line.

Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Client : - Dubai Airports (Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport)Job Responsibilities:• Provided advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution on VMware and Storage Infrastructure spread across 4 datacenters, with 7 vCenter servers, 300+ ESXi servers, 3000+ Virtual Machines and 900 TB + Storage (Flash and SAS).Deployed VMware vSAN Stretched Infrastructure of 9 Clusters at 2 separate datacenters.Managed compute and storage resource capacity to optimize system performance, increasing VM density by over 30% by effectively utilizing compression, de-duplication and vROPs reporting.Part of the team that designed and implemented High Availability and DR solutions resulting in successful production failover to alternate datacenters. Automation and implemention of operations best practices through Scripting and PowerCLI.Research root cause of problems and involve vendor support as necessary.Managing problem and service tickets ensuring timely resolution to meet SLA’s.Provides support outside of normal business hours to fulfill production and project needs, provided 24x7 on-call support for high escalations and unexpected outages.Ensures operational processes are clearly defined, documented, communicated, updated and standardized.Provides project leadership for the customer major VMware and Storage initiatives.

Uae

Job Responsibilities:• Design, Test, Implement and Management of VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4.x and 5.x Infrastructure with vCenter management, DRS, HA, VMware Update Manager and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).• Designed, Test, Implemented successfully a new VMware Datacenter for Islamic Banking Development and Testing.• Designed, Test and Implemented successfully the Backup Solution for VMware Infrastructure using EMC Avamar• Sever Consolidation Project of Windows and Linux Servers through P2V migration.• Implemented Security Baseline on ESXi, vCenters, vNetworks and Virtual Machines• Storage Management and Pathing (SAN / iSCSI / Fiber Channel).• Virtual Networking (Switching/VLANs/VMkernel/Port groups)• Performance Monitoring and Fine-Tuning.• VM Image backups and restorations at Image/File level through Avamar Proxies • Backup of Active Directory and Exchange databases and restoration at granular level• System State/Bare Metal backups and restores of Windows Servers• Troubleshooting issues in VMware and Avamar to fix failed backups/restores of VMs • Disk Management and RAID configuration in IBM and HP servers• Firmware upgrades for components such as Blade Servers, ILO/AMM, RAID Controllers, Bladecenter Switches, Storage Disks• CA Service Desk is used to troubleshoot/resolved the reported issues and support requests within the designed SLA

Job Responsibilities:• Designed and Implemented successfully a new VMware Datacenter for a new Site• Effectively managed VMware infrastructure with 50+ ESXi servers • Installed, Configured and Upgraded VMware ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter servers• Patch and Updates installation on ESX/ESXi hosts and VMs through Update Manager • Supported and maintained 1000+ Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 servers located across the globe.• Configured, Managed and Administered Active Directory, DHCP and DNS• Performance Monitoring, Reporting and Optimization of Windows Servers• Creating standard server builds and server migrations• Installation and Administration of Failover Clusters and Load Balancing Servers• Coordinated between 3rd party and onsite engineers for Production Servers (IBM Blade Servers HS21, HS22, Hx5 and Xseries) hardware related issues. • Issues and Support Requests were reported in BMC Remedy which were resolved within SLA

Job Responsibilities:Maintained 1500+ windows servers (NT, 2000 and 2003) located at different sites in EMEA region.Supported 80+ applications, of which few are critical and hosted in Citrix.Maintained production and testing servers using tools like Dame Ware, Remote Desktop and ILOPart of Pro-Active team, to restrict possible faults of known issues and providing permanent fixResolved priority1&2 issues related to OS and Client Applications.Worked on CIM (Compaq Insight Manager) and coordinated between 3rd party and onsite engineers for hardware related issuesResolution of Service Requests (SR) executed through BMC Patrol in Remedy, change management (GCARS) and work assigned on an adhoc basis by L3 management team