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Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Lahore, Pakistan

Lead the deployment of Redhat Openstack and Redhat Openshift clusters on RHV and physical nodes for Telenor Pakistan (a Telco based company). This deployment was based on 7xOpenshift, 7xOpenstack and 13xRHV Cluster hosted in multiple logical zones. Secured project timelines and effort cost.Lead the design and deployment of Redhat Openshift cluster in United Bank Limited. Project was based on 4 Redhat Openshift UPI clusters deployment (3 Baremetal & 1 VMware based).Lead the design and revamp infrastructure of ASA Microfinance bank. Configured two VCenter clusters along with 4 Redhat Openshift clusters, PPDM with Unity for data protection and checkmk for visibility. Lead deployment of 4 Redhat Openshift cluster for hosting IBM Cloudpak for integration for their services in MCB bank.Deployed the VMware hybrid cloud platform using VSan Ready nodes as Management pod and Supermicro for workload pod.Design and lead workload migrations from VMWare to HyperV.Planning of project costing, financial feasibility and BOQ readiness. Responsible for successful deliveries within agreed proposed architecture and project plans.Responsible for project documentations readiness like CostCase, SOW, HLD, LLD, PIP, Risk Register, RACI, Effort Estimations, Project Baseline, Project plan variance, Project controlling Document etc.Managing Azure, AWS EC2, Oracle OCI and GoDaddy Clouds.Responsible for the team building, team enablement strategy, training and certifications plan.Responsible for OEM Partnership enablement programs.Handling Virtual Infrastructure based on VMWare and HyperV.Configured Opensource Monitoring Systems like Nagios, Zabbix, Check_mk, ELK and OpenNMS.Preparation of SOP's and Operations Manual Procedure.Infra management and Patching of Unix Servers using Ansible.Handling Barracuda Load Balancers.Configured IPMI based Intel DataCenter Energy Directory and IP KVM for RasGas (Qatar)Handling Web Cluster environment for Muntajat (Qatar).

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Design and implementation of DataCenter using Vmware Vcenter.Implementation of DRS policies.Configuration of Ticketing and Support Queue Systems.Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning, Patch Management and System Hardening.Coordinating and supporting vendors in configuration in ERP systems.Installation and Configuration of Oracle 10g on Linux base Servers.Email Alert Notification Configuration in Oracle.Configuration of Symantec NetBackup.Monitoring and notification of system resources consumptions.Designing and Implementation of Disaster recovery plan.Installation of MySql and Postgresql.Configuration of IBM AIX Servers, Management of HMC, LPAR, WPAR, Micro Partitioning, LVM Management, SMIT and NIM.Manage system auditing and Central logging.Configuration and management of Project Management base open source software.Maintained of complete hardware record and dealing with vendors.Controlling Remote site IT basis issue. Managing remote assistance.Design Overall LAN & Wan Solution for the Organization.Perform system tuning, investigate and resolve systems and security problems.

Plan / coordinate / perform application and system level changes for best resources utilization.Perform availability / performance trending, monitoring and analysis of the systems.Configuration of EMC Networker, Amanda and rsync scripts for Data backups.Liaison amongst Systems Support and other internal departments (24/7 Operations, handling Data Centers, Servers, Network Support, Help Desk, Development, Client/Product management, etc.) to address product design and operational issues.Monitor, identify, and resolve production capacity, contention, and resource deficiencies.Linux/Unix administration for nfs, nis, shell scripting, performance tuning, proactive monitoring, patch management, and Linux workstation end-user support.Configuration and implementation of Diskless clients like sunray.Implementation and maintenance of OS according to CMMI and PCI standards.Dealing with international vendors regarding data center administration, Hardware purchase/Lease. Perform scheduling vulnerabilities scanning for system threats and perform remedies accordingly.Configuration of open-source for monitoring of Live Production servers/services including (Sockets, Memory, Processor and processes, Log files).Configuration and handling of Open Source for Mail Sever like Qmail, Postfix, Zimbra.etc.Configuration of Alert system containing WebUI sound base, Email and SMS Base like OpenNMS, Nagios and advent manager To monitor and analyses the usage and performance of the system against contracted Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets & report.Work closely with the IT Helpdesk team to proactively identify common problem areas around the IT information system and provide training/support to end users around those areas.Perform system tuning, investigate and resolve systems and security problems.

Master Of Information And Technology, Network And System Administration/Administrator, A

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting, A

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