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Cairo, Egypt

- Manage and oversee all IT Operations and staff over multiple geographically dispersed office locations.- Responsible for the IT mixed Infrastructure (Linux, Windows, AWS Cloud, Jira, SharePoint).- Develop IT strategy, plan, implement, maintain and manage Data Centre, Server and Storage Systems and technologies that enable all IT services required for reliable and safe operations.- Perform monitoring, analysis, and administration of enterprise cyber security solutions.- Manage and coordinate IT support staff, including workload management, task allocation, and professional development.- Train new staff on use of equipment and advise training program to existing staff if necessary and as identified.- Serve as primary liaison with outside technology vendors.- Develop and maintain corporate IT policies regarding the execution and testing of information storage, system back-ups (on-site and on the Cloud), recovery, and offsite tape storage.- Lead and manage IT projects according to previously determined budgets and schedules.- Recommend enhancements of current systems based on performance and staff needs.- Secure the Server and Storage infrastructure including Data against internal and external malicious threats and attacks.- Ensure the highest possible availability of the Server and Storage infrastructure through redundant architecture and design.- Manage the professional and efficient: System Administration, operations, documentation, maintenance and support of IT systems.- Perform technology needs analysis including new product testing, quality assurance, hardware testing, and documentation.- Actively engage in company-wide technology improvement projects according to agreed budgets and schedules.

Kurdistan - Sulaymaniyah

• Manage all duties related to Linux/UNIX large-scale server environment with +250 Red Hat, CentOS, SuSE, Debian, AIX and Solaris physical/virtual servers, hosting over 60 DBs.• Install software and patches, manage file systems, troubleshoot and upgrade Web-servers hardware and software for Red Hat, Solaris, CentOS, SuSE and AIX environments.• Monitor servers and network performance, check Web navigation and control email use, and handle the reported alerts.• Configuring EC2, VPC, S3 and EBS and other AWS services.• Evaluate, install and administer servers’ hardware, networking software, operating system software and software applications.• Analyze and tune system environments for peak performance, and analyze the system logs to identify the potential issues.• Monitor servers and network performance using scripts and master consoles, and implement network traffic and monitoring security software.• Supervise, manage multiple projects simultaneously and guide other workers.• Create Bash Shell scripts to automate system management and proactively alert to system and software failures.• Design Puppet modules and Ansible Playbooks to manage configurations and automate installation process.• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24×7 technical support.• Responsible for capacity planning, including allocating storage, providing hardware and software redundancy, and planning future expansion requirements.• Provide problem-solving services to Web servers end-users, network users, and DB servers admins.• Perform routine audit of systems, users, network and software.• Provide regular training to system admins on a variety of administration topics.• Manage and lead hardware/software migration process, and insure the consistency and integrity of file systems.• Establish and maintain detailed DR communications and control plans through a change management process.

Egypt - Cairo

• Installs, configures and maintains an organization's operating systems (AIX, Solaris, Redhat, Suse).• Analyzes and resolves problems associated with server hardware UNIX, applications software. Detects, diagnoses, and reports UNIX related problems on servers.• Installs new user accounts, creates batch administration scripts, and runs system backups and disaster recovery.• Monitors and tunes systems software, peripherals, and networks for optimal performance.• Working with the Network Manager to maintain the network infrastructure.• ORACLE, DB2 and MySQL administration.• Ensuring efficient migration, backups, recovery, reorganization, performance tuning and capacity planning.• Installing and configuring SAN/NAS volumes.• Developing, maintaining, applying and promoting documented standards and procedures for database administration.• Keeping up to date with company’s standards, policies and procedures that affect the implementation of IT responsibilities.• Providing technical support, troubleshooting consulting, management, and production support for lotus notes.

Egypt - Cairo

• Administer and maintain VAS systems and LAN network through continuously monitoring its performance, handling errors and faults to ensure maximum availability and minimal costly downtimes.• Secure assets from unauthorized access and modifications, and audit all activities on servers and network.• Handle customer complaints and troubleshoot network/system alarms.• Handle standard UNIX/Linux services like SSH, FTP, NFS, NIS, LDAP, DNS, Samba, DHCP.• Responsible on network surveillance activities on different network nodes.• Perform shell scripting to ease and automate system logs monitoring process.• Check and evaluate hardware status for servers and network elements.• Follow up and integrate with other teams during any night activities.• Work on master consoles to monitor the servers and network performance.• Perform different types of data backups and ensure we can restore it correctly if needed.• Create various reports at night shift based on network KPI.

Egypt - Cairo

• Implementing and supporting Redhat, Solaris and AIX.• OS [Redhat, Solaris], DB [Postgree] and applications installations and configurations.• Remotely connected to +30 branches over Egypt, and the branches all over the Arabic world.• Networking maintenance.• DNS, Proxy, LANs, WANs, TCP/IP connectivity, network infrastructure.• Routers and switches configurations.• Perform systems routine backups.• Apply patches and upgrade packages.• Working with web-based applications to support +60 agents through it.

Egypt - Cairo

Bsc, Eletrical Engineering

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