Shakeel Ahmad Email & Phone Number

Lahore, Pk

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Design, configure, and tune highly-available Linux systems, handle all upgrades and security patches at OS level, perform configuration, maintenance, support, and engineering tasks• Installation and configuration of new Linux-based systems (CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, RedHat, etc.), performing routine tasks, such as systems monitoring, OS patching and upgrading, upgrading administrative tools, performing security tasks, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, etc.• In-depth senior-level hands-on technical experience with Linux Systems (various flavors of Linux)• Perform daily operating system monitoring, investigate, and troubleshoot problems• Schedule and apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis• Install 3rd party tools and utilities• Perform daily tasks including filesystem maintenance, user and group maintenance, etc.• Perform daily OS backup operations• Understanding of virtualization environments (ESXi)• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments• Create and modify scripts to perform or automate various tasks• HPE Firmware Upgrade• ESXi Upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0• Oracle Linux Manager (spacewalk) deployment and configuration for US, UK, Korea, Ireland and Turkey regions and performed patching with Oracle Linux Manger

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Management of all Linux Servers including installations, configurations and Hardenings• Management of all Linux Servers through Red Hat Insights portal• Installation of OS secruity patches on Linux Servers using locally created repositories• Rebootless patching of kernel with kpatch• Patching of Exadata, Sun Solaris and Oracle Linux servers in collaboration with vendor• Configuration of Local KSplice Repository and reboot less patching using KSplice (Local ULN mirror)• Management of all In house applications running in current environment• Privileged Access Management (Beyond Trust) end to end Deployment and management • Apache and tomcat Web Server configurations• PHP installation and configurations• Monitoring systems performance through Nagios and PHP server monitor• Measure and optimize the services and Systems, manage alerts, ensure availability, tune performance and ensure secure systems and applications• Analyzing System Logs and identifying potential issues on Linux servers• Fixation of vulnerabilities on all Linux machines• SSL Certificate installation on Apache and Tomcat based Web Servers• Management of Virtual Environment (VMWare / VSphere)• Configure PV’s, VG’s and LV’s for storage mounting• Create shell scripts for different taks or Jobs for automation of routine tasks• McAfee Endpoint security installation, configuration and management on Linux servers• ESXI installation and upgrade including configurations (VLAN tagging, NTP configurations)• Upgrade V-Centre and migration to virtual appliance• Virtul machine creation and migrtions from one host to another• Assign storage to virtal machines, Create and attach datastore to virtual machines

Lahore, Pakistan

• Management of Linux Servers (Installations to configurations).• Installing operating system patches on Linux servers and revert back plans in case of any issues• Maintaining systems documentation including operating system installation and system• configuration sheets• Installing and configuring Linux operating systems and system softwares on servers• Measure and optimize the services and Systems, manage alerts, ensure availability, tune performance and ensure securecsystems and applications• Analyzing System Logs and identifying potential issues on Linux servers• Maintained 400+ Linux Servers• Apache and tomcat configurations• PHP installations and configurations• Virtual patch management and Intrusion Prevention/Detection using Trend Micro Deep Security• Access and Identity management through Centrify Server Suite• Fixation of vulnerabilities on all Linux machines• Apply OS patches on linux servers from RHEL6 to RHEL8 using locally configured repositories• Support multiple application vendors to deploy application patches on production servers• Configure PV’s, VG’s and LV’s for storage mounting• Collaboration with support vendors like Red Hat, Oracle, Centrify and Microsoft for troubleshooting the production issuea• Create shell scripts for different taks or Jobs for automation of routine tasks• Coordinate with relevant department and resolve SOC tickets• Incidents management on Security Incident Response plan portal• Ensuring parity between dev, test and production environments• Communicate with users when needed• Assist in integrating new applications and technologies into the current system• Assisting with day-to-day troubleshooting and deployment tasks involving Servers and Applications • Managing, troubleshooting Symantec endpoint protection antivirus.• Basic knowledge of Virtual Environment (VMWare / VSphere).• Integration of all windows desktop with MS SCCM for remote management, OS patching and monitoring

Lahore

Worked as Teacher Assistant( Database Administrations). Here i learn to explore students, evaluation tasks. Actually that's the point which make me audience friendly. It's build and strengthen my confidence.

Lahore

Internship at Artificial Intelligence and Multidisciplinary Lab (AIMRL) PUCITWorked on my FYP (Concurrent versions System and Literature Review Assistant), School Management System(Web Based and Desktop based). Wedeployed these projects for Punjab University College of Information Technology and also performed backup and recovery of the system. Weautomate the process of creating new Backups and delete the old backups on specific time stamp. We also managed the accounts of users andtheir repositories.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics

Intermediate, Computer Science

Matric, Science