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Abdullah Alzahrani, Cloud Solutions Consultant

Abdullah Alzahrani

Cloud Solutions Consultant

Ericsson AB

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, امن المعلومات
Experience
15 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months

Cloud Solutions Consultant at Ericsson AB
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2020

NFVI
SDN, SDI, SDS, Openstack, CCD(kubernetes)

Security Operations & Data centers Manager at King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2017 to March 2020

- writing RFPs.
- Proposals analysis and evaluation.
-IT Budgeting.
- IT Infrastructure performance measurement (KPI) and link it to IT strategy.
- IT project management.
- Implementations & Migrations.
- Operation supervision (ITIL driven).
- Technical Documentation.
- Establishing the security division.
- Writing policies and procedures.
- Vulnerability management.
- Design and deploy Mcafee AV including EPO,
MOVE, ..., etc
- Design and deploy security devices such as NGFW, Mail gateway, WAF, Loadbalancer, ...., etc.
- Design and deploy backup solution (EMC Networker & Data Domain).
- Managing daily operations.

Information Technology specialist I at King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital - KAAUH
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2014 to January 2017

- Building a new Data Center with DR.
- writing RFPs.
- proposals analysis and evaluation.
- Technical Authority.
- Operation supervision (ITIL driven).
- Technical Documentation.
- sizing and Technical approval for the followings:
*VDI (VMware Horizon) including storage IOPS sizing.
*Virtual infrastructure ( ESXi) (Servers, storage and Licenses)
*Exchange Server 2013
*Active Directory 2012
*F5 GTM & LTM
*storage and Backup.
*End point security.
*SQL Farm
- Red Hat Linux configuration and troubleshooting.

Senior systems engineer at international systems engineering
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2014 to July 2014

VMware esxi vsphere 5.5
VMware Horizon View (VDI)
Brocade SAN switches (Expert)
NetApp storage (Expert)
UCS Cisco Blade Servers
HP Blade Servers
CommVault enterprise backup (Expert)
F5 LTM 1600 load balancer (Expert)
Account technical authority
AD & messaging consultant (Expert)

Technical Support Engineer at International System Engineering - ISE
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2011 to May 2014

• Cisco devices configuration and troubleshooting (Routers, Switches & Firewalls).
• HP server machines. (Expert)
• MS Windows Server 2003&2008, Domain Controller (Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, GPO) (Expert)
. Brocade SAN Switches. (Expert)
• MS Exchange Server 2003 & 2010. (The main role). (Expert)
• MS Lync 2010.
• File Server.
• Printer Server.
• MS Windows XP, Vista & windows 7.
• NetApp Storage Devices (SAN & NAS). (Expert)
• McAfee Orchestrator Enterprise Anti-virus.
• LANDesk Management.
• Blackberry Enterprise System. (Advanced)
• Commvault Enterprise Backup.(Expert)
. Lumension Endpoint Security
. BlueCoat Appliance
. Service map design..
. Brocade SAN Switch.(Expert)

System Engineer at Systems Networks Company (SNC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2008 to June 2011

• Cisco devices configuration and troubleshooting (routers, switches & ASA firewalls).
• HP Server machines.
• MS Windows Server 2003, Domain Controller (Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, GPO)
• MS Exchange Server 2003 .
• WSUS Server .
• File Server.
• Printing Server.
• MS Windows XP, Vista & windows 7.
• NetApp Storage Devices.
• McAfee Orchestrator Enterprise Anti-virus.
• Symantec Veritas Backup Exec.
• GFI EndPoint Security.

Education

Master's degree, امن المعلومات
  • at الجامعة السعودية الإلكترونية
  • May 2020
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Jamiat Umm Al-Qura
  • July 2008

Engineering College

Specialties & Skills

NetApp
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Windows Server 2008
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Windows Server 2003
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Blackberry Enterprise Server
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Messaging Systems
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Windows Server 2003,2008 and 2012
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Mcafee Orchestrator Server
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Symantic Backup Exec
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Exchange Server 2003, 2010 & 2013
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NetApp
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CommVault Enterprise Backup
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Blackberry Enterprise Server
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LanDesk
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Lync 2010
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RedHat Linux
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Load Balancer (F5 & cisco ACE)
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CISSP
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CISM
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GFI LanGuard
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Vulnerability Assessment
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Vblock VCE
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Service Excellence
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EMC Networker & DataDomain
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Risk Management
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Incident Response
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mail
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linux
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microsoft servers
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vmware
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system administration
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software ‎defined ‎network ‎
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software ‎defined ‎storage ‎
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Juniper ‎Networks ‎
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Cisco Routers, switches and Firewalls
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software ‎defined ‎infrastructure ‎
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Languages

Arabic
Expert
Indonesian
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

F5 Application Security Manager (ASM) (Training)
Training Institute:
F5
Date Attended:
December 2018
Duration:
32 hours
Secure your network with Firepower (NGFW) (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco
Date Attended:
September 2018
Duration:
40 hours
Change Leadership in Times of Crisis (Training)
Training Institute:
Dale Carnegie
Date Attended:
November 2015
Duration:
16 hours
Effective Communication skills (Training)
Training Institute:
Dale Carnegie
Date Attended:
August 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Red Hat 7 system administration (Training)
Training Institute:
RedHat
Date Attended:
May 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Palo Alto Essentials (Training)
Training Institute:
Palo Alto
Date Attended:
May 2017
Duration:
40 hours
● McAfee EPO Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
McAfee
Date Attended:
April 2018
Duration:
32 hours
Vxblock Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
Dell-EMC-VCE
Date Attended:
February 2018
Duration:
40 hours
CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) (Training)
Training Institute:
ISC2
Date Attended:
March 2019
Duration:
40 hours
CCNA Security (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco
Date Attended:
February 2014
CISM ( Certified Information Security Manager) (Training)
Training Institute:
ISACA
Date Attended:
October 2019
Duration:
40 hours
CommVault Backup Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
Commvault Backup Eng. (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
NetApp Storage Networking (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
MCITP Exchange Server 2010 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
July 2010
MCITP Enterprise admin (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
May 2012