Fahad Ahmed Siddiqui, Senior Infrastructure Consultant

Fahad Ahmed Siddiqui

Senior Infrastructure Consultant

ROAD TRANSPORT AUTHORITY-RTA

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Master, Marketing
Expérience
17 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 5 Mois

Senior Infrastructure Consultant à ROAD TRANSPORT AUTHORITY-RTA
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis juin 2021

Projects:
Upgraded Scaleio to PowerFlex 3.6 of all DEV/STG/PR and DR Storages.
Upgraded RHEL 7.4 to 7.9 required for CDP Upgrade of more than 70 Servers.
Upgraded Data Domain DD6800 and DD6900 OS to 7.7 of PR and DR environment.

Responsibilities:
Managing complete Big Data Platform Infrastructure.
Proactive participation in value addition and stability of platform.
Complete Data Center Support of BDP Dell Hardware installed incl Dell PowerEdge, Data Domain.
Support the BDP Application team from Infra side on all tools like HDFS, Impala, KAFKA, Informatica Cloudera, Hive and Data/Master/Worker Nodes.
Responsible for Linux Servers Administration of KVM/Physical servers in Big Data Environment.
Responsible for Backups using DELL Networker and Data Domain DD Series.
Responsible for Managing Software Defined Storage Storage ScaleIO-VxFlex-PureFlex.
Monitoring of all Bigdata platform infrastructure and maintenance.

Senior System Administrator à Meezan Bank Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • septembre 2016 à juin 2022

virtualization, Storage, , backups, Linux, AIX, SCCM,

Assistant Manager Systems (Linux/AIX) à TPL Holdings Pvt Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • mars 2015 à septembre 2016

• Works on AIX, Linux, IBM Power Series Servers.
• Works on Symantec Netbackup and IBM Storewise v7000 SAN.
• Installed several LAMP Stack servers for successfully deployments of company online ssl enabled websites.
• Clean Red Hat/AIX OS Installation & deployment/upgrading of Oracle Financials (App servers and db server)
• Managing and keep updating DR/BCP site for all major applications
• Plans and implements Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Processes/Procedures
• Coordinates with the Vendors-Support Providers for the timely resolutions of the problems

Technical Analyst à Standard Chartered Bank
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • décembre 2013 à mars 2015

• Conducted 2 Half Yearly Successfully DR Drill for all the critical applications.
• Responsible for core IT infrastructure support in all over Pakistan.
• Works on IBM WAS, Linux scripting, IBM & Dell Servers.
• Works on IBM DS4800, T3100.
• Works on BMC Remedy Tool, on incident, Change, and Problem Management Modules.
• Linux and Windows Servers Support, including hardware and software of all Servers in Bank.
• Core Banking Application Support.
• Plans and implements Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Processes/Procedures
• Coordinates with the Vendors-Support Providers for the timely resolutions of the problems
• Administration and Maintenance of Data Centre Servers and Applications

IT Service Desk Lead à Engro Corporation Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • novembre 2008 à mai 2013

• Implemented, Change Management, Problem Management, and Incident Management via Alexxo tool.
• Service Management tool Alexxo administration and compliance.
• IBM and HP Servers mounting as per standards, software installation on servers in Data Center.
• Installation of FM-200 Fire alarm system in data center and got its training.
• UPS maintenance and their health monitoring.
• Over 300 nodes LAN support in Windows environment..
• Managing 9 members Service Management team on site and on remote locations.
• Performance Evaluation of IT Service Management Team.
• Communications Links troubleshooting, Lotus Notes and MS. Exchange support
• Initiate and implementation of Tandberg Video conferencing and achieved 1.5 million/m saving by reducing frequent traveling.
• IP Camera Support, Monitoring, vendor management,
• Link connectivity troubleshooting, vendor correspondence.
• Deployment of more than 30 Cisco AP 1130 & 1140 in HO and in Plants/Field Offices.
• SAP ECC6, User, Role & Profile Management
• SAP ECC6, Change & Transport Management

System Operations Engineer à NIB Bank
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • septembre 2008 à novembre 2008

2. Worked in NIB Bank as a System Operations Engineer from 2 September 2008 to 16 November '2008.

Responsibilities:
• Worked on IBM P590 Server machines.
• Providing AIX, SAN support on main site and DR site.
• Daily operations including Monitoring, Daily Backups and maintaining Health of the servers on AIX OS.
• Monitoring DATA Center and Servers.

Supervisor Helpdesk à Pakistan Petroleum Limited
  • Pakistan
  • mai 2008 à août 2008

3. Worked in Pakistan Petroleum Limited as Supervisor Helpdesk from May 2008 to August 2008.
Responsibilities:
• Over 600 nodes support including Notebooks, Desktop Machines, Thin Clients, Printers and scanners on remote sites as well.
• Managing Helpdesk Engineers, and daily helpdesk routines tasks.

Supervisor Helpdesk & NOC in TDS à Systems Innovations Si3
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • janvier 2007 à avril 2008

4. Worked in Systems Innovations Si3 (Pvt.) Limited as Supervisor Helpdesk & NOC in TDS function fromApril 2007 to 10 April 2008.

Responsibilities:
• Previously works as Customer Care Consultant and then promoted to Supervisor Helpdesk& NOC.
• Got two months "employee of the months" awards.
• Customer Satisfaction in respect to the clients support.
• Floor management of support department.
• First Level Monitoring and controlling of support.
• Training and Development of Team.
• Roster management for team.
• Implementing policies and procedures as per SOP.
• Process development for support department.
• ISP related issues monitoring.
• Data center Support and First level support of LAN/WAN Links.

Service Desk Engineer à Warid Telecom
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • juin 2006 à avril 2007

5. Worked in WARID Telecom (www.waridtel.com) as Service Desk Engineer on the behalf of DWP Group (June 2006-April 2007.
Responsibilities: • Bridges the IT sub-divisions. IT Helpdesk Trainings
• Escalate the Major Issues to the respective concerns.
• Provides instant updates to the Helpdesk.
• Acquiring instant updates regarding any IT issue.
• Monitoring Helpdesk performance.

Éducation

Master, Marketing
  • à Federal Govt. Urdu University
  • janvier 2011

MBA (Marketing) 2014 Federal Govt. Urdu University 1st Division

Baccalauréat, Computer Engineering
  • à Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
  • avril 2006

B.S (Computer Engg.) 2006 Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology 1stDivision

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, pre-Engineering
  • à Board Of Intermediate Education Karachi
  • janvier 2001

HSC (Pre-Engg) 2001 Board Of Intermediate Education Karachi B Grade

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Science
  • à Board Of Secondary Education Karachi
  • janvier 1999

S.S.C (Science) 1999 Board Of Secondary Education Karachi A Grade

Tests de Bayt.com

Computer Skills Test
Score 75%

Specialties & Skills

Service Management
System Administration
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DATA CENTER
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
IBM Websphere
TRAINING
IBM Websphere
IT Helpdesk/ Service Desk
IBM TSM
IBM Filenet
Windows Servers
Servers Support
IBM Websphere MQ
ITIL Implementation
Symantec NetBackup
windows network administration
windows server 2008
windows server 2003
windows server
computer hardware troubleshooting
microsoft servers
system administration
linux server
storage
Backups

Langues

Urdu
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

Microsoft Azure Administrator (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2023
DELL EMC INFORMATION STORAGE & MANAGEMENT (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2022
DELL EMC INFORMATION STORAGE & MANAGEMENT (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2022
DELL EMC INFORMATION STORAGE & MANAGEMENT (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2022
ITIL V3 Foundation Certified (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2012
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999