Ahmed Shaik, Senior System Administrator

Ahmed Shaik

Senior System Administrator

Black Knight India Solutions Ltd

Location
India - Hyderabad
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
16 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 1 Months

Senior System Administrator at Black Knight India Solutions Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • My current job since July 2016

• Working with Development Team to manage the Azure environment.
• Monitoring performance on all environments (CPU, disk space, etc.) to ensure smooth running of all environments.
• Deploying, monitoring, managing and scaling workloads on virtual machines (VMs)
• Configuring Virtual Networks, designing and implementing multi-site or hybrid network connectivity
• Experience in developing solutions with Azure active directory
• Experience in AD migration
• Analyze and fix performance problems with the Azure Platform and SaaS application software.
• Work with the Operations and Product Development teams to automate deployments and support production systems
• Exposure of successful Cloud migration for enterprise level applications
• Experienced with Azure SQL, Azure Automation, and Azure Resource Manager
• Hands-on experience managing cloud IaaS environments using IaaS in Azure.
• Exposure to containerization tools such as Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Creating and documenting disaster recovery plan.
• Working with development team and key stake holders to create plan for monitoring Azure resources.
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud-based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
• Build, release and configuration management of production systems.
• Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services
• Have good experience in IIS FTP administration/configuration and Knowledge on SFTP.
• Experience in Powershell Scripting
• Having Good experience in installation, CSR generation and renewal of SSL certificates on IIS ANM and BigIP LB.
• Hands on experience in creation of Microsoft AD users, groups, OUs, Domains and GPOs.
• Having very good understanding on virtualization techniques like VMWARE, Citrix XEN
• Maintaining multiple Internal/External websites on Dev, QA, UAT, CTs and PROD environments
• Good experience in installation and configuration of IIS websites and app pools
• Experience in migrating web applications from IIS 6.0 to IIS 8
• Having good experience in SSL installation, CSR generation, renewal and import/export through VENAFI
• Creating Application Pools and assigning them to web applications
• Good knowledge in using IPCONFIG, NSLOOKUP, TELNET tools to debug network related issues.
• Working experience with BigIP LB pools, virtual servers and iRules
• Good experience in collecting memory dumps
• In-depth experience performing IIS log analysis to identify web server issues
• Experience in coordinating with Development team, project management team to resolve issues faster.
• Good experience in configuring and managing web servers and SQL servers on clustered environments
• Hands on experience in analyzing Applications logs, System logs, Security logs by using Event Viewer and analyzing network traces
• Provided 24x7 on call Production support on shift basis

Senior Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra
  • India - Hyderabad
  • May 2008 to June 2016

 Responsible for Installing, configuring, and supporting IIS 7.0/6.0 web servers on windows server 2008.
 Worked extensively on installation, upgrade and configuration of MS SQL Server 2005 and MS SQL Server 2008 on a Standalone and Cluster Servers as a Single instance and multiple instances.
 Maintained databases, configured permissions, and conducted backup and recovery.
 Deploying ASP.Net and web applications on IIS 6..0 and on IIS 7.0
 Experienced in configuring the application pool recycling for greater reliability.
 Monitoring IIS application logs, System logs and security logs by using Event Viewer for troubleshooting application and windows server related issues.
 Good experience in debugging ASP.NET and IIS related issues
 Involved in Performance tuning and optimizations of web applications using administrative tools like PERFMON and Task Manager.
 Worked in configuring TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS
 Support and participate in the on call rotation for maintenance and troubleshooting of IIS websites and windows servers.
 Participated in the updating security Patches and application related updates.
 Have experience in migrating applications and websites from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 and from win 2003 to 2008.
 Installing and configuring SSL certificates for the particular websites for the security purpose.
 Have good working experience and implemented different Load balancing Methodologies to ensure the High Availability of ASP.net and web applications in the Production environment.
 Set up database connectivity and established connection pools.
 Worked with Load Balancers and virtual IP's (VIP's) in clustered and non-clustered environments.
 Configured Virtual servers by using Hyper-V technology
 Experience in using SCOM tool for monitoring the health and performance of the servers.
• As application support in expert using the Ontime and eSupport Tool, which has around 150 applications and sub applications.
• Team player with excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Excellent time management skills and highly organized with attention to details.
• Worked under pressure in a multi-task environment.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at Ellenki College of Engineering and Technology
  • May 2006

4 year degree

Specialties & Skills

CA Spectrum
Web Servers
Windows Azure
Deployment
ADMINISTRATION
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
DEBUGGING

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Telugu
Expert

Hobbies

  • Internet, Movies