IT Infrastructure Architect & Consultant
Arab National Bank Riyadh
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :20 years, 0 أشهر
IT Infrastructure Consultant for UNIX/Storage/Backup systems
IT Infrastructure Team Lead
* Have lead and directed the team by understanding business processes, gathering requirements,
identifying potential usability issues, managing scope, and ensuring that an appropriate level of
application quality maintained at all times
* Managed a team consisting of system architects, backup engineers, storage engineers and partner
resources.
* Worked on solution designs and implementation of 19 HP Superdome2 Systems and consolidating old
UNIX systems to Superdome2`s.
* Managed NCB Major Project PCI-DSS Implementation in UNIX/Backup & Storage
* Managed NCB Major Storage migration Project and actively worked on data migration phases
* Designed and developed UNIX/Linux Access Control application using LDAP
* Designed and Implemented EMC Data Domain Implementation Project (Virtual Tape Library Solution).
* Designed and Implemented UNIX/Linux Systems Single Sign On Project (UNIX LDAP)
* Designed and Implemented UNIX/Linux DNS Server Upgrade and Migrate Project.
* Designed and Implemented EMC Networker Backup Solution for NCB Jeddah/Dammam & Riyadh
* Designed and Implemented EMC Avamar Backup Solution for NCB Jeddah region
* Designed and Managed EMC VMAX & VNX Implementation Project
* Managed EMC Recovery Point Implementation project.
* Implemented Password Automated Repository System project
for UNIX/Storage/Backup/Oracle team
Projects Handled in Bahrain
* Designed and Implemented Bahrain Saudi Bank UNIX systems with MC Service Guard and HP Storage
project.
* Designed and Implemented HP Storage and Backup solution for Investment Dar Bank customer.
* Designed and Implemented HP Storage and Backup solution for Bahrain Credit customer.
* Developed Disaster Recovery solution using HP remote storage replication for Alsalam Bank customer.
* Designed and Implemented Infrastructure Enhancement and Database migration Oracle RAC for
Hewlett Packard (HP), India
To Provide L3 level Unix remote support to US clients
for Windows/UNIX/Storage/Backup
* Installation and administration of HP 9000 / Sun / HCL Infiniti servers
* Designing the distribution of disk controllers and disks for optimum performance and fail proof
operations.
* Installation and configuration of HP-UX 11.00 with Mirror/UX and Solaris with SVM
* Installation and configuration of more than 300 Redhat LINUX systems for HCL Customer NIC High
court
* Configuring Windows Clusters, HPUX M/C service guard & SUN Clustering solutions
* Configuring Cluster packages
* Backup Management.
* Software Management.
* Network Management
* Disk, User and Patch management and Performance Monitoring and Optimization
* Disk usage, Process utilization and network monitoring
* Perform regular Ignite backup of all HPUX servers.
* Checking functionality of EMC CX600 storage, HP VA and HP EVA storage arrays.
* Co-ordinate with HCL Customers to implement new servers, storages etc.
* Implementing OS hardening for security purposes
Pre-Sales
Professional network
LinkedIn
Enterprise Architecting TOGAF 9.1 Level1 and Level2
* E20-918 - EMC IT-as-a-Service Cloud Expert
* E20-018 - EMC Virtualized Datacenter and Cloud Infrastructure Design
Specialist.
* E20-507 - EMC VMAX3 Solutions Specialist Exam for Storage Administrators
* Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCAH)
HPUX 10+ Years Expert
Solaris 10+ Years Expert
Linux 10+ Years Expert
UnixWare/SCO-Unix 4 Years Expert
Novel Netware 2 Years Intermediate
Windows Server 2+ Years Intermediate
Backup Solutions
HP Dataprotector 10+ Years Expert
HP StoreOnce & ESL/MSL 8+ Years Expert
HP Backup Navigator 1Year Intermediate
EMC Networker 4+ Years Expert
EMC DataDomain 4+ Years Expert
EMC Avamar 3 + Years Expert
EMC DPA 3+ Years Expert
Storage Solutions
HP XP, 3PAR &EVA 5+ Years Expert
HP MSA 4+ Years Expert
HP VA & HP StoreAll 4+ Years Expert
EMC Clarion & VNX 4+ Years Expert
EMC VPLEX &Recovery Point 4+ Years Expert
EMC VMAX 4+ Years Expert
SAN Switches
Brocade 8+ Years Expert
Cisco 4+ Years Expert
Mcdata 4+ Years Intermediate
Disaster Recovery Solutions
HP Continuous Access 4+ Years Expert
EMC SRDF 4+ Years Expert
EMC Time finder 4+ Years Expert
Oracle Dataguard 4+ Years Intermediate
High Availability Solutions
HP Serviceguard 7+ Years Expert
Redhat Clustering 3+ Years Expert
Oracle RAC 4+ Years Intermediate
SUN Clustering 2+ Years Intermediate
Database Systems Oracle 4+ Years Intermediate
Virtualization Solutions
HP nPar/vPar 8+ Years Expert
HP IVM 4+ Years Expert
VMware 4+ Years Intermediate
LDAP Solution HP Directory Server 4+ Years Expert
Enterprise Secure Key Manager SKM & ESKM 4+ Years Expert
HP-UX
* All versions of HP-UX OS installation and advanced level administrations.
* Expert knowledge in all versions of HP-UX starts from HPUX 10.00
* Deep knowledge in HP-UX kernel architecture.
* Performance Tuning and Root cause Analysis
* Experience in PA-RISC to Integrity Migrations and Consolidations.
* Configuring and Managing HP nPar/vPar partitions for HPUX instance in PA-RISC & Integrity Superdomes.
* Setting up HP MC Service Guard Clustering and ORACLE RAC Installation, Configuration and
Administration.
* Expert knowledge and experience in System Hardening.
* Building and Managing DNS Servers with Master / Slave Configuration and tuning the record updates.
* HP Auto Port Aggregation configuration and administration.
* Good knowledge and experience in SCSIMGR, NWMGR and managing Persistent DSF.
* Configuring SUDO templates and deploying in systems based on management requirements
* HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Planning and Configuration.
* Experience in HP 9000 Containers setup.
* Experience in HP PRM and knowledge about SRM
* Cold Installation and Upgrade of the HPUX OS from the lower versions to the version of 11.31.
* Ignite Installation, Configuration and Administration.
* DNS, DHCP, Software depot server installation and Administration.
* Deep Knowledge in the HP-UX Memory Architecture.
* Excellent shell scripting knowledge (awk, cut, loops, sed, functios, procedures etc)
* Dynamic Root DISK and DNS configuration skills.
* Root cause analysis of various Hardware errors like Single bit errors, LPMC errors, HPMC errors, Lbot errors
etc.
* Problem diagnosing and troubleshooting of all HP9000 and Integrity Business Servers.
* Disk space management using HP-UX Logical Volume Manager.
* Disk Mirroring and management using HP Mirror-UX.
* Performance monitoring and fine-tuning in HP-UX.
* Device management and configuration on HP systems etc.
* Patch Management.
* Backup management.
* User Management.
* Software management.
* Recovery of the HP-UX from various failures.
* Core dump analysis using GDB debugger.
* Experience in multipathing tools like EMC Powerpath, HP Autopath / Securepath Administration
HP Storage and SAN switches \[ XP, 3PAR, EVA, VA, MSA, StoreAll, StoreOnce, SAN Director\]
* XP/3PAR/EVA Planning, Designing, Installation, Configuration and Management.
* HP Continuous Access replication designing and setup
* HP Snapshot, Snap clone and Mirror clone designing & implmentation.
* Deep Knowledge in EVA, VA, MSA storage technology.
* EVA performance calculation using EVA pert tool.
* Brocade /MCdata / CISCO SAN switch zoning configuration and administration using CLI & GUI.
EMC Storage products \[ Data Domain, Recovery Point, Clarrion, Celerra, DMX, VNX, VMAX
, Avamar\]
* Excellent knowledge and hands on experience in Installation / designing / implementation /
troubleshooting EMC Data Domain Systems DD880, DD890.
* DDBoost device creation & DDBoost Cloning
* DataDomain VTL replication and configuration
* EMC Clariion CX4-960, CX500 and Celera storage devices.
* Good Knowledge and experience in designing and administrating EMC Recovery Point systems.
* Having good knowledge and experience in SRDF Operations like identify/configure/display/monitor
SRDF device Group
* Excellent scripting skills and hands on experience in SYMCLI operations like disaster recovery operations
to Failover, Failback, Update device group.
* Good Knowledge about BCV volumes designing, Establish & Split operations
* EMC Symmetric DMX / VMAX basic knowledge
* Experience with the following EMC products, Control Center, Power Path, Navisphere Manager, and
Recover Point for site mirroring.
* SRDF Failover the critical production server to Disaster recovery site and Fail back from Disaster to
Production site.
* Experience administering enterprise & mid-tier storage subsystems (Clariion) and understanding of
concepts such as Raid Groups and Storage Pools and remote storage replication.
* Solid understanding of storage networking fundamentals, concepts, and components, including
storage subsystems, SCSI, Fiber Channel, switches, iSCSI, HBAs, virtualization, zoning, LUN masking, LVM,
etc.
EMC Backup Solutions \[Networker + Data Domain + Avamar \]
* Study the requirement and Design the backup solution with Networker + DataDomain + Avamar
Systems
* Networker 7.2 & 7.3 Installation and configuration.
* Avamar High Availability Installation and Configuration
* DataDomain High Availability Installation and Configuration
* Integration of DataDomain with DDBoost in Networker.
* Integration of Avamar with Networker.
* Securing Backup Environment
* Installing Client, Configuring Pools, Backup Groups & Resources.
* Creating and Scheduling Backup Jobs based on the requirements.
* Restoring data in various scenarios
* Having good exposure in Backup performance tunings.
Distance Education