ANWAR UL HAQ SYED

• Played a pivotal role in planning & implementing the technology products and ensuring high availability & maintaining quality and time parameters.
• Expertise knowledge on Nutanix, VMware, SCVMM, Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, EMC VNX storage, VMware SRM (Site Replication Manager) & Linux/Unix Administration.
• Distinguish efforts towards achieving migration of the Virtual environment from (SCVMM & VMware) to Nutanix HCI, which results in implementing Data Protection feature for securing the Virtual Environment.
• Managing and supporting the Windows operating system (2008, 2012 & 2016)
• Managing and maintaining server performances on Microsoft Infrastructures
• Implemented Nutanix Files for better performance on accessing the share folders for various departments.
• Actively involved in Infrastructure Team of 5 members.
• Design and implemented Enterprise backup solution across sites using Veritas NetBackup.
• Successfully implemented Rubrik backup solution.
• Ensuring backup restore activities as per the Standard Operating Procedure SOP.
• Ensuring BCP (Business continuity planning) for DC & DR datacenters.
• Actively implemented Nutanix clusters and configured Data protection across the datacenters.
• Build process as per client requirement to meet Audit Standards.
• Single Point of contact for all backup related escalation, retrieval of critical business data.
• Managing regular data backup/ restore activities for all production systems to ensure the integrity of the backup images.
• Custodian for Tape vault.
• Reviewing the backup and recovery procedure, process document regularly.
• Installing and Configuring new clients or host under enterprise backup protection.
• Handling Tape Management ¬ Managing onsite and offsite tape movement.
• Root cause analysis of Hardware failure and performance bottleneck (RCA).
• Segregation of Production, Development & UAT environment from hardware level and prepare the execution plan without interrupting the business.

• Installing and configuring NetBackup v7.x v8.x on Windows environments.
• Understanding of infrastructure systems and ability to collaborate with other technical staff to resolve problems directly without impacting the services.
• Perform diagnosis, troubleshoot, and conduct root-cause analysis for any issues escalated on the backup platforms.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of Veritas NetBackup.
• Documentation of backup infrastructure, customized scripts/integrations, and maintaining accurate hardware/software inventory.
• Worked with server administration teams to address and resolve any backup related issues.
• Case study on Capacity management for the backup environment
• Worked with software and hardware vendors to troubleshoot and solve backup issues.
• Troubleshooting Backup and Restore related problems and Server Monitoring.
• Projected tasks to decommission legacy backup infrastructure and refresh.
• Monitor system backups, re-run as necessary and process restore requests.
• Day to day operational administration tasks to ensure backups are occurring and failures are being identified and addressed.
• Ensured the data integrity of backups by restoring the data on quarterly basis.
• Monitor and maintain all backup infrastructure including servers, tape libraries, and disk arrays.
• Configure Storage Units, Storage Devices, Tape volumes and Storage Volume Pools.
• Responsible for compliance in Security and Regulatory standards
• Strong and proven troubleshooting ability in a large scale, fast-paced operations environment
• Good organizational skills and ability to manage own workloads.
• Replicating backup images from DC to DR using AIR “Auto Image Replication”.
• Ability to manage expectations, keeping all stakeholders informed about projects and/or incidents.
• Ability to make timely and sound decisions under conditions of uncertainty and/or stress.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage time to support multiple high-priority objectives simultaneously.

• Building Physical as well as Virtual (VMware) Servers.
• Responsible for installation, configuration, and administration of Red Hat Linux systems.
• Experience on RHEL 5/6/7 implementation Administration, Installation & Maintenance.
• Strong expertise in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.
• Installation of Patches, Hardware, software’s, and Firmware upgrades.
• Decommissioning of the old servers and keeping track or decommissioned and new servers using inventory list.
• Expertise in managing shared NFS files system, mounting and un-mounting NFS server, NFS client on remote machine, sharing remote file folder, starting, and stopping the NFS services.
• Creating virtual machines on Hyper V and VMware.
• Patch update by taking node into maintenance mode.
• Migrating the Linux servers from Hyper V to VMware.
• Manage users, groups, permissions, and roles.
• Creation of VMs and installing different guest OS like windows and Linux flavors.
• Creation of pre-defined templates for Windows & Linux to deploy the VMs.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations, and hot migrations.
• Moving VMs from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.
• Performed P2V, V2P Migration as per client Requirement using VMware Converter.
• Commissioning and Decommissioning of VMs & creating snapshots.
• Adding a New Virtual Disk and Extending existing Virtual Disk on Linux VM’s.
• Manage VMs using VMware vCenter (both Microsoft installer and appliance).
• Creation of resource management framework like Creating and managing Resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Delegating permissions on Resource Pools to users using Access Controls.
• Maintenance of servers & troubleshooting problems in environment.
• Configuring zones on Brocade and ZONESET on Cisco switches to provide security in storage area network.
• Responsible for day-to-day capacity planning, provisioning, and load management.
• Firmware upgrades activities for Storages and Brocade Cisco SAN Switches.
• Configure Hosts and Host Groups on Storages.
• Creation of Arrays, Logical Volumes LUN, and mapping to Hosts Host groups.
• Performing SP collects using Unisphere Manager.
• Backup of switch configuration.
• LUN provisioning and management including expansion, migration, and binding.
• Performing Mirror view operations using Unisphere Manager.
• Vendor management during the hardware failure issues.

• Experience with troubleshooting in a technical environment
• Working knowledge of backup software (EMC Networker, VERITAS Net Backup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Backup Exec).
• Work from a standard protocol, utilizing a documented process to respond to the issues.
• Successfully resolve technical issues related to hardware and software from incoming contacts and proactive notification systems.
• Work remotely via telephone, email, e-chat, and ticketing system to respond to level 2 technical issues.
• Escalate issues in a timely manner according to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Knowledge and/or experience with updating Knowledge Management systems.

• Expert knowledge on installation, configuration, and administration of MS SQL Server Databases.
• Automating all the Tasks using Jobs and maintenance plans.
• Ensuring that all databases are backed up on a regular basis by monitoring full, differential, transaction log backups, fixing backup failures, address and implement resolutions.
• Experienced in performing Maintenance and Disaster Recovery planning for SQL server.
• Assigning the server roles and granting permissions to the users.
• Solid experience and outstanding knowledge of high availability SQL Server
solutions, including Log shipping, Replication and Data Mirroring.

• Provide day to day support on SQL Server (2005, 2008) databases
• Installing and maintaining the SQL Server Instances.
• Backup client databases and perform database restore as required.
• Creating users and giving appropriate permissions.
• Monitoring Error log, Job failures, Backup Failures, Database and Log growth, CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and Disk Utilization.
• Making sure that the daily activities jobs are running and being handled properly.

• Expert Knowledge on operating systems Windows 2000/2003/2008.
• Handling tickets and incidents based on priority at enterprise level.
• Worked on Active Directory.
• Maintaining and configuring hardware and software.
• Creating Users and granting permissions.
• Hands on experience on installing Windows 2003 and creating domains on the
Network.
• Configuring disaster recovery and backups.

• Involved in installation of the wireless system.
• Installed five sets of wireless systems in different locations, which contains one master panel and one slave panel.
• Involved in trouble shooting the wireless modules.
• Responsible for demonstrating technology to VC’s and potential partners.
• Used advance modules like radio link servers, rtu’s, and expansion modules for radio terminal units.
• Placed the antenna at the optimum height in-order to get the perfect signal.
• Used satelline UHF, VHF radio modems and satelline IP67 radio modems as well as satellar digital Modems.