System Administrator
Saudi Cement Company
Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months
Over 8 years of IT experience as a System Administrator in Redhat Linux, and Sun Solaris servers.
•Installation, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting of Linux systems with primary focus on enterprise database servers/clusters running Oracle
•Proactive maintenance on systems by timely upgrading Patches to the systems.
•Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for Redhat Servers, Backup Server s and work with different vendors (HP, Oracle, Redhat) to resolve the issue.
•Configuration of LUNs on HP Storage P6000, and managed Volumes using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux.
•Configured and maintain the volume groups, logical volumes and extended logical volumes using Logical Volume Manager, and Solaris Volume Manager.
•Extensive experience in the creation of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 on HP hardware, Storage, SUN servers, SUN Storage.
•Good with installation, Configuration and Administration of Veritas NetBackup
•Excellent experience in HP Data protector V8.0 installation, configuration, administration,
•Planning and design of Disaster Recovery and Redundant systems for top business efficiency.
•Excellent NFS, DNS Linux, Unix troubleshooting.
Supervising a technical team of 4 engineers tasked with executing UNIX servers installations projects.
•Plan, prioritize, and assign the work load for the team.
•Responsible for the work quality of all work produced by the team in order to meet customer’s needs and requirements.
•Prepared estimates, schedules, and project execution plans.
•Generate monthly progress reports of all engineers for management reference. * Reporting directly to the Regional Technical Manager.
Hardware and system software upgrades.
•Performed disk administration using Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and Veritas Volume Manager.
•Configuration of NFS servers to share the resources across multiple environments. o Creating, deleting and managing user database and their respective directories.
•Setting up cron jobs for the user to deploy scripts on production servers.
•Backup done with ufsdump, tar and dd utilities and restore of files using tar and ufsrestore commands.
•VERITAS NBU solutions ( Good knowledge ) .
•Creation of users/groups using CLI.
•Experienced in Patch management, downloading recommended patch cluster or specific patch as and when required.
•Proficient in working with the Solaris Management Console (SMC) tool to manage servers.
•Performed security management, package management.
•Experienced in Systems Diagnosis, detect systems failures on Entry Level and Mid, High level SUN servers.
•Site planning for production systems deployment in coordination with Saudi Aramco Capacity and Technical Planning Group.
•Handled Exadata POC for Saudi Aramco and worked closely with Oracle for the implementation.
•Implementation of Solaris containers and zoning.
•Managing printers in Solaris environment. o Experienced in replacing parts in all SUN platforms such as SF 15K, 20K, 25, V880 .
•Worked on Hitachi subsystems such as LUNS creation/deletion, hardware failures diagnosis.
•Excellent hardware experience with Hitachi Systems Hardware.
•De-assemble and re-assemble Hitachi Data systems under direct supervision of senior engineer.
•Configuration of SAN systems and troubleshooting performance issues and failures.
•Involved in High-End SUN Fire 15K upgrade to SUN Fire 25K.
•Developing excellent business relations with Saudi Aramco parties.
•Configuring multiple network switches in UNIX environment .
•Attending technical meetings with ARAMCO to discuss system related issues.
•24 x 7 software / Hardware support to production servers in Saudi Aramco .
for the following customers. The key responsibilities were to maintain and provide Support Services on Oracle Sun entry level to High End
Servers and Solaris 10 OS and Oracle Sun SAN Storages
•Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia, Dhahran, 2006-2011.
•Sale for Distribution & Communication Co (SaleCo), Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, 2008 till 2014
Ensure end user support on Oracle Sun Microsystems hardware & Oracle Sun Solaris software
•Focus on maintenance & troubleshooting of network and computer hardware besides functioning as system administrator
•Provide leadership to technical support staff involved in administration of network server running on Solaris OS
•Develop and maintain good business relationship with clients & customers
Networking Technology Diploma (2) years