Fahad Zaman, Senior System Engineer

Fahad Zaman

Senior System Engineer

Elitser Recruitment Services (Tadweer Group Client)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
11 years, 0 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 0 Months

Senior System Engineer at Elitser Recruitment Services (Tadweer Group Client)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since February 2024

Managing AWS cloud infrastructure with 90 EC2 instances.
Vmware virtualization and infrastructure.
Managing 2 VCenter with 8 ESXi and 65 VM's
Managing Veeam backup solutions for AWS and Vcenter
Managing and administering Microsoft 365 suite, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
Managing Veeam backup solutions for AWS and Vcenter
Implemented and maintained security measures, including multi-factor authentication and data loss prevention policies.
Experience in network related issues VLAN, Firewall, FTP.
Managing basic network services such as DNS, DHCP, VLAN, and VPN.
Working on a project to upgrade Windows 2019 VM to Windows 20222
Working on a project to implement a complete new IT Service desk tool to replace the older one.

Senior software Engineer at Walmart
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2019 to August 2023

After acquisition of WARP by Walmart, did end to end transition in line
with project management of entire project which includes technology
stack such as VMware and management responsibilities. Which
included KT, ID creations, End to end patching management using SCCM
tool, Creating Process documentation and Knowledge base article for
future references.
• Also managed 12 VCenter with more than 200 ESXi and 15000 VM's.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of Vcenter, ESXi Servers.
• Migration to Nutanix from Vcenter.
Installation configuration and Management of Nutanix AHV, Nutanix
CVM, Nutanix Prism Element, Nutanix Prism.
• Patching of Windows server through SCCM tool.
• Managed and ensured documentation of all process.
Governed environment's hardware and software life-cycles, forward-
planning to mitigate potential impact of end-of-life or end-of-support
milestones.

Assessed emerging security threats and implemented robust patching
schedules to maintain system integrity.

Performed complex and demanding project work as well as daily
operational tasks to exceptionally high standards and within agreed
timescales.

Owned, maintained and enhanced organisation's virtualisation
environment.

Demonstrated practical experience overseeing implementation and
direction of VMware technologies including vCenter, Site Recovery
Manager and ESXi.
• Embedded automation processes to enhance existing systems.
Maintained server performance with attention to both hardware and
software needs.

Worked with teams of talented software engineers to define, build and
maintain cloud infrastructure

Senior System Analyst at Ibm - India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • March 2016 to September 2019

Managed 7 VCenter with 100 ESXi hosts and 10000 servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Managing of Vcentre, ESXi Servers.
Installation and configuration and Maintenance of windows Hyper-V.
Maintain and manage client's software, hardware, network based on
service request raised from end-user as per defined SLAs ensuring
client satisfaction.

Installation and configuration Microsoft Hyper-Troubleshooting issue
Related to Hyper-V

Virtualized or graphically visualized system operations to identify areas
for improvement.

Upgrading Firmware & BIOS on Hardware hosts Migration activity
(SVmotion & VMotion).

• Taking Clones & Snapshots & Restoring same during crisis.
• Knowledge on HA & DRS.
Experience in network related issues VLAN, Firewall, FTP and different
VPN services

Installing and Configuring Active Directory-
site/user/computer/group/OU management, group policy management,
DNS/DHCP/NPS management

• Upgrading Firmware & BIOS on Hardware hosts
• Partnered with users to understand and define system requirements.
Assessed processes, procedures and work practices for strengths and
weaknesses.

System Administrator at Nalanda Engicon Pvt Ltd
  • India - Patna
  • June 2012 to July 2015

• Expansion of disks.
• Worked on AD services, DNS, DHCP, RAID.
• Worked on NTFS permission.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance.
• Deployment of Virtual machines using Templates.
• Patching of Windows Servers.
• Creation of clones from existing VM's.
Account lock out issue

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at MDU University
  • May 2012

Specialties & Skills

Storage Software
IP Networking
Server Virtualisation
VMware ESX
VMware Infrastructure
Microsoft Servers
System Administration
Windows Server
VMware ESX
Windows Server 2008
Computer Hardware Troubleshooting
Nutanix administrator
Azure cloud administrator
AWS cloud

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2023
VMware Specialist - vSAN 2021 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2021
VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2021 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2021

Hobbies

  • Playing sports like cricket, football, badminton etc. reading books and writing articles.