Fawaz Muhammed, Senior Systems Engineer

Fawaz Muhammed

Senior Systems Engineer

STS

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics engineering
Experience
8 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 10 Months

Senior Systems Engineer at STS
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since May 2018

Responsible for maintenance, support, administration and
troubleshooting of the eDirham infrastructure(Ministry of
Finance) at 4 different Datacentres.
• Worked as single point of contact for Maintenance, support
and troubleshooting of multiple OS platforms(AIX, Linux,
Windows), virtualization(VMWare, Hyper-V, IBM Power
Servers), storage(IBM DS, Dell Unity), Antivirus( Kaspersky,
Mcafee, TrendMicro), Privilege Access
Management(BeyondTrust), backup solutions(NetBackup)
and other technologies.
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of all
infrastructure to ensure compliance with established
standard policies and configuration guidelines including
preventive system maintenance and back-up recovery
activities.
• Participate in Maintenance, support and troubleshooting of
perimeter security systems like Firewalls (cisco ASA, Palo
Alto, FortiGate), Intrusion protection systems (IPS), cisco
Firepower (FTD), Web Application firewalls (WAF).
• Broad knowledge of more than 30 state-of-the-art
technology, software, equipment, and/or systems including
basic hardware installation and configuration skills.
• Worked as a Team Lead and single Point of contact during
eDirham Infrastructure Project handling more than 30

Network Specialist at NxtGen Data Center and Cloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • July 2016 to December 2017

Key role in LLD and Design phase for eDirham Infrastructure
replacement Project handled and managed to provide design
making decisions with achieving the best output.
• Played critical role in achieving PCI Compliance with multiple
technologies and worked as an expert in resolving the
vulnerabilities.
• Perform problem resolution and provide 24 x 7 on-call
support (including after working hours, during weekends and
holidays).
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation including
design docs, test plans, project plans, procedures, incident
reports and troubleshooting guides.

Engineer at NxtGen Data Center and Cloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • March 2015 to July 2016

Provisioning of VM’s, Troubleshooting OS issues and
Network Config.
• Virtualisation- Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, OnApp(KVM)
• Symantec Backup Client
• NAS and SAN Storage configuration

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics engineering
  • at University Of Calicut
  • January 2014
High school or equivalent, Electronics engineering
  • at MES Raja Residential School
  • January 2010

courses: Higher Secondary(Plus two)

High school or equivalent, CBSE
  • at International Indian School Dammam
  • May 2008

Specialties & Skills

Leadership
Fortinet
Networks
Cloud Computing
OPERATING SYSTEMS
TROUBLESHOOTING
ANTI VIRUS
COMPUTER HARDWARE
COMPUTER INSTALLATION

Languages

Arabic
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English
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Hindi
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