Team Lead System Administrator
Mowasalat
Total years of experience :18 years, 2 Months
Responsible for Leading the whole Technology Infrastructure team which includes but not limited to,
maintain the Data Center up to the availability of 99.9%. As the data center is providing the overall services for Taxi and Bus services for the whole Qatar on the national level comprises of following procedures,
Linux Management and administration over Xen
It Securities and Governance
Implementation of PCI DSS
Centralized Network monitoring.
Bash Scripting for automation.
OS Hardening and Patching
Isolating applications and distribute system resources with Hyper-v and Xen
Centralized management of all server & network device logs for routine analysis and auditing
ILOM/ALOM, Openboot PROM, JumpStart server, JET Toolkit
Fortigate Administration
3par SAN Administration
Comvault Administration.
Linux & Windows Management, Kernel Performance Tuning, IPMP, Centralized Sysloging, logadm, . Predictive Self Healing, Crash Dumps and Core Dumps
Cryptographic Framework, Device policy and allocation
Commvault Administration with all aspects
Microsoft platform administration over HyperV, IIS, NLB, and MSSQL
PCI DSS 2.0 implementation.
Responsible for the Administration of Linux & Sun Solaris,
Implementation of PCI DSS
Installation, configuration and management of Linux Servers x86 platform Using Centos.
Automation scripts writing for the web applications Upgrades and deployment of re-engineered packages with specific requirements.
Installation, configuration and management of Solaris Servers both with x86 and Sparc architectures
Centralized Network monitoring using Nagios (also deployed from the initial process)
OS Hardening and Patching for all Linux & Solaris procedures
Virtualization using containers and zones on Solaris.
SMF, Solaris shares/exclusive Zones, Solaris Volume Manager, UFS/ ZFS file systems, Sun ILOM/ALOM, Openboot PROM, JumpStart server, JET Toolkit
Linux Tuning by utilising different OS parameters
Centralized management of all server & network device logs for routine analysis and auditing
Backup and Storage management for DB and App servers.
Management Of Firewall using BSD platform
Responsible for the Administration of Linux & Sun Solaris, It also includes the management of NMS like Nagios and Xymon. Here Currently the forest of Oracle Virtual Machine with OVMM and OVS with Solaris and Linux deployed as my achievement. Currently the management of this whole OVM forest is under my ownership. Here also responsible for the administration of zones with includes creation, migrations and backups of it with OS hardening.
Also here managing and deployed,
Installation, configuration and management of Solaris Servers both with x86 and Sparc architectures
Implementation of PCI DSS
Centralized Network monitoring using Nagios, OpenNMS and Xymon
Bash Scripting for automation.
OS Hardening and Patching
Isolating applications and distribute system resources with Solaris 10 containers & zones
Intercepting TCP transaction and eliminating latency by tuning OS & network devices TCP/IP parameters
Centralized management of all server & network device logs for routine analysis and auditing
Oracle Virtualization using Oracle VM (OVMM) For Sparc and x86 setting up, configuring and managing multiple logical domains
SMF, Solaris shares/exclusive Zones, Solaris Volume Manager, UFS/ ZFS file systems, Sun ILOM/ALOM, Openboot PROM, JumpStart server, JET Toolkit
Solaris Management Console, Kernel Performance Tunning, IPMP, Centralized Sysloging, logadm, Predictive Self Healing, Ufsdump, Crash Dumps and Core Dumps
Solaris BSM Auditing, BART, Role Based Access Control, Sudo, Truss, Ipfilter, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, Device policy and allocation,
Trusted Extensions, JASS Security Tools and CIS security benchmark
PCI DSS 2.0, SAS70, SSAE16 IT/IS Internal Audits
Sun Sparc T3-1, T5140, T5220, T1000, T2000
SunFire X4140, X4270, X4240, X2100
Responsible for the Linux System Engineering, Open Source Technologies system integration, management, analysis, testing & deployment, which have a high level impact on overall Technology Infrastructure of IRD.
Here I am also responsible for the Planning-Re-planning & Reporting of Infrastructure Projects with all aspects for Organizational Directors & Infrastructure Team. Presently involve in multiple projects related Disaster recovery, data Security, GPS monitoring and Data Redundancy.
After Joining IRD I rephrase the whole Technology Infrastructure of IRD and deployed the IaaS, PaaS & SaaS categories of Cloud Computing which is still running very effectively and efficiently, as the main theme behind it is Linux & Open Source Technologies.
Parallel Computing- Responsible to teach about the implementation & management of OPENMPI and LAM-MPI with development of code using GCC for the Message Parsing routines on Linux
Operating Systems- Responsible to teach about the basic of an Operating Systems by using Linux and for the implementation of different algorithms by using bash as a scripting language on Linux
Responsible for the Analysis & Deployment, Testing and support of various I.T. Systems and Organization wide Infrastructure of North Region which comprises of 24 branches. This include but not limited to the expert level administration of Linux System with following activities,
Sun Ray Thin Clients
SunRay Administration Services
LTSP Server
LTSP Base HP Thin Clients
Deployment Of Java Based Application
FAT Server
DHCP Server
NTP Server
Samba Server
Web (Apache) Server
LDAP Servers
LTSP Server
Data Backup and Transfer across the network of 102 Branches regarding North Region.
Data Base replication Server
Migration of all the servers of North Region from Old SLES to latest SLES with SP1
Conversion implementor and planner from Kmail to Evolution.
Zimbra Writeup For 102 Branches.
Team leader & Conversion Planner of Migration from Kmail & Evolution to Zimbra across the whole network of 102 Branches.
Mail Data Migration through IMAP from Previous Mail client to Zimbra across the board of 1200 users of BankIslami Pakistan Limited.
Technically educate the users for the usage of the IP Telephone of CISCO of series 7912, 7911, 7940 & 7960.
VSAT
DXX Link
Fiber Optics
CISCO Switches of 2900 Series
CISCO Routers
When I joined BankIslami Pakistan Limited there were only 5 Branches in North Region and now its has 24 Branches, so I had also designed, deployed and tested from scratch the 19 branches full fledge of North Region with respect to Information Systems on Linux in Majors. Whereas I am also managing the team of North Technology Infrastructure with respect to the Support Engineers, Vendors and Resident Engineers
Responsible for the Analysis & Development of the projects based upon the following technologies.
Linux
Catalyst
Perl (Mod_perl)
Php
Catalyst
Whereas the clients are all USA base.
Responsible for Server side Analysis, Support & Development on following technologies,
Linux
Perl
Bash scripting
HTML
XML
CSS
Network Engineer in Linux Department responsible for the deliver of Corporate trainings on Linux
Faculty member of “Operating Systems” and “Computer Networks” courses.
Internship in an Operation/Technical Support Department.
Final Project was based upon the development of new Linux Distro.