Hafeez Ahmed, Technical Consultant Backup and Storage

Hafeez Ahmed

Technical Consultant Backup and Storage

National Information Center

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telcommunication
Experience
17 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months

Technical Consultant Backup and Storage at National Information Center
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2019

:-Veritas Netbackup 8.1.2 RedHat Linux 7.5 Cluster environment
:-Veritas InfoSacle 7
:-Veritas Netbackup appliances 5340 High Availability
:-Netbackup self service, Veritas OpsCenter configurations & administration
:-VMware VADP integration with NBD and SAN
:-VMware VCD integration with Netbackup
:-Cloud VM Backups & Restore included (Snapshots, Application, Databases and all type agent-base Backups.
:-HPE-3PAR 20800 Storage and SAN Switches Administration
:-Administrating Storage and interfacing different team who has application running on the storage
:-Manage HPE 3Par Array, SAN Zoning and Provisioning Storage to the systems
:-Performance and growth monitoring and reporting
:-Troubleshooting critical Storage issues heavy focus on 3PAR performance

Sr. System Engineer (Supervisor) at Atheeb Intergraph Saudi Company (AISC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2018 to May 2019

 Design, plan, install and support NetBackup NetBackup 7.xx & 8.0 Infrastructure (clustered).
 Administration of Netbackup 7. xx, 8.xx, RH Linux-7 Master server and Netbackup appliances 5220, 5230 version 3.0 & 2.6
 Administration of Veritas InfoScale-7 Suite,
 Develop, manage, and perform backups and recovery of servers and running applications in addition to verifying of completion of
scheduled backup tasks.
 Configuring Oracle, DB2, SQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange, VMware, Hyper-V, NDMP almost all backup agents
 Effectively recovered Microsoft Exchange 2016 Cluster DAG and a standalone environment in disaster.
 Positively recovered ERP application and Oracle database Linux server with (Bare Metal Recovery option Netbackup BMR)
 Effectively recovered EDMS - Electronic Document Management System application and Oracle database and Oracle files.
 Successfully recovered full VMware and Hyper-V base VMS and Window 2008, 2012 servers with BMR.
 Configure SAN/LAN backups like (VMware, Microsoft Exchange, Linux/window physical servers
 Administration and troubleshooting Enterprise level SAN tape libraries, Dell ML6000-LTO4, ML6030-LTO7, TL-2000-LTO5.
 Manage and troubleshoot tape libraries, tape media, drive failures, device connectivity, and cabling, as well as backup management
software and servers.
 Monitor Backup analysis and reporting using Veritas OpsCenter 8.
 Collaborate with different team member IT / Operations initiatives, including data center, network administration etc.
 Actively participates in testing product functionality during the new release.
 Designing, planning, installing and supporting IT systems to ensure that the company optimizes business applications and systems
efficiently and reliably.
 Provide technical specifications and requirements and perform the technical evaluation for purchasing of new systems and licenses.
 Administration, maintain and upgrade IT systems including service packs, patches, hotfixes and security configurations.
 Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of end-to-end IT systems environment.
 Perform capacity planning for all IT system and related infrastructure.
 Participate in after-hours upgrades, troubleshooting, and/or on-call availability.
 Coordinate with external vendors to work on support issues and monitor contract compliance to ensure services is provided as per
agreed service level agreements (SLAs).
 Review solutions provided by vendors and translate against the project requirements to assist business users in understanding system
functionality.

Technical Consultant Backup & Storage at Saudi Business Machines
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • November 2015 to May 2018

Project: Royal Commission Jubail KSA

As a Senior Backup Admin:
•Managing Netbackup 7.6.0.3/8.0 Enterprise infrastructure in Royal Commission JuBail KSA
•Administration of Netbackup Applinace 5230, 70x3 TB
•Administration of Storage Foundation 6
•Administration of Opscenter 7.6
•Administration of Dell ML 600 Tape Library
•Designing Disaster recovery site
•Configuring/managing SAN Clients
•NDMP configuration for EMC ISOLON filer
•Create, execute and report on testing and implementation plans
•Create, execute and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for Enterprise Services
•Managing and securing more than 100 PT Data.
•Configuration/managing Database backup like..(Oracle, SQL, Exchange, VMware, SharePoint, File System)
•Monitoring, configuring, troubleshooting issue of the backups/server and Clients.
•Resolving complex issues
•Restoring full-VMware, file system, Exchange, and user specific data.
•Managing and securing off-site data

Unix-AIX System & Backup admin Expert at PMCL VimpleCom
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2012 to July 2015

Administration & Troubleshooting of Unix/Linux, Sun. AIX, Windows
Administration & Troubleshooting of Ericsson OSS-RC 12.2 System for GSM
Administration & Troubleshooting of VMware Solutions, Center, VM,
Monitoring CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization on all the servers.
Generating & Analyzing Daily, Weekly and monthly reports
Generating & Analyzing Daily, Weekly and monthly Netbackup clients reports via OpsCenter
Administration & Troubleshooting of backups using Symantec Netbackup on De-duplication storage and TAPE
Configuration of Oracle, DB2, SQL databases and Unix/Linux, AIX, Sun file system with Netbackup
Backup and restore Oracle, DB2, SQL databases and Unix/Linux, AIX, Sun file system via Netbackup.
Setup and configure NetBackup servers and client software
Manage backup policies and schedules and Monitor and troubleshoot daily backups across several sites
Manage and resolve daily issues with Symantec NetBackup 7x
Develop and implement efficiency improvements within the NetBackup Environment
Manage and develop backup schedules ensuring business data protection
Escalate faults to the vendor when an incident cannot be resolved
First Level of Escalation for applications and services issues on all the servers. Includes restarting the services, restarting of the servers.
Configuring Disk storage, Tape storage & media and Manage data growth and migrations
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates of more than 200 VMware Clients.
Monitoring VM’S & ESX Servers using virtual center
Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization.
Administration & Troubleshooting of EMC VNX-5300 SAN storages, ( creating LUNs, groups, mapping/assigning to different system, ISCISI configuration, hosts connectivity )
Management & coordination, Existing and upcoming Projects with Vendors, like (IBM, HP, Symantec, Motorola, Alcatel)
Preparing (POA) Plan of Action’s for Migration
Ability to plan and control projects.

System Engineer at Multilynx System & Networks
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2006 to September 2012

•Provide 1st line support on HP TeMIP which is fault/provisioning, management component, performing industry-proven real-Time operations such as alarm-handling, filtering, trouble ticketing, co-relating, event-logging network visualization solution.
•Develop, implement and document the OSS solutions as per operational and/or business requirements. Also configure and implement high level elements such as Access Module (AM), Functional Module (FM) and Presentation Module (PM) performance of TeMIP OSS.
maintenance and upgrade of Unix and Linux Operating systems
•To assist in project management, systems integration, migration or upgrade of Operating Systems and other third party application
•To plan the maintenance of IT infrastructure systems and to install new releases of hardware, software and systems during planned periods of "downtime", in line with the different milestone releases of the programme.
•Setting up of systems for corporate clients that include installation of OS (operating system), Software and security Patches, System Backup and Recovery, configuration, up gradation of HP-UX Kernel, User and Group Management, working with HP-UX File Systems directories, Memory and Swap Space Management, Configuring and Managing the Network File System and System Performance Monitoring.
•Provide HP OpenCall Media Platform support, manage application and configuration CCXML, VoiceXML, BRE, CIC’s SS7, CCXML, VoiceXML, OCMP-BRE, OCMP-Base, CIC’s, Voice E1s.
•Provide Symantec-NetBackup 7.xx support, installation, configuration and intermigration with Solaris 10, AIX, HP-UINX, Window server and Databases like (Informix, Oracle, MySLQ, Informix ).
• Plan and manage the schedule backup of critical oracle database using HP OpenView storage Data protector.
• Plan and manage the schedule backup of file System using HP-Unix operating

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telcommunication
  • at University Of Sindh
  • January 2007

Telecommunications

Specialties & Skills

Enterprise Storage
Netbackup
HP-Data Protector 5.xx
VBS-IVR
HP-TeMIP
EMC,HP SAN,Storage
AIX,Unix,Linx,SUn
Veritas Netbackup 7.xx and 8.0
Veritas OpsCenter

Languages

English
Intermediate
Punjabi
Native Speaker
Urdu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Veritas Certified Specialist Netbackup 7.6.1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2018
VERITAS NETBACKUP 2.6.x Appliances Config & Managment (Training)
Training Institute:
VERITAS
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
16 hours
Symantec Netbackup 7.7 Maintain and Troubleshoot (Training)
Training Institute:
VERITAS
Date Attended:
May 2016
Duration:
30 hours
VERITAS NETBACKUP 7.7 ADVANCE ADMINISTRATION (Training)
Training Institute:
VERITAS
Date Attended:
May 2016
Duration:
30 hours
Symantec Netbackup 7.5 Advance Unix/window (Training)
Training Institute:
Symantec Dubia
Date Attended:
July 2013
HP-UNIX System Administration(CSA-HP-UX v11) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007