Khushi Muhammad, Manager Cloud Services

Khushi Muhammad

Manager Cloud Services

PTCL

Location
Pakistan - Islamabad
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
11 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months

Manager Cloud Services at PTCL
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since August 2023

• SDDC Technologies:VMware vSphere including ESXi, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, vSphere vMotion, Storage vMotion, Resource Pools, High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance, vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) & Distributed Power Management (DPM).
• Manage data backups on VERITAS Netbackup Server, Vaeem Backup, AWS Backup
• Installation and configuration of VMWare(ESXi)
• Patch Management, Syslog, NTP, BART, Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrel Mail IPMP, SFTP, Firewall, Bash Scripting, Cronjob, Users management.
• Amazon Cloud Administration (EC2, S3, System Manager, Route 53, RDS, SMS, Inspector, Sentinel, Elastic Kubernates Service, EC2 Image Builder, SSM Agent, Patching, LB, Guard Duty, Auto Scaling).

Devops Engineer at Telenor
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • June 2021 to August 2023

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, S3, System Manager, Route 53, RDS, SMS, Inspector, EC2 Image Builder, SSM Agent, EKS, Patching, LB, Auto Scaling.
 MySQL Administration(Master-Master, Master-Slave Replication)
 Installation and configuration of Web Server Apache (LAMP), MySQL, PHP, Jboss, FTP, SAMBA, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Mail Server.
 Handling OS related queries from end users along with providing support internal IT users and support vendors for smooth and efficient operation.
 Plan and implement data security by file permissions, back up and disaster recovery plans.
 Troubleshoot networks, systems and applications to identify and correct malfunctioning and other operational difficulties.
 Working on tools like Jenkins, AWS, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Subversion, Docker, or relevant
 Managed and maintained systems SOP and policies. Managed OLA and SLA with application owners.

Executive System Administrator at Zong CMPak
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • March 2017 to June 2021

 Managed frontend application servers of the production databases on Solaris/Linux systems.
 Installation and configuration of Huawei RH2288 v3, RH5885, E9000 Chassis, Blade CH242
 Manging Huawei Storage 18500 v3
 Installation and configuration of Huawei SNS 2244
 Storage's provisioning and creation of new backup polices
 Manage and monitor Oracle HW M9000 and T5-4 with creation of LDOMS
 Solaris, AIX, REDHAT Linux OS health check
 Handling OS related queries from end users along with providing support internal IT users and support vendors for smooth and efficient operation.
 Manage backup and restoration activities for disaster recovery strategy for all of the systems
 Performance monitoring and system administration of High Availability cluster Unix/Linux servers on cross-platform hardware of Sun Sparc and x64 machines based on CLI tools, Syslog, SolarWinds NMS
 Linux RedHat Cluster Configuration
 SAN switches deployment and integration with Storage and performing day to day operation regarding servers and storage's
 New data warehouse of Teradata complete hardware deployment and initial configuration performed key role in this project and prepare new environment for DB migration on new servers

Executive IT System Admin Ops at Waridtel
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • March 2016 to February 2017

- Led a team of three system administrators responsible for installation of Operating Systems, configurations, applications and utilities in production environment.
- Performance monitoring and system administration of High Availability cluster Unix/Linux servers on cross-platform hardware of Sun Sparc and x64 machines based on CLI tools, Syslog, SolarWinds NMS.
- Managed High Availability clusters of Warid's CRM & Billing, ERP, EBiz and reporting database systems.
- Managed frontend application servers of the production databases on Solaris/Linux systems.
- Managed development and test machines for both production databases and frontend application servers.
- Administration of multiple servers with unix services Sendmail, FTP, Samba, NFS, NTP, DNS.
- Managed Backups through Symantec Netbackup for Oracle databases, filesystem backups, archivals and restores. OS Bare Metal Restore backups and restore.
- Hardware/OS operations and maintenance of Oracle/ Sun Enterprise servers, Disk Arrays and backup tape libraries, IBM Power systems, Netezza appliances, HP NonStop server and Blade servers.
- Oversight, management and supervision of Data Center operations and servers integration with Enterprise Data Networks.
- Escalation and liaison of hardware, software application level issues with vendors.
- Managed and maintained systems SOP and policies. Managed OLA and SLA with application owners.
- High Availability cluster in VM vSphere 5.5

Linux System Administrator at Red Signal
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • August 2014 to December 2015

 Manage network in Linux environment. Install, configure and deploy (Linux Flavors. RED HAT, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu etc)
 Enterprise NMS using Nagios, Centreon, OpenNMS, Zabbix, Munin, Cacti, Monitorix, Xymon administration & monitoring.
 Installation, configuration, troubleshooting and management of Solaris Servers both with x86 and Sparc architectures.
 DTrace, Patch Management, Syslog, NTP, BART, Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrel Mail IPMP, SFTP, Firewall, Bash Scripting, Cronjob, Users account management.
 OS Hardening, Security, Auditing, Patching on linux & solaris servers.
 Plan and implement data security by file permissions, back up and disaster recovery plans.
 Troubleshoot networks, systems and applications to identify and correct malfunctioning and other operational difficulties
 Storage Area Network, NFS, iSCSI, DRBD
 Resolve local network/system issues.
 Configuration and set-up of all new server systems required internally for the company's activities
 OS hardening and Patching
 Backup, security management, user account management, e-mail systems including internet access, office systems and applications support.
 Server backup using rsync
 Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs
 Configuration and maintain the Remote Servers
 Vulnerability scanning of Networks, Web Applications and high end online systems
 Configuration of switches & routers. (LAN, WAN)
 Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server.
 Database mysql Replication
 RackSpace/Softlayer/Amazon Cloud Administration
 Installation and configuration of Web Server Apache, MySQL, PHP, Jboss, FTP, SAMBA, NFS,
DNS, DHCP, , Mail Server, Proxy Server Squid, Security, SSL certification, server management
on Linux and Solaris.

Network/System Engineer at Simple Software Solutions
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • May 2013 to July 2014

- Enterprise NMS using Nagios, Centreon, OpenNMS and Xymon administration & monitoring.
- Configuration of switches & routers. (LAN, WAN)
- Installation, configuration of MySQL, PHP, Jboss, Samba, SSL certification, server management on Linux and Solaris.
- Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server.
- DTrace, Patch Management, Syslog, NTP, BART, Apache, Postfix, DHCP, IPMP, SFTP, Firewall, Bash Scripting, Cron, Users account management.

Associate System Administrator at i2c Inc.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2012 to May 2013

 Enterprise NMS using Nagios, Centreon, OpenNMS and Xymon administration & monitoring.
 Installation, configuration, troubleshooting and management of Solaris Servers both with x86 and Sparc architectures.
 OS Hardening, Security, Auditing, Patching on linux & solaris servers
 DTrace, Patch Management, Syslog, NTP, BART, Apache, Postfix, DHCP, IPMP, SFTP, Firewall, Bash Scripting, Cron, Users account management.
 Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server.
 Configuration of switches & routers. (LAN, WAN)
 Installation, configuration of MySQL, PHP, Jboss, Samba, SSL certification, server management on Linux and Solaris.

Web Developer at Al-khawazmi, UET Lahore
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • July 2012 to September 2012

Work as a java web developer.
HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JQuery

Internee in PTCL, Lahore at PTCL
  • Pakistan
  • July 2010 to August 2010

Work as Technical resource.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at University of Engineering & Technology
  • June 2012

Final Year Project: AIMHIGH (Advanced Shooting Simulator) Tools: OpenCV, OpenGL, SQL Server Research Paper: GSM based e-ticketing system for revenue leakage control, vehicle parking & surveillance ICMTSET (2nd International Conference on Modern Trends in Science Engineering and Technology) Published in Discovery Magazine http://www.discovery.org.in/d/H2590.htm Winner in Software Project Competition in TechnoFest UET Lahore Project: AIMHIGH Winner in Software Project Competition in UET Taxila Olympiad Project: AIMHIGH

High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at Government College Township, Lahore
  • June 2008
High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at Divisional Public School
  • May 2006

Specialties & Skills

IT Administration
Cloud Computing
Web Development
Web Development
Databases
Documentations
Solaris
Unix System Adminstration
Linux System Adminstration
Troubleshooting

Social Profiles

Personal Website
Personal Website
tecdistro.com

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Intermediate
Punjabi
Native Speaker

Memberships

UET ACM Student Chapter
  • Event Management
  • June 2012

Training and Certifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
March 2022
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
August 2022
HCIP-Data Center Facility Deployment (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2020
Valid Until:
September 2023
Red Hat Certified Engineer (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit Networks
Date Attended:
January 2015
Duration:
60 hours
HCIA-Storage (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
August 2023
Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Installation and configuration ED 1 LVC (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle
Date Attended:
May 2016
Duration:
30 hours
RH Series, E9000 Blade Server and Oceanstor V3 Deployment & Management Training(China-Hangzhou) (Training)
Training Institute:
Huawei
Date Attended:
April 2019
Duration:
30 hours
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2020
Valid Until:
October 2023
Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Installation and configuration ED 1 LVC (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2016

Hobbies

  • Reading Articles
  • Computer Games
  • Cricket