Mahmoud Yossif, Senior Systems Engineer

Mahmoud Yossif

Senior Systems Engineer

Mazadah International

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, MIS" Management Information System
Experience
16 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 9 Months

Senior Systems Engineer at Mazadah International
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2015

. Creation go Golden templates based on Red Hat best practices and security hardened

· Design Review, and implementations of findings on the Client's Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment

· The creation of a single standard distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled Red Hat Network Satellite to meet organization’s specific requirements

· The Reduction of compliance issues and fragile artifacts by creating standard configurations for the workload profile

· The review of performance and security for opportunities based on application use cases and proven methods.

· Providing strategic recommendations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux management and Maintenance based on findings and observations.

· The installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to host the Red Hat Identity Management servers

· The installation and configuration of Red Hat Identity Management servers, including one Master with high availability setup.

· The configuration of Red Hat Identity Management rules to control both user access to client systems and additional privileges granted to users on those systems.

· Provide mentoring for future management and configuration of IdM environment like SELinux, SUDO and HBAC to ensure that customer will have granular Access controls to various groups, SUDO privileges provisioning to the following groups

· Providing strategic recommendations and knowledge sharing around Red Hat proven methods for auditing and compliance policy when it comes to Identity management.

· Provide strategic recommendations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux hardening, patching, and security policy (identity, configuration, authorization...)

· Planning, architecting, and deploying security aspects on the Client's Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment

· Apply changes to PAMs to enforce different types of rules on users and the max tries for invalid logins

· Providing knowledge sharing around Red Hat proven methods for auditing and compliance policy.

· Provide knowledge sharing around Red Hat proven methods

· Adjust properties for various console services to enable or disable settings based on security

· Configure remote logging to use transport layer encryption and manage additional logs generated by remote systems

· Assist customer to use and utilize Self-service portal for the password management for the users and admins.

· Red Hat consultant will provide knowledge transfer and hands-on to the technical attendance on how create and deploy core builds from Red Hat satellite using sample workloads.

· Additionality will provide an below

o Configuration data

o Subscription audit report

o Recommendations for improvements and their implementations

senior systems Engineer at IT Deep Tech
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2014 to November 2015
IT Infrastructure Manager at Arabcom for Trade
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2011 to September 2014

• The organization is working different operating systems like windows 7, XP, windows server
2003, 2008, Linux Red hat and Linux Mint.
• My responsibility is to determine the nature of the problems and start solving it as:
First line of support.
• System Administration for Microsoft Active directory, Mail server “MDaemen Mail Server”,
Microsoft Terminal service server for the ERP system, FTP server, Samba server, Antivirus Server.
• Network Planning:
Network administration like, creating VPN to Connect the branches ADSL.
Design, Planning And Implementing company network infrastructure and hardware replacement
like computers and printers.

IT Network Engineer at RashideenEgypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2007 to December 2010

IT Network Engineer

IT System Administrator at Pro service
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2007 to October 2007

IT system Administration

Education

Bachelor's degree, MIS" Management Information System
  • at New Cairo Academy
  • July 2007

In MIS have studied Programming, database, Networking, Management, planning and Cost control.

Specialties & Skills

Windows Server 2008
Linux server administration
Administration
System Administration
Linux Expert
Mikrotik
open stack
VM Ware
cloud storage
virtualization
security advisor
cloud solutions
Ansible
scripting

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack (Training)
Training Institute:
Red Hat co.
Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Hybrid Cloud Storage (Training)
Training Institute:
Red Hat co.
Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (Training)
Training Institute:
Red Hat co.
RHCSA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
Valid Until:
March 2013
RHCE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
Valid Until:
March 2013

Hobbies

  • Teakwodo
  • reading
  • network planning
  • custom build cars