Infrastructure Engineer
Africa City of Technonlgy
Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months
• Architecture, design, install, configure, management of VMware ESXi 5.5 with vCenter management, vShield Suite, vCenter Automation Center, vCenter Connector, Veeam Backup & Replication Suite and vCloud Suite.
Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates using Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) and Virtual-to-Cloud (V2C).
the team Deployed IaaS to provide virtual Data Center for Universities.
• Design and deploy a highly available IaaS cloud Using KVM as a hypervisor and cloudstack as orchestration Engine .
• Install, Upgrade and Maintain Web hosting servers and provide high availability and failover technology using ISPconfig.
• Design and Deploy Defense In Depth Security Solutions to provide multiple layer of Security including (UTMs, Firewall, IDS/IPS, Antispam and Antivirus ).
* Responsible for planning and coordinating the design of physical servers’ service parameters including: server model,
server components, HA options and server monitoring and all technologies to ensure the high availability of the service.
* Responsible for planning and coordinating the design and implementing of Virtual machines’ service parameters :including: machine location, machine components, HA and DRS and all technologies to ensure the high availability of the service.
* Responsible for Storage service design and implementation on Cisco MDS switches and 3PAR Storage System.
* Design and implementation of DR sites
* Design and implementation of Monitoring tools for all service equipment
* Keep track of all tickets status and ensure open tickets are closed within specified SLA.
* Keep track of the latest hardware models and firmware, and be aware of the support matrix of each component.
* Provide consultation for customers outside the SDC premises.
• Plan, Assess, and perform penetration testing and report System and Network vulnerabilities using Kali linux and Backtrack .
• Installation, configuration and maintaining Network Services Proxy, FTP, DHCP, HTTP, DNS, E-Mail, MySQL, NIPS, HIDS, Antivrus, Anti-Spam and Firewall on many Linux Distributions.
• Monitoring Network Infrastructure (Switches, Routers, Firewall. etc) and Linux Services (web, email, mysql .etc) using Nagios3, Zenoss Core, Cacti and other monitoring tools.
• Install, Upgrade and Maintain Web hosting servers and provide high availability and failover technology.
Supervised a team of Network engineers throughout IPv6 Transition for Sudan University of Science and Technology.