Shakeel Ahmed, Sr. Systems Engineer

Shakeel Ahmed

Sr. Systems Engineer

Real Estate General Authority

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
Éducation
Baccalauréat, BS (Software Engineering)
Expérience
15 years, 10 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :15 years, 10 Mois

Sr. Systems Engineer à Real Estate General Authority
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • Je travaille ici depuis octobre 2019

Presently performing my services in Real Estate General Authority, Riyadh, KSA
Main Responsibilities include:
• Management of Servers and workloads in Multi Cloud Environment (STC, Government Web Services Portal (NIC) and in Local Data Center)
• Backup Infrastructure in Multi Cloud Environment and Veeam Backup & Replication / Vembu BDR in Local Data Center
• VMware Virtualization Infrastructure
• QNAP Network Attached Storage
• Linux Servers Installation/management/troubleshooting
• Microsoft Windows Servers and Active Directory Infrastructure in Multi Cloud Environment
• Symantec End Point Management (SEPM) Server
• Deployment of New Infrastructure Projects/Solutions as per Organization/Customer requirements

Sr. Systems Administrator à Saudi Customs / ZATCA
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • mars 2016 à octobre 2019

Main Responsibilities include:
• Monitoring/Maintaining Servers in Saudi Customs Headquarters Data Center and Remote Sites
• Backup Infrastructure including EMC Avamar 7.1.x GRID and EMC Data Domain
• EMC DPS (Data Protection Advisor) for Monitoring/Reporting/Alerting
• EMC SAN Storage including EMC Clarion, VNX 5100/5200 and VNX 10K
• HUAWEI VDI solution (Fusion Cube) management/deployment Virtual Desktop workloads for Remote Sites.
• VMware Virtualization Infrastructure management including vSphere 5/6 and vCenter 5/6
• Linux Servers Installation/management/troubleshooting
• Deployed the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Server solution for the installation of Desktop PC and workstations
• Deployment of Infrastructure Projects/Solutions along with Vendors

Manager (Systems) à COMSATS Internet Services
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • mai 2011 à mars 2016

My special responsibilities include the management of systems department. Being incharge of “Datacenter”, I have several tasks to do, including Installation and Management of Linux and Solaris Servers including Mail servers, Anti-spam servers, DNS servers, Backup servers, Nagios server, etc and overall management of all servers including the clients Co-location servers, Webhosting servers.

Interaction with Corporate Clients like, Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), UNDP, joinpakarmy, joinpaknavy, Digitania, NDMA, DHA, PMRC, PNRA, Southerntravells, etc.
Providing High level support for Servers/Services troubleshooting.
Good relationships with major vendors like Intel, etc.
I also work for suggesting the specifications for purchasing the New servers according to our requirements and the deployment of these servers.

Conducted "Linux Systems Administration" training session for two weeks for Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) and Ministry of Defense (MoD).

Assistant Program Officer (Systems) à COMSATS Internet Services
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • août 2009 à mai 2011

Here I managed some Datacenter tasks and my special responsibilities included management of DNS Servers (Linux & Solaris), Colocation Backup Servers, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP, Web Hosting Technical Support, Domain Registration & Web Hosting Setup, etc. Solaris and Other Linux machines, Proxy Servers (ClarkConnect, ClearOS), Shell Scripting, Hardware Troubleshooting and Maintenance, etc.

Datacomm. Engineer à HUAWEI Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • octobre 2008 à juin 2009

I did work in deployment of Pakistan's one of the major project PERN2 (Pakistan Educational Research Network 2) powered by HEC (Higher Education Commission). I worked for Deployment in North region.
The summery of the project is to interconnect all the Universities of Pakistan with each other and International Networks NRN (National Research Network) with fibre optic Channel and HUAWEI's core and access Routers,
Core Routers: NE80E (which is installed in 3 core sites in Pakistan) and NE40E (which is deployed at each POP (Point-of-Presence) university site.)
Access Routers: NE20E (which is installed at each university's end).
Core Technologies used: MPLS, OSPF, QoS, BGP, IS-IS, etc.

ISP Assist. Engineer à HUAWEI Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • juin 2008 à octobre 2008

Worked as ISP Assist. Engineer in HUAWEI Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd. In the PTCL’s Data Center, Computer Building, H9, Islamabad.
Installed and Configured IBM Plesk server, Virtuozzo, HSPc,
Webhosting, DNS servers, Load Balancer, etc.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, BS (Software Engineering)
  • à University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila
  • février 2009

Majors: Object Oriented Software Engineering, Software Requirement engineering, Software Testing and Quality Assurance, Software Project Management, SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Techniques, etc.

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, HSSC (F.Sc.)
  • à Askari College, Rawalpindi Cantt.
  • septembre 2003

Computer Sciences

Specialties & Skills

Virtualization
Administration
Cloud Computing
Servers
Data Center
Shell Scripting
Computer Hardware
Servers
Systems Administration
ITIL Service Strategy
Operating Systems
Data Center Management
Storage Area Networks
VMware ESXi
Cloud Computing
Linux Systems Administration
Virtualization
Kubernetes

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabe
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Formation et Diplômes

Red Hat Certified System Administrator on RHEL 9 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
March 2023
ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
RHCE Training on RHEL 4.0 (Formation)
Institut de formation:
CisNix, Rawalpindi
Date de la formation:
August 2007
VMware Certified Associate-Cloud (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
EXIN Cloud Computing Foundation (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)
Date de la formation:
April 2015
Basic ISO 9001:2008 System Application for Continuous improvement Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
CONSTECH, Islamabad Pakistan
Date de la formation:
September 2015
Durée:
16 heures
MCITP (Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
CISCOM Rawalpindi
Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
February 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
VMware Certified Associate-Data Center Virtualization (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
November 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Intel Modular Server Virtualization Features Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Viper Technologies (Intel Premium Partner) for Training of Intel Modular Server
Certified Data Center Professional (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
November 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Microsoft Certified Specialist: Server Virtualization with Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
February 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2012
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
VMware Certified Professional 5-Data Center Virtualization (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Certified Cloud Computing Professional (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2015
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
VMware Certified Associate-Workforce Mobility (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
VMware Certified Professional 5-Desktop (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
March 2015
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999

Loisirs

  • Science and Technology
  • My Major Hobbies are:
    Hardware technical details. Google Android OS Linux Operating System Installation, Configuration and Management. Apple Macintosh Operating Systems Installation, Configuration and Management. Electronics repairing and maintenance.