Senior Infrastructure Administrator
Sharjah Islamic Bank
Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months
As a Senior Infrastructure administrator at Sharjah Islamic Bank, I am managing mission critical Enterprise Server, Storage and Backup Infrastructure with more than 300 cores & 1.5 PB of front-end data.
Current roles and responsibilities
• As a Technical Lead for Enterprise Systems, I am responsible to provide expert technical consultancy and guidance to Sharjah Islamic Bank IT on the Enterprise Infrastructure of Server, Storage & Backup technologies.
• Working as part of a design & support team, my responsibilities include design, develop, support and deliver robust and cost effective solutions for both Business and IT led initiatives
• Evaluate new products and Technologies from leading Server, Storage and Backup vendors by conducting Proof of Concepts and selecting the most appropriate solution for the organization.
• Ensure that the developed architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance and reliability.
• Monitor current performance and to ensure appropriate levels of capacity, quality, service level, resources and solutions are optimally tuned.
Skill Set:
Enterprise Servers Technologies:
IBM Power Systems (Power7, Power8)
IBM PowerVM, IBM PowerHA,
IBM PowerVC & Power SC
IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM AIX
Redhat Linux, Redhat Satellite
SAN, Storage & Virtualization Technologies:
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP G400)
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) & V7000
IBM Virtual Cloud Control (VSC)
IBM DS8800 & DS8870 Storage
IBM DS4K & DS5K Storage
IBM Flash System V820 & F900
Easy Tiering or Auto Tiering
BROCADE Directors & IBM Network Advisor
Hitachi Tuning Manager
Hitachi G400 Unified Storage
Storage Replications ( IBM & Hitachi)
Backup & Recovery Technologies:
IBM Spectrum Protect 8.x
IBM TDPVM, TDPSQL, TDP Oracle, TDP Exchange
IBM Enterprise Libraries
1. Design servers and storage infrastructure solutions; effectively integrate solutions into existing infrastructure, help to deploy solutions that meet business and technical requirements
2. Managing Infrastructure of Intel/Unix/AIX System and Storage operations in 24/7 mission critical environment
3. Capacity planning for servers and storage infrastructure to meet current and future needs
4. Implementation and support services for AIX (UNIX) and IBM Power System (P4/P5/P6/P7)
5. PowerVM (LPAR/DLPAR/VIOS) configuration and troubleshooting
6. Implement & Support High Availability and clustered file systems solutions (IBM HACMP/GPFS)
7. Implementation of various RAID solutions on IBM and EMC storage subsystems (DS4K, DS5K, DS8K, XIV, V7K, VNX, VMAX and SVC)
8. Problem determination and performance related services for IBM customers (L2 Support)
-AIX6.1, REHL Systems Administration.
-Enterprise Backups Management using TSM6.2 and Vertias NetBackup7.1.
-Storage Administration (Hitchi VSP, Hitachi USPVM, Hitachi AMS, IBM XIV, DS4700 and EMC )
-IBM Application Products (Websphere App server, MQ, Broker, LDAP).
-High Availablity (PowerHA, Redhat Cluster)
-Virtualization \[VIO, VMware (ESXI, VCenter)\]
Member of 4 person system administration team responsible for B&CC (Billing and Customer Care) data center running AIX and different applications.
BILLING & CUSTOMER CARE DATA CENTER (BNCC)OPERATIONS:
AIX System Administration on IBM P-Series servers, installed at Production and DR sites for PTCL Billing and customer care data center that includes:
-AIX 5.3, 6.1, Redhat and FreeBSD Systems Administration.
-Storage management ( EMC Sym 8830, DMX-4, AX4, CX310, IBM DS4300)
-Backups Management (Veritas Netbackup 5.5), NetVault
-Enterprise DNS, DHCP and SMTP service administration.
System Administration of RHEL and Solaris.
Sun Storage Configuration and Management.
Setup of Qmail MTA with Squirrel web interface.
Configuration and management of Proxy, Apache, IPtables rules
Design and implement System and Network Security through Connectivity of 22 remote sites through INTRANET.
Configuration, Management, Troubleshooting of Network devices (Routers, Switches).
• Linux
- Firewall using Iptables, Proxy Using squid, (FTP) services
- Domain Name System (DNS)
• Antigen VoIP System.
- Configuration and Maintenance of ACM System.
- Extension management, Call routing, Voice mail Management, CDRs Management
• Windows 2000 Servers.
- Active Directory implementation
- Antivirus Server Deployment
Tivoli Storage Manger