Systems Engineer
NUST Islamabad
Total years of experience :12 years, 0 Months
- Expertise in migration of VMware cloud to public cloud.
- Management of vSphere, vRealize Operation Manager, vRealize Loginsight, vRealize Lifecycle manager.
- Configuration and Management of SAN storages including Dell, IBM, and Huawei.
- Deployment and management of DNS server on Linux based Server.
- Installation and management of Odoo based applications with Apache and postgresql.
- Installation of web panels (cPanel and Plesk Panel).
- Ansible deployment for patch management on Linux based systems Installation of docker containers and manage containers.
- Windows Server management Active Directory, LDAP, DHCP, NTP and DNS management.
- Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest and Domain Infrastructure.
- Firm understanding of Windows security including file system permissions, file sharing, event logging, performance monitoring and disk administration.
- Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP managing.
- Management of Ubuntu, Red hat (Rhel), CentOS and Kali Linux based operating systems.
- Fileservers management, Central antivirus, O365, Local and Global DNS management, Odoo and ERP management.
- Make security policies for NUST network infrastructure. Maintained more than 1500 servers both physical and VM environment with 99% uptime.
- Mastered in trouble shooting both windows and Linux OS issues, handled escalated L3 issues in end user computing.
- Experience with deploying, configuring, Apache, PHP, MySQL/Oracle, MSSQ.
- Configured and deployed VMware environment in 7 Severs cluster with High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) features.
- Built and managed over 100 VMs including Performance monitoring, Error logging and Backup management.
- Knowledge about SAN Configuration and Implementation, Storage Components like, Attached storages,
- RAID groups, Volume Groups.
- Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like VLAN Problem management and Virtual Center and VMotion.
- Installed racked and stacked HP Proliant Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge Servers in multiple data Centers.
- Expert in Configuring and administering windows server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022, IIS 6.0/7.0, WSUS 3.0 SP2.
• Working Experience on VMware ESXI, Ubuntu, Linux and Windows System administrator.
• Manage both Linux and windows based server management.
• Manage monitoring server Nagios and Centreon.
• Symantec based email services monitoring.
• Mrtg monitoring tool management.
• Backup Scripting of both linux and windows based servers.
• Physical firewall configuration like Juniper and Huawei firewalls
• Monitor the security of critical systems (e.g., e-mail servers, database servers, web servers,
etc) and changes to highly sensitive computer security controls to ensure appropriate system
administrative actions, investigate and report on noted irregularities.
• Working Experience on VMs, Active Directory, System automation through scrips, Hyper
visors and SAN for backup management of servers.
• Working experience on windows 2008/2012 installation and configuration of Active
directory.
• Working experience on windows based database server’s version 2012 and 2017.
• Experience on Email exchange servers e.g. office365.
• Have expertise on virtualization of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) through professional
software/hypervisor SolusVM.
• Conduct network vulnerability assessments using tools to evaluate attack vectors, identify
system vulnerabilities and develop remediation plans and security procedures.
• Monitored events, responded to incidents and reported findings.
• Monitoring SIEM events: Analyzing malware console with respect to alerts triggered and
identifying variants of new seen before malware's.
• Develop technical advisories of emerging threats.
• Perform threat management and protection against threats including newly detected vulnerabilities, Malware Detection, Phishing and intrusion to networks.
• Working experience on professional security tools AlienVault (USM) and Wireshark.
• Back up or modify applications and related data to provide for disaster recovery.
• Determine sources of web page or server problems, and take action to correct such problems.
• Implement web site security measures, such as firewalls or message encryption.
• Test backup or recovery plans regularly and resolve any problems.
• Monitor systems for intrusions or denial of service attacks, Distributed denial of service and
report security breaches to appropriate personnel.
• Implement updates, upgrades, and patches in a timely manner to limit loss of service.
Identify or document backup or recovery plans.
• Install or configure web server software or hardware to ensure that directory structure is well-
defined, logical, secure, and that files are named properly.
• Inform web site users of problems, problem resolutions or application changes and updates.
• Set up or maintain monitoring tools on web servers or web sites.
• Check and analyze operating system or application log files regularly to verify proper system
performance.
• Firewall security and management of databases including windows and Linux based servers
Management of all share hosting, VPS and dedicated servers
• Installation and management of server monitoring tool “Centreon”.
• Set up and operate test equipment to evaluate performance of developmental parts, assemblies, or systems under simulated operating conditions, and record results.
• Provide technical assistance and resolution when electrical or engineering problems are encountered before, during, and after construction.
• Prepare electrical project cost or work-time estimates.
• Visit construction sites to observe conditions impacting design and to identify solutions to
technical design problems involving electrical systems equipment that arise during
construction.
• Perform supervisory duties, such as recommending work assignments, approving leaves, or completing performance evaluations.
• Teach Computer Programming course including lab work and maintains lab manuals.
• Done additional duty as a server administrator
• Install equipment such as amplifiers or repeaters to maintain the strength of communications
transmissions.
• Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
• Explain cable service to subscribers after installation and collect any installation fees that are
due.
• Maintaining mobilink sites including both power and transmission sector.
Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications.
• Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database
to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
• My responsibilities includes virtual private server management, it contains server security,
have managed web panels of company, load management of server, management of site
resources
courses: Have my specialization in Digital and Mobile Communications, I have studied cyber forensics, advance computer networks, mobile communications and advance digital communications
Completed my Electronics Engineering degrees with specialization in power electronics, major courses include computer networks, analog and digital communications, computer programming, analog and digital communications and control systems.