Senior UNIX Administrator
Banque Saudi Fransi
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
Senior UNIX Administrator (Mar 2014 - Present):
• As part of UNIX Team, responsible for AIX system administration, OS installation, design & support complex AIX Systems.
• Experince with PowerVM technologies (HMC, VIOS & LPAR).
• AIX upgrades, backups and patching.
• In-depth knowledge with Network Installation Manager (NIM).
• Excellent performance, troubleshooting & scripting skills.
Senior UNIX & DP Administrator (Mar 2010 - Mar 2014):
• As part of UNIX and Data Protector Team, responsible for HP-UX & AIX system administration, OS installation, upgrades and system tuning which strongly impacts the operation.
• Responsible for successfully configuring and administrating NPAR & VPAR.
• Responsible for successfully configuring and supporting HP ServiceGuard systems.
• Leading the management of patch clusters and updates of HP-UX systems.
• Spearheading design and maintenance of security policies to the highest standard.
• Responsible for disk management functions using LVM V1, V2 and Mirror disk in HPUX.
• Maintaining administration including formal documentation of managed systems to facilitate
improved operations.
• Performing server backup and restore-related activities using HP ignite servers, AIX tapes & Data Protector.
• Maintaining backup policies and alerts and creating online backup and restore function using RMAN.
• Preparing and configuring 20 HP-UX Itanium servers in Disaster Recovery and Head Office Data Centers.
• Leading the data migration of more than 60 TB using various methods including mirroring, backup and restore.
• Preparing and configuring 10 clustered HP-UX systems.
• Building 3 ignites servers (production, disaster recovery and development servers) to the highest standard.
• Awarded for outstanding achievement for performance in DRC ANB Data Center Project 2012.
• Awarded for outstanding achievement for performance in re-certification of Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) program 2012.
• Awarded for outstanding achievement for performance in ANB Data Center Project 2009 - 2011.
EDP Systems Analyst IV (Dec 2005 - Dec 2008):
• Part of the Backup and Restore Team working extensively in Veritas NetBackup Enterprise in order to carry out administration and troubleshooting of Windows servers (2003 & 2008) and UNIX.
• Leading the backup process by adding and removing the servers to and from the backup environment.
• Responsible for performing routine backups and archiving of files stored on the network in order to aid disaster recovery processes.
• Providing 24 hour on-call support for the backup service.
• Maintaining all systems via scheduled preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, testing, analyzing and repairing in order to prevent system shutdown.
• Leading and executing the data recovery plan for corporate servers and maintaining critical production databases in order to maintain integrity of the corporate computer networks.
• Managing a demanding queue of support requests, leading to issue resolution with a strong focus on satisfying customer needs with efficient task execution.
• Winner of Safety Award for three consecutive years.
Other Professional Certifications: • IBM Certified Systems Expert (CSE) - Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux - v2 (2016). • IBM Certified System Administrator (CSA) – AIX 7 (2014). • Certified Systems Engineer (CSE) Specialty in High Availability HP-UX 11i V3 (2013). • HP-UX 11i v3 System Administration: Certified Systems Administrator (CSA)(2010). • IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) V3 Foundation (2009). • Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Server Administrator (2009). • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006, Configuration (2009). • Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Administrator (2009). • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration (2009). • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration (2009). • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration (2009). • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) (2009). • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Windows Vista Configuration (2008). • Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) (2008). • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Configuring (2008). • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)(2007). • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (2006). • International Computer Driving License (ICDL) (2006). Other Professional Trainings: • Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM I Implementing Virtualization (Oct 2016). • HP Integrity Superdome 2 Administration, HP-UX Training Center, Riyadh (March 2013). • HP-UX Troubleshooting, HP-UX Training Center, London (May 2012). • AIX Advance Administration and Problem Determination, (Apr 2012). • AIX Implementation and Administration, (Apr 2012). • Information Security Awareness CBT Course, (2011). • HP-UX Partition Management, HP-UX Training Center, London (May 2011) • HP-UX System & Network Admin II, HP-UX Training Center (Apr 2011). • HP-UX System & Network Admin I, HP-UX Training Center (Apr 2010). • Fundamentals of UNIX , HP-UX Training Center (Apr 2010). • Intermediate & Advance Course in Solaris 10, (May 2007).
