Nadeem Shahzad, Sr. System/Network Engineer

Nadeem Shahzad

Sr. System/Network Engineer

Nextbridge Pvt. Ltd

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Master's degree, Network,Programming,Web Development
Experience
13 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months

Sr. System/Network Engineer at Nextbridge Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since December 2014

Configuration and Administration of VPC, Rackspace, Linode and Amazon cloud services (EC2, Route 53, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS)
* Installation and configuration of Mysql Xtradb cluster.
• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of cPanel and WHM servers.
• Security and vulnerability analysis, updates and patches installation on servers.
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of servers and network
• Administration and configuration of Virtual Infrastructure VMware and Proxmox
• Configure and setup development and production environment Lamp, Lemp, Usvn, Redmine, Gitlab, ROR, RVM for developers
* Domain zone configuration on domain name registrar Godaddy, namecheap. Installation and configuration of SSL certficates.
• Configuration of Security firewall Cisco ASA and Pfsense
• Configuration and maintenance of VPN infrastructure for remote connectivity
* Monitoring tools smtp, nagios, cacti for network and servers.
* Bash Scripting

Network / System Engineer at Nextbridge (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • May 2014 to December 2014

• Configuration and Administration of VPC, Rackspace, Linode and Amazon cloud services (EC2, Route 53, VPC, S3, ELB)
• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of cPanel and WHM servers.
• Security and vulnerability analysis, updates and patches installation on servers.
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of servers and network
• Administration and configuration of Virtual Infrastructure VMware and Proxmox
• Configure and setup development and production environment Lamp, Lemp, Usvn, Redmine, Gitlab, ROR, RVM for developers
* Domain zone configuration on domain name registrar Godaddy, namecheap. Installation and configuration of SSL certficates.
• Configuration of Security firewall Cisco ASA and Pfsense
• Configuration and maintenance of VPN infrastructure for remote connectivity
* Monitoring tools smtp, nagios, cacti for network and servers.
* Bash Scripting

System Administrator at Punjab Employee Social Security Institution Lahore
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2010 to May 2014

• Configure Apache, Ftp, Mysql, DNS, Squid, Samba, Postfix, Dovecot on Linux. Installation of updates and patches on linux servers. Linux kernel compliation.
• Configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Active directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, WSUS, print server, Antivirus (Microsoft Forefront), SCCM 2007 on win2k8.
• Setup a PXE install environment for linux & windows
• Setup monitoring tools Nagios, Cacti & Mrtg.
• Configure SNORT on Linux to implement network security. Configure firewall (IPtables) to secure linux servers.
• Configuration and administration of Equallogic iSCSI SAN array, iSCSI LUN provisioning, thing provisioning, snapshot and cloning of volume, SAN and iSCSI connectivity, create iSCSI storage box using openfiler.
• Configure Symantec backup exec 2010 with Tape Library for backup & recovery of servers, exchange mailbox, active directory objects and implement continuous server protections of database servers.
• Management of Dell Advanced Infrastructure Cloud. Configure server image to boot a physical server from SAN, configure virtualized Linux & windows server running under AIM. Creation of Linux server image to boot from SAN.
• Virtual Infrastructure Implementation with ESXI.
• Implementing security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA.
• Configure and implement network devices ( Cisco Core & Access switches, Routers, Firewall and IPS )
• Deploy remote access VPN on Cisco ASA firewall.

Education

Master's degree, Network,Programming,Web Development
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • July 2010
Bachelor's degree, Math A, Math B, Physics
  • at University of Punjab Lahore
  • October 2001
High school or equivalent, Math, Physics , Chemistry
  • at BISE LAHORE
  • October 1998
High school or equivalent, Math, Physics, Chemistry
  • at BISE LAHORE
  • July 1995

Bayt Tests

Linux Test
Score 65%

Specialties & Skills

Web Security
Linux server administration
Cloud Computing
Website Administration
Linux Server Configuration and Administration
Storage
Cloud Computing
Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange Server
Amazon Cloud Services
Cpanel & WHM
Web & Internet Security
Virtualization
Firewall Configuration
Backup Technologies (Symmantec Bakcup Exec & Bacula)
Mysql Xtradb cluster

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
Valid Until:
June 2017

Hobbies

  • Reading Books and Articles about Innovation in OpenSource Technologies