Noufal Nazar, System Lead

Noufal Nazar

System Lead

1.TAQA Industrialization & Energy Services Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, BA
Experience
12 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months

System Lead at 1.TAQA Industrialization & Energy Services Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since February 2022

Designation: System Lead
• Managing Taqa Datacenters
• Implementing and managing Taqa IT infrastructure
• Migrating Taqa acquired companies M365 tenant to Taqa tenant
• Administrate and maintain M365 6000 users and ensuring seamless access to all cloud service
• Administrate and manage Azure subscriptions, resource groups, and virtual machines.
• Design and implement Azure Virtual Networks, ensuring secure and eficient communication between resources
• Implement and manage Azure Active Directory, including user accounts, groups, and access controls
• Manage and maintain infrastructure stability, security, quality, and documentation.
• Implement and manage Azure AD Connect for synchronization with on-premises Active Directory
• Managing infrastructure IT projects.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Providing 3rd Level Infrastructure Troubleshooting and Support
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure NCA and Saudi Aramco Compliances
• Implement and manage Microsoft Intune solutions for endpoint management
• Implementing Microsoft 365 E5 security stacks in all Taqa Companies
• Onboarding and Managing all Taqa group servers through Azure ARC
• Migrating Taqa acquired companies AD forest to Taqa forest
• Implemented conditional access policies to enhance endpoint security and access controls.
• Implementing SSO in Taqa on perm and cloud applications
• Troubleshooting windows Servers OS issues and AD, DNS and DHCP
• Managing Hyper v failover clustering vSphere environment
• Installing and configuring VEEAM and VERITAS backup solutions

Systems $ Network Administrator at Arabian Geographical Surveying co
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • January 2020 to January 2022

Designation: Systems $ Network Administrator

Job Responsibilities:
• Managing Agas HQ infrastructure branch ofices UAE, Oman, Egypt, and crew infrastructure.
• Monitoring activity branch ofices and crew infrastructure
• Configuring and managing IPsec tunnel in Fortinet-FW between HQ to crew remote locations
• Managing branch ofice through MPLS link
• Configuring and managing cisco ASA with firepower services
• Monitoring network security and malware analysis through Cisco FMC
• Configuring and managing Cisco core and access switches
• Configuring cisco any connect remote vpn providing access to users
• Enabling auditing and MFA authentication all Argas employees
• Configuring and managing vpn connection between on premise to azure DR site
• Configuring Azure recovery site vault replicating hyper V vms to the azure
• Deploying VMs in Azure
• Configuring azure ad connect sync with on premise ad to Azure ad
• Administrating Microsoft 365
• Administrating azure active directory creating azure conditional access policies
• Configuring and managing hyper v failover cluster in server 2016
• Creating and managing new vms in in failover cluster
• Managing company devices through Microsoft Intune
• Scheduling virtual machine backup in Veeam backup recovery tool
• Using backup Hp MSL tape library and hp store one VTL
• Managing and maintaining hp 3par storage

Network&Systems Administrator at Sumou Holding
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • June 2017 to December 2019

Designation: Network&Systems Administrator

Job Responsibilities:
• Managing Holding Network and remote network infrastructure
• Monitoring network performance and integrity
• Configuring cisco switches and routers
• Cisco internal network infrastructure managing
• Configuring and managing cisco ASA
• Managing remote sites through IPVPN
• Installing and configuring cisco fire power management center
• Administrating Cisco unified communication manager
• Configuring cisco core switches
• Monitoring network security and malware analysis through Cisco FMC
• Configuring intervlan routing technics in core switch
• Configuring Vlans and updating to all access switches
• Configuring cisco any connect remote vpn providing access to users
• Configuring and managing AD, DNS, DHCP, OUS and GPOS
• Communicating with cisco Tac team
• Monitoring Domain controller replication in each location
• Installing configuring and managing VMware vSphere
• Administrating ofice365 managing users
• Administrating ofice365 managing 300 users

System Administrator at PepsiCo Riyadh plant under Prime Gate Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2014 to May 2017

Duration: September 2014 to May 2017 Designation: System Administrator

Job Responsibilities:

• Managing PepsiCo servers
• IT infrastructure assignment design and implementation in PepsiCo Riyadh plant
• Enhancing the network capability by implementing latest network standers
• Designing optimal network topology for Saudi sites
• Managing sites through IP VPN
• Identifying network gaps in manufacturing and corporate networks
• Installing and configuring domain controller and additional domain controller
• Installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server
• Preparing new servers to production purpose
• Using Fortinet firewall for web filtering
• Managing network around 200 computers and 175 AD users
• Contacting to ISP for the ip vpn related issues
• Implementing high availability and eliminating single point of failure
• Supporting to global team implementing MacAfee encryption tools all AMEA region computers

System Administrator at Saudi Information Technology. (SIT)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2010 to January 2014

Designation: System Administrator

Working on a project of Riyadh Amana (Riyadh Region Project)
Job Responsibilities:
• Maintaining Riyadh Region Locations Servers
• Extensive experience in installation, administration, and networking in various environments.
• Installing and configuring Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Servers.
• Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.
• Installing and configuring dhcp and dns servers.
• Backup and restoring system static data and user data.
• Created the Forest Root domain, and a Child domain in a production environment.
• Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
• Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting.
• Configuring network printers and printer sharing.
• Trouble shooting of all Network & Hardware problems.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BA
  • at University Of Kerala
  • March 2007

Specialties & Skills

Network Administration
System Administration
active directory
DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) SERVERS
DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP)
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
MVS (OS)
INFRASTRUCTURE
TROUBLESHOOTING (PROBLEM SOLVING)
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPN)
ACCESS CONTROLS
AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
cisco switching
Windows server 2012
cisco routing
cisco trouble shooting
Windows server 2008
Vmware vsphere esxi
Symantec backup exec
Fortinet
windows server 2016
CISCO ASA
CISCO FMC
CISCO CUCM
HP 3par Storage
Patch Manger
HP Blade server
windows server 2019
Hyper v Fail over Cluster
CISCO UCS SERVER
Backup administrator
DELL EMC STORAGE
Azure Active Directory Administration
Active Directory Migration
INTUNE Administration
M365 Administration

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Azure Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2020
Valid Until:
October 2022
CCNP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2019
MCP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2009
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
May 2011
JNCIA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2009
Valid Until:
May 2011
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Valid Until:
August 2018
MCSA 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Learning new Technologies