Senior Systems Engineer
Nesma
Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months
(NT&T is full-service communications technology company managed by a dedicated team of directors, senior MANAGERS, expert IT engineers, professional consultants, and certified skilled developers who are driven by nothing but dedication, accuracy, commitment, trust, and integrity. All this serves one purpose, which is meeting our clients’ needs and fulfilling their requirements.)
Implement operational strategy and standards, and applied research that align with the firm IT strategy vision and realization; including project and budget planning and execution Manage the implementation, configuration, deployment and ongoing support of the VMware VSphere server infrastructure hosting enterprise applications, configuring HA, VMotion, DRS, and Backup disaster recovery management
Develop technical and operations standards, procedures, technical documentation and metrics related to VMware VSphere
Produce metrics and status reports using VCOPs to present infrastructure performance and work initiative progress to leadership
Analyze and resolve complex enterprise system hardware and software problems; interface with peer teams and vendors to coordinate solutions.
Install deploy and manage the VDI infrastructure using VMware view combined with HP Thin and Zero clients.
(System Rapid is a leading IT solution provider in the field of virtualization and other IT solutions, some of the clients are British Council, Jeddah Prep and Grammar Schools, Al Ekhaa Schools, AGS, Al Ghassan motors and Riyadh Metro project …)
Conduct PoCs, work closely with pre-sales team to provide client oriented solutions.
Design, plan and Configure enterprise class network, systems and storage.
Reviewing network diagrams to identify critical networked resources have sufficient IT controls around them.
Analyzing, evaluating and monitoring network infrastructure and IT systems to ensure systems are configured to operate at optimal performance
Providing specialist skills in supporting and troubleshooting SYSTEMS, STORAGE AND NETWORK problems
Provide both on-site and off-site support for Systemrapid clients
Acting as a technical resource for Platform, Desktop, Development and Business Systems teams
Create technical documentation, to facilitate smooth operations of Systemrapid clients businesses.
Provide training for employees on the new technologies.
(Robian is one of largest aquaculture companies in world. It has a workforce of more than 3000 employees.)
Implementing helpdesk systems with OTRS. Data-center, server & network health monitoring
System with CACTI.
Analyze, troubleshoot and identify alternative solutions to complex network hardware, software, and connectivity problems and make modifications and fixes to resolve the issues and scheduling upgrades.
Installing, configuring, testing, maintaining and administering new and upgraded networks, software database applications, servers and workstations.
Managing the VM Ware virtual servers.
Configure and monitor backup of critical data and applications.
Establishing networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards and implementation.
Install and configure Alert systems (SMTP server and SMS gateways) for the DC equipment.
Observing current operation and suggest any enhancements to the current setup.
Firewall administration and overall internal network security(include PIX firewalls, ASA firewalls, McAfee snap-gears & Endpoint Checkpoint)
Manage Ubuntu 11.04 server.
Administer AD and its components like AD users and computers, DNS, certificate server, Creating and managing GPOs.
(The leading water desalination firm in Saudi Arabia and East Africa. I’m administering the network of their plants situated in various locations around Saudi Arabia.)
Manage the current active directory and file server.
Manage the existing network infrastructure consisting of Cisco routers, switches and Access points.
Escalate issues to service provides (Awalnet, Avaya) and other service providers depending on the severity of the incident.
Configuring and manage DNS & DHCP Server
Facilitate the Implementation of Citrix Meta-frame by coordinating with vendor and providing them with all technical support.
Backup of user and corporate data. Do compliance check on the backed up data at specified interval.
Discuss tasks with the team members and IT Manager, recommend and implement changes / upgrades that will provide better performance.
Monitor user activity on Internet.
Observing current operation and suggest any enhancements to the current setup.
Citrix vdi in a box certification for small and medium business