Sr. Infrastructure Specialist
IBM
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Managing IBM Power Series Servers (Power Blades, P520, P770)
* Virtualization & Consolidation using Vmware technologies.
* EMC Networker, Data Domain, and VNX administration and optimization.
* Configuring and Managing Brocade switches zoning for SAN.
* Overseeing remote mirroring between primary and DR Sites.
* SAN Zoning and LUN management.
* Managing Storage Clones and snapshots on regular basis.
* Managing EMC Storage through VNX.
* Managing backup for entire client company through Networker
* Overseeing the cloud computing horizon especially Openstack framework for existing
infrastructure.
* Advance Virtualization with Virtual I/O Server & VSphere /ESXI 6.1
* Operating Systems (AIX, Red hat, Windows Server)
* Design, implementation and administration of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
* Maintained backup scheduling, load balancing & maintenance activities for TSM
Servers.
* Managing SAN solution with IBM DS5300 Storage & Cisco MDS Fabric
Working for National Dataware House in NADRA Head Quarter.
* System / SAN Administration of National Database.
* Have taken major role in the installation and implementation of IBM Infosphere
Guardium for Database Security and Logging.
* Working for Biometric Identification Systems (IBM based Solution) including
Automated Finger Identification System (AFIS, Morpho).
* Collaboration with all Telco’s and Banks of Pakistan for their CNIC verification
services.
* Sharing responsibilities with the team developing the Computerized Election Lists for
the National project.
* Looking and administrating for SAN solutions currently implemented in NADRA
Dataware House.
Preparing IBM P-Series (P570 and P595) Servers for mission critical applications,
LPAR creation and I/O resource allocation and fulfilling the needs of storage from
IBM SAN (DS 8300).
* Design, implementation and administration of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
* Managing all backup activities through TSM and Tape Library (TS 3310).
* Maintained backup scheduling, load balancing & maintenance activities for TSM
Servers.
* Planning and executing of Installation/configuration of DLPAR and Micro-partitions
with VIO server, in addition to managing support issues later on.
* Responsible for Disaster Recovery planning and practices.
* TSM client/server installations, maintenance, tape handling and monitoring.
* A basic job role in managing Unix Team Administration Projects and tasks, in
addition on planning, configuring and implementing all Production Machines in the
bank.
* Managing latest technology like IBM P595, P570 and other high availability
Products like HACMP and GPFS clusters and Latest AIX Versions, for a 24x7
services which needs a very high standard of Systems security, and Data integrity and
consistency.
* Worked with database and application development team to get the exceptions and
fully documenting each of system.
* Worked with the auditors and keeping the system in compliance all the time
* Responsible for implementing and coordinating the core banking solutions to be
implemented by the bank.
* System administration, planning, security, auditing & hardware recommendations.
Managing 24x7x365 Live and Disaster Recovery Data Centers for the execution &
availability of smooth Business Operations & Services.
* Managed and lead operations /deployments for all failovers of UNIX, LINUX,
windows, virtualization weather they are on X86 and enterprise hardware.
* Delivered record availability of the high transaction IT infrastructure. Data center
environment achieving 99.93 % reliability.
* Project Manager for Data Centre Migration multiple times including both Primary
and DR Site.
* Implemented Quality Control procedures to ensure full compliance with company
policies and procedures.
* Interfaced extensively with Help Desk teams to provide immediate support on
pressing technical issues. .
* Generated weekly statistical and department performance reports for senior
management review.
* Helped plan and managed the virtualization and migration of Applications into the
new Data Center.
* Wrote the IT Security Plan required to manage security for four Data Centers.
* Responsible for the administration, maintenance and smooth operations of all Telenor
Datacenter equipment including high-end Servers, mission critical environments,
Storage/SAN.
* Actively involved in design & development of Commercial Data Centre project having
capacity of 75 Racks, as per the requirements of TIA-942 standards for Tier-IV (80%)
and Tier-III (20%) Data Centre.
* Develop policies & various SOPs for Data Centre/IT operations, maintenance and
security.
* Worked for ISO-270001 Certification for Telenor Data Centre.
Responsible for the planning and implementation of systems infrastructure.
• Identifying requirements and selecting products and performing cost benefit analysis.
• Design and implement technical operations processes and procedures.
• Co-ordinate with internal depts. on new functionalities and services that could be
offered from the existing platform and provide technical assistance in harnessing the
power of technology.
• Monitor the day to day running of the unit and propose changes to processes,
procedures and staff structure required to improve overall efficiency.
• Evaluate and monitor vendors’ performance and proposals.
• Goal setting & team appraisals, identification of training areas & skills development.
• Control and co-ordinate unit functions to ensure system performance, availability and
ensure the efficient use of staff and resources.
Planning, Designing, Implementation and Configuration of Network as per
requirements.
• Configuration and Maintenance of Cisco Routers, Alteon Multilayer Switches, Cisco
Catalyst Switches and DVB.
• Configuration of routing protocols OSPF, & EIGRP
• Configurations of VLANs and inter VLAN Routing, Layer 3 switches.
• Responsible for managing site surveys and network design.
• Maintenance of network, on-line support and on-site maintenance
• Correspondence with Telco Authorities.
• Commissioning of PRI’s and E-1’s
• Monitoring Network and giving daily activity report to AM NOC Operations.
• Providing Technical-Support to Corporate clients.
• Configuration of DNS, Mail, and FTP Servers.
• Installed and configured Squid Cache servers on Linux servers.
• Implementation of Transparent proxy using squid, IPTABLES, Cisco routers and
Alteon AD2 and cache Director.