Senior System Administrator
Kharafi Global Company
Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months
• Handling 11 of technical staff, arrange shift duties and responsibilities.
• Negotiating IT service contracts with partners and suppliers.
• Good experience to make IT budget according to new requirements.
• Able to identify cost-effective technical solutions that meet business needs.
• Developing and maintaining whole infrastructure and IT systems.
• Create and design new network setup in new places
• Evaluate and recommend purchases of IT related equipment and software
• Troubleshoot networks, systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational difficulties.
• Craft and execute support strategies for core platforms with advance level technical team
• Managing and configuration VMware 5.5 infrastructure.
• Managing and configuring Active Directory on server 2008/2012 R2
• Managing and configuring Exchange 2013 and 2010, DNS, DHCP.
• Maintain exchange servers and check for problems related to in bound & out bound emails.
• Managing Microsoft Lync 2010 and Avaya IP Telephones.
• Maintain IBM V3700 SAN and Synology NAS storages
• Managing Veeam Backup for VMware.
• Deploying and managing Kaspersky Enterprise antivirus solution.
• Managing Micros POS and OCIMS Delivery System
• Monitoring daily network traffic and logging bandwidth utilization and preparing daily network performance reports.
• Coordinate service and maintenance of servers and peripherals, data services etc.
• Maintain licenses for Firewalls, other software. Renew domain names of the company from time to time
• Creating point to point VPN to connect remote sites.
• Install and configure Cisco switches according to requirement
• Implementing Group Policies.
• Manage their IP based LAN and WAN network
• Managing and configuring Black berry Enterprise server 5.0.2 with phone devices
• Managing and configuring Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Managing and configuring Active Directory on server 2008/2012 R2
• Managing and configuring Exchange 2013 and 2010, DNS, DHCP.
• Maintain exchange servers and check for problems related to in bound & out bound emails.
• Maintain SAN/NAS storages
• Install and configure Cisco switches according to requirement
• Plan and implement network security, including building firewalls, applying backup plans, file system integrity, and adding and deleting users.
• Maintain licenses for Firewalls, other software. Renew domain names of the company from time to time
• Create and design new network setup in new places
• Creating and modifying VLANs according to requirements
• Troubleshoot networks, systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational difficulties.
• Document network problems and resolutions for future reference
• Managing wireless access points and their security and verifying availability of wireless network across the company in the required areas by controller.
• Investigate user problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions.
• Deploying Symantec antivirus solution and handling daily infection report
• Coordinate service and maintenance of computer hardware and peripherals, printers, data services and etc.
• Provide regular and scheduled system maintenance i.e. daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
• Ensure timely back-ups are performed, verified and stored appropriately.
• Writing proposals for solutions and making presentations and interacting positively with upper management.
• Managing Cisco Call manager express and deploying new phone
• Evaluate and/or recommend purchases of computers, network hardware, Peripheral equipment and software.
• Ensure proper backup of servers, storage and assuring of proper retrieval of files at any point of time.
• Managing their IP based network and Cisco core system
• Managing Apple talk network and providing Macintosh user access to windows servers.
• Managing HP Blade Servers and SAN storage and allocating storage to Blade servers. Configuring Raid Arrays and storage.
• Managing and planning disaster recovery and daily backup using HP Open View data protector, Symantec Backup Exec, Backup recovery and Tape library.
• Managing and configuring Active Directory on server 2003
• Managing and configuring Email, DNS, DHCP and web servers.
• Creating modifying VLANs and modifying memberships according to requirements
• Managing network Security through Cisco PIX, ASA and MS ISA server 2004.
• Defining Access-lists and managing access to resources and users’ restrictions
• Designing networks and troubleshooting Cisco and Microsoft environment.
• Managing wireless access points and their security and verifying availability of wireless network across the company in the required areas.
• Monitoring daily network traffic and logging bandwidth utilization and preparing daily network performance reports.
• Managing online Servers i.e. web server and Microsoft exchange server, I Mail Server and Citrix Servers.
• Deploying MacAfee EPO enterprise antivirus solution and handling daily infection reports and Symantec Corporate Edition
• Creating and managing Cisco VPN connections and providing secure connectivity to remote offices
• Providing support to users and solving network and PC and MAC G4, G5, Mac Pro problems.
• Installing and troubleshooting network and local printers.