Infrastructure Engineer
Sharjah Islamic Bank
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
Leading internal Open source R&D team, keeping up-to-date with
emerging technologies & conduct research & development on various
Opensource products.
Responsible for maintaining Linux workload on an enterprise environment,
Responsible for managing Storage infrastructure & backup infrastructure,
including tape libraries.
Linux management and administration, Provisioning, Compliance,
patching managed through RedHat satellite. Ansible, puppet is used for
configuration management, building ansible roles & playbooks Supporting
open source products for business projects. Open shift management,
Kubernetes, Docker, Performance tuning, recompiling and building
packages, shell scripting, iptables, SElinux, enabling Booleans on SELINUX
env. Firewall & server hardening with Ansible playbooks.
Blade center, SAN administration, upgrading firmware on blades.
Standardization, Compliance & hardware management for servers. SAN
switch zoning configuration. Deep knowledge in handling lun provisioning
from SAN & configuring fabrics & HBA. Performance tuning on LUN's &
servers. Plan storage capacity, extend disks & luns. Performed storage
migrations. Monitoring IOPS &latency.
Installation and configuration of VMware Vsphere in the datacenters,
Automate ESX deployment in the enterprise-class server platforms.
Successfully Implemented ESX/ESXi, VCenter, VCB, VCLI, RDM disks,
Update Manager, an expert in configuring HA, DRS & FT. Configuring
VMotion,
Storage VMotion, FT, vDistributed Switch, Host Profiles, DRS and HA ESX
clusters, and VMware Data Recovery. Upgrade ESX/ESXi using upgrade
tools like VUM and VIMA.
Development of RFI and RFP, RFP responses for various IT infrastructure
projects. Involved in handling AMC’s, ITSC’s, Negotiation, contract
management with enterprise vendors. Liaising with hardware and software
vendors and channel partners for procurement and system support to
resolve issues.
Responsible for supporting and maintaining top critical servers like Core
banking, internet banking, card servers. Installation & configuration of
oracle apps, SQL configuration, and maintenance. DB Backup
responsibilities, internal support & coordination with project teams.
Gathering test requirements, design and development of test plans, test
cases, test reports, and test metrics, responsible for RCA reports & incident
reporting.
Backup server administration on TSM 5.5, 6.3, 7.1& 8.4.Vmware TSM proxy,
Node replication, TBMR Policy Planning and implementation for Security,
Backup, and archive operations. Design the entire TSM solution. Policy
domains, administrative scripts. Managing IBM tape library TS 3500, 3310
Implementing, configuring, and supporting Windows
Patch management and regular system updates.
User administration and management.
Troubleshooting the network and application issues.
Monitored hardware and software functionality to ensure connectivity and
availability on the client machines.
Reviewed software installation procedures & trained support team.
Played a crucial role in remote supporting branches servers and managing
the team.
Remote and onsite systems administration of windows and Linux boxes.
Implemented ITIL V3 based service desk systems & designed SLA based
support.
Installation and Deployment of windows and Linux servers, &
configuration of application servers.
Backing up and restoring MSSQL/oracle DB for application server.
Managed systems with the puppet configuration management system
Setup a mock rpm builds environment.
Backported rpm packages from Fedora to RHEL High-performance
computing, benchmarking, and kernel tuning.
Implemented MREPO Apache-based patching solution
Advised on best practices and spearheaded migrations from older Linux
distributions to RHEL5
Re-implemented the global DNS/LDAP with recompiled samba setup for
higher availability and single sign-on Initial setup of Open LDAP to
centralize network device authentication
Vulnerability fixing, patching & hardening Configured DNS name server,
DHCP, apache, squid caching proxy, Iptables firewall, LVM, send mail, NIS,
postfix. samba fileserver Basic shell scripting, kernel compilation,
compiling packages.
Administration support to LAMP stack, Java, . Net developers, and PHP
developers.