System Engineer
Hewlette Packard
Total years of experience :20 years, 0 Months
• Management of Hardware/Software resources as per customer requirement.
• Provide Support for critical backups on Oracle.
• Maintain liaison with mission critical and other SLA’s in accordance with current business objectives.
• Maintain nPar and vpar for Integrity Blade servers.
• Configure and define storage allocation as per customer needs on Unix Servers.
• Provide patch analysis data and update patches to latest for mission critical and other systems.
• Expertise of Planning, Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, and Administration of HP-UX/Linux based Operating Systems; Configuration & implementation of ACL’s, NFS, NTP, JFS, Volume Group, Routing and TCP/IP, DNS, and Cron & At jobs, Shell-scripting using AWK & Sed; Installation of HP-UX Patches, Upgrades and Licensed products.
• Expertise on HP Open View Data Protector Backup Software involves Planning, Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance, Backup scheduling, Restore and Administration.
• Expertise on IgniteUX backup and restore.
• Deployment of clustering solution for REDHAT enterprise linux version 6.
• Expertise on Clustering on MC Service Guard.
• Expertise on all hardware platforms including Integrity and Blade servers
HPUX & Storage Engineer on Petro Rabigh Project(Sister Company of Saudi Aramco) on third party contract by SAUDI INTELTEC Company.
• Expertise on HP Open View Data Protector Backup Software involves Planning, Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, Backup scheduling, Restore and Administration.
• Expertise on IgniteUX backup and restore.
• Expertise on Clustering on MC Service Guard.
• Provide Support for SAP (front end) and Oracle (back end).
• Expertise on all hardware platforms including Integrity and Blade servers.
Working as Unix/ Storage Specialist in PetroRabigh - SAUDI ARAMCO Data Center sponsored by Saudi Inteltec, with overall responsibilities of system and services in 24 x 7 environment for 33 HP-UX Machines, EVA6000, XP24000 and Backup/Restore using DP6.0. The job responsibilities & projects included but not limited to
HP-UX Administration ( Superdome / RX Servers / Blade Servers)
• Configuring Superdome system Running HP-UX as per needs and requirements of SAP Administrators.
• Installation / Recovery of HP-UX in case of disaster occurred on system.
• Migrating the SAP Systems from one host to other Host.
• Maintaining high availability of system, with mirroring of internal disks and recover mirroring in case of any HDD Failure
Data Protector Administration. ( DP 6.0 and ESL/ MSL 6030 in SAN)
• Configuring the backup specifications for SAP databases and file system level backups.
• Creating and maintaining backup policies and procedures as required.
• Daily monitoring of backups and Media Pools and initialize the expired media.
• Configure/ Maintain the Media Pools for Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Special Backup policies.
• Installation of Data Protector Patches and update all the hosts.
Cluster Administration ( MC/ServiceGuard)
• Maintaining the clusters with start/ stop the packages.
• Configuring the cluster for new packages.
• Utilized the external script to start stop the application using service guard.
• Resolve any issue in clusters.
• Maintain cluster configuration for changes to cluster.
Worked as a team member of Enterprise support group, the job responsibilities & projects included the Availability/Maintenance /Administration and Operational Activities of HP (Hewlett-Packard) Enterprise Systems / Storage Solutions to various Enterprises in Pakistan. The main job responsibilities include but not limited to.
• Support HP Hardware and software / Storage Solutions.
• Support System administration of HP-UX.
• Support Mission Critical Environments running HP-UX Flavor of UNIX.
• To complete customer service support on each and every week.
• To visits enterprises for hardware and software problem resolution and submit monthly call reports to manager.
• To visit Enterprise customers on monthly basis and maintain the availability of their systems.
• To Deploy Enterprise hardware solutions to customers and provide 24 x 7 support.
• To coordinate with HP Depot for hardware and software replacements.
• Interaction with other cities offices for the management of HP spares part and their allocation on these branches on request Tag Forms.
• Authorized for dealing with HP Depot for parts replacements and unused returns.
• Implementing on site domain and user environments on their requests.
• Installation and support of various Operating Systems including HPUX, SCO Unix, RED HAT Enterprise Linux, .
• Providing 24x7 and 9x5 support to large enterprises
• Responsible for maintaining and trouble-shooting the LAN communication and DSL connectivity through Proxy Server.
• Carried out a research report to study, investigate & document the Requirement Analysis and Design Methodology employed at Maxis (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Database disaster recovery planning and procedures implementation.
• Network and Hardware troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Installations and configurations of Software and Hardware.
• Network Designing and implementation
• Examining and Reporting Errors, Taking Backups and Data Recovery.
• Multiple Server administration of more than 100 clients.
• Redundancy planning and Implementation.
• Routers configuration.
EVA Certification
its Novell Certification awarded to me on the basis of LPIC Level 2 Certification.
GPA 3.6, at 30 % scholarship