IT Infrastructure Director
Bayt.com, Inc
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Accomplishments:
Instrumental in driving web operational simplification, service improvement and cost effectiveness through adoption and rollout of cloud related technology and tools.
Owned design, construction and operation of large-scale regional data centers - scalability and costs to support seamless growth for Bayt.
Evangelized end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformation toward cloud computing, developing and implementing cloud strategy and growing Bayt’s data center footprint form single colocation to 5 regional data centers and cloud service providers. Bayt manages data centers in KSA, DXB, Canada and US using various colocation/ cloud service provided by innovation juggernauts - AWS and Azure.
Global thought leader/ strategist, planned and built On-premises data centers in compliance with regional regulations. Extensively studied various data privacy standards, such as, GDPR and CCPA and proposed changes to handle user personal information in away that comply with such privacy standards.
Designed, deployed and managed dynamically scalable and highly available enterprise infrastructure across 11 Bayt offices.
Ownership of overall infrastructure cost optimization, recommended Colocation setup with automation technologies, thus keeping the cost of hosting infrastructure 1/3 of hosting in Cloud.
Introduced innovative technologies - Ansible and Terraform, empowered small teams to manage multiple clouds and colocation environments that too with reduced operation staff requirement.
Powered metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring framework - Prometheus, Grafana, resulting in enhancing availability of the infrastructure year on year above 99.9%
Registered savings in license cost to the tune of half a million by migrating Services from Oracle to Opensource PostgreSQL database clusters.
Designed and built disaster recovery site on cloud solutions AWS & seamlessly migrated it to Microsoft Azure.
Planned, proposed and implemented Core database migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
Mastered virtualization migration, developed KVM based virtualization platform on Bayt colocation environment. Currently whopping 70% services run on this virtualization infrastructure.
Introduced latest technologies via POC to improve availability, performance of the business solution, such as Graph databases, Columnar databases, Automation tools, App engines, Cache technologies, monitoring frameworks.
Successfully implemented innovative Artificial Intelligence and machine learning capable WAF solution, subsequent to evaluating various WAF solutions of major brands - Barracuda, F5 and Incapsula
Designed and implemented policies for regular internal and external security audits and penetration tests.
Delivered best-in-class infrastructure engineering & operations solutions for Vfairs, virtual events platform, Yallamotor.com- car search site
Accomplishments as Infrastructure Manager
Played a significant role in long-term planning, delivering best-in-class infrastructure engineering & operations solutions and processes.
Built a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, introduced new technologies into Bayt technology stack.
Cloud Advocate, developed organizations strategy to move to cloud systems. Successfully migrated multiple projects, vfairs.com, mumzworld.com, Gonabit.com to cloud.
Successfully managed Colocation for Abu Dhabi government recruitment channel.
Managed Gonabit (www.gonabit.com) Website Infrastructure.
Developed Clustered database and cache layer availability using Opensource technologies. Introduced Hot standby and master - slave cluster strategies for scalability of database layer.
Implemented next-gen multilayered security solutions to mitigate OWASP top 10 threats and DDOS attacks.
Enforced implementation of information security policies. Boost defenses by adding advanced analytics or machine learning capabilities to the IT security arsenal.
Assisted IT Director in infrastructure budgeting, drove financial discipline and realized cost optimization opportunities in all aspects of IT spend.
Assisted Auditors with in place IT infrastructure procedures, policies and security measures.
Key Responsibilities as Infrastructure Manager
Guaranteed 24/7 availability production and development networks and systems.
Researched and managed various Cloud Computing environments.
Evaluated the Data Center & Colocation Cost Models, considering layout, location and capacity planning.
Led development of new applications/processes to improve internal efficiency, streamline processes, and ensure data integrity.
Teamed up with internal and external auditors to conduct comprehensive audits.
Led Corporate Network security enhancements through adoption & implementation of IDS/IPS systems.
Liaised with hosting facility and endeavored to optimize hosting budget by continuously seeking efficient cost-effective colocation infrastructures. Administered Contracts finalization for data center colocation.
Accomplishments as Senior System Administrator
▪ Hand-selected for a key project - designed/ manage development environment in a new technology house/ create the best IT Infrastructure in Amman.
▪ Successfully built various cloud-based infrastructures for Business including Gonabit, Mumzworld
▪ Implemented Open Source Asterisk based VOIP PBX system with commercial features, cutting significant cost for Phone systems.
▪ Headed a team of Sysadmins managing Bayt's geographically distributed 12, Offices IT infrastructure.
▪ Managed Bayt.com production and development environment infrastructure.
