Infrastructure Expert
Thales Security Solutions & Services
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :18 years, 5 أشهر
Working in a vital position as an Infrastructure Expert at a French Defense & Security Services provider Thales since January 2016 with key roles & responsibilities in following streams.
• Working as technical lead for the IT Infrastructure domain in THALES KSA
• Supporting Bid team to analyze customer FEED documents and prepare requirements for IT Infrastructure.
• Collaborating closely with Bids to produce a preliminary IT architecture and BOQ for Bid submittal.
• Preparing technical documents to secure approval from Design Authority.
• Preparing material submittal documents for IT Infrastructure to secure approval from customer.
• Collaborating with vendors to finalize BOQs for IT infrastructure and storage.
• Producing detailed design documents for IT Infrastructure & Storage.
• Conducting and attending peer reviews to analyze customer requirements, technical architecture and design documents.
• Architecting Infrastructure for Amazon AWS to support highly available application and database hosting.
• Design and deploy AWS VPC to support high availability and scalability.
• Performing gap analysis related to IT Infrastructure.
• Evaluating solutions for eliminating technology gaps and fulfilling project requirements.
• Analyzing Infrastructure architecture and preparing technical/financial proposals.
• Capacity planning and demand management related to IT Infrastructure for projects.
• Vendor coordination for reviewing and managing IT BOQs.
• Producing and reviewing design documents and SOPs.
• Producing artifacts such as catalogs, diagrams for IT architecture and Infrastructure connectivity.
• Designing solutions to automate installation and configuration of blade enclosures, blade servers, operating systems, firmware upgrades, storage configurations and other recurrent operational tasks.
• Installation, configuration and management of EMC ISILON based NAS solution.
• Installation, configuration and Management of EMC VNX SAN storage.
• Lifecycle management and configuration management of IT resources.
• Installation, configuration and management of VMware virtualization portfolio.
• Integration and setup of VMware SRM for Disaster recovery.
Telenor Pakistan:- I was working in a key position as an Infrastructure Architect at a Nordic telecom giant Telenor (A company with more than 36 million subscribers) from August 2009 to January 2016 with key roles & responsibilities in following streams.
• Leading operations for Server, Virtualization Storage and Backup domain.
• Working as an Infrastructure Architect with Global partners Accenture for transformation of IT Infrastructure to a shared services model.
• Working as SME for virtualization (VMware/Hyper-v), Linux, Windows, Storage and Backup platform.
• Capacity planning for core Infrastructure resources such as compute & storage.
• Procurement of Hardware and Software for Infrastructure based solutions.
• CAPEX and OPEX forecasting for budget allocation.
• Design infrastructure solution based on application requirements.
• Planning for new projects and optimization of Infrastructure resources and services.
• Producing design, architecture and implementation plan for key infrastructure initiatives like Private cloud, virtualization, UNIX to x86 migrations.
• Analyzing current IT trends and practices to formulate a long term strategy aligned with company vision.
• Leading transformation of conventional Datacenter from physical Infrastructure to virtual Infrastructure.
• Working with other Infrastructure teams to overcome challenges and obstacles towards virtualization and cloud computing.
• Presenting Internal Customers with the value virtualization offers to the organization and business.
• Update Management with virtualization progress, resource utilization and resources saved by switching to virtualization.
• Planning resource requirement for upcoming projects and migrations.
• Optimizing resources to achieve near to physical performance by minimizing virtualization overhead.
• Monitoring performance and resource utilization.
• Supporting team members in troubleshooting UNIX and Linux systems.
• Training team members on Linux/UNIX clusters and performance tuning.
COMSATS Internet Services Islamabad:- Worked as an Assistant Director (SYSTEMS) From December 2005 to August 2009.
• In charge of System and webhosting department.
• Lead a team of 6 professionals.
• Managed Linux, Solaris and Windows based servers.
• Managed DNS servers, Web Servers, Mail Servers, RADIUS Servers, Proxy Servers and Monitoring Servers etc.
• Managed Linux based servers for our co-located clients.
• Created and implemented policies for secure and reliable services.
My project was from top 10 projects all over the university
I appeared in my FSc exams from UAE conducted under Federal Board of PAkistan