Cloud Solutions Architect
Minsitry of Industries & Production (USC)
Total years of experience :0 years, 0 Months
Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan is the State-owned enterprise that operates the Largest Retail Chain stores throughout the country. Annual turnover of over Rs. 60 Billion, operating more than 5000 stores and 130 warehouses in 9 Zones and 64 Regions with over 14, 000 Employees across the country.
Provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation and coordination of the information and technology systems and ensures the continuous delivery and operation of integrated information systems.
• Conduct enterprise-wide information technology planning to identify and prioritize the information technology needs of the organization and develop IT strategic plan in support of organization’s business strategic plan.
As a TL : Services are
Cloud and Security Management.
OpenSource Deployment and Backups
Zimbra and Openstack Admin, Zammad and Zabbix integration
Odoo Management and Deployment
Ubuntu, FileServer, Centos, Server updates and upgrades
Team Management and Disaster Recovery
Amazon AWS Cloud Service Administration such as EC2, ECS, ELB, DynamoDB, Route53, VPC,
Security Groups, CodeCommit, Pipelines, IAM, S3, SES and SNS, Lambda etc Server backups using
Shell scripting with task scheduling, O365, Zoho CRM management Zabbix Monitoring server for Server
alerts along with email notifications & MS Ex change Admin: - Email accounts creations & configurations,
Outlook troubleshooting, backup (Import, ex port) Auto-reply, email forwarding, distribution group
creations.LAN, W AN, Routers, Switches, Firewalls installation and configuration, ISO audit
management, Domain Records, And Mail secure, SSL, nginx and Nagios Management
SharePoint online, Amazon Repos, Git Pull and push, Build piplin and SES alerts on Admin Email. Network
Tasks: IP addressing, Linux Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOs, Windows 7/8/10 Updates and Upgrades, WSUS, DNS,
Windows Server 2012 Server Migrations, IIS, nginx, Apache configurations, SSL integration on both Linux and
Windows Sites. Proxy servers, Sop’s Documentation and server hardening. Level 2 Virtualization, FileShare
system. Firewalls on Linux, Allow or remove services from AWS and Linux Servers.
Responsible for providing leadership and strategic vision to infrastructure team, enable
innovation and leverage IT trends to create business value consistent with the organization’s
needs and expectations. Created governance and central management of information security,
policy awareness practices and enforce controls in accordance with PCI standards. Led
company-wide strategic technology initiatives to expand and maintain a secured enterprise
infrastructure, and establish new global help-desk and project-related standards, KPIs and
service level agreements to meet ITIL standards.
Provided guidance for IT risk strategies, including cyber security and privacy policy governance.
Managed and executed comprehensive disaster recovery architecture to maintain global operations,
and establish new business continuity, PCI compliance mandates. Planned recruiting, training and
coaching employees, communicating job expectations and deadlines and appraising
performance. Managed Network and Systems administration, AW S, Microsoft Azure, Office
365, VoIP phone system and global desktop support. Strong organizational skills to balance
work and lead projects. Strong interpersonal skills to effectively mentor and lead junior level
personnel Ability to maintain confidentiality. VSTS
System Administration, Core Computer Networking, Commnication, Backups and Disaster recovery BSC (Hons) Computer Engineering