Windows Systems Engineer
Intigral Middle East FZ L.L.C, Dubai
Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months
• Managing and monitoring of Hybrid infrastructure to support live events.
• Managing Akamai DSA, DSD configurations and Cache rule optimization for web performance and Content Offload.
• Handling Live events using Akamai Media Service.
• Configuring and managing Media Delivery using Akamai MSL Stream Packaging
• Protect media content using Akamai Media Security Policy.
• Analyzing Akamai Media Analytics and IIS logs for website and application optimization.
• Managing CDN, ELB, Network, and Storage server configuration on Rackspace cloud.
• Collaborating with developers and QA on different projects when required.
• Managing Network, EBS & EC2 configurations on AWS.
• Monitoring production and staging infrastructure using different monitoring tools.
• Making sure the systems are updated with latest security, critical patches and managing firewall policies
• Interface with third party vendors as liaison between client and vendor.
• Incident Management and Disaster recovery for Cloud environment.
• Analyze and resolve software, hardware and network related problems
• Manage Active Directory environment and systems maintenance
• Windows Web Server administration with Application support.
• Managing MSSQL cluster with load balancing
• Deployment and release of application in Staging and production environment
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation with regards to server and network topology, equipment, and configuration(s).
• Deploy new Virtual Machines using Clones, Snapshots and templates as per the requirements
Responsible for administrating Active Directory, Group Policy, Users, Groups and Organization Units.
Responsible for Exchange 2010 and 2013 administration and maintenance.
Provisioning of both Linux and Windows Servers using data enter automation tools like Orchestrator and Opalis.
Apply new security patches and updates in servers and keep all servers up-to-date.
Maintaining and monitoring of each physical server located in different data centers using Zabix and Nagios monitoring tools.
Auditing and taking counter measures against different illegal activities on servers including Spamming, DoS Attacks and Hacking.
Exposure in datacenter operations automations tools like Parallels Operations Automation (POA) and System Center 2012(.
Expertise in virtualization technologies like Parallels Virtuozzo for Linux and Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows.
Installation, configuration of MS Exchange and MailEnable for windows; Exim and Qmail for Linux.
Responsible for managing Junior Staffs and providing proper guidance & training.
Prescribes system backup Daily-Weekly-Monthly backup verification and status update.
Offline and online migration of Hyper-V and Virtuozzo Virtual machines.
Installing, configuring and maintaining Apache and IIS Web servers.
Installing, configuring webhosting control panel like cPanel and Plesk.
Providing customer support via ticket and live chat in timely fashion.
Installing configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, FTP and File Servers.
Setup physical computers and install OS using WDS.
Administration and package management of WDS.
Network printer and scanner installation, configuration and troubleshooting.
ADSL Routers, Wi-Fi access point configuration.
Responsible for the installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of company Networks and Outlook.
Configure RAID to avoid critical data loss using 3Ware raid controller.
Creating and scheduling server and database backups by using different methods.
Internet security implementation, using Security Policy and Firewall.
Restore Servers from disaster recovery backup.
Manual restoration of crashed physical servers.
Installing, maintaining and configuring Linux based servers and local PCS.
Installed new CCTV security equipment.
Monitoring DVB and ensure all data is secure.
Provide guidance to RHCE students.
Setup LAB environment for all students in the company.
Replacing all damaged computer parts as it required.
I have completed bachelor of computer application with 55% of marks. Its a full time three year degree course conducted by Calicut University, Kerala, India.