Yahya  Kangsawala, Senior Linux  System Administrator

Yahya Kangsawala

Senior Linux System Administrator

Boubyan Bank

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.COM
Experience
14 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 8 Months

Senior Linux System Administrator at Boubyan Bank
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since May 2021

Managing RedHat Linux Distribution, Support Monthly Patching & Upgrades of business-critical workloads in a Zero to Minimized Downtime window.

• Managing Linux-based systems, mostly RedHat addressing and troubleshooting P1-P4 level issues of business-critical workloads by achieving SLA goals & KPIs.

• Working closely with various Banking vendors within the business operations and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects by facilitating highly available & secured Linux systems.

• Managing and Administrating Redhat satellite solution which is use to provide software update from RedHat Network in order apply patches to the RHEL systems.

• Managing and troubleshooting user management solution called RedHat IDM which provides user’s access to server by configuring HBAC rules and assigning specific commands with sudo rules.

• Designed and implemented system security and data assurance by applying server hardening security compliance, VAPT Scanning, Anti-Virus, SIEM and final clearance from Internal Security Division.

• Design and Deploy Server Hardening using Security Compliance such as (CIS) over heterogeneous environmental of the business customers. Applying bug fix, patches and on-going scored vulnerabilities using Red Hat CVE Database and Tenable-Nessus Vulnerability Scanner as a final clearance from Internal Security Division.

• Knowledge of backup solutions like Veeam, Commvault for Backup VM, restore VM, restore files.

• Configuration and management of Exadata Oracle Engineered System based on Oracle operating System.

• Ansible automation for installing and applying fixes, deploy desired configuration across multiple systems, and ensure compliance

• Administration of VMware vSphere such as VM creation, migration, cloning and Datastore mapping

Senior Linux Systems Administrator / VMware administrator at M.H Alshaya Co.
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since March 2012

I’m involved in executing task like installation of the Linux servers and clients. Install and maintain all server hardware and software systems and administer all server performance and ensure availability for same . Taken part in regional projects and security hardening ( Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon ).
And also involved in managing the virtualized infrastructure build on VMware environment. Creating and configuring the VM’s as per requirement and needs. Working on vCenter server for adding/removing VM’s or configuring high availability, Fault Tolerance, NTP settings etc. Implementing and configuring vMotion and Storage vMotion. Creating and managing VLAN port groups using VMware vSwitch technology. Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging. Daily responsibilities include maintenance of virtual machines for any performance issues. Installing patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines through VMware Update Manager.

System and Network Admin. at Rodl Middle East Company
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2011 to February 2012

Resolving the client issues related to Windows Xp, Intranet, Backup etc. Maintaining the backup server of Windows 2003 and performing daily activity of the backup. Handling the clients applications like Case-ware and all usefull application of the client. To maintain all the PC's to provide better performance to give speed-up to user works. Providing full time connectivity with the server to all the hundred users to run the intranet properly. Giving timely maintainance to all the hardware such as printers, Server, Switches etc. Solving the problems either telephonic or visit to client site. Configuring wireless printer on all the users computer to give printing from anywhere on the network.

System Engineer at CMS
  • India - Bhopal
  • October 2008 to September 2010

Project is aimed at implementing servers with Microsoft Windows 2003. Configuring NLB (Network Load Balance) in all the servers for maintaining Network Loads, installing HBA (Host Bus Adapter) Cards, Riser Cards, Deploying various applications on application servers as well as to maintain them, Day to strategy of taking backups of both Database Servers with the HP EVA 4400 Storage Management. Monitoring
& optimizing the performance of the all servers. Basic Troubleshooting of L2, L3 Switches and SAN Devices as well as other networks problems of User end Pc’s.

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.COM
  • at Vikram University Ujjain (M.P)
  • March 2009

Completed the B.COM and my IT courses from Indore. Equipped more than 7 Years of experience...

Specialties & Skills

Satellite
Linux Server
Windows Network Administration
Technical Support Engineer
Linux SystemAdministrator

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Vmware Certification (Training)
Training Institute:
Nahata Institute Kuwait
Date Attended:
February 2016
Microsoft system Engineer (Training)
Training Institute:
CMS institute indore
Date Attended:
March 2008
Duration:
400 hours
RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEEER (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2008

Hobbies

  • Playing Chess and Cricket