Ziauddin Quadri Syed, Team Lead

Ziauddin Quadri Syed

Team Lead

Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering
Experience
13 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months

Team Lead at Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since December 2014

Project : LMS - Learning Management System (DevOps, Build & Release, Operations)

Description : SAP SuccessFactors provides the leading cloud-based SuccessFactors HCM Suite, which helps HR drive business execution with solutions that are complete, beautiful, and flexible enough to start anywhere - optimizing your workforce today and preparing them for tomorrow. SuccessFactors solutions are supported by a global partner ecosystem and the experience and commitment of SAP.

Job description:
• Leading a team of 14 members for Build & Release on DevOps Platform.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins for Continuous Integration (CI) in automating End to End process of build and deployments.
• Automating & Deploying the WAR & RPM files on Production, DR, Quality Environments in Tomcat.
• Schedule various regular, periodic queue tasks/jobs by using Crontab.
• Configuring Apache Tomcat, JBOSS and Apache/Nginx Web Servers as per the client/customer requirements.
• Upgrading the patches/hot fixes in the applications shared by the Development team.
• Resolving the issues based on SLA in-time.
• Ownership of Weekly, Quarterly & Annual deployments/patches on Production & Staging environments.
• Hands-on experience on Chef in updating cookbooks for Automation.
• Hands-on experience on scripting like Shell.
• Working on automation tools like Jenkins, Puppet, Rundeck etc.
• Debugging the application issues using Splunk.
• DC-to-DC Customer migrations using various tools
• Monitoring, housekeeping and health checks of servers to maintain environment in running smooth and healthy in Zabbix.
• Cluster Configuration - Horizontal Cluster, Vertical Clusters and Deployment over clusters.
• Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning of Application server related issues, generating & Analyzing Heap & Thread dumps.
• Taken initiation for migrating customers from Oracle to HANA Database environment by automating jobs in Jenkins.
• Coordinating with the Development team to fix the Build related issues.
• Experience in defining various branching, labeling and merging strategies through SVN/GITHUB.
• Working on Chef automation tool for monsoon environments in sync with Automation team for automating the process.
• Started a program on Knowledge Management to help new resources and current resources to improve their product and debugging skill.
• Expertise in ITIL Process with Incident, Change, Problem and Release management.
• Design and documenting Project configuration management and release processes in Atlassian Confluence.

IT Linux Administrator at Ebreez Software Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • July 2012 to December 2014

Description : Ebreez Software Pvt. Ltd. is a travel integration partner and travel technology automation software company in United Arab Emirates & Saudi Arabia which mainly utilizes its travel domain experience to enable the technology for the travel market.
Job description:
• Installing, configuring and designing of JBOSS Application Servers on Linux/Windows to work in different environments like Development, Quality and Production.
• Creating instances on JBOSS as per the business requirements.
• Setting up multiple instances of JBOSS on the same machine.
• Installation of RHEL Linux Centos OS and configuring of FTP, Apache, Samba, Nagios Servers.
• On-shore support on LIVE & Pre-LIVE Production Environments.
• Deployment of Builds (WAR files) in Quality, Development & Production Servers
• Handling and maintaining of different environmental Severs like Development, Quality & Production
• Creating separate JBOSS Application Server setup for Quality testing.
• Maintenance of Linux servers, load balancers & disaster recovery setup.
• Configuring load balancer on web servers and mapping application servers to web server on Linux.
• Allocating / dividing memory for applications to run on Linux machines.
• Allowing / blocking traffic through IPTABLES.
• Generating / deploying SSL certificates on machine.
• Secured HTTPS domain configuration through ‘keytool’ for import/export of .csr certificates.
• Managing & maintaining Web Hosting Services on Linux Servers to get accessed via World Wide Web.
• Configuring XAMPP Server on Linux and Windows for developers to test their Web Applications.
• LDAP configuration on Linux and Windows environment.
• Knowledge and writing shell scripting to take automatic backups.
• Resolving network related sync WAN issues between the users and business client
• Automated secure daily backup of databases, WAR files and logs from Development, Quality and Production Servers.
• Daily synchronization of backups for Disaster recovery.
• Data synchronization on WAN network for different projects on development environment.
• Managing both the locations Hyderabad & Bangalore in Environmental Server Setup.
• Setting up designs and proposals for creating the Web Applications/Services on Cloud Environment.
• Configuring SVN server and scripting for daily automated backups.
• Installing and configuring of Oracle 11g XE & EN database on Windows and Linux Environment.
• Import and Export of Oracle & MySQL database.
• Creating schemas and importing Oracle dump on database.
• Monitoring & maintain Oracle / MySQL DB and load balancing on servers.
• Maintenance of Firewalls, Switches and Networking tasks.
• Applying permissions by creating access rules for content filtering on web applications in firewall.
• Migrating complete applications on cloud environment.
• Building quotations for Virtual Servers on different environments from Client.

Network Administrator at Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT)
  • India - Hyderabad
  • October 2011 to June 2012

Project : SFMS (Structured Financial Message System) is a secure common messaging solution for Electronic Fund Transfer used practically for all purpose of secure communication within the banks and between banks.
Job description:

•Maintenance of SFMS & NEFT Application
•HUB and its operations
•Configuring the HUB as per the requirements
•Monitoring the incoming and outgoing channels of all the Banks
•Maintenance of network connectivity all over the banks and its branches
•Configuring of firewall and setting up permissions based on user’s request
•Giving access-list on port based for the bankers over firewall
•Daily backup of data for Disaster Recovery
•Technical support and troubleshooting the network issues globally.

IT Network Administrator at CMC LIMITED
  • India - Hyderabad
  • January 2011 to September 2011

Project : Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
Building up the network for Offshore Development Centers to work for the various Clients such as Western Union, Miro Technologies, Rwanda and Safeco

Job description:
• Installing and Configuring Switches and creating VLAN’s among different networks
• Support for users in different projects and troubleshooting the issues.
• Configuring DHCP in firewall and giving access-list control with team support.
• Providing network to users.

Implementations:
• Installed Linux Operating System and configured DNS, Squid Proxy Server with team support with version 5.3 on 32-bit and 64-bit
• Blocking the internet to the respective users by giving access-list control in squid proxy.

Activities:
• Handling the tickets globally across the CMC, raised by the users and troubleshooting it.
• Maintenance, monitoring links and servers by applying patches, Upgradation of OS and its applications periodically.
• Generating the Link Utilization Reports of different locations and Helpdesk Reports.
• Accounts creations for new employees, password reset, modification of group, locations, deletions, deactivations, quota issue’s, broadcasting of mails and trouble shooting.
• Creating FTP accounts, deletion, password reset, deletion and disabling of accounts, Quota related operations, testing and trouble shooting and permissions.
• Configured to block /unblock the content/URLs, profiles/filters in WEBSENSE Server for accessing the authorized URLs
• Testing the URLs and Trouble shooting.

CISCO VPN (Virtual Private Network):
• Creation of VPN accounts for a user with the required profiles, deleting, resetting and modification of profiles, testing and trouble shooting.
• Configuring Site-to-Site VPN

Network Administration:
• Configuring of Firewalls to allow access for intranet services from internet
• Applying permissions by creating access- list and object-group over firewalls
• Up gradation of Firewalls
• Configuring switch and Upgradation.
• Network chocking and troubleshooting

Computer Skills:
• Operating System: Linux, Windows - 10, Server 2012 & 2016, Virtualization
• Programming Languages: C, HTML
• Office Suite, Scripting, Google Office (Google Doc)
• Ticketing tool: Atlassian JIRA, ServiceNow, Confluence, Redmine

Windows 2012, 2016 Server Administration:
• Configuring and maintaining Windows Server Active Directory.
• Implementation of DNS, DHCP.
• Installing and configuring FTP, IIS, MS Office Exchange Server.
• Creating user accounts, configuring user Profiles, maintaining accounts and Domain Controllers
• Implementing of NTFS files and folder permissions and sharing permissions
• Troubleshooting various hardware problems.

Hardware Skills:
• Installing Operating Systems like Windows Environment and Server editions, RHEL
• Updating Antivirus software
• Configuring BIOS settings
• Identifying various types of Hard disks and RAMs
• Installing and configuring various peripherals such as Hard Disks, sound cards, NIC cards, etc.

Network Essentials:
• Implementing IP addressing scheme and IP services to meet network requirements
• Configuring V LAN's, VTP, STP, RSTP and inter switch communications.
• Performing basic switch and router configurations.
• Implementing, verifying NAT and Access Lists.

LINUX Administration:
• Configuration of kickstart files and permissions.
• Configuring DNS, DHCP, FTP, MAILSERVER, APACHE, SAMBA Server, JBOSS & Tomcat Application Servers, Nagios, Lampp, LDAP Server
• Configuration and maintaining software router

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering
  • at Kakatiya University
  • June 2009

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) in Computer Science Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Linux platform
APACHE WEBSERVER
AUTOMATION
AUTOMATION TOOLS
BANKING
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Telugu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Network Systems and Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
CMC Limited
Date Attended:
September 2010