Proactive professional with 10+ years of experience and proven knowledge of advanced technology, bench-marking, and IT strategy. Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully be a Linux and Cloud Specialist.
Overview
4
4
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineer : Linux
Digital14 LLC
Abu Dhabi , Abu Dhabi
07.2020 - Current
Install, maintain, automate and upgrade in-house software and manage monitoring of various services and ensure availability of these resources.
Manage large-scale Linux server environments: handling Linux environment, including deployment, administration, networking, performance monitoring, and tuning, security hardening, troubleshooting, and production operations.
Ensure that all documentation is kept up to date and is accessible by rest of the team and provide support and consultancy using appropriate diagnostic tools to all areas.
Deal with daily operations of online services, including but not limited to firewall, DNS, web servers, and databases.
Provide tier-3 escalation support for Android phones and backup architecture
Handle incident management processes and communication in line with Digital14 standards and procedures
Review configuration management work in accordance with the Change Management procedures.
Undertake break-fix activities joining high-profile bridges and investigating the root cause. Where appropriate develop mitigation plans. This will include working with Tier Engineering, System Integrators, and Vendors.
Undertake scheduled preventive maintenance tasks; identify potential system performance and/or reliability issues and proactively design a roadmap to temporary outage prevention and to permanent issue resolution.
Ensure that all problems are resolved either in a timely manner or ensure that they are escalated to the appropriate management structure.
IT Infrastructure Specialist
Taqniat Intelligent Solutions
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates
02.2017 - 06.2020
Installation of Red Hat 6 & 7, Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 & Windows operating systems).
Linux server hardening & Compliance Auditing as per CIS Security Standards.
Collaborated with IT department to develop infrastructure build-out strategy and outline project scope.
Develop and automate standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios.
Configuring and managing DNS, NTP, NFS shares and CIFS / Samba shares.
Installing & configuring Apache & Nginx web servers.
Installing & Managing IBM Rack, Dell, and Cisco UCS hardware Writing shell scripts for housekeeping Linux servers.
Configuring TCP wrappers and Iptables for securing servers.
Installing and configuring Nagios with Centreon.
Monitoring Server logs with Splunk Configuration management using Ansible Automating scripts with CronJobs Assigning Lun to servers from IBM storwize V7000 & V9000 storage.
Creating and managing LVM disks and multipath.
Creating and managing Oracle ASM disks.
Managing in-house Java & .NET applications.
Configuring Prerequisites to create an Oracle RAC cluster.
Configuring SSH and password-less logins.
Taking local backups of File system and Databases.
Defined strategic objectives to identify requirements and outcomes.
System Administrator
Securetech LLC
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates
05.2015 - 01.2017
Same as Taqniat's role.
Linux Administrator
Future Focus InfoTech, Capgemini
Mumbai, India
01.2014 - 02.2015
Installation, Updating, Migration, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance
Monitoring and Fine-tuning of UNIX Systems.
(Red Hat, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu)
OS patching and updating servers with RedHat Satellite Servers
Shell scripting for automation.
Configuring & Managing RedHat cluster servers
Configuring Managing Multipath & Ethernet bonding
Creating and Managing Virtual server (VM) with Vmware Vshpere.
Configuring IBM Tivoli backup client for disaster recovery for Linux server
Creating and managing Logical volume manager (LVM) and SAN, NAS
Managing Incident with HPSM & server records with Lotus notes
IT Service Management (ITSM) based on ITIL best practices.
Linux Administrator
Iksula Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, India
06.2009 - 02.2013
AWS services administration: IAM, VPC, Route 53, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch
Installation and configuration of LAMP for Linux
Improve deployment process within AWS (ex.
Cross-region automated deployment).
Configuring EDNS & Caching websites through (Akamai, Cloudflarecdn)
Configuring & Managing Http accelerator (Varnish, FPC & Turpentine)
Configuring & Managing caching service (APC, Memcache, Redis)
Configuring , Monitoring & Fine-Tuning Apache & Mysql servers
Managing Cyberoam cr200i Firewall 1/2
Profile
Professional
Background
Creating and Managing Virtual server Vmware / Rackspace cloud
Installing and Configuring Ticketing tool (OTRS)
Managing Mail servers i.e.