Summary

A multi-platform dynamic Skill professional holding a Bachelor’s degree in telecommunication with Certified and hands-on experience over the 15-years+ contributing as Senior System Administrator with a proven track record of performing multitasking in the highly organized and efficient way along with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Finding an new role DevOps Engineer Jenkins, CI CD ,AWS DevOps

Projects

IT Infrastructure Deployments at Barakah Nuclear Power Plant Abu Dhabi UAE
Imtiaz Super Market DHA Branch IT Infrastructure design & Implementation

Experience

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System Administrator
GoodCore Software (Pvt.) Ltd.
Oct 2017 - Present | Karachi, Pakistan

Manage and Administrate IT Infrastructure and Data Center Servers including Domain Controllers, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007, CPANEL, Web Sites, Proxy Server, and Print & Patch Management Server.
• Manage and Administrate Linux based Production Servers for standard Internet services such as Apache/TomCAT, SSH, SVN, MySQL, SSL, sendmail, DNS, NFS, DHCP, Samba, TCP/IP, SNMP, IP Tables and FTP services.
• Manage and Administrate Enterprise Network Monitoring System based on Cacti and Nagios configured over Linux Platform.
• Implement server’s security policies, network security policies, services access level security for both Local and Remote Data Centers for threat protection and should train employees to adopt Data Security practices.
• Veem Backup & replication Server and Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.
• Managing Backups of both Infrastructure and Production Servers and doing data validation on routine basis.
• Manage and Administrate Juniper SSG5, SSG140 Firewalls, Managed CISCO & 3Com Switches, Open VPN, PPTP and IPsec VPN’s. Support new and existing projects, upgrades, patches and creation of documentation in production and non-production environment.
• Maintain hardware and software that form computer network including the deployment, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of active network equipment and Servers.
• Supervise IT Helpdesk and manage the procurement of IT related accessories.
• Performing routine Audit tasks and keeping servers in compliance with Company IT Security Policies.
• Reviewing Servers log and perform the action if irregularities are found.
• Administrate IBM Softlayer Cloud Data Center.
• Administrate OpenSource Openfiler SAN Storage.
• Centos 6.4 & Debain Bind DNS server administration
• Administrate VMWare virtual Lab environment on Esxi vSphare hosts 5.0 & vCenter Server.

AWS Web Service EC2 Instance

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System Administrator
Atlas Security LLC
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Designing and Deployment virtualization, VMware 6.5 Virtual Data Center Primary site and DR site in the Emirate Nuclear Power Plant (Barakah).
Multiple Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Domain Controller Administration.
Dell, EMC and Blade Server Hardware and Server administration.
Dell Chasse and Blade Servers POWER EDGE FX2 & POWER EDGE FC630 hardware Administration
Administration and deployment of EMC SAN Storage integrated with Esxi shared data-store.
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager an up to 100 client deployment and administration
According to CIS Benchmark System hardening and physical protection
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory and (GPO) Group Policy designed and Implementation
Dell NetVault Backup Server deployment with Dell TAP Library TL2000 also a backup strategy for SQL DB backups VMs Backups, and Windows Server Mare Metal Recovery.
Design and Deployment of offline Microsoft Window update Services (WSUS) Upstream and downstream servers to update the whole Microsoft Servers and workstations.
Deployment of Microsoft Windows server Cluster for high availability application & SQL Server Redundancy.
Nessus vulnerability scanner implementation and scan the audit compliance according to CIS Benchmarks for whole infrastructure server and workstations.

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System Administrator
GoodCore Software (Pvt.) Ltd.
Nov 2013 - Mar 2017 | Karachi, Pakistan

• Manage and Administrate IT Infrastructure and Data Center Servers including Domain Controllers, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007, CPANEL, Web Sites, Proxy Server, and Print & Patch Management Server.
• Manage and Administrate Linux based Production Servers for standard Internet services such as Apache/TomCAT, SSH, SVN, MySQL, SSL, sendmail, DNS, NFS, DHCP, Samba, TCP/IP, SNMP, IP Tables and FTP services.
• Manage and Administrate Enterprise Network Monitoring System based on Cacti and Nagios configured over Linux Platform.
• Implement server’s security policies, network security policies, services access level security for both Local and Remote Data Centers for threat protection and should train employees to adopt Data Security practices.
• Veem Backup & replication Server and Symantec EndPoint Protection Manager.
• Managing Backups of both Infrastructure and Production Servers and doing data validation on routine basis.
• Manage and Administrate Juniper SSG5, SSG140 Firewalls, Managed CISCO & 3Com Switches, Open VPN, PPTP and IPsec VPN’s. Support new and existing projects, upgrades, patches and creation of documentation in production and non-production environment.
• Maintain hardware and software that form computer network including the deployment, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of active network equipment and Servers.
• Supervise IT Helpdesk and manage procurement of IT related accessories.
• Performing routine Audit tasks and keeping servers in compliance with Company IT Security Policies.
• Reviewing Servers log and perform action if irregularities are found.
• Administrate IBM Softlayer Cloud Data Center.
• Administrate OpenSource Openfiler SAN Storage.
• Centos 6.4 & Debain Bind DNS server administration
• Administrate VMWare virtual Lab environment on Esxi vSphare hosts 5.0 & vCenter Server.

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Sr.System Administrator
Imtiaz Super Market
Apr 2012 - Nov 2013 | Karachi, Pakistan

Implement and maintain all network, security, and computer systems to meet the organization\'s current and future requirements.
Implementation IT Infrastructure Base on Web Portal with ITIL v3 Foundation Standard (Manage Engine ITIL v3)
HP Rack Mount Server DL & ML Series Hardware Monitoring Administration.
• Daily administration, Support and oversight of the network and computer systems.
• Responsible for the management, maintenance and architecture of the companies.
• Plans, designs, and coordinates the various components of an enterprise network system.
• Coordinates with users and programmers for conducting information assessments to determine user needs and to define network solutions to meet user requirements.
• Designs and configures an enterprise environment with appropriate hardware, operating systems, applications software, and communications components to support business requirements.
• Conducts research and development in network systems and related technologies.
• Establishes methods and procedures for use of the network systems including hardware, software, and communications devices.
• Coordinates and ensures the standard implementation of policies, procedures and systems operations with support personnel, maintain complain log in Branches & H.O also.
• Maintains up-to-date documentation for network software and operational procedures.
• Develops hardware configuration plans for network systems.
• Reassesses the effectiveness of network hardware, software, and communications performance.
• Ensures network equipment and software is meeting the needs of the program area.
• Evaluates and recommends network software and hardware for the enterprise system.
• Analyzes and resolves network hardware, software, and communications problems using diagnostic software and/or technical troubleshooting processes.
• Monitors the hardware to ensure it is properly maintained.
• Conducts on-going network system audits to evaluate.

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Network Administrator
Logo Design Guru(Pvt. Ltd)
Mar 2010 - Mar 2012 | Karachi, Pakistan

Network Infrastructure Designing, Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, IT Assets Management, Hardware Inventory Management, Domain Server, Additional Domain Server, GPO Policies and Security, User Rights and Restrictions, Centralized Remote Windows Installation (WDS), ISA Server 2006 with GFI Web Monitor, GFI EndPoint Security and GFI Reporting Service, Reporting of all Employees Internet Surfing, Serv_U FTP Server, Manage 3Com 4200 Switches, Disaster Recovery of Operating System, Centralized Backup in Rooming Profile, Mandatory Profile, Supporting over 130 Network Nodes, Support VOIP Connections, Computer Hardware & Troubleshooting.

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Network Administrator
Aglix Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
Jan 2009 - Oct 2009 | Karachi, Pakistan

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Network Administrator
E-ingtech (Pvt) Ltd
Sep 2008 - Jan 2009 | Karachi, Pakistan

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Network Administrator
Tameer-e-Sindh Newspaper, The Mail Newspaper, VOS, 5th Floor Amber Medical center M.A Jinah Road Kar
Sep 2005 - Jul 2008 | Karachi, Pakistan

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Network Assistant (Internship)
Zaighum Computers (internet Broadband Service provider) Suit #14 Station Road Mehrabpur
Aug 2002 - Aug 2005 | Mehrab pur, Pakistan

Education

Microsoft
Certification, MCSA‎
Windows Server 2012
Completed
2018
Preston Institute of Management Sciences and Technology
Bachelors, Bachelors in Science, BS (4 years)‎
CGPA 2.7/4
2015
Microsoft
Certification, Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Special‎
Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
Completed
2014
VMware
Certification, VMware VCP510-DCV‎
Data Center Virtulization
Completed
2014
Microsoft
Certification, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate‎
Windows Server 2008
Completed
2014
Exin
Certification, ITIL Foundation (syllabus 2011)‎
ITIL Foundation V3
Completed
2013
VMware
Certification, VMware Certified Associate‎
Data Center Virtualization VCA-DCV
Completed
2013
VMware
Certification, VMware Certified Associate‎
Cloud
Completed
2013
VMware
Certification, VMware Certified Associate‎
Workforce Mobility
Completed
2013
Onwire VMware Tranning Academy
Certification, VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V5.1‎
VCP-5.1
Completed
2013
Ora-Tech Karachi
Certification, Red Hat System Administrator‎
RHCE
Completed
2012
Microsoft
Certification, Certificate, MCTS 70-680 Windows 7-Configuration‎
Microsoft Windows 7
Completed
2011
Microsoft Learning
Certification, MCTS Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist‎
Windows 7 Configuration
Completed
2011
Microsoft
Certification, MCTS 70-640 Windows Server 2008‎
Active Directory Configuration
Completed
2011
Microsoft
Certification, MCTS 70-642 Windows Server 2008‎
Neetwork Infrastructure
Completed
2011
Juniper
Certification, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA-ER)‎
Networking
Completed
2010
Pakistan Naval Academy
Certification, Network (CCNA 640.802)‎
CCNA
Completed
2009
Pakistan Naval Academy
Certification, System Administrator (Windows 2003)‎
Windows Server 2003
Completed
2008
Habib Technical College
Diploma, D.A.E‎
mechnical
Completed
2000
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Sukkur, Sindh
Matriculation/O-Level, , Matriculation in Science‎
Science
1995

Skills

Expert Active Directory
Beginner Amazon AWS Command
Expert Amazon Web Services (
Intermediate Ansible
Expert Apache
Expert Automation and DevOps principles
Expert Automation Tools Knowledge
Expert AWS Web Services
Expert Backup Software
Expert Cisco
Expert Cisco Network Swithes
Expert Cloud
Intermediate Dell Serevr Administration
Expert DevOps
Intermediate Docker
Intermediate Dockers
Intermediate Elastic Search
Expert Esxi host, vCenter Server
Expert Git
Beginner GitHub
Beginner Handling Assignments
Intermediate HP Server Hardware Administration
Expert IIS
Expert ITIL v3
Intermediate JBOSS
Expert Jenkins
Expert Juniper Firewall
Expert LAMP
Expert Linux
Expert Linux System
Expert Linux-fu
Expert Load Balancing
Beginner Mazrunner
Expert MCP
Expert MCSA Server 2008
Intermediate MCSA Windows Server 2012
Expert Methodology CI CD
Expert Microsoft Active Directory/ Domain Controller
Intermediate Microsoft Azure
Expert Microsoft Exchange Knowledge
Intermediate MongoDB
Beginner MySQL
Beginner Nagios
Expert Netwroking
Expert NoSQL
Expert Proxy Servers
Expert RDP
Expert red hat linux
Beginner Scripting
Expert Security Plan Preparation

Languages

Expert Urdu
Intermediate English

Imtiaz Contacts

Syed Israr Hussain Shah
K-Electric Limited
Muhammad Danish
My tech Institute of Academic Success, Nawabshah
Umara Imtiaz
Oamii Digital Marketing
Asif Shahzad
Fujairah Mall