Organized and determined tech oriented professional having worked in public and private sector organizations for more than 09 years in operational and tactical roles including System Administration and with immaculate record of precisely managing, maintaining and commissioning of IT Systems & Services. Seeking a quality environment where I can utilize and enhance skills to achieve organizational goals, as well as, to ensure my professional growth.
· Demonstrate experience in Infrastructure architecture, with the ability to formulate end-to-end hosting environment technical plans in accordance with business requirements
· Provide technical domain expertise of Technology Infrastructure including servers, hypervisor as well as data backups that support critical applications and business processes of organization
· Overseeing and ensuring the availability, performance of Physical, Virtualized & Data Backup infrastructure
· Protecting organizational data by configuring Full VM, Database/Application/File Systems Level backups
· Escalation and documentation of production failure/incident/events to senior management
· Opportune update/upgrade patches/security updates and firmware/drivers of Servers hardware
· Assist in management for procurement related matters i.e SBD preparation, technical evaluation etc.
· Assist in response and timeline of the Audits (internal/regulatory) related to IT Infrastructure
· Timely applying security patches and upgrading the firmware/drivers to keep systems secure & complaint
· Performs miscellaneous job-related tasks as assigned by Divisional/Wing Heads
- Assist in Administration of IT Services (Active Directory, Email, Filer, Symantec Antivirus)
- Preparation of IT annual procurement plans and assist for budgeting & procurement purpose
- Preparing Bill of Quantities (Scope of Work, Deliverables and etc.) for IT related procurement, and assist in technical evaluation of bids inline with organization rules and PPRA guidelines
- Assist in execution of IT related capital projects (procurement to sign off)
- Assist in formulate and implementation of departmental policies and procedures
- Assist in response and timeline of Audits (Internal/External) and RCSA & its risk mitigation plans
- Supervision of Service Level Agreements (SLA) for IT Systems and Services
- Assist in official correspondence with departments and vendors
- Prepare noting(s), presentation(s), report(s) and action plan(s) for subsequent submission to management
- Maintains currency of knowledge with respect to relevant state-of-the-art technology
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
- Managing & maintaining resources of Citrix server through XenCenter
- Assist in managing and monitoring of Linux servers for smooth operations
- Managing Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows and Linux Backup on Schedule
- Managing VMware ESX / ESXi server and cluster resources through VMotion
- Managing VMware VCenter Server & VRealize Operations Manager with web Client
- VMware DRS, HA and FT
- Administration of NetBackup Master Server
- File system backups and application based backups of VM Level, Oracle, SQL, Lotus Domino
- Restoration of backups on monthly to ensure the data protection
- Duplication of backups from disk to tape cartridges and replication to remote sites
- Perform daily auto back-up and monthly manual back-up onto storage devices
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
· Maintaining and Monitoring Meezan Bank’s major 24/7 Data Center.
· Monitoring & report the status of AIX and Linux servers.
· Maintaining & managing inventory of backup tapes during DR Drill as per policy.
· Maintain technical specification documentation.
· System state Backups of AIX Servers, Linux and Windows based servers on tapes through IBM TL (TS 3200) on scheduled.
· Taking HMC backup on removable media & backups of IBM Power Machine E870 on tapes.
· Installation of different OS on IBM Server's (x3650), HP Server’s (ML 350 G5) and Dell PE 2900.
· Installation and managing of different OS on IBM Blade Center HS21, HS22, HS23.
· Troubleshooting / monitoring System Status using Nagios Monitoring tool and provide 1st level Support round the clock.