System Administrator, Infrastructure Specialist

* Managing Enterprise IT infrastructure and Data Center Operations (Support 24/7)
* Deploy and Configure new Servers Hardware and Storages (SAN) (IBM - Lenovo - Dell - HP and EMC VNX & Unity Storage)
* Responsible for Managing and Administrating large scale of VMware Infrastructure
* Responsible for Planning, Upgrades, Manage and Administrate large scale of VMware and Backup Infrastructure
* Responsible to Perform Physical and Virtual Migrations (SRM), ESX Installation and upgrades, building and configuring ESX hosts, building virtual
Datacenters end to end from requesting Networking and storage to provisioning and configuring storage arrays, LUNs, VLANs, SAN.
* Responsible for Building Virtual Machines, Creating templates, deploying VMs from templates, cloning, configuring vMotion, Storage vMotion,
resource pools DRS, HA Clusters and other day to day VMware Administration Deploy and Configure vSAN(VMware) in production environment
* Managing IT Infrastructure Projects/tasks allocation, team building for completing tasks within timelines (Disaster Recovery Site, Server
Consolidation, Data Center revamping, Implement Best Practices)
* Planning for Disaster Recovery, implementation and Performed Successful Drill
* Design, Plan, Deploy and Configure Veritas NetBackup 7.7.3, 7.6.1 and 7.5 in production environment
* Successfully upgrade NetBackup Infrastructure from 7.7.3 to 8.0 and 7.6.1 to 7.7.3
* Responsible for future Planning and Administration of Veritas NetBackup/Veeam 24/7 operations (Backups and Recovery)
* Maintaining and Monitoring NetBackup/Veeam Servers, Storage SAN (EMC Unity 400 and VNX 5300) and virtual and physical enterprise Backup
Infrastructure and IBM tape libraries.
* Performs backup environment system tuning including monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizing performance.
* Perform NetBackup/Veeam database maintenance, Storage pool maintenance and on-site and off-site tapes management.
* Capacity planning and Performance tuning of the NetBackup/Veeam Infrastructure
* Plans, schedules and performs proactive maintenance, including hardware and software upgrades and patch installation on Windows and Linux platforms




* Administrate Windows and Linux based Servers and critical resources
* Responsible for Administrating Windows Server Services, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP Responsible for Patch Management, WSUS,
DR replication and reporting. Systems Security.
* Manages the Hardware, Software, Analysis, Design, Implementation and overall improvement of Information Technology.
* Worked with CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) and ensure the standard and compliance
* Responsible for Plan, Design, Deployment & Implementation of new Polices and SOPs to enhance the IT Infrastructure Services
Successfully completed technical evaluation of an equipment's, material, products, processes, or system for the intended objectives, also
ensured and followed IT compliance.

aftab.khalid@hotmail.com

Quetta, Pakistan

* Responsible to Manage and Deliver large-scale Enterprise IT projects
* System Administration of Sun Solaris, Linux and Windows servers for Business Critical Domains
* Implemented Servers, Blade Center, Operating Systems, SAN and other related Infrastructure in Data Center (Oracle - Huawei - IBM - HP - Huawei
Server and Storage)
* Monitoring of Operating Systems and Server performances & resolved the utilization issues Deploy and Configure NMS server (SolarWind)
* Configure and manage backup and restoration activities for disaster recovery strategy for all of the infrastructure
* Establish, maintain and manage user's accounts. Installs, modifies and maintains systems and utility software on server computer systems
* Responsible to Manage, Configure and Perform different services backups through Enterprise NetBackup Solution Provide L1 and L2 level support in
critical services
* Manage and monitor the Data Center and computer host systems including hardware and software
* Implemented Security policies with coordination of Information Security
* Diagnose and troubleshoot systems and application issues including server hardware, storage
hardware, virtual servers, Network connectivity, and system logs / alerts, as appropriate
* Systems & Storage Administration of Sun Solaris, Unix, Linux Operating System & Storage Administration for BSS/DWH/IPCC/SD to ensure
un-interrupted customer data load for all areas.
* Monitoring of Operating System and Server performance to recommend necessary system enhancements for optimum utilization of available resources
and avoid any possible bottlenecks in day to day business.
* Ensures that records of system downtime and equipment inventory are properly maintained. Applies revisions to host system firmware and software.

* Works with vendors to assist support activities.

* Installation, configuration & administration of Server Operating Systems.
* FC & iSCSI Mappings of hosts
* Administration, troubleshooting & monitoring of Huawei OceanStor 18500, HVS85T, S5500T, S3900, S6900, and Enterprise level storages.
* Administration, troubleshooting & monitoring of SUN E25K, T4-4, T3-2, E6900, T5-4, M5000; Huawei RH 2285, 1288, 5585 Bladecenter E6000, E9000.
* Monitoring of DS8000 IBM Enterprise Level Storage
* Raid Configurations
* Smart Tier Provisioning of storage
* Thick and SmartThin Provisioning of Huawei storages
* HyperClone & HyperSnap Features of OceanStore
* Storage LUN's Management and Provisioning
* Monitoring of Storage's performance to recommend necessary system enhancements for optimum utilization
* Ensuring daily activity logs as well as all backup & recovery logs are properly maintained in order to keep track of routine activities.
* Firmware and Patch up-gradations of storage and servers

* Responsible to deploy SUN Oracle Servers (M4000-M5000 Servers, M-6000)
* Prepare and configure Sun X4200 and X4100, Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X2100 and 6250, 6270 blade machine's environment through ILOM
* Installation of Sun Solaris 10 and Configuration.
* Prepared and configured IBM Blade servers
* Deploy Chassis Sun Oracle M6000 and Blade server's large scale of Data
Centers Linux / Solaris administration
* Sun Solaris SPARC and x86 based technologies Implementation and
Configuration VDI - Thin Client Infrastructure Deployment
* Implement and Configure SUNRAY system for VDI solution
* Deploy vCenter and VMware ESXi
* Responsible to Install and Configure Windows 2012/2008 servers. Deployed applications with group policies, DNS and DHCP Server, Sites configuration.
* Installing and managing Windows 2012/2008 enterprise environment, planning and managing Active Directory Objects, configuration of
Domain Controllers and Site Replication management.
* Responsible to Create and Manage Application Servers, Disk Quota and User Profile in Windows 2012 and 2008 Server environment.




* Remote assistance and Technical Support for clients
* Perform IT based all task and make document for other members
* Managing Proxy Servers, reporting and maintain the logs