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Ali Zahid Malik

Phone: +974 33914904 [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com /pub/ali-malik / 17 / 47a/a1

UNIX Systems & Storage Administrator

A seasoned UNIX Systems & Storage Administrator whose qualifications include computer science

graduation with platform oriented certifications, training and detailed knowledge of Operating System

environment and their best practices. More than ten years of experience for managing mission critical

business applications architecture. Key areas of expertise are the Servers, Virtualization, Storage

Systems, disaster recovery, Infrastructure and operations...

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Oracle Solaris, Redhat Linux, Oracle Linux, HP-UX, Windows…

Solaris volume manager SVM, Veritas Volume Manager, LVM

HP Service Guard Cluster, VERITAS Cluster, SUN Cluster, VERITAS Netbackup

Storages: HP 3PAR V800, HP XP 20000, HP EVA, HDS 9990/9970, HP X9320 NAS, HP P2000 MSA,

Dell Compellent, IBM V7000 Storwize Unified System, Sun Storage, Brocade FC switches

Oracle SUN: Oracle Exadata X4-2, Sun SPARC Enterprise M series server, SUN Fire Series server

HP Systems: HP Superdome 2, HP C7000 chassis with Integrity blade BL860c, HP PA-Risc Servers

Unix Services: DNS (BIND), NTP, Sendmail, Apache HTTP/Tomcat & Weblogic, MySQL, php, Perl,

FTP, Samba, Webmin, LDAP etc

Internetworking concepts: HP virtual connect, Flex fabric, TCP/IP, IPv6, IPv4 etc

Software Management: HP BTO Software, Symantec Enterprise Vault Archiving Solution

Work Experience

Systems Administrator-UNIX Feb 2009 – present

Qatar University, Doha, Qatar www.qu.edu.qa

Qatar University is the national institution of higher education in Qatar. It provides high quality graduate

programs that prepare competent graduates, destined to shape the future of Qatar.

- Primary contact for datacenter UNIX & Storage services, managing enterprise environment HP-UX

Oracle SUN, IBM, Dell servers & HP/ Dell enterprise storage & HP NAS devices. Implementing &

synchronizing disaster recovery site for services redundancy.

Administration and Management of HP 3PAR, HP XP20000, HP X9320 NAS, Dell Compellent

Storage devices, IBM V7000 Storwize Unified System, HP P2000 MSA G3 etc

Brocade fiber channel switches Administration & Management for storage connectivity

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Configuration and administration of UNIX services, DNS implementation & management,

Sendmail, NTP, Apache HTTP/Tomcat, Weblogic, MySQL, php, samba etc

Managing HP ServiceGuard cluster test & production nodes

UNIX (Linux/Solaris/HP-UX) server administration for physical & virtual environment

Disaster recovery planning & implementation

Refining Symantec Net Backup policies

Systems monitoring through HP BTO software (HP Operation Manager Window, HP performance

Insight, HP Storage Essentials, HP Network Node Management) Administration & management

Maintaining institute’s web services

Writing scripts to automate the systems administration & monitoring

Managing system procedures and documentation

Project Management for ongoing projects, main lead from university correspondences...

Projects Completed:

External DNS implementation with disaster recovery hosting

Migration of ERP services to Oracle EBS HP Superdome platform

Storage data migration from HP EVA to HP XP 20000 & HP 3PAR V800 Enterprise storages

Servers, Storages resource monitoring through HP BTO Software (HP OWM, PI, SE etc)

Senior Systems Engineer (March 2008 – Jan 2009)

Mideast Data Systems, Systems Integration, Abu Dhabi, UAE http://www.mds-si.com/

Hardware implementation and analysis / troubleshooting

Operating system support (Solaris 9/10, Linux) / troubleshooting

System Administration and maintenance for SUN enterprise servers, which includes

installation, configuration, user management, File system management, OS upgrades,

security scripts.

Managing Solaris patches, Solaris packages and production and development

environment

Installation of M-series M5000, M4000, X-series servers X4600, X2200 etc

Sun Cluster, Veritias netbackup support & trouble shooting.

Managing, troubleshooting Sun storage arrays & support data migrations.

Technical Coordination with corporate customers and providing solutions.

Team Lead Oracle/Sun Technical (March 2005 – Mar 2008)

Techaccess Pakistan Ltd http://www.techaccesspak.com/

Hardware implementation and analysis / troubleshooting

Operating system support (Solaris 9/10, Linux) / troubleshooting

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System’s administration and maintenance user management, File system management,

OS upgrades, security scripts etc

Installation of Sun E6900, 4900, 4800, v890, v880 enterprise servers.

Sun Cluster, Veritias netbackup support & trouble shooting.

Managing, troubleshooting HDS 9970, Sun storage arrays & support.

Technical Coordination with corporate customers and providing solutions.

International Projects

Warid Telecom, Congo, Africa OCT 2007 telecom setup for services hosting

Certifications

Sun System Network Administrator SSNA

Sun System Solaris 10 Administration-Upgrade

Sun System Solaris 9 Administration-Base & Advance

Trainings

IBM V7000 Unified Storage Administration

Training through IBM(Arrow ECS) at London, UK – MAR 2015

Oracle Linux System administration

Training through Oracle SUN at Doha, Qatar – JUN 2014

Symantec Enterprise Vault for Exchange Administration

Training through Symantec at Doha, Qatar – May 2014

Oracle Exadata Machine Administration

Training from Oracle training center Reading, UK – APR 2014

Project Management Professional

Training through PMP Qatar at Doha, Qatar – Jan 2013

Redhat Linux Advance System Administration

Training through Redhat Education center London, UK – Jun 2012

HP 3PAR Storage Administration

Training through HP at Doha, Qatar – Mar 2012

Sun Cluster 3.2 Administration

Training from Oracle SUN Reading, UK – AUG 2011

HP StorageWorks XP 2: Business Continuity and Availability

Training from HP at HP education services, Dubai, UAE – 2010 Accelerated SAN Essentials

Training from HP at HP education services, Dubai, UAE – 2009

Education

Bachelor in Computer Sciences

National college of business administration & Economics, (NCBA&E) Lahore, Pakistan

FSC (Pre-Engineering)

Govt College, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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