Asif Ahamed

Phone number: (+966) 543249154 (Mobile) Email address: [email protected]

Address: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Home)

ABOUT ME

IT professional having 6 years of experience in administration and support for Servers(Linux, Windows), VMware, Cloud
(Oracle Cloud (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)), Backup and Storage environments.

CERTIFICATIONS AND COURSE COMPLETION

Global Certifications and Course Completion

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

• VMware Certified Professional
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Multicloud Network Associate
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Associate
• Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core
• Kaseya Certified Administrator

WORK EXPERIENCE

10/2024 – CURRENT Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

KING SALMAN GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE CLOUD ENGINEER

• Created, Managed and Monitored the Linux and Windows servers in On Prem and OCI.
• Created and managed instances, load balancers, WAF, DNS zones, and records in OCI and On-Prem.
• Implemented IAM policies, user/group management, and access control in OCI. Performed VM and instance
backups in VMware and OCI.
• Provisioned and maintained VMs, ESXi hosts including upgrading and updating ESXi hosts, and VMware
infrastructure. Configured and monitored ILO ports for remote server management.
• Managed Active Directory users, groups, policies, and access control for shared files and folders.
• Investigated and resolved Manage Engine UEMS agent issues on Windows/Linux servers. Disabled unattended-
upgrades on Linux for stability. Collected and validated server details for PAM implementation. Managed
vulnerability reports and collaborated with cybersecurity teams for compliance.
• Handled server backup policies in OCI and Veeam. Configured and maintained Veeam Backup & Replication,
SureBackup jobs, upgrades and updates. Restored server instances and implemented update prevention
measures.
• Validated and updated DR plans and cost assessments. Resolved Veeam backup errors for critical databases and
repositories.
• Diagnosed and resolved connectivity issues between servers
• Updated and maintained server assets in Service Desk and ManageEngine. Ensured OCI backup policy
compliance for migrated servers.
• Upgraded Uptime Kuma monitoring tool and Veeam, enhancing monitoring capabilities. Installed dependencies
and validated servers. Configured server migration prerequisites and compliance.
• Collaborated with internal, external engineers, cybersecurity teams, and vendors to resolve system and security
challenges. Participated in security meetings on vulnerability reports and compliance updates.

05/2023 – 08/2024 Bangalore, India

CLOUD SYSTEM ADMIN KASEYA

• Implement VMware technology solutions for virtualization, networking, and storage infrastructures
• Performing the tasks for building the servers and delivering it before reaches SLA as per given the tech
information sheet (Both vCenter, physical servers)
• Extensive experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi environments for deploying and managing
virtualized infrastructures.
• Proficient in performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting virtualization issues.
• Applied patches and upgrades to ensure security and stability of VMware environments.
 • Monitored backup and storage solutions for enterprise environments.
• Monitored and managed storage infrastructure performance, including capacity planning and performance
tuning.
• Built and maintained the Linux Servers (RHEL, Ubuntu, Cent OS)
• Administered and supported SAN, NAS, and cloud storage environments.
• Monitoring and maintaining environments across development Testing, UAT, Production and Pre-production
stages.
• Performed data backup and recovery operations, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss.
• Experience working with Load Balancer servers
• Ensured data integrity and security across storage platforms.
• Monitored VM Image level backup Jobs
• Monitored Files Level backups Jobs
• Monitored Backup Jobs of NAS storage.
• Monitoring and managing the health and performance of integration instances using internal and external
monitoring tools.
• Performing server’s storage uplift and downgrade.
• Configured and managed EC2 instances, VPC, EBS and setting up AWS infrastructure for web applications and
setting up backup in AWS S3 buckets.
• Experience as a Storage and Backup Administrator specializing in Datto Backup and Kaseya VSA tools.
• Skilled in MSSQL and SSMS, with experience in database management and maintenance.
• Worked closely with other IT teams to ensure seamless integration of storage solutions
• Experience with AWS, Azure and GCP cloud.
• Proficient working experience in CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins
• Experience working in DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible and Kubernetes
• Performed patching with Ansible and Kaseya VSA; monitored IT devices in Kaseya VSA.
• Experience with Fortigate NGFW.
• Managed and maintained Active Directory (AD) services including the group policy

12/2021 – 10/2022 Bangalore, India

CLOUD ENGINEER ANKERCLOUD GMBH

• Performing the tasks for building the servers and delivering it before reaches SLA as per given the tech
information sheet (Both vCenter, physical servers).
• Conduct technical investigations of customer reported issues
• Create, test, and deploy VMware vSphere environments
• Collaborate with customer engineers and other VMware 3rd-party resources to investigate customer reported
issues
• Applied patches, performed upgrades on ESXi hosts, and maintained vSphere environment to ensure security
and stability.
• Conducted capacity planning and resource optimization for scaling VMware environments in line with
organizational growth.
• Built and maintained the Linux Servers (RHEL, Ubuntu, Cent OS)
• Install and monitor Client machine through Datto and Kaseya agents
• Provided technical support and training to end-users and other stakeholders.
• Maintained documentation of storage systems and processes.
• Daily checking the health & Availability of Avamar Backup systems and Data backup systems
• Resolved AD issues: passwords, account status, mailbox permissions and user profiles.
• Experience working in SAN and NAS Storages
• Checking the daily backup jobs including the backup types/levels
• Database level backup SQL Jobs
• Create Monthly weekly Utilization report
• Perform backup enhancement and improvement.
• Experience working in ALB, NLB servers
• Following ITIL Process on Processing the Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management.
• Develop recovery programs in case of any loss due to natural or man-made disasters.
• Provide event, warning, alert, and alarm processing and resolution of all event, warning, alert, and alarm
messages.
• Working closely with vendor to fix the P1 case ASAP.
• Experience as a Storage and Backup Administrator specializing in Datto Backup and Kaseya VSA tools.
• Skilled in MSSQL and SSMS, with experience in database management and maintenance.
• Daily checking the health & Availability of the backup reporting system.
• Set up and supported static web hosting on S3, Creating, Managing and Replicating across cross-region of S3
buckets.
• Added the newly created servers in backup plans.
• Creating and managing the EC2 instances.
• Created CloudFront distributions, added alternate domains, and configured DNS records.
• Experience working in DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible and Kubernetes
 • Experience with Azure and GCP services
• Managed server inventories

09/2020 – 11/2021 Bangalore, India

CLOUD SUPPORT ANALYST SECURONIX

• Performing the tasks for building the servers and delivering it before reaches SLA as per given the tech
information sheet (Both vCenter, physical servers).
• Performed daily system monitoring, including verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server
resources, systems, and key processes; reviewing system and application logs; and verifying completion of
scheduled jobs, backups.
• Performing server’s storage uplift and downgrade.
• Resizing the Logical Volumes and Increased/Decreased the file systems as per the requirement.
• Configuring and maintaining security policies and compliance.
• Added new databases SQL in the backup plans.
• Handling data restores/recovery for the servers and database owners
• Managing backups, updates, and patches for the integration environment.
• Troubleshot the Data Domain systems and server’s health through GUI Console and web console
• Troubleshot backup jobs Activates issues
• Responsible for providing level 2 & 3 support in monitoring, troubleshooting, and administration of the backup
infrastructure using EMC Networker and Avamar to maintain backup success rate of 99%.
• Managed user accounts (creation, passwords, locking/unlocking, deletion) in Linux, O365 and Azure AD also
joining and disjoining the domain in AD
• Monitored application and server performance using Grafana and Nagios
• Worked with Securonix SIEM and Fortigate NGFW for security management.
• Experience as a Storage and Backup Administrator specializing in Datto Backup and Kaseya VSA tools.
• Skilled in MSSQL and SSMS, with experience in database management and maintenance.
• Experience with Azure and GCP services.

06/2018 – 09/2020 Chennai, India

CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER A3 TECH SOLUTIONS

• Installation and Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Ubuntu.
• Performed daily system monitoring, including verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources,
systems, and key processes; reviewing system and
application logs; and verifying completion of scheduled jobs, backups.
• Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build applications
and services within AWS and/or other cloud providers.
• Work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions
• Gathered deployments requirements for applications, from clients and set up the
Build/Deployment of Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Deployed and managed monitoring AWS infrastructure using AWS CloudWatch.
• Unix User Creation, Permission Setup, Group Policy, Set User ID & Set Group ID.
• LVM Configuration and Troubleshooting.
• Resolved AD issues: passwords, account status, mailbox permissions and user profiles.
• Performing the tasks for building the servers and delivering it before reaches SLA as per given the tech information
sheet (Both vCenter, physical servers)
• Process Status, managing process and prioritizing the process.
• Package and Patch Administration using Yum and RPM.
• Cron and AT jobs scheduling and monitoring.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting on Linux Servers via Remote
• Providing a Full-Fledged support over 24/7 on Unix/Linux Servers.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Chennai
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING RMK Engineering College

Driven by ambition and a desire for excellence, I am eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm to your organization, helping to
achieve its goals.