Mir Anwer Ali
Summary
Highly Qualified Computer specialist with experience in the industry. Enjoy creative problem solving and getting exposure on multiple project, and i would excel in the collaborative environment on which your computer prides itself.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
IT - Research Computing - Data Center Analyst
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(Job's Key LTD) － Thuwal, Makkah Province
Thuwal Jeddah
03.2013 - Current
- Working as a part of research computing team.
- Install and perform minor repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment, following design or installation specification.
- Answer users inquiries related to Scientific Workstation/ Applications and hardware operation to resolve problems.
- Set up equipment for client use, performing or ensuring proper installation of cable operating systems, and appropriate software.
- Coordinate in problem solving, monitoring, and installing data communication equipments..
- Provide assistance concerning the user of Scientific Workstation hardware and software including installation word-processing, electronic mail, and operating systems.
- Consulting users technical requirements related to their research projects.
- Working on Development tool related to automate the Workstation Deployment.
Data Center Analyst
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Wipro Arabia LTD
Thuwal, Makkah
08.2009 - 06.2013
- Resolving HPSM tickets for datacenter related issues from different business owners for their server issues
- Responsible for of IT infrastructure activities of 3 datacenter, in the following areas
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Capacity Management
- Infrastructure Security
- Solve escalated systems related issues, coordinate with vendors to isolate hardware problems, install firmware or software patches as necessary.
- Act as point of contact for system related matters for departmental researchers and faculty's.
- Hands on experience in DATACENTER planning and relocation. Managed 3 Datacenters which have 700+ physical servers from different vendors (HP, SUN, DELL, IBM and APPLE)
- Performed Datacenter relocation under the supervision of the Datacenter Manager.
- Involved in Disaster recovery planning and performed DR drills Periodically.
- Trouble shooting server hardware(HP,SUN,DELL and IBM)expertise replacing high end machine parts.
- · Record servers and services/applications logs and analyze them.
- · Part of the pilot team and provisioned the servers and Network Devices in the Business Data Center at KAUST.
- Administering and renewing the license server for scientific applications like MATLABM,CHEMKIN and others.
- Working closely with the storage team for troubleshooting any issues and new installation and allocating storage for newly installed servers.
- Planning and checking all the Datacenter documentation and practices before the IT audit.
- Produce effective and thorough technical documentation.
- Responsible for maintaining scuba database to track all the equipment installed in the datacenter.
- Generating reports related to the datacenter activities or every month.
- Communication with management and keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages.
Unix Supporting Administrator
Advance Telecommunication Riyadh, K.S.A
10.2008 - 02.2009
- Installing and configuring of Linux flavor like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 6, fedora, Ubuntu and CentOS.
- Plan for and deploy patches and updates to the operating system and application software
- Administer management servers for infrastructure (file servers, monitoring, etc).
- Good knowledge of Unix/Linux systems administration, including all aspects of management, monitoring, performance analysis, and integration in complex heterogeneous environments
- User administration, Manage user accounts, groups, hosts, modems, printers, file systems and security
- Configuration of DNS, NIS, DHCP and NFS clients on LINUX
- Hardware upgrades (CPU, Memory Network Interface Cards, Hard drives.)
- Adding and configuring disks and creating new file systems.
- Configuration of RAID and LVM
- Configuring, troubleshooting, and debugging X
- Kernel services and configurations
- Secure user access through IPTABLES
- Change TCP/IP configurations (subnet/IP/ default Gateway)
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - undefined
Diploma - Hardware and Networking
Skills
Linux, Redhat, CentOs, ScientificLinux, Fedora, Debian, UbuntuSolaris,MysqlComprehensive knowledge of Docker ContainersScientific Application AWS,Azure, Oracle CloudVirtualization experience with KVMVMWare and AnsibleAutomation Deployment CI/CD tool
Gitlab
Affiliations
ITIL V3 foundation certified
Sun Solaris System Administrator 9/10
Timeline
IT - Research Computing - Data Center Analyst
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(Job's Key LTD) － Thuwal, Makkah Province
03.2013 - Current
Data Center Analyst
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Wipro Arabia LTD
08.2009 - 06.2013
Unix Supporting Administrator
Advance Telecommunication Riyadh, K.S.A
10.2008 - 02.2009