Naif Yaanallah Alqarni
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
Summary
+14 years of professional IT experience specializing in Datacenter Build/Migration, Power Systems, Converged & Virtualization Platforms (VMware), and Linux Administration. Proven track record of delivering high-impact solutions and driving operational excellence. Passionate about adding real value to every organization I work with and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and positive energy.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Expert Linux Systems specialist
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2024.02 - 2025.06
- Manage team expectations with regards to task assignments, work arrangements and other department expectations.
- Develop and implement strategies with team to identify technology directions, decisions, security policy, and road map.
- Provide encouragement to team members, including communicating team goals and identifying areas for new training or skill checks.
- Experience in Administering Physical and Virtual Servers running Linux OS.
- Skill to install, setup and maintain Linux (Primarily Red-Hat) servers.
- Resolve server-side issues related to Linux OS and related server hardware.
- Proactively monitor and conduct health check to ensure continuous availability of production systems.
- Secure systems by actively identifying vulnerabilities and rectifying them.
- Manage, coordinate and implement OS and Firmware upgrades and patches.
- Perform regular reviews on system Capacity and Performance.
- Manage and administer Red Hat Satellite.
- Familiar with monitoring tools and 24/7 production support approaches.
- Fair knowledge in Backup and Recovery, Business Continuity, Server Virtualization, Storage Systems, ITSM practices, etc.
Expert Linux Systems
Riyad Bank
2023.02 - 2024.02
Expert Linux System Administrator
Bank AL BILAD
2021.07 - 2023.02
Widows OS and Linux OS System Administrator
Bank AL BILAD
2018.11 - 2021.07
- Overseeing environments of a data center where they supervise systems and identify, log, and report issues to their seniors, coordinate with clients to offer support services for data and systems. In addition, Windows and Linux administrative tasks.
Saudi Arabia Student Club Manager
Saudi Student Club
2012.01 - 2013.01
- Include planning and manage of all the student club activities, organizing tasks and administrate the student club tasks.
Technician
Saudi Electricity Company
2008.01 - 2011.01
- Monitoring and servicing systems, diagnosing problems, and troubleshooting equipment, running tests and completing reports, updating and improving existing systems
Education
Bachelor of Computer System Engineering - Computer System Engineering
University of Southern Queensland
Queensland Australia 2012.02 - 2015.12
Diploma of Operating Systems - Computer system Engineering
College of Technology
Saudi Aribia 2009.01 - 2011.01
Diploma Of IT - undefined
SEC College
2006.01 - 2008.01
Acadmic English program
Toowoomba Austrailia 2011.12 - 2012.02
Skills
- Security Hardening
- Vulnerability Management
- Linux Server Administration
- Troubleshooting
- Problem Solving
- System Installation
- Configuration
- Network Management
- User Account Management
- Permission Management
- Shell Scripting
- Automation
- Virtualization Technologies
Custom
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 2
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Security
- Introduction to Project Management
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
Timeline
Expert Linux Systems specialist
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2024.02 - 2025.06
Expert Linux Systems
Riyad Bank
2023.02 - 2024.02
Expert Linux System Administrator
Bank AL BILAD
2021.07 - 2023.02
Widows OS and Linux OS System Administrator
Bank AL BILAD
2018.11 - 2021.07
Bachelor of Computer System Engineering - Computer System Engineering
University of Southern Queensland
2012.02 - 2015.12
Saudi Arabia Student Club Manager
Saudi Student Club
2012.01 - 2013.01
Acadmic English program
2011.12 - 2012.02
Diploma of Operating Systems - Computer system Engineering
College of Technology
2009.01 - 2011.01
Technician
Saudi Electricity Company
2008.01 - 2011.01
Diploma Of IT - undefined
SEC College
2006.01 - 2008.01