Waqar Asghar

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Experience

King Faisal University Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia

Team Lead Unix Storages Virtualization & backup 04/2018-05/2020

Consult with departments and team members to develop technical solutions to complex business/information problems.

Manage the teams for all covered technologies: VMware based virtualization, storage systems, UNIX platform and Backups.

Take leader role to guide and support inter department’s teams for smooth delivery and maintenance during daily work.

Provides status updates and communicates frequently with/to end-users as well as with management teams and global support.

Participate in all phases of deployment starting with a conceptual model through functional and detailed design to implementation, debugging of IT solutions.

Provide extensive troubleshooting and technical expertise in identifying issues that impact service delivery.

Design and develop operation procedures of VMWARE infrastructure with VMware team.

Provides consultation in project and planning teams.

Assisting with analysis, evaluation and preparation of recommendations for system improvements, optimization, development and maintenance.

King Faisal University Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia

Senior Unix Storages Virtualization & backup Admin 12/2012-03/2018

Perform hands-on technical activities in support of investigating and resolving problems.

Provide comprehensive troubleshooting and recommend fixes for systems and application issues.

Maintain, upgrade, replicate, migrate and set policies of storages (DAS, NAS, SAN).

Utilize my support expertise to set and improve existing standards for system administration such as process, builds, monitoring, reporting, documentation and Backup strategy / solutions.

Analyze system performance and manage system resources, write cron jobs & shell scripts to provide automation.

Assisting other teams (DBA, networks, application) with OS related tasks.

Detects, isolates, documents, quickly reports, and resolves system outages, or problems encountered during operations of the operational system baseline, which includes the collections of diagnostic data, restoring the system operation, development of workarounds, and other activities necessary for recovery of a system.

Work in a team environment to provide 24x7 support of the server and infrastructure.

Work with network administrators to configure and troubleshoot issues emanating from network.

Maintain, design, install, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMware infrastructure.

Performing backups, troubleshooting and problem resolution for servers associated with a VMware virtual infrastructure, UNIX, Windows environments.

Techaccess Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan

System Support Engineer 10/2007-11/2012

Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise to support complex Storage & Backup devices, including SAN, NAS and Backup solutions across all tiers, under minimal supervision.

Develop ITIL procedures, technology strategy, engineering standards, methodologies, task-plans and best practices for Storage Engineering.

Manage minor issues independently, providing guidance to junior members of the team.

Participate in 24x7 "On-call" & “On-premises” support rotation.

Provides highly visible customer support through the performance of on-site installation, servicing and maintenance of servers and storages.

Responsible for complex provisioning, advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration and documentation for our clients Systems Storage and Backup environments.

Design/implement UNIX systems and network configurations for optimum performance along with troubleshooting and problem resolutions.

Respond to tickets through our ticketing system.

Education

Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan

Master in Electronics 2004-2007

Skills

Hardware:

Oracle Hardware includes Oracle Super Cluster, M-Series, Sun Fire Series, T-Series, X86 & Blade Servers.

HP Hardware includes HP ProLiant Servers DL380, DL580, HP Blades 7000, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Dell Servers, Cisco UCS Blades & UCS Manager.

Veritas NetBackup Appliances.

Oracle Pillar Axiom, Oracle ZFS unified storage, Sun Storagetek, etc. EMC clarion, EMC VNX, HP MSA Storages.

Tape Libraries SL500, SL700, SL150.

Brocade Switches includes 200, 300, 5100, Management Software.

Transtec Storage Servers.

Software:

Solaris 8,9,10,11, Linux includes OEL, SUSE, Centos, Red hat, Ubuntu etc

VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0,6.5 Clustering, Management, vSwitches, vMotion, Vrealize Ops Manager.

SVM, LVM, VxVM, VFS, UFS, NFS, ZFS & Linux FS.

Storage software like CAM,EMC Unisphere, Axiom SSM etc.

Oracle Solaris containers, zones, kernel zones, LDOMs, PDOMs, OVM, SVA.

Oracle Solaris Cluster, Veritas Cluster, Linux Clustering.

Monitoring tools like OPS center 12c, PRTG, Zabbix, rsyslog, Syslog, ELK, Manage Engine.

Veritas NetBackup v7, v8 and working knowledge of Veeam Backup.

Working knowledge of Microsoft Hyper-v,Microsoft Azure, OMS, MS Window 2008, 2012,2016 servers, MS-SQL & MS Failover & Always-on clustering.

Working Knowledge of APC DCO,DCE and Pellco Appliances.

Certification & Trainings

Oracle Certified System Administration for Solaris 10.

Oracle Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 10.

Oracle Certified System Administrator for SUN Cluster 3.2.

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1.

TDC-001 Sparc Entry Level training.

TDC-003 Sparc Mid Level training.

TDC-005 Sun Entry Level Storage Concepts And Products Field Engineers.

TDC-006 Sun Mid Level Storage Disk Field Engineer Accreditation: STK 6140&6540.

TDC-008 Sun Enterprise Mx000 Server Series Support Readiness training.

SL500,SL700 setup & service training.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundation 2020

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate 2019

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