Benyoucef (Ben) SAIDANI

*** ******* ****

Milton, ON L9T0G2

Tel: 437-***-****

email: ac8hvh@r.postjobfree.com

System & Network Administrator with strong experience managing server infrastructures and datacentre operations.

Excellent team player with good leadership skills, interpersonal abilities, and troubleshooting skills, and always eager and willing to learn.

Fully Bilingual (English / French)

Experience:

Unix, Linux(Centos/RedHat version 5-7, Ubuntu version 16.04), handling servers & operating systems, file systems, lvm, nic teaming, tuning, clustering, patching, etc...

Provide systems engineering support and planning, building, installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining disparate virtual infrastructure environments, storage, server and network with technologies including:

o VMware ESXi/vSphere/vCenter (version 5.x - 6.x)

o Dell R730/R740 servers

o Equallogic / Dell /EMC SAN, Quest DR6300/4300, and others o SAN and Data Replication

Business Continuity Planning and Data Protection o vSphere data protection

o virtual machines replication

o automate VM snapshots using powershell scripts

o VSS for windows

Ensure all required are configured for and are being backed up using Netvault (Quest): o File systems (Linux and Windows)

o VM images

o Oracle Databases and SQL Databases.

Firewall devices configuration (Juniper, Sonicwall (NSA))

Network experience ( Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Subnetting, Trunking, iSCSI, VLAN, 802.1X, Radius, VPN, OSI layers, WAN/LAN)

Network monitoring (Nagios, SNMP, wireshark, mrtg, tcpdump, netstat, nmap, etc

VoIP, Asterisk, FreePBX, sip trunking, writing dial plan, etc...

Experience of high availability (using diverse high availability techniques to achieve maximum uptime for critical services/servers):

o Vmware Cluster & HA

o Kemp (load balancer)

o Network interfaces (teaming)

o SAN Storage

o HYPER-V

Services : NFS, FTP, TFTP, SSH, LDAP, DHCP, DNS/BIND, Rsync, SMTP, CIFS/SMB, Iptables(Firewall), Cron, NTP, Apache, Apache(Proxy/ Reverse-Proxy), Tomcat, Weblogic.

Scripting: Bash, sh, ksh, Perl, awk, Powershell, Powercli(for VMware), Visual C# using Microsoft Studio, Python, Network & System Automation, Ansible/Yaml.

Good knowledge of Windows Servers 2012R2-2016, AD, DNS, DHCP,IIS,DFS,SQL

Some exposure to Aruba Wireless Network ( Controllers/Access Point/ClearPass)

Tuning server for Oracle, Some Oracle administration

Ansible, Dockers/Docker Swarm (recently)

Achievements:

Introduced a VoIP (Open Source) that connected all Litens Division (Germany, China, Brazil) as well as the 2 Canadian companies, saving all the long distance cost, then creating also a CTI (computer telephony integration) solution using Litens intranet web interface.

Install & Tune the ‘company purchase requisition’ web application based on Apache-Tomcat.

Implementing a flow/approval mechanism for Litens Engineering ‘PDF drawings’.

An early Project was the migration of all the data of the manufacturing department from Netware (Novell) to Samba (emulation of Windows NT Domain), thus saving the expensive maintenance fees...

Introduced a ‘Spam Mail Filter’ MailScanner based on OpenSource.

Introduced ‘Nagios’ to Monitor the network.

Create many scripts to automate:

EDI (AS400/Vanguard)

Banking

VM’s snapshots

and many more

Install and configure a search engine (Datafari) Education:

Bachelor in Electronics (University of Science & Technology of Oran, Algeria) Master of Science in Computer Engineering (Boston University, Massachusetts) Work history:

Litens Automotive : From Dec 1996 To Feb 2018

References:

Available upon request

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