Kashif Amir Bangash

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Address: H.No 438, Street No. 89, G-11/3, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Objective

Insightful, results-driven IT professional with 12 years of experience delivering broad range of corporate IT initiatives relating infrastructure and services while participating in planning, analyzing, and implementing solutions in support of business objectives. Outstanding project leader; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, and guiding teams. Equipped with sound technical knowledge and expertise, and communication skills that prove crucial in IT service management and support.

Area of Expertise

Virtualization and Cloud Technologies.

Systems and Network Infrastructure.

Hadoop Administration/ Operations (Ambari Hortonworks).

Team and Project Leadership.

Data Center Operations.

Risk assessment and Analysis (BCP and DRP).

Professional Experience

Teradata, Islamabad-PK, Nov 2015 – Present

Senior Consultant (Infrastructure/ Platform Services)

Client Engagement: Team Lead - Data Gathering and Connectivity (Automation and Modernization Team)

Responsible for Telemetry data operations (technical Operations).

People management (managing a team of 6 technical consultants.

Technologies include: Password Vault, SHC, TSA, SOR etc.

Managing and monitoring Microsoft Azure Cloud environments

Client Engagement: Virtualization Consultant (Cloud Delivery Team)

Deploying Teradata Vantage in customer on-premises VMware environments.

Managing and monitoring VMware environments (vSphere 5/6)

Managing and monitoring Operating Systems environments (SLES 11/12).

Managing and monitoring Microsoft Azure Cloud environments.

Client Engagement: National Postcode Lottery – Virtualization Consultant (Netherland).

Design and implement solutions for client related to Virtual Infrastructure in the Teradata environment.

Involved in various parts of the project including analyzing customer requirements, solution design, implementation and trainings.

Preparing project plans, Runbook, SOW, RFPs, SIPs and transition plans.

Management, monitoring and delivery of infrastructure services w.r.t VMware infrastructure (VSphere 6, 5.5).

Managing heterogeneous hardware environments (HP/ Dell servers.

Managing heterogeneous operating system environments including MS Windows, SUSE Linux enterprise servers.

Lead hardware/ operating systems upgrades and patches (WSUS, SUSE Manager).

On-Site travels regarding system and services health checks and client engagements.

Working with different, on-shore/ off-shore teams’ w.r.t deliverables.

Client Engagement: Globe Telecom – Infrastructure Lead Consultant (Philippines).

Servicing as Infrastructure lead; responsible for managing infrastructure/ platform services spanning across different geo-sites.

Management and monitoring of Servers infrastructure (based on Windows and Redhat (RHEL 6/7) systems).

Management and monitoring of network infrastructure (Dell (3048, 4048, s6000) switches and Firewall (Palo Alto – PA5050).

Infrastructure monitoring services using ICINGA/ Nagios.

Hardware Infrastructure monitoring services using Dell OME.

Coordination with third party vendors.

Client Engagement: Veon/ Jazz Telecom – Hadoop Administrator (Pakistan)

Hortonworks Hadoop Administration.

HDP Cluster management.

Yarn Capacity Scheduler/ Resource monitoring.

HDFS Space management.

Hive, Spark, NIFI operations.

Client Engagement: Mobily Telecom – Hadoop Administrator (Saudi Arabia)

Hortonworks HDP Cluster management.

Yarn Capacity Scheduler/ Resource monitoring.

HDFS Space management.

Hive

HBase.

QueryGrid v1.

Kylo, NIFI.

SNL Financial LC, Islamabad-PK, May 2011 – Jun 2015

Systems Administrator II

Active directory infrastructure management (Group Policy management, Failover Clusters, Terminal Servers, AD Sites, MS CA, PKI, DFS, WSUS, FTP/SFTP, DNS, NLB, DHCP, PXE, file/ print servers etc.).

Virtual Infrastructure management (VMware, Hyper-V, vSphere, Veeam Backup and Fast SCP, vOptimizer, vConverter etc.).

Backup Infrastructure management (Commvault, Symantec Backup Exec, SyncBack SE etc.).

Email Infrastructure management (MS Exchange Server 2003/2007, Google Apps).

Storage Infrastructure management (StorageTek, NetApp, Hitachi HNAS, HUS, HP X1000/3000, HP P2000 storage array).

Systems Center (Configuration Manager) 2007/2012 management.

Windows Server 2003, 2008/R2, 2012etc.

Management of HP Servers and Blade Systems.

Electronic Government Directorate, Islamabad-PK, Apr 2009 – May 2011

Assistant Network Administrator

To manage the data networks of Government department/ministries

To configure/ monitor/ manage all the networking equipment (Routers, Switches, LAN/WAN, Domain, DSL Modems, Firewalls, Clusters, DNS, DHCP, ISA, WSUS, Blade Center, Web, FTP, Exchange Servers etc.)

Management and troubleshooting of Network applications, equipment and infrastructure installed at different government offices and datacenters.

Interaction with end users (i.e. employees of government departments) to provide support regarding network related issues like connectivity with servers, PCs and other equipment on the LAN/WAN.

To communicate and liaison with web hosting and internet connectivity (band width) provider(s) for reliable smooth and stabilized web hosting of government websites.

Technical Proficiencies

Platforms: Windows 7, 8, 2003, 2008-R2, 2012-R2, Linux (Redhat 7/6, SUSE 12/11).

Virtual infrastructure: VMware vSphere, MS HyperV, Oracle VirtualBox,Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop, AWS, Azure.

Backup Infrastructure: Symantec Backup Exec, Sync Back SE, CommVault, Veeam Backup and Replication.

Antivirus Infrastructure: Kaspersky Security Center 10, Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8/10 – Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6/8 for Computers/ Servers etc.

System Center: SCCM 2007, 2012R2, SCVMM 2012R2

Software Updates, packages, OSD, DCM etc.

Storage Infrastructure: Hitachi (HAS 150, HUS-VM), NetApp (FAS 3200), Oracle STK6540, HP NAS (x1000) etc.

Active Directory Infrastructure:, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Group Policy, WSUS, Terminal Servers, Clusters (failover, session broker, NLB), FTP/ SFTP etc.

Security/ IAM: ADCA, ADFS, PKI, Certificates, Firewalls (Palo Alto PA-5050), Proxies, SolarWinds. Orion, Dell Spotlight, ICINGA2/ Nagios, AD Risk Assessment Program (RAP).

HP (ML, DL, BL) / Dell (R320, R630, R720xd, R730xd) Servers and Blade Systems management.

Hortonworks Certified Administrator (HDPCA)

Education and Credentials

BS (Hons) Computer Science (2002-2006)

Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan.

Professional Certifications

HortonWorks Hadoop Certified Administrator (HDPCA)

Teradata Certified Professional (309937905).

ITIL Foundation Certified (956021).

Six Sigma – White Belt (Certified).

AWS Technical Professional (Accreditation).

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certified.

Professional Trainings

MCSE/ CCNA/ RHEL.

AWS, MS Azure.

Hadoop Ambari (BigData Management Systems).

SSAE 16, ISO/ IEC 27001.

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