Ali Khan

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ON Toronto, M1K 3J8 647-***-****

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

14+ years of experience in System Administration

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems & Database

12+ years In depth hands-on experience in IBM AIX, Power VM and Power system (including Power5,

Power6 and Power7) utilizing micro partitioning, VIO, HMC, IVM,NIM,DLPAR, Live Partition Mobility

(LPM),NPIV,& WPAR

12 + years extensive System Administration/support experience, Red Hat(4,5, 6 & 7) at an enterprise

level, HP-UX((11iv1,v2,v3), HP PA-RISC, HP Itanium.

6+ years experience, Oracle/Sun Solaris 10,11 - administration, on Sparc and x86: UFS ZFS and zones

5 + years SUSE Linux administration, YaST online update, Zypper, RPM - the Package Manager

HP-UX Service Guard/Red Hat Cluster suite/HACMP

HP-UX SD2 V-par n-par, virtual connect (integrity VM) & HP-9000 Servers

HP-UX tools Ignite/HP Server Automation(HP SA)

AIX GPFS cluster

Performance tuning and troubleshooting of HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux & HP-UX

Servers Monitoring and Reporting tools(Glance, Nagios and Application Manager)

DNS, NFS, NIS, SAMBA SSH HA etc Servers Installs and Configurations

Shell(korn, bash, awk, sed) and Perl Scripting

Network & SAN storage

Network Protocols & Static and Dynamic routing

SAN, LVM, Storage: EMC CLARiiON, VNX, DMX, V-MAX etc

SAN Switch (Brocade/Cisco)

Virtualization & Backup

HP-UX V-par n-par & integrity VM, Solaris Zones and VMware ESX VMs (5 years)

Backup and recovery software(Acronis & EMC networker)

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

IT Specialist (UNIX) June 16 - till now

IBM Canada

Working as a IT Specialist (In project and steady state) for CPPIB, Black & Decker and Merrill Lynch account, also provide on-call support for CPPIB, IESO, LCBO and IBM internal infrastructure for GTS service Delivery Operations

Build about more than 200 Linux virtual servers(using VMware) with IBM security herding and recommended tools

RH Linux administration (5.x /6.x/7x) with application deployment

Implemented Kickstart/PXE Boot Servers that Rsync between multiple locations.

Server administration, server maintenance, daily health checkup, installation and configuration of apps

Implementing and managing patch in more than 300 Linux servers

Configure and managing DNS servers of CPPIB and IESO

Supporting IBM Trinity tool for centralized user and server management

Implemented sudo utility throughout the environment for ESB servers and documented the process.

Worked with Backup team to install and configure networker client on the Linux servers.

Used Tivoli for server monitoring. Created view for Development users to review Broker and MQ stats.

Involved in administration and setup of various High Availability clusters on Linux using Redhat Cluster Suite.

Resolved security vulnerabilities by analyzing and recommending improvements in communications and network security at the component level

Managed, monitored and tested individual and group user access privileges and security

Configure and manage NIM servers to install, backup and recovery in centralized way

Configure and Manage VIO Server networking (SEA, Aggregate links and Virtual Network Adapters)

Configure and manage VIO server's SAN environments(NPIV, Virtual FC Adapter, NPIV)

AIX patch management through NIM as per CITRAS to secure the environments

Perform AIX TL/SP level Upgrades as required

Build/patch/configure/maintain AIX GPFS cluster for file net servers

AIX/Linux LPAR machine performance tuning and troubleshooting

Keep system configuration and documentation up to date.

Day to Day manage change/Incident ticket for Change Management process

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

System Administrator (contract) December 14 - May 16

IBM Canada

Working as a Senior System Administrator(In project and steady state) for CIBC Bank, Black & Decker and Merrill Lynch account, also provide on-call support for CPPIB, IESO, LCBO and IBM internal infrastructure for GTS service Delivery Operations

Managing Power p7-750 frame resources through HMC upon project requirement and changes

Building LPARs on p7-750 frame and install AIX/Linux LPAR using NIM server

Hardening the servers(LPAR) as per IBM security, patch management and kernel adjustment

Configure and manage NIM servers to install, backup and recovery in centralized way

Customize each LPARs according to project requirement. Customization examples include adding IP aliases, adding or changing volume groups and/or file systems, managing additional IDs and appropriate ssh keys, support Application & DB2 team

Program shell scripts to automate portion of LPAR customization process including administrative account addition, system account customization and filesystem creation/cleanup

Responsible for building and documenting VIO Servers on IBM Power 7 Systems

Configure and Manage VIO Server networking (SEA, Aggregate links and Virtual Network Adapters)

Configure and manage VIO server's SAN environments(NPIV, Virtual FC Adapter, NPIV)

AIX/LINUX patch management through NIM as per CITRAS to secure the environments

Upgrade from HMC version 7.8.0 SP1 to version 8.8.3 SP1 and patch MH01574

Perform AIX TL/SP level Upgrades as required

Taking mksysb (OS Backup) backup for all LPARs using NIM servers

Defining AIX Operating System Golden Image for NIM (Network Installation Manager) Operation

Build/patch/configure/maintain Power HA cluster on LPARs for project's requirements, which included Power HA configuration for DB2 Client, and NFS servers

Build/patch/configure/maintain AIX GPFS cluster for file net servers

AIX/Linux LPAR machine performance tuning and troubleshooting

Keep system configuration and documentation up to date.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Senior Linux Admin September 14 - 31st October 14

Ticoon Technology, Canada

Worked in a short Linux and storage migration project in Ticoon Technology.

Install and configure RedHat and SUSE Linux servers using network installation

Build about 25 Linux servers as per Ticoon's security herding, patch management & kernel adjustment

Zoning and mapping new storage(HP P-2000) with old and new servers.

Assignee the new storage in old servers

Extend the VG with new storage and mirror for second copy

Reduce old storage LUN from the VG and completed the migration

Configure Red Hat Cluster suite in two node

Prepare scripts for data migration for Linux servers

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

System Administrator (Contract) August 13 - 31 July 14

IBM Canada

Worked in a most critical and important Roger telecom’s project “Vision 21” where migrated billing and other Data base servers from HP-9000 servers to HP SD2 & virtual connect . Storage migration from EMC DMX4 to V-MAX was also part of this project.

Install and configure HP-UX servers using HP SA/Ignite.

Build about 100 HP-UX/Linux servers with IBM security herding and recommended tools

Configure HP-UX Service Guard/Red Hat Cluster suite in two node and three node cluster

Prepare scripts for data migration for Linux and HP-UX servers

Installation configuration troubleshoot of different type IBM tools(Powerbroker, Tivoli, Tripwire etc)

Configure HP-UX Ignite backup and recovery environment for OS network backup, recovery

Configure HP virtual environment on BL860C server and create and installation HP-UX virtual Machine as per Roger’ s requirements

HP-UX virtual machine performance tuning and troubleshooting

Configure HP Super Dom2 as n-par and V-par as per Roger’s requirements for production servers

Install and configure virtual connect infrastructure

Clamed EMC storage in the servers and create LVM structure as per requirements

Install and configure EMC solution enabler for better storage management

Configure pre-installation task on HP-UX/Linux for oracle RAC

System Deputy Manager (Technical Lead) Dec. 2005 – May 2013

VimpelCom (Banglalink), Bangladesh

One of the world’s largest integrated telecommunication service providers, covering territories in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America

Install and configure about HP-UX/AIX/Redhat Linux servers using Ignite and NIM server

Building LPARs on p5-570 frame and install AIX/Linux LPAR using NIM server

AIX/LINUX patch management through NIM as per company policy

Configure and manage NIM servers to install, backup and recovery in centralized way

Perform AIX TL/SP level Upgrades as required

Taking mksysb (OS Backup) backup for all LPARs using NIM servers

Defining AIX Operating System Golden Image for NIM (Network Installation Manager) Operation

Build/patch/configure/maintain Power HA cluster on LPARs as per requirement

Responsible for building and documenting VIO Servers on IBM Power 5 Systems

Configure and Manage VIO Server networking (SEA, Aggregate links and Virtual Network Adapters)

Configure and manage VIO server's SAN environments(NPIV, )

System (HP-UX+AIX+ Redhat) administration support to ensure smooth operation for IT

Interaction with vendors, external and internal users to provide technical direction(HP, Novell &Redhat)

Monitor the systems and ensure they are running efficiently

Analyze systems problems including root cause determination and manage any needed recovery

process to ensure a quick restoration of service without loss of data

Storage operation and performance tuning (Storage BCV, Clone, SAN Copy, Pool & Raid Group creation, LUN creation, LUN migration etc)

MILESTONE ACHIEVED IN VIMPELCOM

Automated daily system operation and monitoring through scripting which save massive working hours of the team.

Introduced VMware in our organization. And, migrated 100 physical machines to VMware environment which eventually reduce server’s foot print, power consumption and cooling cost.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SAN Management, EMC India

2011

CLARiiON Host Integration & Management, EMC Singapore

2010

EMC Control Center Management(ECC), EMC Singapore

2009

HP UNIX for “System and Network Troubleshooting of HP-UX”, HP Singapore

2009

POSIX shell programming of HP-UX, HP Indian

2008

Perl Programming of HP-UX, HP India, HP India

2008

Performance Tuning and Monitoring of HP-UX, HP Singapore

2006

Leadership Excellence, Sensei International India

2006

Enhancing Effective Communication, Holistic Training Solutions Pvt Ltd India

2006

Team Building, Holistic Training Solutions Pvt Ltd, India

2005

Networking with Linux & ISP Setup, Asia Infosys Ltd Bangladesh

2005

CERTIFICATIONS

CSE (Certified System Engineer on HP-UX core subject)

CSA (Certified System Administrator on HP-UX)

CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)

MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator)

STF (Storage Technology Foundation form EMC)

EDUCATION

Masters in Commerce (Dhaka University)

Reference available upon request

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