Senior Linux System Administrator

MANSOOR SARWAR

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

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Mississauga, Ontario, L4X 2S1

(647) - 300 – 1858

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PROFILE:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong negotiation, management and customer service skills

• Strong analyzing, conflict resolution and judgement skills

• Experienced in providing 24/7/365 support

• Expert in Solaris/Linux Centos, Debian

• Expert in virtualization and cloud technologies VMware, Xen Server, Hyper V, AWS, Azure

• Well versed in Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Administering Windows Server

• Well versed with management of Exchange 07/10/13, Office 365

• Well versed with Cisco UCS, HP, Dell and IBM servers, NetApp, Dell MDS

• Well versed with dev-ops methodologies and tools like JIRA, Salt, Ansible

• Well versed with Docker, Bash, Python

• Project Management based on PMI methodologies

• Well versed with ITIL methodologies

• Well versed with installation and administration of MS SQL, MySQL

• Well versed in configuration and management of Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load balancers and VPN devices and network protocols TCP/IP, OSPF, EIGRP, IPSec, VLANs, SNMP, NAT, VoIP, wireless, F5, Wireshark, ZFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Linux System Administrator

Teksavvy Solutions Inc – www.teksavvy.ca 2018 till date

• Managing hardware and software across multiple data centers throughout Canada and Azure cloud

• Manage, evaluate and distribute tasks among team members

• Plan and execute projects with vendors

• Communicate with Teksavvy departments and translate their needs into technology solutions

• Perform routine system audits

Lead System Administrator 2017 – 2018

411 local search Corp – www.411.ca

• Managed hybrid server infrastructure with two data centers and AWS cloud

• Managed Cisco UCCX voice platform for the call center

• Managed, enhanced and developed the CI/CD pipeline consisting of GitHub, Jenkins, NGINX and Tomcat

• Moved systems from data center to AWS cloud

• Managed the project for moving emails from exchange 2010 to O365 System Administrator Tier 3 2013 - 2017

Frontier Networks – www.frontiernetworks.ca

• Managed server infrastructure for frontier networks and sister companies at two colo’s

• Set up servers and network

• Performed security audits for systems and network and compliance for pci-dss

• Troubleshooted and resolved issues on a variety of hardware and platforms

• Managed web hosting platform comprised of cPanel

• Performed migration for lavalife.com to a new hardware platform

• Performed dev-ops for lavalife and other applications

• Performed migration to office 365 for three separate domains Senior Network & System Administrator 2010 - 2013

360 Training - www.360training.com

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• Migrated data center to new co-lo keeping old one as a DR site

• Migrated windows and Linux systems to Cisco UCS from a variety of old hardware

• Set up Cisco UCS, VMware VSphere and NetApp

• Migrated .net, java, asp and ColdFusion apps without any downtime

• Deployed Apache and tomcat in clustered environment with load balancing, session replication and session state failover with F5

• Took part in deployment and management of IBM WebSphere portal and commerce server 6 and 7

• Managed more than 300 hosted sites on java, .net, ColdFusion and WordPress with an SLA of 99.99%

Manager Networks 2007 - 2010

SCT Group - www.sctgroup.us

• Performed Team and Project management

• Supervised onsite deployments in accordance with standards

• Defined SOPs for technology department for IT governance, security, software development and change requests

• Supervised and managed technical operations

• Trained technology personnel

• Met with clients to discuss requirements, timelines and budgets Senior System Administrator 2008 - 2009

Worldcall Telecom Limited - www.worldcall.com.pk

• Planned and managed system and infrastructure projects

• Planned, built, tested and implemented IT systems according to defined standards and policies

• Defined and implemented security concepts, derived actual security architecture, performed security requirements analysis, set up action plans for possible classes of security incidents

• Introduced action plan for possible classes of security incidents and improved DR and BCP Network Administrator 2003 – 2006

Daedalus Software Inc. - www.daedalussoftware.com

• Managed IT assets and licenses

• Implemented Disaster Recovery measures and ensured Business Continuity Planning

• Deployed applications on QA, UAT and production environments

• Provided input in technical evaluations for systems related issues SKILLS & TRAINING:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA

• Cisco Certified Network Professional - CCNP

• Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate - JNCIA-ER

• Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate - JNCIS-ER

• Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate - JNCIA-EX EDUCATION:

BEng (I.T) Hamdard University (HIIT)

Diploma in Project Management Pakistan Institute of Management

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