Khushi Muhammad

Manager Cloud Services

Ufone • Full time

Aug 2023 - Present • 2 yrs 10 mos

• Public Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, BaaS, DRaaS, and SaaS). The services include administration, management, design, deploy & migration of cloud computing systems for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. • SDDC Technologies:VMware vSphere including ESXi, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, vSphere vMotion, Storage vMotion, Resource Pools, High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance, vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) & Distributed Power Management (DPM). • Driving process improvement, internal and external audit compliances, and ISO compliances w.r.t industry-standard certifications • Manage data backups on VERITAS Netbackup Server, Vaeem Backup, AWS Backup • Installation and configuration of VMWare(ESXi) • Cloud Computing and Operations • VMWare vCloud and vRealize Solution • Managed Services of Cloud Operations • Server and Storage Infrastructure (Administration and Management) • Backup and Archive Solution (Administration and Management) • Microsoft Windows Server Administration and Services(Active Directory, DNS, Office 365, DHCP, VDI) • Red Hat Linux Servers Administration and Services (Patch Management, Ansible, OpenShift, Syslog, NTP, BART, Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrel Mail IPMP, SFTP, Firewall, Bash Scripting, Cronjob, Users management.) • Amazon Cloud Administration (EC2, S3, System Manager, Route 53, RDS, SMS, Inspector, Sentinel, Elastic Kubernates Service, EC2 Image Builder, SSM Agent, Patching, LB, Guard Duty, Auto Scaling).

DevOps Expert

Telenor Group • Full time

Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 • 2 yrs 2 mos

• Amazon Cloud Administration (EC2, S3, System Manager, Route 53, RDS, SMS, Inspector, Sentinel, Elastic Kubernates Service, EC2 Image Builder, SSM Agent, Cost Explorer, Patching, LB, Guard Duty, Auto Scaling). • Manage Servers in Linux/Windows environment. Install, configure and deploy Linux Flavors (REDHAT, Centos, Fedora Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE etc), Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, Solaris Servers both with x86 and Sparc architectures. • Monitoring: AWS Cloud Watch, Nagios, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, SolarWinds • SSL Certification: Self Signed, DigiCert, AWS Cert, Certbot • OS Hardening: CIS Benkmarks, Qualys, SIEM, Patching, Salt, Linux Malware Detect, Auditing, Firewalls, Vulnerability scanning of Networks and Web Applications • Plan and implement data security by file permissions, back up and disaster recovery plans. • Ticket Systems: JIRA, CA Portal, ServiceNow, ZenDesk, ZohoDesk, SolarWinds • Documentation: Confluence, Bit.ai, HubSpot, Document360 • Disk Management: Linux LVMs, Windows Disk Management • Troubleshoot networks, systems and applications to identify and correct malfunctioning and other operational difficulties. • Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible. • Installation and configuration of Servers like Web Server Apache, nginx, Openlite, MySQL, PHP, Jboss, SFTP, SAMBA, NFS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, Bash Scripting, Mail Server, Proxy Server Squid, syslog on Linux, AIX, Windows and Solaris. • Databases MariaDB, Postgres, MySql Master-Master Replication, SQL, Arora, RDS • Managed systems SOP and policies. Managed OLA and SLA with application owners. • CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitLab, Github CI, Version control systems (Git) • Container orchestration: Docker, Podman, AWS EKS, Kubernates, OpenShift • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, AliBaba, VMware, Digital Ocean, RackSpace

Executive System Administrator

Zong 4G • Full time

Feb 2017 - Jun 2021 • 4 yrs 4 mos

 Managed frontend application servers of the production databases on Solaris/AIX/Linux systems.  Manging Huawei Storage 18500 v3, Dorado 6000 v3  Installation and configuration of Huawei SNS 2244  Installation and configuration of Huawei RH1288, RH2288, RH5885, E9000 Chassis, Blade CH242  Storage's provisioning and creation of new backup polices  Manage and monitor Oracle Hardware M9000, T4-4 and T5-4 with creation of LDOMS  Manage IBM System x3550 M4, DS8000 Storage, P590 and P595  Solaris, AIX, REDHAT Linux OS health check  Handling OS related queries from end users along with providing support internal IT users and support vendors for smooth and efficient operation.  Migration of VMware VMs to Amazon Server Migration Service.  Amazon Cloud Administration (EC2, S3, Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling, Route 53, SMS, AMI, RDS)  Installation and configuration VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7  Managing Vaeem Backup for VMware VMs  Manage backup and restoration activities for disaster recovery strategy for all of the systems  Performance monitoring and system administration of High Availability cluster Unix/Linux servers on cross-platform hardware of Sun Sparc and x64 machines based on CLI tools, Syslog, SolarWinds NMS  Linux RedHat Cluster Configuration  SAN switches deployment and integration with Storage and performing day to day operation regarding servers and storage's  New data warehouse of Teradata complete hardware deployment and initial configuration performed key role in this project and prepare new environment for DB migration on new servers