Senior Systems Administrator

 

Senior Systems Administrator

IT Valley

The Arab Republic of Egypt


 Join Date: Nov 15th, 2006 to July 13th, 2008


Technical Department: duties as a Team Leader and Tivoli Specialist:

  • Information gathering for company clients and communicate with customers and end-users to identify customers’ needs.
  • Design small, medium and high-End IBM solutions for clients from both the public and private sectors.
  • Leading the team members through cooperation to solve customers’ problems and reports to the IT operations manager.
  • Implementing new technologies and deployment IBM Tivoli products on Multi-Platforms (Win2000 SP4, Win2003, AIX.5.2-5.3, RedHat x) a heterogeneous environment:

o   Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9.

o   Tivoli Risk Manager 4.2.

o   IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Versions (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4).

  • Providing Business Continuity plans (High Availability, Continuous operations, and Disaster Recovery) using IBM software/Hardware technology.
  • Online backup for different servers (Data Base, Mail, etc.).
  • Administer, monitor and backup data for the company’s IT environment.
  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of:

o   Small heterogeneous systems (win/Linux) networks.

o   LAMP (Linux, Apache, MYSQL, and PHP).

o   Firewalls and proxy.

o   Mail, FTP, and web servers.

o   Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and NFS.

·       Testing, monitoring and reporting systems components performance issues.

·       Preparing technical monthly/weekly/daily reports and technical statistics.

·       Test and recommend hardware and equipment for operations.

·       Test applications and file conversions readiness for distribution via email and via internet/intranet.

·       Write systems documentation and handover information regarding software updates and hardware/software troubleshooting.

·       Coordinate with Internet Service Providers to maintain the company Internet Connections.

·       Administer production, pre-production, and test IT environment.

·        Implement software testing on the pilot environment.

·       Supervision and training of employees in use of software applications.      

·       Maintain IT infrastructure for development teams on heterogeneous systems (Windows, Linux) and different programming languages (Java, .net, Ajax, C, C++) and different databases such as Oracle, MYSQL, and MSSQL.

·       Implement Security Policies for operating systems and network.

·       Implementation of intrusion detection systems, operating Systems updates, Risk Analysis and Network Traffic monitoring.

·       Implementation of (VPN) Virtual Private Network, (PKI) Public Key Infrastructures, Digital Certificates, (SSL) Secure Socket Layer, (LDAP) Light Weight Access Protocol.

Our customers in Egypt:

Petrobel, Naser City – RASHPETCO, El-Maady – Egyptian Learning Resource Centre, EL KASR ELEINI, Nugoom FM) and many other customers

In the Training Department: IBM Trainer & Facilitator:

·       Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 (Operation, Implementation, Administration).

·       Tivoli Storage Manager 5.4 Implementation and administration (part I, II)

·       Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9.

·       Tivoli Risk Manager 4.2.

·       IBM Tivoli NetView 7.1.

Our customers:

(EGYPT “IBM Egypt, TEdata…”) (Saudi Arabia “SBM Saudi Business Machine”) (Kuwait “KBM Khorafi Business Machine”) and many other governmental clients.