Adeel Akhtar

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ADEEL AKHTAR Sr. Configurations Engineer House No.3, Street No.3 New Olympic Park Lahore, Punjab,-- 8 years of strong experience as a LINUX/UNIX System Administrator and Production Support of various applications, expertise in building Servers, Configuration of different services and optimizing mission critical deployments in large environments, leveraging configuration management Work History 2018-08 - Current Sr. DevOps Engineer IPS Process Solutions • Interact with cross functional teams across the enterprise to collaborate on complex technical initiatives related to SCM, Release Engineering and ensure high quality in delivering stable builds • Performs and manages software builds and releases to QA, Review and Production • Ansible Implementation and creating playbooks for different tasks • Kubernetes related troubleshooting and Implementing custom parameter based HPA scaling in it using Prometheus • Integrates fixes and product enhancements into the code repository • Provides maintenance and support for tools managed by the SCM department, including writing and maintaining custom integrations • Track dependencies across components and different tasks • Ensure high quality in delivering stable builds • Experience with container technologies on local environment (Docker) • Implemented Software's and Services on QA, Review and Production • Deploy and maintain infrastructure hosted in the cloud, Datacenter and research and implement changes to increase site reliability and help us operate more efficiently • Introduced Nagios monitoring systems and monitor metrics and develop ways to improve, ELK implemented in production for logging critical data. • Created Plenty of new plugins and scripts for Nagios as per requirements • Strong Linux administration skills and proficient in automating tasks on Linux systems with a shell scripts . • Identify existing and emerging needs, research and recommend innovative solutions to those needs • May configure system settings and options; plan, manage and execute unit, system, and integration / validation testing to meet business compliance requirements, working with IT team members • NFS Server creation and configuration, Redis Cluster on QA env • Configured Greenbone security assistant and different tools for security testing • Linux Servers and Services Management. • Email Servers configurations, Pfsense firewall • Excellent Knowledge in Web Hosting Control Panels configuration for DNSrecords like MX,DKIM,SPF,DMARC,PTR etc. 2017-08 - 2018-07 System Engineer(DevOps) IPS Solutions, Lahore • Built and maintained network infrastructure consisting of Windows, Linux and virtual products. • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time. • Installed, configured, tested and maintained operating systems, application software and system management tools. • AWS EC2, Security • KVM Virtualization Environment • NFS Server creation and configuration • Asterisks Calling Server and Vicidial creation and configuration. • Windows Servers Management • Email Servers configurations, migration configuring OpenDKIM service • Proficient in Web Hosting Control Panels configuration for DNS-records like MX,DKIM,SPF,DMARC,PTR etc. • SSL Certificates open source and paid one implementation on webservers • MYSQL Database Management, Optimization, Replication and Migration • Nagios, Creating and Modification of Bash Scripts for different services • Productions Servers migration on new hardware and all testing 2016-08 - 2017-07 DevOps Engineer Makesbridge, Lahore • NFS Server creation and configuration. • Productions Servers migration on new hardware and all testing. • Linux Servers and Services Management. • Windows Servers Management. • Managing Cisco switches and Routers. • Webhosting Panel Configuration and hosting multiple websites. • Email Servers configurations, migration configuring OpenDKIM service. . • Excellent Knowledge in Web Hosting Control Panels configuration for DNSrecords like MX,DKIM,SPF,DMARC,PTR etc. • SSL Certificates open source and paid one implementation on webservers. • Strong Troubleshooting skills resolved many production Issues. • MYSQL Database Management, Optimization, Replication and Migration. • Nagios, Creating and Modification of Bash Scripts for different services. • Managing Network and IT Infrastructure, Creating Security Policies, AWS Management, ELB, RDS, Security. • KVM Virtualization Environment Creation & Management, Migration. • Productions Servers migration on new hardware and all testing. • DNS(BIND Server) Installation, Configuration and migration on new hardware. • Building a staging environment that mirrors production as closely as possible. • Linux Servers and Services Management, Logs Management, Logs Monitoring Server(Graylog). • Postfix Servers configurations, migration configuring DKIM service. • Excellent Knowledge in Web Hosting Control Panels configuration for DNSrecords like DKIM,SPF,DMARC etc. • Fully Automated the deployment procedure by creating script. • Strong Troubleshooting skills resolved many production Issues. • MYSQL Database Management, Optimization, Replication and Migration. • Nagios, Creating and Modification of Bash Scripts for different services. • Configuration and migration of Mediawiki: i.e Documentation server. • Managing Network and IT Infrastructure, Creating Security Policies. • VPNs site-to-site and ipsec Fortigate(Fortinet Firewall) and pfsense Firewall Management. 2016-02 - 2016-08 Server Engineer Vopium, Lahore • Administration of linux servers in VMware ESXi, Amazon AWS cloud, Security groups, Elastic IP, Cloud Watch, ELB, S3 etc. • Managing Nagios and Implemented pnp4nagios in production environment, Postfix MTA configuration, scripts for services and logs monitoring through Nagios. • Configured Solarwinds NPM and SAM for linux- servers. • Exploring different open source tools, monitoring servers. • Installation and configuration of HAproxy server for high availability of web services, Monit for services. • Production server's logs management through logrotation, Automated the logs uploading to AWS-S3. • Blocking different kinds of attacks on Vopium-Production Web. • Strictly monitored the servers, stats and cloud infrastructure in 24x7 environment. . • Maintaining Linux Servers and services documentation. 2013-12 - 2016-01 Network Engineer Nexlinx Networks, Lahore • Main responsibilities are Network monitoring, Network maintenance. • Resolving technical issues of WAN, LAN and Wireless network, Fiber network. • Provide support to Mobilink IPTV users and troubleshooting issues. • Providing level 2 technical support to corporate clients. • Installation of Citrix, Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, Splunk, Zenos and Zabbix. • Configuration of PRTG, Solarwinds. • Deployment of chassis, servers, switches, in datacenter and managing racks. • Scheduling visits at client premises for troubleshooting of Mails, Internet issues. • Acronis True Image as windows backup and recovery software. • Installation and configuration of windows server 2003, 2008, 2012. • Monitor performance, system resource utilization. • Different types of satellite dishes commissioning and fine tuning. • Installation and configuration of card reader server for authentications of cards. • Installation of streaming Server. • Resolving day to day issues of channels voice, video etc. Skills Strong in Managing Linux Servers Excellent Designing Monitoring Infrastructre Excellent Code Merging and Deployments Excellent Strong Configurations Skills Excellent Apache, Mysql, Redis, Node Services, Nagios, Pfsense Excellent Good in Troubleshooting Issues Excellent AWS, Azure, DNS records, Web-hosting Very Good Education 2010-08 - 2014-08 Computer Networking And Telecommunications . Preston Institute Of Management Sci And Technology - Lahore • Final year project on " VOIP base IP-PBX Asterisk Server"