DHANVEER AHAMED
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SUMMARY:
15+ years’ diverse experience in IT Infrastructure Management, DevOps, Private/Public
Cloud Solutions. Excellent knowledge and rich hands-on experience in Planning,
Designing, Implementation, Migration, Capacity Planning, Upgradation and
Maintenance of Server and Application Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Cloud
Solutions, CI/CD Pipeline Configuration, Server Management and Administration.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
JAN 2023 – TILL DATE
DEVOPS ENGINEER, Vision-Box FZE
DEC 2021 – JAN 2023
SR.LINUX & VIRTUALIZATION CONSULTANT, AlphaData
JUNE 2019 – NOV 2021
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST, HCL Technologies
JANUARY 2017 – JUNE 2019
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER, Computer Network Systems
SEPTEMBER 2015 – DECEMBER 2016
ENGINEER – IT SYSTEMS, Al Fara’a Group
AUGUST 2013 - JULY 2015
ENGINEER – SYSTEMS, Sify Technologies
NOVEMBER 2012 – AUGUST 2013
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER, Zieta Technologies
APRIL 2011 – AUGUST 2012
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, Wipro Limited
DECEMBER 2009 – APRIL 2011
SENIOR SUPPORT ENGINEER, CSS Corp
OCTOBER 2008 – DECEMBER 2009
TECHNICAL SUPPORT EXECUTIVE, Sutherland Global Services
TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS:
CURRENT CERTIFICATIONS:
HASHICORP CERTIFIED TERRAFORM ASSOCIATE 003 – Issued by Hashicorp – valid till 2025
CERTIFIED KUBERNETES ADMINISTRATOR – Issued by Linux Foundation – valid till 2026 – Certificate # LF4dormg2cp1
CERTIFIED KUBERNETES APPLICATION DEVELOPER – Issued by Linux Foundation – valid till 2027 – Certificate # LFqd3a2rs0nc
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED: AZURE ADMINISTRATOR ASSOCIATE - MCID:- – Valid till Jan 2023
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED: AZURE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT EXPERT - MCID:- – Valid till August 2022
EXPIRED CERTIFICATIONS:
RHCE – RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Certificate #:-)
AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT – ASSOCIATE LEVEL - Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect (Certificate # AWS-ASA36489)
VMWARE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL – DATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION in VMware VSphere 6 - Candidate ID:
VMW-L-
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
VIRTUALIZATION
PLATFORM
CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION
SERVER HARDWARE
STORAGE
PUBLIC CLOUD
HYPER CONVERGED SOLUTIONS
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
SCRIPTING
DEVOPS TOOLS
MONITORING TOOLS
WEB SERVERS
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VMware VSphere (5.5, 6.x, 7.x), Hyper-V
RedHat Enterprise Linux (5, 6, 7, 8), Sun Solaris (5.10, 5.11), Windows Server
Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift
HPE, Dell, Cisco UCS
Dell EMC ECS, NetApp, HPE 3Par
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure
Dell VxRail, HPE HC250, Nutanix
HP Server Automation, RedHat Satellite, Ansible, Puppet
Python, Bash, PowerShell
Git, Jenkins, Build Tools (Maven), Quay, Clair, Packer, Terraform
ELK Stack, Grafana, Graphite
Apache, Nginx, Microsoft IIS
Roles and Responsibilities
➢ Install, Configure, Test and Maintain Operating Systems, Business Applications and System Management Tools
➢ Performing Proactive Daily Health Checks and raising cases with vendors to fix Hardware and Software Issues.
➢ Participating in Migration of VMs from On Premises to Public Cloud and participated in Design and Implementation.
➢ Implementing Automation to manage the Infrastructure with Puppet, Terraform, PowerShell and Bash Scripts
➢ Follow ITIL Process Defined by the Organization to handle Incidents, Changes, Problems and Service Requests
➢ Follow CIS Benchmark to implement Security in Linux Environment using Ansible and Windows Environment.
➢ Proactively ensuring the highest levels of Systems and Infrastructure Availability and Security
➢ Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
➢ Provide 2nd and 3rd level support.
➢ Extensive Implementation of LVM, ZFS Pool, Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas File Systems, iSCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS
➢ Preparing and Maintaining Documentation of the Infrastructure which includes Standard Operating Procedures,
Design Documents, Server Inventory, Capacity Planner, Password Vault, Licensing Details and Knowledge Base
➢ Defined Patching Strategy and addressed Security Vulnerabilities with Tight Deadlines.
Major Achievements in various organizations
➢ Implemented ELK Stack in ADIA (Alphadata), which ingests Syslog, Filebeat from all servers in the organization.
➢ Worked on implementing Red Hat Quay and Clair for Azure Red Hat Openshift as POC and Azure Kubernetes
Service for one of the Tier1 Application.
➢ Implemented Central Package Repository Server to eliminate the process of building local repository in all servers
and to avoid to space issues for Solaris Environment for the client Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
➢ Worked on migration of Virtual Machines from On Premises VMware to Microsoft Azure for the client Abu
Dhabi Islamic Bank
➢ Completed Yearly and Quarterly Patching on time for business directed application/database servers for the
Client - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
➢ Worked in various Implementation and POC projects for various clients as a representative of Computer Network
Systems
➢ Designed and Implemented Open-Source Managed File Transfer Solution. Implemented Endpoint Security on the
time of Ransomware Attack for Al Fara’a Group
➢ Migrated All Services hosted on different datacenters to single datacenter with building a DR Site (kept in pipeline)
from Old Hardware (HP DL360) to New Hardware (HP C7000) which involved performing P2V migration, capacity
planning, compatibility planning etc. for Al Fara’a Group
➢ Part of Migration Team and helped in migrating customer data from old storage (HP MSA) to new storage (HP
3PAR) for Sify Technologies
➢ Implemented SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) for Server Monitoring to generate alerts for proactive
measures. Configured Report Generation to help in taking business decisions. Migrated old IIS 4.0 in NT server to
IIS 7.0 (Windows Server 2008) for Ashok Leyland
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