Tariq Ghouri

 Managing a team of five professionals who are catering several areas of IT department.  Application Deployment on Micro Services (Kubernetes and Docker) and on Public and Private Clouds.  Administration and Management: • Google Workspace For Business - Formerly G Suite • Internal Infrastructure and Data Center • Ubiquiti UniFi Network • Jira and GitHub • Cpanel, Domain and DNS on GoDaddy

 Setup DR site using Azure Site Recovery.  Infrastructure Automation through Terraform.  Prepare Technical Documents/SOP’s and performed mini Deployments for Proof of Concept on Azure.  Provide trainings to the Corporate Customers on Microsoft Azure Fundamentals and Administrator Associate.  Provisioned custom OS images using Hashicorp Packer and deployed through Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline.  Designed Network Diagrams and Azure Landing Zone for secure On-Premises to Cloud Migration.

 Managed Microsoft Hyper V Architecture in a 24/7 Mission Critical Production Environment.  Configure, Managed and Upgraded Microsoft Hyper V Failover Cluster 2016 from Windows Failover Cluster 2012 R2 (Production and DR).  Implemented and Managed Microsoft SCVMM 2016.  Replication of Servers from On-Premises to Azure, HA, Clustering & Load Balancing.  Dell Blade and Chassis Server Hardware Management through iDRAC and CMC.  Perform Quarterly DR Drills.

 Managed 10 Hyper-V 2012, 2012 R2 Failover Clusters (Enterprise Production and DR).  Managed VM Storage Migrations, VM Live Migrations and Replications of 500+ VMs.  Data Center Management.  Build Hyper-V 2012 R2 Failover Clusters.  Storage Management.  Tier I and Tier II Level support for Virtual Server related queries in a 24/7 Environment.  Active Participant in International and Domestic Servers DR Drill.  IBM Chassis and Blade Server Hardware Management.

 IT Asset, Incident, Change/Release and Capacity Management.  Planning the IT budget, attaining modest prices from suppliers, to acquire cost value.  Mentor Technical Education to the staff, to achieve Team Development.  Design and Implemented models for Scaling, HA & Performance in IT Infrastructure.  Monitoring, Optimization, Patch Management and System Performance Improvements of Server Resources.  Support OASIS ERP, Follett Asset/Library Management System and BlueWave Swift School System.

 Backup of Critical Systems via Symantec Backup Exec 2010/2012.  Setup and Administration of Microsoft, Vmware and Citrix Virtualized Infrastructure.  Deployment of Microsoft SCCM 2012 with WSUS & Forefront Endpoint Protection.  Networking - Cable Rack Management/ Tagging/ Rack Mounting Server.  High End Linux/Windows Server Configuration, Support & Maintenance.  DR and Backup policy implementation.  Data Centers Management, Strategic Planning according to International Policies and Standards.

 Management of SLA/OLA of Systems in the Lab.  Configured & Manage Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 Server.  Troubleshoot network, systems and applications to provide user smooth IT operations.  Operational support to the senior network administrator and systems analyst as required.  Installation, maintenance and support of all applications, systems and communication software.

 Installation, Configuration, Administration and Support of SUSE Linux Servers/Desktops  Analyze the customer requirements and suggest Feasible Technology Options.  Setup and maintain Samba servers as Corporate Clients File Servers  Deploy & Administration of PlateSpin Forge, Protect & Migrate (Novell’s DR Product)  Writing Shell Scripts and Algorithms for backup and data replication.  Plan and Setup VMware Infrastructure through VMware vCenter.