Ahmed El-Tahir

UNIX, LINUX & IT Infrastructure Data Center Virtualization SME & Consultant
10 years of experience in System, Database & Storage Administration for data centers in enterprise environments. Physical & Virtual
servers platforms. | DevOps | IaaS | Cloud Ops | IaC | Automation | Configuration Management. Exposed to public cloud e.g AWS, Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure. Worked for Telecommunication vendors, Government sectors and Consultant roles for Projects and Solutions in
SDLC, Agile Scrum Management and ITIL. Experienced in production systems and L3 support.

WORK EXPERIENCE
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Senior Oracle Solaris UNIX SME
+1 438-880-9383 IBM Managed Service - Bell Canada
09/2018 – 09/2019 Montreal, Canada
Achievements/Tasks
450 Racine Ave, Montreal,
Provided day-to-day operational support and system administration to +1000 Bell production
Canada
servers.
Performed successful security OS patching of Solaris 8,9,10 and 11 OS in planned changes
linkedin.com/in/ahmedeltahir accommodating all Bell Canada business application in coordination with SDMs, Application
owners and users.
amieltahir_86 Performed Oracle VM Sparc Logical domain migrations between Physical domain and re-point
virtual disks in the shared storage. Worked on SAN upgrade activities and assured multi-pathing
health from Solaris OS MPxIO.
github.com/amieltahir
Installed and maintained VERTIAS Volume Manager(VxVm), Cluster(VCS) & Dynamic Multi-
path(VxDMP)
SKILLS Provisioned new SAN LUNs, added disks to VxVM, created disk groups and extend or avail VxFS
to accomodate space requests for Oracle database needs in the business apps.
Oracle VM SPARC Troubleshooted and maintained Oracle Solaris ZFS, storage pools, snapshots and clones and
UFS. Replaced server’s disk drives, CPU, memory and external storage.

Redhat Linux Ansible Performance Monitoring, resolving network issues & Tuning the system using tools such as top,
iostat , vmstat, netstat, nfsstat, truss, sar, ndd, ithtool, Dtrace, Strace.
Built and installed new environments for production, development and test phases for business
Docker needs.
Managed Image Packaging System(IPS) and Boot Environments (BE), Troubleshoot Solaris 11
Elastic Search SMF Services, IP Multi-path, Syslog. Process Priority and Execution.
Configured and maintained Oracle Sparc VM domains. Non global zones and branded zones

Puppet Kubernetes
Data Center Operations (DCO) System Analyst LINUX/UNIX/AIX
Oracle Cloud Ministry of Government and Consumer Services - Ontario Public Service
Infrastructure 01/2018 – 09/2018 Toronto, Canada
Achievements/Tasks
System Administration of a huge farm of physical and virtual RHEL 5, 6 and 7 servers - Solaris 9,
AWS Services 10 and 11 hosting government production systems and applications.
Responsible of Device Activation and Readiness - Building systems and configure them as per
Solaris 9/10/11 customer need to go green and live for production.
Configured Single Sign On for newly built servers and managed system identity.
Oracle Autonomous Performed system migrations from Physical to Virtual (P2V) - rehost applications, storage and
Database network configurations in the new target environment.
Performed Network installations Kickstart (Redhat Linux) and Jumpstart (Solaris 10),
Automated Installation (Solaris 11)
DevOps CI/CD
Redhat Linux LVM Management, Centralized System Patching.
Participated in Disaster Recovery annual testing between IBM and Ontario Data centers.
Terraform VMware

LANGUAGES
English
Native or Bilingual Proficiency

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LANGUAGES WORK EXPERIENCE
French Linux Engineer & Integrator - Contract
Limited Working Proficiency
Tech Mahindra - Cellwize Managed Service - Bell Canada
11/2016 – 04/2017 Mississauga, Canada

INTERESTS Achievements/Tasks
Involved in PoC stage to implement Self Organized Network solution based on VMware, Linux
Centos, MySQL & Middleware Apache Tomcat Application server.
Reading Sports
Performed System Admin and VM Management in vCenter, vShpere in ESxi 6.xx.
Travel Attended PoC daily and weekly meetings with customer Bell to review and monitor on going
implementation of SON Solution.
IT Couching And Participated in Scrum meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective).
Mentoring Refreshed MySQL schema from test environment into production.
Enforced Security hardening of RHEL/CentOS Server platform, reviewed security scans &
Music enabled software certificates.

System Admin, Oracle DBA for IT and Network departments

Zain Mobile Group
10/2011 – 10/2016 Khartoum, Sudan
Achievements/Tasks
System Administration under UNIX/LINUX/Windows, SAN and NAS external storage for
Network Management Systems (NMS) for different vendors e.g Ericsson & Huawei.
Responsible of Fault, Configuration & Performance Management in Ericsson OSS-RC solution to
manage 2G, 3G and 4G networks.
Managed Software and Hardware roll out of Huawei U2000 products for Mobile Network and
Transmission.
Responsible of hardware platforms e.g SUN Sparc & HPE blade servers in three data centers.
Performed Database Administration for Oracle 9i/10g/11g backend production database for
charging and billing, enterprise, data warehouse business units.
Managed clustered data services e.g Oracle RAC and monthly database maintenance and index
partitioning. Performance Tuning and Memory Optimzation
Managed Backup & Recovery e.g RMAN, NetWorker, Netbackup, User Managed..etc

Application Operation & Support Engineer

International Turnkey Systems (Huawei Telecom Integrated Services)
08/2009 – 09/2011 Khartoum,Sudan
Achievements/Tasks
L3 Application Support for Telecom Administration & Billing Solution (TABS)
Run shell scripts under UNIX and LINUX.
Managed Billing Provisioning module to activate business commands towards Network
Exchange.
Responded to change requests to deploy application functions from dev to prod environment.
End to End support for online billing processes and CRM modules in TABS.

EDUCATION
B.Sc in Information Technology - Faculty of Math & Computer Science
University Of Khartoum, Khartoum - Sudan
12/2003 – 07/2008

REFERENCES
Professional and interpersonal references and testimonials are available in Linkedin.

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