Shabaz Akram

Experience

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  Impelsys

  Jan 2011 - now

  I am a professional placed in a leadership position who is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and management of an organization's cloud-based IT infrastructure which involves strategic planning, team management, technology expertise, and collaboration with various stakeholders.1.Cloud Strategy: Develop and execute the organization's cloud strategy, aligning it with overall business objectives.2.Technology Roadmaps: Create technology roadmaps for cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with industry best practices.3.Leadership: Provide leadership and direction to the cloud infrastructure team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.4.Architectural Design: Design scalable, reliable, and secure cloud architectures, considering factors such as availability, performance, and cost.5.Cloud Platforms: Manage relationships with cloud service providers (AWS, Azure) and optimize the organization's usage of cloud services.6.Team Building: Recruit, train, and mentor a team of cloud engineers and architects.7.Compliance Standards: Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with industry-specific regulations and standards (HIPAA, GDPR.).8.Incident Response: Develop and maintain incident response plans for cloud-related security incidents.9.Vendor Relationships: Manage relationships with cloud service providers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring SLA compliance.10.Partnerships: Identify and establish partnerships with technology vendors and solution providers to enhance cloud services.11.Budget Allocation: Allocate budgets for cloud infrastructure projects, monitoring expenditures and ensuring cost-effectiveness.12.Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders, including IT teams, business leaders, and external partners, to understand requirements and provide solutions.13.Disaster Recovery: Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans, ensuring data resilience and minimal downtime in case of failures. Pokaż mniej 1) Upgrade the current environment to maximize auto-recovery and geographically distributed redundancy.2) Simplify architecture to expand use of Amazon Web Services provided applications.3) Improve system monitoring and alerting to improve incident time to resolution while decreasing false positives.4) Improve systems logging and benchmarking in order to fine tune application infrastructure and gain better insight into system issues and performance.5) Work with engineering and application development teams to improve system performance through environment upgrades and improvements.6) Work to decrease hosting costs by using proactive and responsive auto-scaling algorithms and changes to technology solutions.7) Build the operational cloud environment for both production and non-productions environments.8) Update systems to support new development and technology initiatives.9) Incorporate new cloud technology improvements10) Participate in 24/7 on-call support rotation. Pokaż mniej I have a strong knowledge in Linux and Windows system administration.1)Handling Linux server running on LAMP environment.2)Checking server health daily, taking back of Mysql and Code base.3)Managing email servers and email backups.4)Configuration & Troubleshooting DNS / DHCP / FTP / SAMBA / Mysql account / SVN / NFS / SFTP /.5)Knowledge of Vmware / vCenter / Citrix XenCenter / Tape Drive Backup / Fortigate Firewall.6)Manage active directory, domain server and managing Group Policies.7)Hardware/OS Installation and troubleshooting/backup solutions.8)System capacity planning, monitoring server performance and keeping servers resources optimize, managing the server/network.9)Responsible for backup and recovery or automat backup process.10)Work with management to define infra need, coordinate with vendor for hardware/software needs.11)Maintaining setup and configuration documentations.12)Responding help desk tickets via Internal Ticketing System console , email, telephone, or remote desktop tools. Pokaż mniej

  • Associate Director - Cloud Solutions

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Cloud Architect

    Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

  • Lead Cloud Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2020

  • System Administrator

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2016