Ahmed Haniff

Experience

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  T-Systems

  Sept 1997 - Sept 2005

  Systems Administrator

  My duties at T-Systems as a systems administrator included.• WIndows Server admistrator• Oracle DBA• AIX system administration• Veritas Netbackup adminstrator

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  IBM

  Sept 2005 - Aug 2006

  AIX Technical Specialist

  My duties as a Technical Specialist at IBM included the following,• Implement and support manage IBM Power hardware for ABSA

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  Standard Bank Group

  Sept 2006 - now

  • Define Objectives/Features for teams• Ensure feature delivarbles• Involved in procurement process• Define strategy • Work allocations for members of the team• Capacity monitoring• Decisions around strategic tools e.g monitoring, automation• Solutions Design and architect• RHEL system administration• Manage risks, issues, and develop remediation plans.• Analyze numbers, trends, and data to drive new strategies and streamline & automate processes.• Ability to formally report on findings in a concise, understandable way.• Responsible for providing line of sight to data quality and gaps where issues need to be addressed.• Assist with managing team delivery commitments and helping to remove enterprise and escalated impediments.• Manage several concurrent projects of varying priority and complexity, across multiple teams and multiple business divisions. • Prioritising stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy• Assist backlog management, iteration planning, and grooming of the user stories• Identify technical requirements and translate to adequate technical stories• Make things happen without frequent management direction and know when to communicate status or escalate issues to their manager, teammates or stakeholders.• Works at my best in a high-profile environment with fluid priorities, ambiguity and extremely aggressive deadlines.• Ensuring the team produces continual and on-time delivery of value.• Drive root cause analysis of production issues and identify resolution and preventative steps.• Mentor junior team-mates to define and implement detailed measurement data, error logging/tracking for all products within our domain Show less My position as a Technical Consultant at SBSA includes •Liaison to Products and Services for IBM Power infrastructure•Design, Implement and support manage IBM Power hardware•Design, Implement and manage IBM Power infrastructure for SAP and other applications•Problem determination•Design, install, configure and support AIX LPARS•Configure and maintain NIM severs and HMC’s•Setup and support procedures•Vendor liaison •Technical resource for AIX on all SAP projects•Check out new technology•Performance and system tuning•Management feedback•Install and configure 3rd part software including netcool, patrol•System Automation using scripting•Skills transfer to junior personnelSystem Automation•DevOpsChef Automation Show less

  • Product Owner

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Technical Consultant

    Sept 2006 - now
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  Standard Bank South Africa

  Jan 2016 - now

  Solutions Designer

  Defining standards and procedures Bridging GAPS between solutions design, operations and developersDefining operations work flows for same day servicesEnterprise Account ExperienceOpen SourceLinuxSolutions DesignWork on Enterprise systems