H.M Zohaib

Experience

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  Pakistan International Airlines

  Sept 2016 - Oct 2016

  I.T support Engineer

  OS Installation, Basic Configuration of PIA Ticketing System

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  Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB)

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  Junior Quality Assurance

  Worked as Back-end Developer and QA Specialist

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  Huawei

  Jul 2018 - Mar 2023

  Information Technology Infrastructure Team Lead

  • Responsible for end-to-end delivery of IT Projects (Cloud, Server, Storage)• Coordinating and managing all project activities and ensuring project deliverables areachieved as per plan.• Creation and client approval of Design Layout (LLD).• Ensuring hardware orders are progressed in line with team KPI and SLA’s, along withsplitting of equipment into different customer site as per requirements• Hardware Installation of Racks, Server, Storage and Network Switches with Powered-onactivities along with Fiber and Ethernet Connectivity• Basic Configuration of TOR Network SwitchesServer Projects:• Installation of Linux, Euler and windows operating system along with localConfiguration (NIC Configuration, Partitioning, Packages installation) andFirmware upgrade (BIOS,CPLD, IBMC) ActivitiesStorage Projects:• Mid and high-level Storage Configuration along with their Hot Patch upgrade andsoftware upgrade Activities• Hands on experience of SAN and NAS Storages• Brocade and Cisco SAN Switch configuration and AdministrationCloud Projects:• Installation, Configuration, Upgradation and troubleshooting of Huawei FusionCompute (Virtualization) Cloud.• Installation, Configuration, Upgradation and troubleshooting of Huawei FusionAccess (Desktop Solution) Cloud.• Installation, Configuration, Upgradation and troubleshooting of Huawei FusionStorage (Distribution Storage) Cloud.• Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services and windows server 2019administration• AD, DNS and DHCP Configuration along with Group policy management onwindows server 2019• Microsoft WSUS and KMS Configuration• Conduct Hardware and Software UAT of Delivered Project with client• Maintenance of Engineering Project before ETM, including Dimm, HDD, Mother Board,PSU, Front and Back-end Disk Panel Replacement Activities• Created RCA of Incidents and provided to customer as per requirement.• Carry out Engineering to Maintenance (ETM) activities Show less

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  Zong CMPak Ltd

  Mar 2023 - Mar 2024

  Executive Infrastructure Engineer

  • OS Installation and configuration. • Repo Configuration and Package management using YUM & RPM• LVM Management: Creating and managing (PVs), (VGs) &(LVs). • Providing remote support 24/7 at OS-level.• Engaging with RHEL support to discuss & troubleshoot OS-level issues. • Managing and maintaining the entire production environment over 400 + Physical servers.• Creating and configuring VM on Huawei Fusion Compute Virtualization product along with migration and snapshot tasks.• Administration troubleshooting and maintenance of Huawei 2488H V5, 2288H V5, RH5885 V3 Servers, H3C R6700 G6 Servers, Sun Oracle T5-5, T4-4 server along with their firmware upgrade activities.• Administration, troubleshooting and maintenance of Huawei SNS2224 SAN switches and Huawei Dorado 5000 V6, Dorado 6000 V6 Storages along with LUN Provisioning as per requirement.• Daily health Check Reporting of NGBSS CRM & IPCC Servers and Storages. • E-sight NMS Monitoring for NGBSS & CRM Hardware. • Perform weekly data Center visit to monitor hardware alarms on servers and storage.• Weekly meeting with management to explain the progress of new projects. Show less

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  PTCL.Official

  Apr 2024 - now

  Manager Private Cloud Solutions

  SAN and Storage Administration:•Provision Storage to new build and existing Linux, AIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESXI host using UniSphere. Tasks includes creation of initiator/storage group/port groups and creating masking view and mapped to host/host cluster along with new deployment and upgrade activities of UniSphere.•Configuration and management of Broadcom Fabric SAN environment. Tasks include creation of host alias, standard zones, peer zones, adding zones to zone configuration and activating zones.•Implemented SRDF on Enterprise Storages for disaster recovery setup between local and remote data Center.•Administration of NAS Storage systems including creation of file systems, NFS/SMB storage to Linux and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares. •Perform firmware upgrade activities on Storages and SAN Switches.•Created scripts for daily report of SRDF Replication tasks.•Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, Replication, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.VMware Administration:•VMware ESXI 8.0 Host Server Installation, along with VCenter Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration Maintenance.•Managed separate VMware clusters for Development and Production.•Configuring High Availability HA and Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS, Creation of templates.•Involved in creating vSwitches and created different port groups for different purposes.•Performed live migration of Virtual Machines using the vMotion and Storage vMotion between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Data Center.•Extensively worked on VMware Update Manger for Host upgrades and patches.•Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers.•Monitored and managed performance of ESXI servers and Virtual Machines. Show less