Waheed Syed

Experience

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  CSC

  Jul 2012 - Sept 2015

  Professional 1: Unix System Administrator

   Unix System Administration, implementation and maintenance of various day-to-day Linux operations. Installation and handling of RHEL, OEL and CentOS Servers. Handled various OS related tasks like User management, LVM, Disk management, Patch Management, Multipathing, OS Hardening & Vulnerability fixes, performance troubleshooting etc. Worked with DC team for hardware administration tasks like disk replacement, Power Supply unit replacement, add/remove memory modules, System board replacement and firmware upgrade tasks. Join Change control meetings, RCA meetings for P1/P2s, work on incidents and service orders, Annual Audits and elevated access checks. Implementation of Password Vaults for Root and elevated Userids using Dell’s Quest One Privileged Password Management(TPAM) Worked on various projects like Server builds of RHEL 6.x servers, setting up password vaults and integration of Dell’s QAS authentication services application on Unix servers for migrating local users to AD, Installation and remediation of Symantec’s CSP agent for host detection and intrusion prevention. Show less

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  IBM

  Sept 2015 - Oct 2017

  System Integration Engineer

  ➢ Integration Engineer role – Performing the tasks of updating systems, validating system integration procedures, and managing the entire life cycle of the system. ➢ Install, Configure, maintain and administer Linux/Unix operating systems and components. ➢ Responsible for maintaining Linux on bare metal servers viz. Dell PowerEdge and HP Blade servers as well as virtual servers running on VMware and RHEV. ➢ Day to day system administration tasks. ➢ Performing OS Health-checks and remediation, Remediate Security & compliance issues. Evaluating the performance of the systems and taking necessary actions as required. ➢ Assisting Application, Middleware, Database teams in installation and administration of their products respectively. ➢ Work with DataCenter team for hardware administration tasks like disk replacement, Power Supply unit replacement, add/remove memory modules, System board replacement and firmware upgrade tasks. ➢ Join Change control meetings, RCA meetings for P1/P2s, work on incidents and service orders. Show less

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  Salesforce

  Oct 2017 - now

  System Security Engineer

   Responsible for end to end management of security stack of servers with RHEL/CentOS 6.x and 7.x and few Oracle Linux running on physical hardware and as cloud instances on AWS. Maintain RSA servers and token/user accounts for two-factor authentication on Linux systems. Use of configuration management and version control tools like puppet and git/svn respectively for managing system security configuration. Administer Kerberos and NIS environment for user authentication and authorization. Manage and troubleshoot user authentication issues. AWS IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implement MFA to provide additional security to AWS account and its resources. Show less