Naseraldain AlKhawaldeh
Summary
- Highly skilled in IBM AIX and IBM Power Systems Administration, performance Tuning and troubleshooting.
- Experienced in implementation and troubleshooting RedHat and other Linux Operating Systems with RHCSAV8 and RHCEv8 certifications.
- Experience in implementation openshift container platform with best practices and security perspective.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills.
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills.
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr.Digital platform
Qatar national bank
05.2024 - Current
- Coordinated multi-disciplinary teams for successful project completion within set deadlines.
- Implemented microservices architecture to improve system reliability and scalability.
- Assured optimal system performance through regular auditing, monitoring, and necessary modifications.
- Quickly learned and applied new skills to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Analyses complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.
- Maintained high availability of infrastructure through enterprise-wide planning, testing, implementation and support.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of the Openshift platform
- Monitor and optimize cluster performance
- Implement security best practices within the cluster
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within the Openshift environment
- Collaborate with development teams for seamless application deployment
- Document procedures and provide training to team members
- Conduct regular backups and disaster recovery operations
- Manage the container platform ecosystem (installation, upgrade, patching, monitoring)
- Managing and install apache web servers using ssl mtls
- Responsible for implementation and configuration IBM cloudpak for integration using openshift (API connect, APP connect,Datapower). will implement for DR setup using configsysnc to ensure DR site up to date.
- Manage and provide support for IBM Business Automation installation and configuration for openshift platform
- configure and implement highly available Redis instance configuration using master/Slave and sharding for best caching performance.
- Managing Team and review KPI monthly to ensure best delivery and commit to projects plan.
- perform IBM MQ required support and configure File Transfer .
- perform required Openshift platform update and upgrade.
SME AIX/LInux
Kyndrl-AlRajhi Bank
12.2023 - 05.2024
- Demonstrated effective management skills in overseeing more than 20 IBM power machines (E880, P980, E1080) and maintaining a large number of AIX/Linux LPARs.
- Ensure stability , security and high performance by planning for deploying OS patching and upgrade outdated OS version regarding AIX/redhat to address all VA
- Conducted thorough analysis of system performance and offered suggestions for improvement.
- Enhanced critical services' performance and stability through the installation and configuration of three IBM P1080 machines.
- Planning and deploy IBM spectrum scale (GPFS) with mirroring future for DR site to be replaced by using NFS share filesystem for critical workload in order to enhance IOPS and high availability
- Executed assessments, plans, and configurations for Redhat Satellite with three capsule servers at multiple locations resulting in an enhanced approach to patching, fixes deployment, and monitoring of Redhat servers.
- Optimized workload through the integration of improved monitoring tools Grafana and LPAR2rrd, ensuring effective measurement of performance metrics and allocation of resources.
- Implemented POC for installation and configuration of OpenShift container platform on IBM Power, showcasing strong abilities in leveraging this technology
- Collaborated with team to deliver round-the-clock assistance in maintaining optimal functionality of bank services.
Sr. AIX/Linux/Storage Solution Engineer
Capital Bank of Jordan
07.2022 - 12.2023
- Responsible for administrate IBM POWER machine (E1080,E870,E950.S824) and IBM Storages (V7200 Hyper Swap,FS5200) and prepare capacity and performance reporting
- Planning for Storage and LPAR Migration using LPM with recommended and best Practices for fibre and Network adapter
- Implement Red hat Satellite solution for Patch Management and centralized compliance scanning according to customized CIS benchmarks .
- Prepare remediation plan for close Vulnerability
- IBM enhance RBAC implementation to provide admin users required and right permissions and privileges
- Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Provided and promoted solutions to eliminate reoccurring problems.
- Followed daily production schedules for organized and on-time deliveries.
- Provided input on hardware and software purchasing, prioritizing return on investment to optimize IT spending.
- Designed disaster recovery systems, enabling continuity in event of power outages.
- Tuned system performance to optimize efficacy of new and existing hardware components.
- Planned and implemented upgrades to system hardware and software.
- Analyses complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.
- Devised scripts and automation tools to improve system efficiency.
- perform AIX NIM and IBM PowerSC implementation and installation.
- IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) implementation and configuration according to IBM best practices.
- Responsible for Managing CAPX/OPEX and budgeting for next year and present it to IT-Director
Sr. AIX/Linux System Administrator
Arab Bank, Red hat
09.2021 - 07.2022
- Responsible for configuring, managing, and troubleshooting RedHat Linux servers (8,7), with all required agents and security policies using Ansible playbooks
- Install and configure Ansible core 2.9 and managed host to automate administration tasks
- Responsible for OS hardening in line with CIS compliance for all RedHat servers and automating compliance scanning using Open Scap with Redhat satellite according to Arab bank policy
- Administrate and upgrade RedHat Satellite for Patch Management, Host Management, compliance management, and package installation using Remote execution
- Clustering installation and configuration : pacemaker, HA-LVM and shared LVM , managing resources and resources group
- Responsible for administrate, install, upgrade AIX7.1,7.2 servers
- NIM installation and configuration for automate creating Mksysb backup images
- Using IBM-PowerSC to applying security controls for AIX and for patching
- System mirror V7 (HACMP) , installation and configuration
- Using LPM to migrate LPAR from E880 to E980
- Spectrum scale V5 installation and configuration with best practices
System Engineer
Securities Depository Center
09.2017 - 09.2021
- Responsible for administrate IBM Power Machines P770 ,P822 ,P550 and upgrading servers firmware
- AIX (6.1,7.1,7.2) installation ,administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning , upgrade and migration
- perform GPFS spectrum scale v5 installation, configuration and troubleshooting
- Applying systems security polices according to company policies and procedures
- Administrate and configure EMC VNX 5400 storages with Vplex metro clustering: create initiator, create
- Storage pool, storage view, and virtual volume and mirrored volumes
- Configure distributed storage devices with VPlex storages clustering for active/active services in Main and HA site
- Administrate CICSO MDS 900 SAN switches: create aliases, zoning and zone set with high availability concepts
- Red hat (6,7,8) installation and configuration and troubleshooting (LVM, Apache, SQL, SVN, DNS..keepalived,HAproxy )
- VIOS installation and administration with (power path) VSCSI, NPIV, SEA and link aggregation according to IBM recommendation
UNIX system officer
Housing Bank for Trade and financial
01.2014 - 08.2017
- Housing Bank for Trade and Financial
- Administered multiple IBM machines running pSeries
- Hardware (P690, P550, P570, P595, P770, P820, E880)
- Responsible for Installation, Migration, Configuration, support and Troubleshooting of IBM AIX 6/7 servers
- User Management - Creating, maintaining, and removing users and groups
- Security settings on user accounts and groups
- File system and Volume Group management and administration
- Managing the CRON tab utility to schedule various
- System admin tasks
- Hands-onon Experience in TCPIP and knowledge of all
- AIX related network issues
- Performing daily health checks of all supported servers and taking steps proactively if any findings observed
- System administration including system updates, performance monitoring, backup (Clone)/recovery, disk & storage management
- Create, Administrate and manage LPAR using HMC
- Configuring Dual HMC with redundancy and high availability managing users and permissions, software, startup and shutdown, remote access features, network configuration and private network configuration
- Installed and Configured Dual VIOS with High availability (VSCSI,SEA, NPIV)
- Experience in Shell scripting to automate system administration jobs
- TSM client installation, upgrade and configuration, and restore backup
- HACMP (system mirror 7.2) planning and configuration
- GPFS 3.5 Clustering installation, configuration, and
- Monitoring.
IT administrator
Amman, BunatAlghad Academy
12.2012 - 01.2014
- Maintain and administer computer networks,including computer hardware, systems software,applications software, and all configurations
- Support for all kind of IT Issues, Including Windows
- Servers 2008 R2, Network Infrastructure, Computers,
- Projectors
- Active Directory Migration from 2003 to 2008 R2
- OU management - new company, department creation Usermanagement - Distribution/Security Group(new/change)
- GPO creation - IT Approval needed
- Installation of new hardware and software in accordancewith established policies and procedures
- Coordinate, and implement network securitymeasures in order to protect data, software, andhardware
- Installing hardware and software systems
- Configuring computer networks
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Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Al-Balqa Applied University
Skills
- AIX/Linux/RedHat/RedHat Satellite
- RedHat OpenShift container platform
- IBM cloud pak for integration
- IBM CloudPak for Business Automation
- Tuning and solid troubleshooting
- Virtualization
- Team Work
- Ansible automation ,shell scripting
- Solution testing and implementation
- IBM PowerHA IBM Spectrum Scale
Languages
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
English
Professional Working
Timeline
Sr.Digital platform
Qatar national bank
05.2024 - Current
SME AIX/LInux
Kyndrl-AlRajhi Bank
12.2023 - 05.2024
Sr. AIX/Linux/Storage Solution Engineer
Capital Bank of Jordan
07.2022 - 12.2023
Sr. AIX/Linux System Administrator
Arab Bank, Red hat
09.2021 - 07.2022
System Engineer
Securities Depository Center
09.2017 - 09.2021
UNIX system officer
Housing Bank for Trade and financial
01.2014 - 08.2017
IT administrator
Amman, BunatAlghad Academy
12.2012 - 01.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Al-Balqa Applied University
https://jo.linkedin.com/in/nasser-alkhawaldeh
Certificates
- RedHat Certified Specialist in Linux Diagnostic and Troubleshooting
- Redhat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- Redhat Certified system Administrator (RHCSA)
- Redhat Certified Openshift Administrator
- RedHat Certified Specialist in Deploymnet and Systems Maanagment.
- IBM Storage Scale Remote Data Access
- IBM Storage Scale Administrator
- IBM PowerHA Administrator
- ITIL Foundation
- IBM Certified system Administrator AIX V1
- MCITP:Enterprise Administrator on Windows server 2008
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