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Ramy Mohamed Reda AbdElAziz

Expert Engineer at Etisalat Global Services (ADNOC Private Cloud)

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Work Experience

  • Expert EngineerFull Time

    Etisalat Global Services (ADNOC Private Cloud)

    Dec 2022 - Present -2 yrs, 7 months

    United Arab Emirates , Abu Dhabi

    • Job Details:- Manage, Monitor, Operate, Optimize & Improve ADNOC Private Cloud (Main & DR) operations including Vmware infrastructure, 200 VxRail, NSX-V, NSX-T, SRM, 500 TB vSAN, Upgrades and Backup operations. - Migrate ADNOC subsidiaries to HQ including prepare VMs, NSX FW rules, replication and Backup. - Manage NSX-V for Network and Security configuration in Private Cloud. - Configure, Monitor and troubleshoot backup environment using Rubrik. - Follow ITIL service management and maintain SLA for Incidents, Changes and Requests to ensure optimizing service management value and operation.
  • Alex Bank

    • IT Team Leader (DC, VMware, Storage, Backup)Full Time

      Dec 2020 - Dec 2022 -2 yrs

      Egypt , Cairo

      • Job Details:- Manage, Monitor, Operate, Optimize & Improve Alexbank data Centers (Main, HA & DR) operations including DataCenter management (operations, physical and environmental controls), Cloud migrations, implementation and maintenance to ensure secure, reliable and highly available information systems that can properly resist and recover from failures. - Maintain Incident Management controls to ensure a minimum business impact and manage changes and escalations to improve service levels by doing measurements of problem and change management activities in compliance with predefined SLA to ensure optimal operations of all IT infrastructure resources & capabilities. - Transformation for Alexbank DC to VMware VCF using HCI VxRail nodes with NSX-T for overlay and firewall security and VRLI (Log Insight), VROPS (Operation Manager), vIDM (Identity Manager) to integrate with LDAP and SDDC (Software Defined Data Center). - Manage projects and IT initiatives on time within budget and keep stakeholders updated on progress timelines, risks and cost. - Mentoring staff and manage with HR training plans for team members to raise capabilities of team.
    • Senior Storage & Backup AdministratorFull Time

      Jun 2016 - Nov 2020 -4 yrs, 5 months

      Egypt , Cairo

      • Job Details:- Design & Deployment of Dell EMC Storages, Engine and Director, Frontend and Backend ports layouts, Hardware installations, Firmware upgrades and RAID configurations for EMC Vmax250F. - Perform yearly DR switchovers (failover, fallback) configurations with RecoverPoint, IBM SVC Remote Copy and test DR working for 1 week. - Storage Space Management Data Reduction, Inline Compression, Deduplication and Encryption. - SAN Administration for Brocade SAN Directors, FCIP Routers GUI and scripting. - Backup Administration including backup media retentions, Offsite media transfer and NetBackup AIR.
  • Senior Storage & Backup AdministratorFull Time

    Etisalat Misr

    Feb 2016 - Jun 2016 -4 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:- Lead, Manage & Supervise Etisalat Misr Storage Infrastructure Operations under multiple platforms “1.3PB” (EMC Vmax-20k, VNX 7600, 5700, 5500, VPLEX, IBM SVC, Flash Systems, Oracle ZFS & Huawei OceanStore) by working closely with business to fulfill projects & demands. - Saved 100K$ of support renew by Migrating EMC CX3&4 to VNX 5400 under EMC VPLEX (more than 400 LUNs) virtualized then migrated including host based, Datastores, RDM and VMFS migrations. - Saved 55K$ CAPEX & freed capacity by optimizing storage boxes (Freed up 50TB - 600 LUNs). - Reduce time to resolve problems after Implementing EMC SRM End-2-End monitoring & reporting tool for Etisalat Misr infrastructure. - Analyzing performance tuning and troubleshooting of all DELL, IBM, Huawei and Oracle storage.
  • Vodafone Egypt

    • Storage & Backup AdministratorFull Time

      Jun 2013 - Feb 2016 -2 yrs, 8 months

      Egypt , Cairo

      • Job Details:- Managed “1.8PB” of storage from multiple vendors & tiers (EMC Vmax20k, Vmax10k, VNX5700, 5500, 5400, CX4, CX3, Data Domain DD4500F, Oracle ZFS, IBM SVC, Flash Systems, HP Store Once). - Operated enterprise back-up solutions (Symantec NetBackup 7.6, EMC Avamar, Networker, CA Arcserve 16.5). - Migrated “130 TB” EMC CX4 to VNX5500 for “31 Systems” including storage design, installation & migrations using host-based disk mirroring, VMware storage motion & backup/restore. - Virtualized storage boxes using EMC VPLEX (part of Virtual DC mega project) to simplify management & prepare for DC virtualization. - Implement Low-Cost Backup CA Arcserve & HP StoreOnce VTL to save OPEX license for non-critical systems. - Online SAN Migration for 4 out of support switches to 2 SAN Directors to consolidate switches & reduce OPEX of support renewal by creating SAN Zoning, LUN masking and SAN administration. - Maintain Replication technologies, SRDF replications, SRDF Consistency groups, SRDF pairs, Local and remote using SRDF and Dell EMC Recover Points.
    • Systems Administrator – InfrastructureFull Time

      Jul 2012 - Jun 2013 -11 months

      Egypt , Cairo

      • Job Details:- Manage Infrastructure (HP C7000, Blade servers G6 ,7, 8 & virtual connect). - Operate VMWARE vCenter, ESXi virtual environment. - Maintain availability of servers to 99.9%.

    Education

    • BSc of Electronics And Electrical Communications in Engineering

      Cairo University (CU)

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2009 - 5 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      Al Thuraya

      Jan 2004 

    Skills

    • Active Directory
    • Microsoft Windows
    • MCITP Enterprise Admin
    • MCITP Exchange Admin 2010
    • Technology
    • Information Technology (IT)
    • MCITP DataBase Admin 2K8
    • Windows Server
    • CCNA

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • MCITP DataBase Administrator on SQL 2008

      Microsoft·2012
    • MCITP Messaging Administrator on Exchenage 2010

      Microsoft·2011
    • MCITP Enterprise Administrator on Server 2008

      Microsoft·2011
    • Bussiness Plan

      Cairo University·2008
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