Saddam - Consultant technique VMWARE VSPHERE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since Nov’ 2018 -- Vistaprint, Tunis – Senior System Engineer
As Sr. System Engineer
Role:
• Continuous Monitoring and supporting Vistaprint’s production systems using icinga, Nagios,
Victorops and New Relic
• Operating, developing, maintaining and enhancing monitoring systems and prepare necessary
reports
• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation: Institute infrastructure as
code, monitoring and automation the routine maintenance tasks using PowerShell and Ansible
• Manage, track, report, process, assign and work tickets daily and across shifts
• Perform maintenance, installation, and upgrade related tasks on compute, storage, and network
infrastructure
• Troubleshooting related to ESXi disconnected in vCenter, investigated slow response of vCenter and
vCenter service down issues
• Provide daily infrastructure analysis reports: vCollect Project in GitHub
• Manage, maintain server and creating technical documentation as needed
• Participate in on-call escalations for troubleshooting issues Tier 3

Project Handled:
▪ Upgrade vCenter 6.5 based on windows to VCSA 6.7 with embedded PSC
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Perform a migration and upgrade of vCenter 6.5 windows to VCSA 6.7 U3 in order to get new features
and fix bugs.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Validate the compatibility hardware et software
• Prepare the prerequisites
• Prepare the action plan and Rollback
• Upgrade vCenter to VCSA 6.7 U3
• Upgrade All ESXi Hosts 6.7U3
• Upgrade All vDS to version 6.6.0
• Upgrade All Datastores from version 5 to version 6
• Upgrade VMware Tools and VM Hardware Compatibility using: VUM and PowerShell
• Create a list of documents to Upgrade VMware vSphere (vCenter, Hosts, vDS, Datastores and
VMware-tools/HW compatibility)
TECHNOLOGIES:
• vSphere 6.5, vSphere 6.7 U3
• Windows, Linux

▪ Upgrade windows server 2008 r2 to 2016 Datacenter
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Perform a migration and upgrade of windows server 2008 r2 to windows server 2016 Datacenter.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Validate the compatibility hardware (Physical servers)
• Prepare the prerequisites
• Prepare the action plan and Rollback
• Upgrade the dev, test and prod environments
• Upgrade the physical servers
• Migrate from physical to virtual
• Install and configure the CrowdStrike Falcon agent
TECHNOLOGIES:
• vSphere 6.7 U3, Windows, CrowdStrike Falcon agent
▪ Automate the install of CrowdStrike Falcon agent
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Create Ansible roles to installs the CrowdStrike Falcon agent on Debian/Ubuntu and rhel/CentOS 6,7
and 8 virtual machines.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Check if Crowdstrike is installed on Debian/Ubuntu or rhel/CentOS 6,7 and 8
• Copy Installer file if not installed
• Install Crowdstrike if not exist
• Set CID on the sensor
• Start and enable falcon-sensor on System Boot
• Confirm the sensor is running
• Show process
• Reboot the system if required

From Jul’ 2017 to Oct’ 2018 -- OOREDOO, Tunis – R&D Technical Engineer

As R&D Technical Engineer
Role:
Most of my time I am spending in troubleshooting & tuning complex systems spanning across multi-tier
architectures using latest High-End server/storage/network and cloud technologies running on very large
HA ecosystems, Multisite and Virtual DC having rigorous availability demands and very fast response times.
Project Handled:
▪ Unify Project: Design and Deployment VMWare SDDC/NFV
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Unify Project aims to consolidate multiple elements of private cloud (Telco and IT workloads). It is a
fully converged ICT architecture.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Validate architectures cross vCenter
• Prepare workbook documents
• Deployment: vSphere6.5, NSX 6.3.1, vRA 7.2, vROps, vRLI, vCD 9
• Deploy and Integrate NGFW (PANORAMA 8) with Unify
• Design and prepare action plan to deploy and integrate BIG-IP F5 LTM+GTM with Unify
• Prepare vApp to migrate Telco application (uSON + NetAct) on vCloud Director
TECHNOLOGIES:
• vSphere 6.5: ESXi, vCenter, PSC
• NSX 6.3.1
• vRealize Automation, vCloud Director 9.1
• vRLI, vROps
• SRM, SRA, VPLEX, Unity600, Unity550F
• PANORAMA 8 and BIG-IP F5 System 13.x.x
▪ Accretio Project: Design and Deployment Microservice Platform
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Accretio is a Microservice Platform and a digital workplace that promotes collaborative
work and collective intelligence. At the forefront of technology, it allows innovative
management of performance and skills.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Design and validate Accretio infrastructure architectures:
o Cluster swarm for Application stack
o Cluster swarm for Supervision stack
o Cluster swarm for Scaling stack
o Cluster for MySQL Data Base
• Prepare Cluster installations prerequisites
• Deploy Accretio Microservice Stack on Swarm Cluster
• Deploy Supervision Swarm Cluster: Monitoring Stack + Elastic Stack
TECHNOLOGIES:
• Docker CE 18.3.1, Swarm
• Monitoring stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Alert-Manager and Push gateway
• Elastic stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana
• Ansible

▪ BIG-IP Project: Design, deployment and automate F5 LTM system 13.0.0
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This Project aims to consolidate load balancer services on a BIG-IP F5 System 13 multitenancy with
dual armed architecture.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Validate architectures (one and dual armed)
• Migrate from haproxy to f5
• Reconfigure services by applications
• Implement best practices for each application
• Scripts to monitor, configure (tmsh, REST with python, Ansible playbook)
TECHNOLOGIES:
• BIG-IP F5 (hardware appliance, ova)
• REST, TMSH, Ansible
• Apache, WebLogic, Jboss
▪ DevOps Project: Design and Deployment DevOps Platform
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This Project aims to implement DevOps platform for mobile and web applications
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Validate architectures
• Perform continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and monitoring using DevOps tools
• Build sophisticated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using Jenkins and
many of its plugins
• Implement DevOps practices which will streamline our development processes
• Implement infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible
• Implement continuous monitoring process with tools such as ELK and Nagios
TECHNOLOGIES:
• SCM: GitLab
• Continuous Integration: Jenkins
• Build: Maven, Ant
• Continuous Testing: Junit, SonarQube, Selenium, JMeter
• Repository Management: Nexus 3
• Continuous Deployment: Docker, Ansible
• Continuous Monitoring: ELK Stack, Nagios
▪ VEMC ViPR SRM: Design and deployment
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This project aims to implement software solution that provides multi-vendor capacity, performance,
and configuration dashboards and reports for traditional and software-defined storage resources.
SCOPE OF WORK:
• Validate architectures
• Implement infrastructure tools (Frontend, Backend and collector server)
• Integrate SAN Infrastructure (VNX*, Unity*, ISILON) with ViPR SRM
• Integrate Switch Brocade with SMI-Agent
TECHNOLOGIES:
• Frontend, Backend, collector, MySQL, SMI-Agent, VNX*, Unity*, ISILON, Switch Brocade

From Mai’ 2016 to Jul’ 2017 -- Bilog, Tunis – Infrastructure Engineer
As Infrastructure Engineer
Role:
• Answering technical queries and assisting Bilog Collaborators.
• Managed following operational and functional activities in vSphere environment:
o Manage VMware vSphere/ESXi 5.x Private Cloud environment, including installing, upgrading
and maintaining the whole of running virtual machines and templates
o Keeping the ship sailing! Monitoring and supporting the IT infrastructure environment
o Monitoring and diagnosis of systems for optimal performance
o Installing and configuring various types of databases depending on the user needs and
o designed architectures.
o Identifying, gathering, analyzing and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs,
and alerts issues with production, test and development infrastructures
o Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes
o Monitor and executes backups across various platforms

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
From Jan’ 2015 to Apr’ 2015 -- TAC-TIC, Tunis – Linux System Administrator
From Mai’ 2015 to Feb’ 2016 -- LYNA-ICT, Tunis – System Administrator