Ahmed Ali

About Ahmed Ali

Expertise in implementation and operational support of Linux servers and virtual…

Experience

1. Linux System Administrator

   Morgan Stanley

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Team player and adaptive personnel embracing newly emerging technologies Architect, provisioned, and deployed Enterprise Linux servers using Enterprise tools such as Ansible/Ansible Tower and Red Hat Enterprise Satellite 6 Maintained and managed Ansible/Red Hat Satellite 6 Inventory of hosts Utilized Ansible to automate configuration tasks and application deployment from Ansible playbooks and roles Managed User Identity and access via Red Hat Identity Manager and directory services Automated Jenkins jobs to orchestrate server built process by incorporating Terraform and Ansible Administrated orchestration of Containerized application using Kuberentes cluster using Kubectl commands from the control node Troubleshooted and maintained SLA managing Change Management Incidents, problems, and change tickets Patched Linux servers on a monthly schedule and troubleshooting patching related issues such as kernel panics and rollbacks Migration from RHEL 5 to RHEL 7/ RHEL 8 oracle database disks standalone and cluster nodes Advance Systems administration in support of Linux Servers & VMware environment (vMotion, Clusters) Manage LVM on SAN, NAS and ISCSI where I create, extend, migrate, mirror, back up, perform snapshot and troubleshoot failed LVM. In addition to this, I configured hardware RAID and solved related issues Monitor system activities such as CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid performance issues and tuned various kernel parameters to achieve optimized performance Solved and documented SOP related to incidents, service request and Change requests ranges from p1 to p4 on issues of slow servers, the server crashed, file system maintenance Work on developing procedures to automate various systems and tasks (e.g. automating code builds and deployments) though Git, Docker, Ansible