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ALIFF NAZMIR  AHMAD NAZLI

ALIFF NAZMIR AHMAD NAZLI

SENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Sepang

Summary

A resourceful system administrator consistently responds to a wide range of technical challenges with a focused and creative approach. Highly effective at problem solving and decision making. 13 years of progressive IT experience. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior System Administrator

Pathology Asia Holding
06.2022 - Current

Manage, Design & Architect, Operation, Administer

  • Windows Server 2012 to 2019, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, File Server, Remote Gateway , Licensing.
  • Ubuntu , Red Hat, CentOS, SuSe
  • Azure and AWS administration
  • VmWare , ESXi, Veaam Backup, Networker Backup, Disaster Recovery.
  • Planning and deploying cloudification for Malaysia Site and Small site.

Achievement :

  • Implemented robust data backup solutions, ensuring business continuity in the event of data loss or system failure.
  • Upgrading the windows server from 2008 to windows 2019.
  • Enhanced Server performance by optimizing system configurations and implementing regular updates.
  • Deployed cloud-based solutions to increase flexibility, scalability, and resiliency within the organization''s technology infrastructure.
  • Maximized resource utilization by consolidating servers using virtualization technologies such as VMware and Azure
  • Managed vendor relationships for procurement of hardware and software, negotiating favorable terms and cost savings.
  • Established reliable disaster recovery plans to ensure rapid restoration of critical services in emergency situations.
  • Designed scalable infrastructure to support organizational growth while minimizing costs and maintaining performance standards.
  • Safeguarded company data by establishing rigorous security protocols and conducting regular audits.

Operation Center Lead for APAC

Evonik Malaysia Sdn Bhd
06.2020 - 06.2022
  • Achievements: Process Improvements – Identify and propose and enhance the process of Major Incidents as well as review, recommend and document improvements to established processes
  • Creates incident related performance analysis and reporting for Problem team management
  • Enhanced the communication and incident response processes for Operation Centre in Kuala Lumpur for America shift and the Asia Pacific shift by using technologies and tools provided
  • Enhanced and established a Knowledge Management (collaboration with other colleagues) and KPI from the view of Application Performance and Business Process Monitoring perspective
  • Coordinates, daily management and Operation Centre availability for operational effectiveness expectation
  • Develop and consult users on the Application Performance Management use case
  • Improving technology policy and assisting internal Audit on ISMS for Operation Centre
  • CAB meeting and discussion on the Change Ticket involving APAC and KL office
  • Task: Incident Coordinator and documented well all the processes involved in the MI protocol
  • Troubleshooting and performance maintenance virtual and physical servers in several geographically dispersed hosted data centers
  • Manage incident management bridge calls with support teams, on-call support application teams and management
  • Monitoring IT applications, services and infrastructure (data center and cloud)
  • Adhere and practice the ITSM in every task
  • Major Incident Handling and Coordination
  • Central Emergency Change Coordination
  • Support and collaborate with knowledge management colleagues in revising and improving the content and steps
  • System Admin for Azure cloud
  • ECAB process and documentation
  • On-call weekend (rotation basis)
  • Operation Schedule coordination for the effectiveness of Operation Centre.

System Engineer / IT Support Specialist

F-Secure
09.2015 - 06.2020
  • Achievement: 1)AWS: Cloud level 1 supports – Production Cloud (EC2, ELB, ALB, RDS, S3, Cloud watch)
  • 2) Involved in automation for AWS and Azure projects in a support role and optimizing the processes for automation
  • Azure: Level 1 fellow cloud support – Internal Cloud
  • Provisioning Continuous Delivery System & Tools for RnD based on requirement gathering until full handover to the RnD team
  • The various platforms of OS and hosting
  • Deployment of Messaging Security Gateway (VM) for various customers (telco(s), bank(s), airline & etc) request from the Business Unit
  • Transforming monitoring (Nagios) into valuable monitoring for Operation Support
  • 7)Upgrading Jenkins to the latest version for security Vulnerability issues
  • 8)Improving Nagios Monitoring and Production Monitoring using checkMK and PagerDuty
  • 9)Incident Management and Change Management (creation and discussion) 10) Knowledge management improvise and hierarchical setup for support specialist
  • 11) Setup automation processes for JIRA service desk documentation
  • Task: Operation Global support (levels 1 and 2) (3 years)
  • Escalation to the architect level and Cloud Governance Team
  • Provide initials support assessment and possible workaround of production issue
  • Supporting infrastructure as an Admin level for production and internal system
  • Fully utilize ITIL using JIRA
  • Support Virtual Environment and AWS cloud environment
  • Using DevOps methodologies to solve the problem and support the cloud issue
  • Global IT Support Specialist: (1 year 9 months)
  • Azure AD administration (Service Desk Scope)
  • IAM management (portal)
  • Licensing management for office 365
  • Software handling and troubleshooting
  • Windows 10 administration
  • SACM and patching management
  • Workday access management
  • Improve policy and Knowledge management
  • Assist in Automation for Jira Service Desk
  • Active directory and DNS management (windows and Linux server)
  • Security email access via Azure
  • Processes and procedure for Suspicious activity from security monitoring.

System Engineer (Oracle)

Applied Business System
01.2013 - 08.2015
  • Achievement : Logical Domain configuration and implementation until handover for Bank Rakyat, Lembaga Pinjaman Perumahan Sektor Awam & UNIMAS
  • Oracle Database Appliance deployment for Petronas and MMU with handover manual
  • Data Center Relocation for Bank Rakyat from Jalan Gangsa to Shah Alam
  • Capacity planning, provisioning hardware for MySQL cluster deployment for Lembaga Pinjaman Perumahan Sektor Awam
  • Database Migration and data migration for MATRADE
  • Implement Oracle Virtual Machine (partially), OS hardening, testing, and handover the system to CagaMas
  • Task : Support all Oracle server and storage
  • Installation, configuration, and support for Solaris and Oracle Linux
  • Hardware replacement and troubleshooting
  • Responsible to handle assigning cases and assist colleagues in the case to faster the resolution time
  • Preparation of the documentation on Scope of Work, Maintenance checklist, project checklist, and handover checklist.

System Administrator

CEMENT INDUSTRIES OF MALAYSIA BERHAD
05.2010 - 12.2012
  • Achievement : Business Intelligence – Improvise and gather new requirement(s) for comprehensive dashboards and reporting for Sales, Marketing and Strategic Department
  • Reduce time for retrieving data and data-drilling on cost-factor related
  • Supply Chain Management – Migrate to VM environment and new module implementation for and providing the data backup strategies to vendor
  • PM roles – small scale project for inventory management for store and procurement
  • Task : Business Intelligence Administrator and Business Reporting Analysis and ETL Developer
  • User requirement Specification
  • User Acceptance
  • Dashboard design and MDX query
  • Assist user and top management on reporting and analysis
  • System Administrator
  • Support supply chain management
  • Assist support for Linux and HP-UX Operating System
  • Acting as Database Administrator for oracle 10g (extract data, backup and restore)
  • Programmer/developer
  • Developing internal and small scale for supporting the core system such as data warehouse (transit before pulled into Business Intelligence SSAS).

ICT trainee

Cement Industries Of Malaysia Sdn Bhd
07.2009 - 12.2009
  • Invloved in technical part
  • Network configuration (PC /NOTEBOOK)
  • Web based sytem using PHP mysql / oracle
  • Business application
  • Business documentation
  • Data entry level.

CONTRACT WORKER

SAPURA PENANG MARKETING
07.2008 - 11.2008
  • PC Assembly to all government department in Penang
  • Hard disk clone to old PC
  • Standard Operating Procedure documentation finalizing.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science/Information Technology

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
08.2010

Diploma - Computer Science/Information Technology

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
07.2007

Skills

VirtualizationPostgreSQLOracle 11gProject managementPythonAWS

Windows Servers

Infrastructure Planning

Technical specifications

Project Coordination

System Upgrades

Hardware knowledge

Patch management

Servers expertise

Incident Management

Project Management

Additional Information

Experienced in SOC consultation for security company-managed services.

Experienced in architecting the new infrastructure setup for a small company.

Experienced at Presenting the solution for Government Top Gun.

About Me

Male, 38 years, No.14, Jalan Idaman Murni 1/2, Taman Idaman Murni, Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, 49300, Malaysia, Malaysia

Interests

Cloud Technology

Timeline

Senior System Administrator - Pathology Asia Holding
06.2022 - Current
Operation Center Lead for APAC - Evonik Malaysia Sdn Bhd
06.2020 - 06.2022
System Engineer / IT Support Specialist - F-Secure
09.2015 - 06.2020
System Engineer (Oracle) - Applied Business System
01.2013 - 08.2015
System Administrator - CEMENT INDUSTRIES OF MALAYSIA BERHAD
05.2010 - 12.2012
ICT trainee - Cement Industries Of Malaysia Sdn Bhd
07.2009 - 12.2009
CONTRACT WORKER - SAPURA PENANG MARKETING
07.2008 - 11.2008
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) - Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science/Information Technology
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) - Diploma, Computer Science/Information Technology
ALIFF NAZMIR AHMAD NAZLISENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR