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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

Virtualizationundefined

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