Abdullah Alghamdi is a System Engineer from Saudi Arabia with over 5 years of experience managing shared hosting servers, cloud services, and a big data project hosted in STC's cloud. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and certifications in OpenStack, DNS configuration/troubleshooting, VMware vSphere, and data center virtualization. His responsibilities have included troubleshooting issues for customers, adding/deleting domains, monitoring servers, and designing secure network infrastructure.
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Abdullah AlGhamdi CV
1. ABDULLAH ALGHAMDI
Date of birth: 15/10/1988
Nationality: Saudi
Address: Riyadh 13245, Saudi Arabia
Phone number: 0568177181
Email address: a.m.g1988@hotmail.com
PROFILE
Experienced System Engineer with a
demonstrated history of working in the
information technology and services industry.
Strong information technology professional with
a Bachelor's degree focused on Computer Science
from Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic
University.
WORK EXPERIENCE
System Engineer - NOC 08/2013 – 01/2016
STC Solutions
Managing and Operating the shared hosting
servers for the customers that hosted in:
• Internet Information Services "IIS" (Windows
Server).
• Web Hosting Control Panel "cPanel" (Linux
Server).
Here're some of daily tasks:
1- Troubleshooting the issues that facing the
customers as:
o Website issues: Guiding the customers to
solve their websites errors.
o Email issues: Do the needful
troubleshooting to solving the issues that facing
the customers in SendingReceiving.
o DNS: Add, Delete and Modify the DNS
records for the customers that hosted in our
shared hosting.
o FTP: Providing FTP access to our
customers to upload their website files.
2- AddDelete customer's domains in our shared
hosting.
3- Monitoring the shared hosting servers
resources.
4- Guiding the customers to reserve and register
their domains in NIC.SA or Register.com.
5- Managing the customer’s domains that
hosted in our DNS Service only (Men&Mice).
.
WORK EXPERIENCE
System Engineer - Cloud 02/2016 – 05/2018
STC Solutions
• Troubleshooting cloud services issues that
facing the customers,
Here’re some of customers issues:
o VM Issues: Create, Console Access,
Remote Access, Terminate, Boot new VM from
Snapshot, Resize VM resources, Allocate Public IP,
etc.
o vNetwork Issues: Create, Configure,
Delete, etc.
o vRouter Issues: Create, Configure, Delete,
etc.
o Firewall: Create group police, OpenClose
ports, Assign group police to the VM, etc.
o Volume: Create, Take a Snapshot, Detach
from the VM, Attach to the VM.
• Managing customers domains that hosted in
our DNS Service (InfoBlox).
System Engineer || - MSO 06/2018 – present
STC Solutions
Managing Big Data project hosted in STC cloud:
- Deploying, configuring and managing the
servers (Windows, Linux).
- Configuring AD policies and the needful logs.
- Updating the security patches.
- Scanning and blocking the hashes and IOCs.
- Design the network, subnets and needed ports
for each server to securing the servers as much
as we can.
- Checking the status of the daily backup jobs, and
test it by restoring the backup on test server.
- Configuring monitor solution to monitor our
servers, applications and services.
- Configuring audit solution to audit our servers
logs.
- Applying Multi Factor Authentication on the
jump server.
- Condinate with the concern teams if needed.
- Checking the licenses validation (Https, Apps,
etc..).
- Make sure to transfer the data between BE & FE
through secure channel.
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2. EDUCATION
Computer Science
Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
SKILLS
Cloud OpenStack Mirantis
Microsoft Windows Active Directory
IIS DNS Infoblox Mine & Mice
Mail Gateway Ironport FTP
CERTIFICATES
Mirantis Certified
Administrator for
Openstack Professional
Level 2016
Core DDI Intermediate
Configuration (CDIC) 2017
Core DDI Advanced
Troubleshooting (CDAT) 2017
VMware vSphere 6.5
Foundations 2018
VMware Certified
Professional 6.5 – Data
Center Virtualization 2018
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