Shahzad Ahmad
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Patrick Lorrimer
I have relied on Shahzad for environment support on my project for the last year. I would summarize the experience in two sentences:- Always helpful, always thinking clearly, always logical. Never a problem.
Vince Coorey
In my experience working with Shahzad I have always known him to be a goals driven professional taking on and successfully completing any technical challenge before him. Shahzad has a proven ability which has been demonstrated on countless occasions in the Project space with many Project Managers seeking his services knowing they will get their Project deliverables within budget and schedule. Shahzad successfully mentored all new team members with technical and business knowledge for their roles with patience and support in and out of business hours. Shahzad also demonstrated excellent Team Leading skills and was able to perform this duty successfuly as well as techinical duties.
Patrick Lorrimer
I have relied on Shahzad for environment support on my project for the last year. I would summarize the experience in two sentences:- Always helpful, always thinking clearly, always logical. Never a problem.
Vince Coorey
In my experience working with Shahzad I have always known him to be a goals driven professional taking on and successfully completing any technical challenge before him. Shahzad has a proven ability which has been demonstrated on countless occasions in the Project space with many Project Managers seeking his services knowing they will get their Project deliverables within budget and schedule. Shahzad successfully mentored all new team members with technical and business knowledge for their roles with patience and support in and out of business hours. Shahzad also demonstrated excellent Team Leading skills and was able to perform this duty successfuly as well as techinical duties.
Patrick Lorrimer
I have relied on Shahzad for environment support on my project for the last year. I would summarize the experience in two sentences:- Always helpful, always thinking clearly, always logical. Never a problem.
Vince Coorey
In my experience working with Shahzad I have always known him to be a goals driven professional taking on and successfully completing any technical challenge before him. Shahzad has a proven ability which has been demonstrated on countless occasions in the Project space with many Project Managers seeking his services knowing they will get their Project deliverables within budget and schedule. Shahzad successfully mentored all new team members with technical and business knowledge for their roles with patience and support in and out of business hours. Shahzad also demonstrated excellent Team Leading skills and was able to perform this duty successfuly as well as techinical duties.
Patrick Lorrimer
I have relied on Shahzad for environment support on my project for the last year. I would summarize the experience in two sentences:- Always helpful, always thinking clearly, always logical. Never a problem.
Vince Coorey
In my experience working with Shahzad I have always known him to be a goals driven professional taking on and successfully completing any technical challenge before him. Shahzad has a proven ability which has been demonstrated on countless occasions in the Project space with many Project Managers seeking his services knowing they will get their Project deliverables within budget and schedule. Shahzad successfully mentored all new team members with technical and business knowledge for their roles with patience and support in and out of business hours. Shahzad also demonstrated excellent Team Leading skills and was able to perform this duty successfuly as well as techinical duties.
Credentials
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Splunk Power User
SplunkJan, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux FoundationJun, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux FoundationApr, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
IBM Certified Deployment Professional - WebSphere Process Server V7.0
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IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0
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ITIL Foundation Certificate
ITIL Certified
Experience
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Australian Government
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Australia
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Platform Engineer
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Jul 2023 - Present
Container platform management including - Kubernetes - EKS Container platform management including - Kubernetes - EKS
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Services Australia
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Australia
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Platform Engineer | CKA | CKAD
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Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
- Installation and maintenance of the Openshift platform. - Development and installation of platform operators. - Monitoring development and deployment. - IaC - Installation and maintenance of the Openshift platform. - Development and installation of platform operators. - Monitoring development and deployment. - IaC
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AUSTRAC
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Australia
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Law Enforcement
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100 - 200 Employee
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Platform Engineer
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Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
• Be part of project team to drive deliverable eg architecture, deployment and development. • Design and drive platform projects across various programs. • Liaise with development, external vendor, testing and projects managers to complete delivery of various programs. • Build CICD using Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible and Rundeck. • Management and Deployment of Kubernetes in AWS and on-prem infrastructure. • On-going POCs to evaluate new tools and features. • Be part of project team to drive deliverable eg architecture, deployment and development. • Design and drive platform projects across various programs. • Liaise with development, external vendor, testing and projects managers to complete delivery of various programs. • Build CICD using Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible and Rundeck. • Management and Deployment of Kubernetes in AWS and on-prem infrastructure. • On-going POCs to evaluate new tools and features.
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Transport for NSW
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Australia
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Truck Transportation
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Platform Lead
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May 2018 - Jul 2021
• Work with range of stakeholders like Service Management, PMO and Production support. • Design and drive platform projects across various programs • Liaise with development, external vendor, testing and projects managers to complete delivery of various programs. • Design and drive automation strategies across multiple environments using Jenkins, Rundeck and ansible. • Management and Deployment of Platforms including Openshift and ICP. • Splunk distributed environment maintenance, dashboards design deployment. Show less
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Senior Middleware Lead
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Mar 2016 - May 2018
• Lead a team of middleware environment managers. • Design and drive Infrastructure implementation across various programs.• Liaise with development, testing and projects managers to complete delivery of various programs. • Design and drive automation strategies using using Jenkins and Rundeck.• Management and Deployment of Platforms including IIB, Rancher and Openshift.• Splunk distributed environment maintenance, dashboards design deployment.
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Middleware Engineer
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Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
• High Availability design and implementation of IBM Integration Bus.• Implementation of continues integration build and deployment using Jenkins. • Environment virtualization using Unix, Linux and VMware solutions.• Project technical lead on numerous projects.• Coordination with vendor for infrastructure related issues.• Infrastructure acceptance testing for new projects.• Management and Deployment of RMS SOA applications including IBM WebSphere Application server, BPM, WebSphere Portal.• Splunk distributed environment design and implementation, dashboards design deployment. Show less
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Senior SOA Infrastructure Consultant
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Aug 2013 - Dec 2014
• WebSphere Portal and ESB Infrastructure design including OS(Solaris)• SOA infrastructure Administration including Portal, WESB, IBM HTTP Server, Edge, WebSphere.• Coordination with vendor for infrastructure related issues• Infrastructure acceptance testing for new projects• Management and support of RMS SOA applications. Some of the solutions include myRTA, MDES, Online Transformation, and Tolling.• Splunk Administration• Splunk dashboards design, development and deployment Show less
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Westpac
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Australia
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Technical Lead
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Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
• Infrastructure Solution Technical Detailed Design • Infrastructure implementation including WebSphere, MQ and third party software. • Infrastructure test plan including test cases. • Infrastructure Solution Technical Detailed Design • Infrastructure implementation including WebSphere, MQ and third party software. • Infrastructure test plan including test cases.
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Fujitsu Asia Pacific
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Systems Engineer(Project Services)
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Aug 2011 - Feb 2013
• Design and implementation of Websphere Application Server.• Design and implementation of Weblogic Application Server.• Design and implementation of IBM Portal Server infrastructure.• Design and implementation of IBM ESB infrastructure.• Design and implementation of IBM Process Server infrastructure.• Design and implementation of Oracle Forms, Reports, Discoverer and Portal infrastructure.• Design and implementation of Oracle iPlanet Proxy and Web Solutions.• Design and implementation of IBM and Oracle http server. • Design and implementation of DNS solutions.• Design and build of Solaris server.• VCS design and setup.Worked on several projects such as:• WebSphere migration including design, Implementation and app deployment.• IBM SOA including installation and setup of IBM ESB, Process Server and Portal Server. • Iplanet proxy migration.• Oracle Weblogic including design, Implementation and app deployment. • Oracle Business Intelligence Implementation.• Setup of many highly available websites.• Continual hardware refresh migrations. Show less
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Senior Systems Engineer (Managed Services)
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Jul 2010 - Aug 2011
As per Systems Engineer role, however with the addition of:• Acting team leader.
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Systems Engineer (Managed Services)
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Apr 2007 - Jul 2010
• Provide second and third level support to the NSW RTA• Manage UNIX (Solaris 9/10) servers.• Manage VERITAS Cluster.• Manage JEE application servers (OAS, WebSphere).• Manage DNS and VitalQIP• Web servers including iPlanet and Apache.• Manage forward/reverse proxy servers and content filters.• Manage 70+ JEE e-business applications and web services.• Manage 30+ internal/intranet applications.• Manage in house applications.• Manage Content Management System.• Design of content filtering solution.• Middleware SME on the Change Management Board.• Provide DR consultancy advice to senior technical architect.• Incident, change and problem management using ITIL.• Considerable experience engaging customers.• Considerable 24x7 on-call and change implementation duties.Worked on several projects such as:• Iplanet web server upgrades.• Setup of websphere 7 environment.• Migration of JEE(orcale) applications.• Migration of e-business to WebSphere.• Migration of IHS.• Setup of many highly available websites.• Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 upgrade using LiveUpgrade.• Solaris 10 to Solaris 10 upgrade using LiveUpgrade.• Continual hardware refresh migrations. • Installation of HBA and SAN allocation to Solaris servers.• Set of VERITAS Cluster server. Show less
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Charles Sturt University
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Australia
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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System Engineer
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Mar 2003 - Apr 2007
Provide second and third level support to the university staff and students. • Manage in house applications. • Manage Solaris 9, 10 servers. • Building Customised Solaris Flar for Jump start. • Manage of Solaris Jump Start. • Install new Solaris servers. • Manage Apache, squid, DNS and sendmail. • EMC San (CX2600) management. • Manage of Pure Message. • Manage Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup 7.3.2. • Ensure DNS and DHCP continuous availability. • Manage and upgrade Sophos Puremessage, Sendmail, Freeradius, squid, Apache 1.3.36, • Tomcat 5.5.15 and Directory Server. • Manage Active Directory and exchange accounts. • Ensure critical servers and services like web, email, DNS, DHCP, spam filtering, radius, squid, Directory server and databases remain available 24x7. • Ensure Business Continuity (Sun Storagetek Availability Suit) is operational 24x7. • As a part of the Charles Sturt University security matrix ensure that server security policies are kept current and enforced. • Deploy security and recommended Solaris patches. • Ensure hardware and software fault rectification in a timely manner to meet strict SLAs. • Liaise with third party vendors such as Sun, Sophos and EMC to ensure issues were resolved in a timely and efficient manner. • Replace system hardware when it fails and ensure that services stay online. • Troubleshoot LAN/WAN related issues. • Monitor and Maintain system performance. • Provide technical support to CSU users, as well as liaise with other IT staff to ensure that all Infrastructures remain operational. • Manage and monitor EMC storage as well as to configure new machines connectivity and allocate storage space. Worked on several projects such as: • Set up new Solaris 10 servers. • Migrate servers from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. • Setup Solaris Jumpstart. • Migration of switches and routers. Show less
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TUMUT SHIRE COUNCIL
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Information Technology Administrator
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Sep 2002 - Feb 2003
Provide second and third level support to the Tumut Shire Council • Working on Windows NT 4 Workstation/Servers and Windows 2000. • Manage Solaris 6 servers. • Troubleshooting for Windows NT and other software. • Installing Windows NT, Windows 98 for the users and providing assistance in using them. • Installing PC’s, Laptops and other hardware’s such as Network cards, Video cards, Sound cards, Network Printers, Net ports and Modems. • Creating users and assigning them the groups they want to be created on Windows NT servers. Show less
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Education
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IBM Learning Center
IBM WebSphere Application Server -
Symantec Learning Center
Veritas Cluster Server -
ITIL
ITIL Foundation Certificate -
Sun Learning Services
Solaris 10 Intermediate and Experienced System Administration -
2000 - 2002
Charles Sturt University
Bachelor, Information Technology -
1999 - 2000
Bellerbys College
Bachelor, Diploma of Business Computing -
2017 -
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