CURRICULUM VITAE

Syed Muhammad Ali Kazmi

House# 732 Street# 01, Johar Town Phase 2 nearby
Al-Fateh Shopping Mall,
Lahore.

Cell No: +92-333-5574314

E-MAIL: alikazmi.itc@gmail.com, ali_kazmi@live.com.
Skype ID: ariyanhaider

Objective:
To be a part of a well-reputed organization that provides me an opportunity
of growth and learning, where I could utilize the best of my abilities.

Education:

1. BSCS (Data Comm. & Networks)

2. ICS (Computer Science)
3. SSC (Science)

Management Skills:

● Engineers and technical staff management.

● Leading, Presenting and explaining about new deployment to
staff/managers/Directors.
● Investigating technical issues and troubleshooting in the minimum time or
before deadline.
● Decision making and satisfactory of vendors.
● Team Work.
● Third party application audit.

Skills in Windows:

● Well-versed with Microsoft Office: MS Word, MS Excel, Internet & E-mail etc.
● Networking, Workgroup work, Domain work etc.
 ● All security and group policies work etc.
Stand-alone server, Member server Domain controller, Child domain
Windows server 2003/2008/2012/2016 (Enterprise Edition)
● DHCP server, DNS server, Active Directory, RRAS server, VPN server,
HTTP server, FTP server, IIS server, WINS server, RIS server, ADC server,
EXCHANGE server, ISA/TMG server installation configuration.

Skills in Linux:

● Installation configuration and management of any type of Linux distribution.

● Asterisk server, Vici dial / Auto dialer, predictive dialer, Elastic and Trixbox,
freeswitch, vicibox, asterisk CLI, asterisk with GUI, free PBX, FXS/FXO,
IVR, Voicemail box and Zap/Dahdi Barge, Incoming, Outgoing,
Conferences, Pickup Ext. Transferring, Sip trunk configuration and
management.
● LAMP, FTP, SSH server, LDAP, DNS server, Squid / Proxy server, Samba
/ File sharing server, LAMP server, ORACLE/JAVA/JBOSS server.
● Oracle Databases 10g, 11g.
● Vitualmin, cPanel, CWP deployment.
● Big couch DB, MySQL DB, Mongo DB, Psql
● DNS server, VPN Server, Squirrel mail, Qmail, Redmine, Zimbra server,
Web server, Apache, nginx, openlitespeed, tomcat server.
● Next cloud, tus server, pyodi server, XMPP, Ejabberd, etc.
● Ftp, telnet, http, https, MySQL, ssl/tls, Nginx, ha-proxy, Rsync, glusterfs
storage, SCP, secure tunnels server.
● VPN servers, Open vpn, PPTP vpn, IP sec vpn.
● Gitlab CI/CD piplines.
● Taiga, Redmin, Odoo ERP solutions.
● Hybrid cloud storage.
● Self-Hosted Email server multimode deployment.
● Letsencrypt SSL and Paid SSL cert deployment.
● VoIP routing and management.
● Glusterfs, ceph storage, leofs storage functionality compatible with S3 buckets etc.
● Cache servers, Memcached, Redis server.
● Soft switch VOS3000, A2billing, astpp.
● Bash/shell scripting.
● Ansible/Chef DevOps operations.

Skills in Network

● Cisco ASA5500 series firewalls, Fortinet/FortiGate 200 series, 600 series,

3000 series firewalls, juniper srx series, Mikrotik, Zentyal, routerOS, layer 2
switches, layer 3 switches, Smoothwall, Sonic wall, Pfsense, Sophos
Firewall, Fireeye-AX, Fireeye -HX endpoint security installation,
configuration and management.
● Wireless router, Access point, WDS installation configuration and
management.
 ● Routing and switching, Vlans, Inter-Vlans, ACLs, mac-binding, mac
spoofing, port binding, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, Static/dynamic routing, SDWAN
config, Load balancing, IPS/IDS, NAT/PAT and etc.

Skills in Virtualization

⚫ VMware, Vcenter, esxi 5.5 to 7 .0 servers, installation, configuration

andmanagement.
⚫ Proxmox 6.x to 8.x server standalone and HA Cluster setup configuration
and management.
⚫ LXC/LXD container, VMs, open vz, KVM etc.
⚫ Live migration and fail-over configuration.

Skills in Penetration

● Planning and reconnaissance

● Scanning
● Enumeration
● Gaining Access
● Maintaining access
● Exploitation
● Evidence collection and report generation
● Black Box, Gray Box, and White Box pen testing

Skills on Amazon Cloud

● 6+years of experience in Cloud computing.

● Designed an Architectural Diagram for different applications before migrating
into amazon cloud for flexible, cost - effective, reliable, scalable, high-
performance and secured.
● Experience in architecture, design and implementation of On-Prem, Off-Prem
and Hybrid cloud solutions utilizing AWS.
● Good experience in conducting proof-of-concept, developing prototypes and
reference models.
● AWS (Amazon Web Services): EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Cloud Front, Cloud
Watch, Cloud Formation, Glacier, RDS Config, Route53, SNS, SQS,
Kinesis, API Gateway, Elastic Cache, RedShift, DynamoDB, Auto Scaling,
Aurora, Lambda, Direct Connect, EMR, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic File
System (EFS).
● Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon
RDS DB Services, EBS volumes; to set alarm for Notification or Automated
actions, and to monitor logs for better understanding and operation of the
system.
 ● Deep understanding of system development in cloud environments, including
Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS).
● Expertise in RDBMS (MySQL, AWS Aurora, Oracle, SQL Server, and
Postgres) and/or NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Cassandra) data
stores.
● Experienced with installation of AWS CLI to control various AWS services
through SHELL/BASH scripting.
● Experience in implementing a CI/CD pipeline.
● Experience in designing and architecting serverless computing and
implementation using AWS Lambda.
● Possess working knowledge with Python to automate software configuration.
● Experienced in creating multiple VPC's and public, private subnets as per
requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the
VPC.
● Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to
distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly
available environment.
● Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are
required to serve static content for a web application.
● Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently
accessed data storage classes based on requirement.
● Used IAM for creating roles, users, and groups to provide additional security to
AWS account and its resources.
● Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for
responding to requests.
● Provided support for java applications by collaborating with java development
team using the agile methodology
● Assist in designing, automating, implementing and sustainment of Amazon
Machine Images (AMI) across the AWS Cloud environment
● Created and modified Cloud Formation templates to create/upgrade EC2
instances to support specific needs

Certification:

● Training MCSE from REDPRO.

● Training RHCSA & RHCE from CORVIT.

 ● Training CCNA from CORVIT.

● Training AWS Solution Architect from whiz labs.

Experience:

Working as Senior Network Systems Engineer / NOC Manager in Nextbridge .Ltd

from Oct 2022 to present.

◦ Implement ISO 27001 clauses and maintain records (server logs, server room logs,
temp. sheet logs)
AWS Account (root Account), AWS Account (IAM account),Godaddy, NameCheap,
PKNIC, Hetzner Portal, HRM Server, cPanel Portal, Proxmox Servers, Mikrotik Router,
Sophos firewall, Domain Controller Admin Managing Network accessibility, Network
firewall policy management, Network and firewall maintenance and upgradation,
Network monitoring, Backups,Data Center Hardware, Hardware Inventory, Data Center
Environment.
Virtualization Servers:
Managing virtualized servers in on premises Data Center and Hetzner Cloud.
Creating and providing staging environments to employees in various technologies
like:
NGINX, Apache, Open Lightspeed Web servers,PHP Applications,Python, Node,
Django Applications, Containerizations, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, MSSQL etc
Database servers
Troubleshooting:
We are the responsible to troubleshoot the issue which developers are facing in
following things:
▪ NGINX/APACHE/OPNE LIGHTSPEED/IIS configurations.
▪ MySQL/MariaGB/MongoDB/Postgres Backup restoration and performace
optimization
▪ Node/Laravel/PHP/Python project crash issue fixing and optimization
▪ Virtual hardware allocation and management.
▪ DNS and application accessibility issues.
Security:
◦ Generating SSL certificates of every staging server
◦ Monitor expiration of SSL certificates and renew them before expiry
◦ Setup proxy servers and pass the staging’s through proxy server for outside the
network.
◦ Vulnerability assessment and mitigation of these vulnerabilities on staging
servers
On premises Servers:
GitLab Server, Redmine Server, Taiga Server,Domain Controller, Own Cloud Server,
SharePoint Server, PBX Server [VOIP Server], Backup Servers, Virtaulmin Servers,
cPanel Server, Mail Server:Monitoring & logs, Backups

Worked as Senior System & Network Engineer in Cytechsol from

February 2016 to Sept 2022. (Visiontech360.com)

Projects:
1. Asterisk Based PBX integration within web calling
2. Voice & Chat server setup in cluster Configuration for Social media android
application.
 ⚫ VoIP integration, API's Development, IP PBX System, Asterisk, Kazoo, blue
box, big couch databases, Kamailio, pjsip, Sip, DIDs, Network & Server
installation, Mikrotik routers, Juniper routers & firewall Configuration, DNS
server, proxy servers, database server, hosting servers, firewall rules NAT,
iptables, VPNs, PPPOE. Management Deployment on production, technical
support to the customers.
⚫ Windows servers 2012. Domain controller, active directory, map drives,
Group policies, TFS, MSsql 2014 administration and configuration.
⚫ •Having good knowledge about: VMWare ESX, open vz, KVM, PROXMOX,
Red hat, Solaris, Oracle (Implement: Software, Listener, sqlplus query…), third
party software: Perl, Java, CPAN, Apache…
⚫ Good background UNIX: Install OS, User Group, Service Management: ntp,
http, ssh+scp, rsync, file permission, mount, log checking, crontab…

⚫ Good at troubleshooting.

⚫ Worked as Tele-Communication System Engineer in Utiba Mobility

Singapore on the platform of Mobilink-Pakistan from October 2013 to
January 2016.

Mobile Finance service projects:

⚫ Mobilink Pakistan
⚫ Maxis Uchoose Malaysia
⚫ YQ Bahrain

Responsibilities included:

- Leading and guiding customers team through implementation of new releases and
launching of new projects as well as while dealing with complex problems.

- liaising with the Operations team to solve issues with the system.
- Testing the releases prior to deployment in the production environment.

Projects are supported by me:

● Supporting Pakistan Customer: Mobilink (MFS) -onsite

● Supporting Malaysian Customer: Maxis E-Money
● Implementing mobile services POS services for YQ Bahrain

● Having good knowledge about: VMWare ESX, Red hat, Solaris, Oracle
(Implement: Software, Listener, sqlplus query…), third party software: Perl,
Java, CPAN, Apache…
● Install Interface Mobile Telecom: smpp client or ucpclient, IN client connection,
Banking interface …
● Good background UNIX: Install OS, User Group, Service Management: ntp,
http, ssh+scp, file permission, mount, log checking, crontab…
● Good at troubleshooting

● Worked as an IT Manager in GOA OUTSOURCE BUSINESS AGENCY from

Nov 2012 to October 2013.

● VoIP services, Switches, Routers, Hosting server, VoIP Server, and Network
management
● Good background UNIX: Install OS, User Group, Service Management: ntp,
http, ssh+scp, rsync, file permission, mount, log checking, crontab… ● Good
at troubleshooting.
● Maintaining and Managing Asterisk Server, Vici Dialer, Squid Server, Squirrel
Mail, ESXI and VMs server. Asterisk, IVR, Inbound/outbound, transferring,
configuration etc.
● Platform of Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red hat management etc.
● MYSQL, Lamp, LDAP, SSH, FTP, DNS, MX records, TELNET, secure tunnels,
VPN, rsync, RDP, SCP, VNC, web server, Apache, squid, samba, active
Directory, mail servers, remotely support and jboss, tomcat, DBs.
● Hardening of servers, Server, Web Hosting, Database Server, Domain
Controller, Cisco Router and Switches, vlans and inter-vlans.

● Worked as Network Manager in Nettech from May 2011 to July 2013.

● VoIP services, Switches, Routers, Hosting server, VoIP Server, and Network
management. having good knowledge about: VMWare ESX, Red hat, Solaris,
Oracle (Implement: Software, Listener, sqlplus query…), third party software:
Perl, Java, CPAN, Apache…

● Good background UNIX: Install OS, User Group, Service Management: ntp,
http, ssh+scp, rsync, file permission, mount, log checking, crontab…
● Good at troubleshooting.
● Maintaining and Managing Asterisk Server, Vici Dialer, Squid Server,
SquirrelMail, ESXI and VMs server. Asterisk specialist. IVR, mailbox, zap, zap
barge, Inbound/outbound, transfer, TrixBox, Elastix, FXS/FXO configuration
etc.
● Platform of Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red hat management etc.
● MYSQL, Lamp, LDAP, SSH, FTP, DNS, MX records, TELNET, secure tunnels,
VPN, rsync, RDP, SCP, VNC, web server, Apache, squid, samba, active
Directory, mail servers, remotely support and jboss, tomcat, DBs.
● Oracle Database 10g and 11g management.
● Hardening of servers, Server, Web Hosting, Database Server, Domain
Controller, Cisco Router and Switches, vlans and inter-vlans

● Maintain LAN and WAN connectivity.

● Worked as a Network Administrator in Indigenous Solution.Pvt.Ltd from

April 01, 2009 to May 10, 2011.

● Maintain LAN and WAN connectivity.

● Managing Web Hosting server, Reseller Accounts, C panels, Domain
transferring, and
● pointing both in Linux based and window-based hosting.
● Responsible for Intranet/Internet Connectivity of 120 Computers of Networks.
● Set up LAN environments with multiple switches.
● Administering and Maintaining network on 2000/2003 Server & windows server
2008, ISA
 ● Server 2000, 2004 & 2006, Exchange Server 2003 Proxy Server Workgroup
Mail Server and Management of Network and Hardware.
● Installation of all types of Software’s, Operating systems & Multimedia setting.
● Working on Wireless Network.
● Configuring and Troubleshooting Wireless Router, Access Point and Wireless
Client.
● Configuration of VoIP services, Switches, Routers, Hosting server, VoIP
Server, and Network management, Maintaining and Managing Asterisk
Server, Vici Dialer, Squid Server, Squirrel Mail, Asterisk, IVR, mailbox, ATA,
Inbound/outbound, Transfer, configuration etc.
● Platform of Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red hat management etc.
● MYSQL, Lamp, LDAP, SSH, FTP, DNS, MX records, TELNET, secure-tunnels,
VPN, Rsync, RDP, SCP, VNC, etc.

Personal Data:

FATHER’S NAME: Syed Abid Abbas Kazmi (Late)

DATE OF BIRTH: June 18, 1985
C.N.I.C No: 61101-4459816-9
MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED
NATIONALITY: PAKISTANI
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, URDU, PUNJABI, ARABIC (Basic)

References:

Will be furnished upon request.