Amjad Kamal Al-Bawab
Amman
Summary
Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Infrastructure Manager
MEPS
09.2024 - Current
- Preparing high level system designs including hardware and software layers
- Planning, designing and executing IT infrastructure designs
- Leading and supporting infrastructure team
- Handing day to day activities
- Reviewing IS reports and applying recommendations
- Maintaining datacenters HQ DR and other locations
- Preparing new Datacenters
- Applying and executing HA over oracle database (RAC)
- Installing and configuring Linux cluster
- Planning and applying backup strategies using (netbackup, veeam, bash and cmd scripts)
- Linux hardening as recommended by PCI
- Appling segregation of duties
- Working with multiple hypervisors (vmware, oracle KVM)
- Maintaining workstations including (hardware, security, software)
- Managing planning and executing VMs migration project to VX-Rail
- Creating DMZ
- Preparing DR site, planning and performing failover, fail back tests within the allowed window including (databases, applications, VMs)
- Various OSs upgrading and systems migrations
- Managing and maintaining assets renewals, licenses and contracts
Supervisor Systems and Database Administrator (Infrastructure Department)
MEPS
01.2021 - 09.2024
- Upgrading S2M System (database from 11g to 19c, WebLogic forms report APIs from 11g to 12c, e-channels server
- Linux RHEL installation, upgrade and hardening
- Servers’ designee and installation
- Maintaining database’s backups
- Creating and executing business continuity plans (DR) for any running production system
- Application of PCI recommendations
- Database tuning instance and hardware level
- Installing and administrating Linux, Windows, AIX, oracle database, oracle HA (RAC, DG), oracle WebLogic, postgres, SQL server
- Various java applications tuning
- Postgres installation and configuration
- Setting backup strategies
- Appling OS database and application patches
- Appling segregation of duties concept
- Automating linux tasks and process
- Linux clustering
- Oracle database HA and RAC implementation
- Preparing and designing hardware infrastructure requirements
Oracle Database Administration and Infrastructure Department
Bank Audi
03.2016 - 12.2020
- Running daily health checks list
- Maintaining database’s backups
- Creating and maintaining datagaurd (oracle’s high availability)
- Creating and configuring RAC environment (oracle’s cluster)
- Contributed in team for implementing new internet banking, role (team head)
- Internet banking requirements gathering and performing analysis
- Planning, designing and executing IT infrastructure designs
- Linux RedHat executing installations updates using RedHat satellite
- Creating procedures and executing segregation of duties methods
- Creating users’ roles as related to their job descriptions
- Creating documents and manuals for users to simplify new systems
- ATM system upgrade
- Database tuning
- PCI recommendations application
- Implementing Integrations between various systems using various protocols
Oracle Database Administration Department
Egyptian Arab Land Bank
10.2014 - 02.2016
- Running the daily health check list
- Preparation for new server’s environments for the purpose of testing or upgrading current setup
- Implementing WebLogic server and databases engines
- Creating graphs and dashboards for the data flow (work flow) and bank’s IT infrastructure
IT Support (infrastructure and Datacenter) and Administration on Oracle Servers
Investbank
05.2011 - 09.2014
- Installing and preparing oracle instance and database creation for WINDOWS, AIX and LINUX
- Dealing with RMAN for database backup and restore
- Taking an export of the database and importing it to deferent databases after preparing the schema using original and data pump export import
- Creating and configuring Data Guard
- Instance preparation to be used as a primary or secondary node after pointing the server to the SAN storage LUN that contains the data files for WINDOWS, AIX and LINUX
- Editing control files and parameter files
- Database upgrade
- Dealing with hot (automatic Full RMAN) and cold backups
- Maintaining archives and old backups
- Defining more that single instance on the same server on WINDOWS, AIX and LINUX
- Editing database resource parameters process, SGA and PGA to best utilize the hardware
- Using HMC to create, configure and modify Lpars (virtual servers)
- Installing and configuring AIX software system
- Creating Volume groups, Logical volumes and file systems mounting
- Using SMIITY and command line
- Creating users and privileges setting
- Editing system parameters process allowed for a user, date time zone, paging, network TCP, etc
- Using utilities example TAR gzip zip bash shell
- Installing and uninstalling software’s such as JAVA using command line and SMITTY menu
- Migrating core banking system from RedHat LINUX running on HP Itanium to AIX running under IBM power 7 servers for both database and application (Flex Cube)
- Migrating ECC database and server, database was upgraded from 10g 32bit to 10g 64 bit and this step took place to take an advantage of the RAM increasing the SGA and PGA
- MXP migration and upgrade
- Creating and configuring failsafe cluster for Oracle 11g Database
- Contributing in the DR (Disaster Recovery) project team for planning, setting up the site and simulating partial and full failover, failback process
Technical Support
Excellence Inc.
01.2011 - 04.2011
- Installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications
- Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks;
- Troubleshooting system and network problems and diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults
- Replacing hardware parts as required
- Procedural documentation and relevant reports;
Education
Bachelor degree - IT Software engineering
University of Petra
Amman, AM07.2010
Skills
- Linux , RedHat
- IBM AIX
- Microsoft Windows
- Oracle Database Administration 10g/11g/12c/18c/19c
- SQL Server
- Postgres
- Apache
- Tomact
- KVM
- Vmware
- HW installation and configuration
- Active Directory
- Terminals: Putty / HMC
- Java
- C#
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/04/88
- Nationality: Jordanian
- Marital Status: Married
Certification
- Oracle certified Associate (OCA)
- Oracle certified professional (OCP)
- IBM AIX Jumpstart for professionals.
Languages
Excellent in English
Upper intermediate
B2
Arabic
Proficient
C2
Timeline
IT Infrastructure Manager
MEPS
09.2024 - Current
Supervisor Systems and Database Administrator (Infrastructure Department)
MEPS
01.2021 - 09.2024
Oracle Database Administration and Infrastructure Department
Bank Audi
03.2016 - 12.2020
Oracle Database Administration Department
Egyptian Arab Land Bank
10.2014 - 02.2016
IT Support (infrastructure and Datacenter) and Administration on Oracle Servers
Investbank
05.2011 - 09.2014
Technical Support
Excellence Inc.
01.2011 - 04.2011
- Oracle certified Associate (OCA)
- Oracle certified professional (OCP)
- IBM AIX Jumpstart for professionals.
Bachelor degree - IT Software engineering
University of Petra
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