Hi, I’m
Abubakar Fanda Adamu
Dubai,UAE
Summary
Proactive IT professional with over 4 years of experience demonstrating initiative in maintaining security and deploying IT systems. Committed to ensuring infrastructure confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Specialized in cloud and Linux environments, adept at conducting vulnerability assessments, implementing robust security measures, and analyzing security incidents and log monitoring. As an infrastructure engineer, consistently delivering solutions that align with industry best practices, I am dedicated to optimizing system performance and ensuring the reliability of IT infrastructure.
Overview
4
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
YouCloudDubai
System Engineer
11.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Managed deployment, patches & updates of all organization assets (Windows, Linux RHEL, and Ubuntu servers).
- Tested systems regularly, troubleshooting and remedying issues to limit operational disruption.
- Evaluated bandwidth requirements and implemented required network updates.
- Initiated and executed security measures for the organization’s infrastructure, covering on-premise and multi-cloud environments.
- Proactively identified potential application bottlenecks, devised solutions, and collaborated with developers for effective implementation.
- Configured firewall settings, policies, and established site-to-site VPN connections for integrations.
- Ensured infrastructure security, backup, and redundancy.
- Interpreted system design briefs and architecture specifications, models, and diagrams for the development of specific types.
- Researched network infrastructure requirements and demands to establish system improvements and create specific plans.
- Ensured PCI DSS environment compliance in AWS.
ComvivaDubai
Linux Support Engineer
01.2023 - 01.2024
Job overview
- Provided L2 Support for Bulk messaging platform to e&, maintaining SLA.
- Initiated updates in an Air-gapped environment with the latest malware signatures regularly.
- Installed patches & fixes to Application components & Database.
- Proactively monitored/wrote scripts, cronjobs & hardware performance.
- Monitored daily synchronization between Live & DR sites.
- Acted as first point of contact for clients experiencing complex software issues, escalating calls as necessary to ensure speedy resolution.
Rings TechnologyDubai
Network engineer
11.2019 - 11.2021
Job overview
- Evaluated network performance to optimise traffic flow, maintain security and improve processes.
- Monitored and performed hardware and software upgrades to network servers, including operating systems and applications.
- Provided smooth communications by configuring LAN technology, wireless access points and controllers.
- ● Designed high-level design (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) documents.
Education
Middlesex UniversityDubai, UAE
Master of Science from Network Management & Cloud Computing
09.2018 - 11.2019
City University College of AjmanAjman, UAE
Bachelor's degree from Management Information System
09.2014 - 07.2018
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform & Azure
- Security Tools: TrendMicro, Sophos, Kaspersky, Wazuh, Splunk, Datadog, Newrelic
- Operating Systems: VMwareESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Zabbix Monitoring, Postman, Redis, Docker, Linux (RHEL, KALI, Ubuntu), MacOS, Windows Server
- Database Systems: Microsoft SQL server, Oracle database, MySQL, Postgres DB, mongo DB
- Office 365
- Microsoft Azure
- LAN networking
- Infrastructure planning and implementation
- Network installation
- Anti-virus infrastructure
- Failure resolution
- VPN management
- Network support
Languages
English
Fluent
Timeline
Linux Support Engineer
Comviva
01.2023 - 01.2024
System Engineer
YouCloud
11.2021 - Current
Network engineer
Rings Technology
11.2019 - 11.2021
Middlesex University
Master of Science from Network Management & Cloud Computing
09.2018 - 11.2019
City University College of Ajman
Bachelor's degree from Management Information System
09.2014 - 07.2018