Suaib Pattathody
System Administrator
Member Since: 2019/01/07
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Technical Operations at Staytus
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System Administrator
Staytus
July 2015 – Present
Dubai
- Hired as a full-time system administrator to manage and maintain cloud hosted server environment ensuring
99.9% or better uptime, coordinate Technical Operations and manage Local IT infrastructure.
Key Contributions
- Reengineered the production environment, setting up a Reverse Proxy server cum Load Balancer (using
Apache for scaling, security and high availability), seperated Web and database servers.
- Planned and executed migration of the server OS's from Ubuntu to Centos and database server from MySQL
community edition to Enterprise Edition with minimum downtime.
- Revamped the server backups and implemented versioning (utlising BASH, cron, rsync and hardlinks) and
there by making sure that storage space is efficiently used.
- Utilized open source technologies - Nagios (for resource monitoring), ownCloud (for file-sharing platform),
mail-in-a-box (for email activation server for mobile app), osTicket (for Support System) and OpenVAS
vulnerability scanner(for Penetration tests).
- Performed periodic security audits on the production servers installed upgrades/patches, updating
firmware’s of network devices, established system monitoring and maintained security protocols.
- Lead Staytus service setup at client(Luxury Hotels) networks and acted as an escalation point for
troubleshooting advanced network/systems issues.
- Directed the implementation of Network Security in the office LAN by adding Cisco ASA firewall and setting
up VPN server.
- Took over the management of the Data Warehouse (MS SQL Server based) and automated a Static report
using C#, MS SQL and engineered a reporting platform for company's mobile app utlising, MSSQL, SSIS and
Tableau.
99.9% or better uptime, coordinate Technical Operations and manage Local IT infrastructure.
Key Contributions
- Reengineered the production environment, setting up a Reverse Proxy server cum Load Balancer (using
Apache for scaling, security and high availability), seperated Web and database servers.
- Planned and executed migration of the server OS's from Ubuntu to Centos and database server from MySQL
community edition to Enterprise Edition with minimum downtime.
- Revamped the server backups and implemented versioning (utlising BASH, cron, rsync and hardlinks) and
there by making sure that storage space is efficiently used.
- Utilized open source technologies - Nagios (for resource monitoring), ownCloud (for file-sharing platform),
mail-in-a-box (for email activation server for mobile app), osTicket (for Support System) and OpenVAS
vulnerability scanner(for Penetration tests).
- Performed periodic security audits on the production servers installed upgrades/patches, updating
firmware’s of network devices, established system monitoring and maintained security protocols.
- Lead Staytus service setup at client(Luxury Hotels) networks and acted as an escalation point for
troubleshooting advanced network/systems issues.
- Directed the implementation of Network Security in the office LAN by adding Cisco ASA firewall and setting
up VPN server.
- Took over the management of the Data Warehouse (MS SQL Server based) and automated a Static report
using C#, MS SQL and engineered a reporting platform for company's mobile app utlising, MSSQL, SSIS and
Tableau.
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System administrator with strong Unix background and experience managing server infrastructures, data-center operations across Linux, Windows and Mac OS platforms.
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