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Mohammed Aatif

@mohammedaatif

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Infrastructure Engineer with 11+ years securing and automating data-center operations across VMware and cloud.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for challenging opportunities to drive IT initiatives in Asset & System Support Management (Lead/Principal), using automation and DevSecOps to strengthen infrastructure reliability, security hardening, DR/BCP, and service delivery across multi-data-center environments.

I’m a result-oriented Infrastructure Engineer with 11+ years in IT operations management, asset administration, and support service delivery across multiple data centers and platforms. I provide hands-on support for Linux/Windows, VMware, and cloud environments, with strong strengths in systems support delivery, operating systems hardening, patch management, firewall optimization, vulnerability assessment, backup & disaster recovery, and network security.

I’m especially focused on DevSecOps and automation—building and improving playbooks, orchestrating large-scale VM environments, and strengthening uptime through DR/BCP and 24x7 on-call service for critical production workloads. In my recent role, I’ve supported around 10,000 VMs across strategic data centers (Ireland, London, Gibraltar), driven migrations, improved operational efficiency and downtime, and modernized monitoring/visualization while coordinating securely across stakeholders to enhance reliability, performance, and infrastructure resilience.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Systems Analyst/Infra

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Entain India (Ivy Comptech Pvt. Ltd.)

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Managed 10,000 VMs across strategic data centres for Entain UK using VMware/Nutanix, including VM migrations from Gibraltar to Ireland. Drove Linux VM/containers automation with Ansible, improved operational metrics (30% efficiency, 40% downtime reduction), and provided 24x7 on-call support for critical Windows services via Citrix.

VMWare Nutanix Ansible NetBox Linux Windows Grafana Puppet Squid Citrix Microsoft SQL Server

Platform Security Engineer

Techolution India Pvt. Ltd.

Nov 2019 - Nov 2021 (2 years)

Led a team of 5 to strengthen enterprise applications, including vulnerability assessments and coordination with InfoSec/IT operations to reduce security risks. Managed AWS accounts with a focus on Security/Compliance/Cost optimization, streamlined backups using EBS Life Cycle Manager, and supported deployments via Jenkins pipelines while improving monitoring and incident/deployment performance.

AWS AWS IAM AWS CLI ACLs NACLs Jenkins Vulnerability Assessment

Technical Delivery Manager

Accolite Software Pvt. Ltd.

Dec 2017 - Nov 2018 (11 months)

Supervised a team of 3 providing remote technical support to clients, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and upgrades of the Jive product. Designed POC/DEV/TEST/STAGING environments for clustered deployments, implemented SSL for load balancers, and performed application/server diagnostics and reporting based on logs and thread dump analysis.

Jive Load Balancers SSL TLS OpenSSL Ingress Replicator NFS PostgreSQL Apache Logs

Senior Linux Administrator

Mize Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Dec 2014 - May 2016 (1 year 5 months)

Senior Linux Administrator at Mize Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (additional responsibilities and achievements not provided).

Senior Linux Administrator

Citibank Sdn. Bhd.

Nov 2013 - May 2014 (6 months)

Provided on-call infrastructure support for Citibank production and development servers, including capacity planning and security-related change implementation. Hardened systems by preventing unjustified root access, optimized and patched Linux kernels/daemons, supported UNIX sharing via NFS/Samba, and coordinated vendor hardware issues (e.g., disk replacement/firmware via ILO).