Walid TOUATI

- Ansible's workflows ,playbooks and roles maintenance and evolution - Automated Linux and Windows Baremetal deployment - Automated automation tools’ supervision - Logging implementation for deployment services. - VMware ESX auto-scaling automation - VMware servers’ signed certificate installation automation - Servers’ automated health checks: Hardware health , storage status and network connectivity - NSX Transport nodes' status checks automation. - vSphere Clusters' capacity check automation. - Servers' CMDB states configurations automation - VMware Datastore Cluster auto-scaling automation - DELL Servers configuration automation : Servers' configuration, ESXi installation and firmware update - Dell management suite POC : Dell OME, OMIVV and DRM installation and configuration with DELL R7515 Servers - VMware Cloud foundation POC : Installation , configuration and upgrade from version 4.3.0 to 4.4.0 - AMD EPYC and Intel CPU benchmarking with VMware VMmark 3.1.1 - Build and Maintain the VMware infrastructure - In place NSX-V to NSX-T migration - NSX NVDS to CVDS migration Environment : Ansible, Ansible Tower, AAP,Git, Agile,Powershell, Python ,vSphere 7/8, VMware vSAN ,NSX , Cisco UCS, Dell servers, VMware Cloud Foundation, vROPS , vRLI, Purestorage.

[BNP PariBas] Ensure the High availability and evolution for the Hyper-converged infrastructures : - Build infrastructures to ensure the growth of the Cloud offer based on HPE Synergy Servers ( 40 vSAN Stretched Clusters for almost 600 servers) - Maintain the HCI infrastructure by providing Level 3 expertise. - Upgrade of the vSAN environment from version 6.5 to 6.7 then to 7.0 ( vCenters, ESXi, Witness,etc) - Build and run IBM Cloud Infrastructures - Build and run stretched vSAN infrastructures based on DELL servers. - Capacity planning - Architectures review for the vSAN infrastructures Environment : VMware vSAN 6.6, vRO\vRA, vROPS , vRLI, Powershell, HPE Synergy, IBM cloud , Dell servers. [Plastic Omnium] - 2 nodes vSAN Cluster transformation to a four nodes Stretched Cluster Environment : VMware vSAN 7, vSphere 7, HPE servers.

• Installation and deployment projects • Infrastructures upgrades • Technical training for new hires on HPE servers. • Coaching New hires and the mission critical team on HPE products especially Blade servers. • Complex issues Handling providing hardware and software expertise • Technical Escalations handling • Issues reproduction in Labs Projects and Missions Composable Infrastructure Consultant mission for BNP Paribas (November to December 2018) • HVD LAB setup : Network Reconfiguration on Oneview • Oneview and Shared infrastructure upgrade for HVD LAB • Oneview and Shared infrastructure upgrade for HVD production environment Environment: Synergy OneView, Synergy Frames, VMware vSAN Resident Engineer for BNP PariBas Paris - France (20 August – 14 September 2018) • Maintaining Synergy frames infrastructure • Incidents management for the VMware vSAN infrastructure • Incidents review and reporting • Provide best practices to customer. Environment: Synergy OneView, Synergy Frames, VMware vSAN Installation and configuration of 3 frames Synergy (July 2018) • Installation from scratch of 3 Synergy frames (installation, cabling and initialization) with a team of 3 Engineers Internal Project: VMware virtualization Solution (March 2018 to June 2018) • C7000 chassis and 6 Blade servers firmware upgrades • Installation of ESXi 6.0 on servers • Installation and Configuration of vCenter 6.5 • Installation of OneView 3.0 • Networking configurations for servers • VMware HA cluster configuration • VM Templates configuration Environment: C7000, OneView 3.0, VMware VSphere 6.x Infrastructure assessment for SCOTT Switzerland • Infrastructure Analysis : Blade chassis, DL servers and multiple 3PAR • System inter-operability assessment based on the OS installed on servers and Brocade SAN switches and 3PAR OS • Reporting about the infrastructure Environment: C7000, Hyper-V 2012, HPE 3PAR, Brocade SAN switch

- Software investigations for Linux, VMware and Microsoft Systems ( Reboots, Crashes, Connectivity Loss..) - Technical training and Coaching - Timely, accurate enterprise level hardware support on Proliant,Synergy, HyperScale and Blade Integrity servers.

Project 1: Wi-Fi deployment for Ooredoo Tunisia Wi-Fi planning and surveys Sites Validation (coverage, interferences) Wi-Fi KPIs Follow UP Client Support Project 2: 2G Radio network optimization Design optimization Frequency tuning Radio parameters optimization Tools : Xirrus wifi designer, Xirrus Wifi inspector , XMS, Alcatel NPO

Operations and radio changes validation QOS Reporting 2G/3G quality monitoring. Tools:M2000,RNM,Mapinfo,NPO,Radio dashbord,Spots,Netact...

Windows System Administration with Windows Server 2008: Active directory, DNS, DHCP, Forefront, Exchange 2007 Linux system administration with REHL5: DNS, DHCP, Squid, Samba, Ftp, Apache