Saba Saeed

Performed quarterly patching of production Red Hat Virtualization hypervisors (KVM, ProxmoxVE) and Dell iDRAC
systems using Dell OME.
Automated repetitive IT operations tasks using Ansible and Bash scripting, reducing manual effort by 40%.
Monitored infrastructure using Nagios, Dynatrace, and Grafana, improving incident response time by 20%.
Supported hardware devices and centralized management solutions within Five data center environments using
Equinix.
Managed virtual machines, virtualization networking, and infrastructure troubleshooting in enterprise
environments.

Projects
Datacenter Infrastructure Deployment
Performed rack and stack deployment of enterprise servers in datacenter environments.
Configured server hardware, RAID, Dell iDRAC, and network connectivity.
Assigned and managed IP addressing for servers and management interfaces.
Installed and configured VMware ESXi and virtualization environments.
Deployed and managed virtual machines for production and testing environments.
Assisted in server provisioning, infrastructure setup, and troubleshooting activities.
Systems Hardening and Configuration via Puppet
Implemented Puppet modules to harden and configure over 3000+
production servers across multiple data centers (San Jose, Washington DC, Omaha, Canada, and two local data
centers)
PXE & TFTP Deployment System
Configured PXE boot infrastructure integrated with DHCP to automate
OS provisioning, reducing manual system setup effort by 50%.
Knowledgebase System
Developed and implemented a Docker-based solution for maintaining team HOW-TOs, reducing resolution time by
40%.

Managed Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, and network configurations
Configured VNETs, IP addressing, and Network Security Groups
Implemented Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Terraform

Freelance Projects