Khaliq Ur Rehman

• Leadership & Strategy: Provide leadership and strategic direction for cloud and infrastructure practices, aligning technology initiatives with organizational objectives. • Team Management: Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of cloud engineers, architects, and developers to deliver enterprise-grade solutions. • Solution Architecture: Design and oversee the implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions (Azure, Microsoft 365, Onprem, Hybrid) for diverse industries. • Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor and liaison between technical teams, clients, and senior management, simplifying complex technical concepts for business stakeholders. • Innovation & Optimization: Drive adoption of emerging technologies to enhance system performance, security, and efficiency. • Operational Excellence: Establish best practices for troubleshooting, documentation, and reporting to ensure consistent service delivery. • Project Delivery: Lead large-scale datacenter and cloud migration projects, from planning to execution, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery.

• Working as a Senior Architect to design solutions for Azure and on-premises Environments. • conducting current state assessment of Infrastructure to identify gaps and recommend solutions. • Creating, validating, and reviewing solutions and effort estimates for data center migration to Azure Cloud. • Conducting Proof of Concept for latest Azure Cloud-based Services • Providing Hands-on Technical Sessions to clients. • Planning, Execution, and managing Several large-scale Infrastructure services migrations • Designing and proposing various solutions to clients based on customer needs. • Developing project proposals and various other documents (Questionnaires, Presentations, infrastructure diagrams, and reports).

• Provide ultimate responsibility for design, architecture, and support of Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, O365/Lync, Microsoft Exchange, SCCM, SCOM, ADFS, and Microsoft Enterprise PKI • Document and implement appropriate backup and disaster-recovery procedures for all Microsoft enterprise platforms (AD, Lync, Exchange, SCCM, SCOM, PKI, etc.) • Experience in systems management and architecture on Microsoft Active Directory • Expert-level knowledge of infrastructure services running on Microsoft Windows platform (DNS, DHCP, WSUS, O365, Lync, ADFS, etc.) • Served as Consultant for Microsoft, VMware and Symantec Products • Involved in presales activities. • Help clients develop technology understanding and requirements for the current as well as future. • Planned, Executed and managed Several Infrastructure services migrations. • Planned, designed and wrote proposals for medium and large organizations for their infrastructure • Responded to RFPs and having many successful POCs for various customers

Designed and migrated MS Windows 2003 Active Directory to centralized MS Windows 2008 AD Management of network, and technical facilities in office premises consisting of about 300+ nodes Configured, and managed VMWARE ESXi 4.0 servers Configuration, and management of Kaspersky, WSUS, and GFI End Point Security Managing a team of 12 System Support Engineers. Management of Antivirus Client Server Architecture

Maintained network and technical facilities in HBL centre building consisting of about 200+ nodes. Installed, configured and managed of Windows 2003 Active Directory services. Installation, configuration and management of DNS. Plan & Handle Preventive maintenance of Servers and Devices. Managed e-mail Servers Installed, configured and maintained of Symantec Antivirus servers at 4 Regions Managed updates using Windows Server Update services (WSUS). Data Backup for email & Antivirus Servers. Plan & Handle Preventive maintenance of Servers and Devices

• Worked as Resident Engineer HBL (RHQ) Lahore. • Management of network and technical facilities in office premises consisting of about 250 nodes. • Troubleshooting Hardware, Softwares, and network problems • Electronic E-mail Configuration, Ms Outlook 2000/XP/2003/2007 configure and troubleshoot on site • Installing and Configure INBOX/Dell/IBM etc PCs using Windows 98 /2000/XP/Me/Vista with all available SP as well recommended Softwares • Installation Banking (Mysis, MOBs) Software’s and Network Settings and troubleshooting. • Installation, configuration and management of DNS. • Installation, configuration and management of WSUS, GFI End Point Security. • Installation, configuration and management of Antivirus Client Server Architecture. • Plan & Handle Preventive maintenance of Servers and Devices

BS (Hons) Computer Sciences