Mosudi Isiaka

Mosudi Isiaka

Data Center Infrastructure

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Current Positions:

Data Centre Manager
One Network Management Services Ltd. | Lagos , Nigeria
Manager
Feb. 2012 – May 2017
Responsibilities included install, configure, and support the LANs, WANs and Internet systems, Data Center Collocation On-boarding, maintain network and workstation hardware and software, monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support network availability, supervise and train network support technicians and coordinate network security measures., manage capacity planning activities to enhance the performance of the network resources, ...
Technical Reviewer
Packt Publishing Limited | Birmingham , United Kingdom
Individual Contributor
June 2015 – Jan. 2016
  1. Mastering Python High Performance by Fernando Doglio, Published Sept. 2015.
  2. Mastering Linux Network Administration by Jay Lacroix, Published Nov. 2015

My name is Mosudi lsiaka, I am 41 years old, married with three children. I am a Postgraduate student at the department of Telecommunication Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna, a graduate of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Federal University of Technology Minna,Nigeria. I have demonstrated excellent skills in numerous aspects of Information and Communications Technology. A very good experience in Local Area Network implementation and management, from a simple network to a mid-level complex network scenario of not less than a thousand Workstations with Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory Domain Controller deployed in more than single location. I have the the capacity to deploy Data centre infrastructures ranging from Firewall & Intrusion Detection System, Web/Email Hosting Control Panel, VPN Gateway, Network Management Systems, Virtualization and cloud computing, Routing, Link Bonding, Redundancy, Fail-over and Clustering, to WAN link optimization with available off the shelf hardware servers at little or zero additional cost using open source software to deliver enterprise grade network solutions.
I have within the last 20 months Setup KVM, I mean Kernel-based Virtual Machine, virtualization infrastructure on Ubuntu Linux server at in house data center and MTN Nigeria Data Center facility with own storage replication of virtual machines at a remote data centre colocation facility in United Kingdom using GlusterFS, glusterfs is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients. Provide secure online availability of Servers (hardware and virtual machines) services and applications. Network and System Monitoring and Management platform using Icinga2. I have running a couple of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machines behind FreeBSD virtual machine as a firewall gateway. Setup Zimbra Collaboration Suite groupware email server. I equally setup Web and Email hosting control panel.

Reading technical journals/books; this has helped me gain knowledge in various issues of life like time management and personal development/effectiveness. I enjoy watching news and documentaries; it imbibes in me the values of being conscious of my environment, and persistence portrayed by unfolding news events and established facts in documentaries.

Latest Project

Cloud Computing - OpenStack®

Implementation of OpenStack Ocata - Cloud Computing

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MioCloud

Open source software for creating private and public clouds. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.

OpenStack® delivers a common architecture that is open, secure and flexible across private, public, and hybrid clouds.

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TDD- Test-driven development (TDD)

Test-driven development (TDD) using Python from a beginner point of view.

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Ansible- Automate my IT solutions going forward

Automation with Ansible while source code management using Git, removes the complexity that comes with every IT environment. I will be automating the whole process from provisioning of ec2 AWS Ubuntu server instance to installation of Docker, Icinga2, Icingaweb2 with dependencies, prerequisite application suits, systems update and swap creation and action..

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ICINGA 2- The best of opensource data center infrastructure monitoring

Icinga 2 features a new configuration format that is intuitive to write, efficient to execute and even adjusts to the changing conditions of your environment at run-time (This Deployment document remains valid for use on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS...

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Docker Installation on AWS Instance

Docker installation on Ubuntu Linux server AWS Instance. Docker containerization is a little different than hypervisor-based server virtualization. But encapsulating an application in a container with an operating environment achieves many of the benefits of loading and application onto a virtual machine (This Deployment document remains valid for use on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS...

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One Network - Data Center Onboarding

KVM virtualisation infrastructure on Ubuntu Linux server at MTN Nigeria collocation facility with own storage replication of virtual machines at a remote data centre collocation facility in UK using GlusterFS. Provide secure online availability of Servers(virtual machines) services and applications (Backend and...

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ChamsCity - Network Infrastructure and Management

Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controller using Windows server 2008 R2 and the integration of not less that one thousand Workstations(Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems) at the two ChamsCity Digital Mall locations (ChamsCity, Ikeja and ChamsCity, Central Business District, Abuja) Firewall with advance web filtering using a FreeBSD ...

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LASRRA - Long Distance Point-to-Point

A single hop point to point wireless link between Lagos State Ministry of Science and Technology, State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja and Library, Sangotedo, Eti Osa Local Government Area, Lagos. The link span is about 35 kilometer...

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Other Projects

Open Source Routing Platform

There was a need for high resource router with capacity to handle network traffic for more than a thousand connected workstations, with not less than 30 access layer switches, about ten aggregation layer switches as well as a core switch...

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Open Source Firewall Open Source

Firewall, NAT, Port forwarding, VPN, IDS and redundancy/failover. Quick on your mind are:
. Cisco PIX (Private Internet Exchange).
. Assure Managed Firewall

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Web/Mail Hosting Control Panel Open Source

  • Manage multiple servers from one control panel
  • Web server management (Apache2 and nginx)
  • Mail server management (with virtual mail users)
  • DNS server management (BIND and MyDNS)
  • Virtualization (OpenVZ)
  • Administrator, reseller and client login

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Work Experience

Data Centre Manager - One Network Management Services Ltd. (2012 - Present)

Responsibilities included install, configure, and support the LANs, WANs and Internet systems, Data Center Collocation On­boarding, maintain network and workstation hardware and software, monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support network availability, supervise and train network support technicians and coordinate network security measures, manage capacity planning activities to enhance the performance of the network resources, perform routine backups and archival of files on the network to assist with disaster recovery, analyse user support statistics and other data and recommend appropriate measures, assists in maintaining the operating system and security software utilized on the network, Interract with vendors and service providers, responsibility for effective cost management of the organization expenditure on Network/Server infrastructures.

Network Engineer/Administrator - Daybreak Afrika Technologies (2006 - 2011)

Responsibilities included responsibility for technical operations, provide support in resolving network problems either directly on site or via telephone, engineer, design and conduct trade off studies on network projects, Conducting site surveys. Maintenance/service support of installed locations, training on wireless/wired LAN Technology and Linux server administration.

Wireless Network Engineer/Administrator - Naira.Com Nigeria Ltd (2004 - 2005)

Responsibilities included Conducting site surveys, Deploying Wi­fi solutions at clients’ premises, Configuring Wireless access points, Maintenance/service support of installed locations, Preparation of training and certification materials, Responsibility to technical operations manager, Engineer, design and conduct trade off studies on network projects for clients, Implementing and administering IEEE 802.11 family standard of radio network using off shelf and proprietary radio and devices both in the license­free and licensed band, Provide support in resolving network problems either directly on site or via telephone, Implementing and administering Microsoft family of operating systems.

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