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Hazem Zein Elabedeen Hamed Ismail

Senior Technical Support Engineer
Cairo

Summary

I have more than 10 years of professional
experience, 6 years out of which supporting
private cloud and on-premises virtualization
and kubernetes deployments.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Technical Support Engineer

Sandvine
05.2023 - Current

- Support of 'ActiveLogic' Deep Packet Inspection portfolio in its different deployment forms as: bare-metal appliance, VM based on KVM or ESXi hypervisors, or a containerized network function (CNF) on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.

- Support of 'Insights Data Storage' database solution and its deployment as a docker container in a docker swarm cluster.

Senior Product Support Engineer - Tanzu Kubernetes

VMware
12.2021 - 05.2023

- Support All activities related to Tanzu kubernetes Grid service, Tanzu kubernetes Grid Multicloud (TKGm) and
Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) and their integration with:

1. Other VMware products: AVI, NSX-T, vSAN..

2. Open source software (OSS) like: private container registry (Harbor), monitoring system (Prometheus), multus container network interface..

- Support of Lifecycle of Guest kubernetes clusters (based on ClusterAPI), the health of ETCD database and other control node components, the creation and health of all system or user kubernetes resources on worker nodes.

- Support of VMware's container storage interface (CSI) and the creation of persistent volumes (PV) on VMware from all kubernetes solutions.

Senior Technical Support Engineer - VSAN/Infra

VMware
05.2018 - 11.2021

- Provide support to customers, using VMware vSphere product, in isolating, diagnosing, reproducing and fixing technical issues in a timely manner. Focusing on issues related to vCenter server, ESXi hosts and vSAN.
- Troubleshoot all vSAN related activities and configurations.

- Support all storage related activities on vCenter/ESXi hosts, including Fiber channel, NFS and iSCSI protocols.
- Support all activities related to virtual disks/VMs.

AIX Remote Software Support Engineer

IBM
03.2017 - 04.2018

- Deliver remote software support for IBM AIX
customers worldwide during US off-shift hours.
- Handle and manage customer problem
records related to different AIX OS components: Hardware Management Console (HMC) for Power machines, AIX TCP/IP
connectivity, (virtual I/O server) management.

Wireless Access Integration Professional

Alcatel-Lucent
03.2012 - 07.2016

I was a member of a project-based team and I did many roles as: BSS planning and operations, LTE commissioning, LTE support on the following projects:
Orange Project: Cairo, EG (03/2012 - 06/2014)
Mobily Project: Alkohbar, KSA (07/2014 - 07/2015)
Ice.net Project: Oslo, Norway (08/2015 - 12/2015)
Etisalat project: Abu Dhabi, UAE (02/2016 - 05/2016)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University
Cairo
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Zein El-Abedeen Experimental School
04.2001 -

Languages

Arabic
Native language
English
Advanced
C1

Technical profile

- Skills gained from work experience: Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Helm, VMware vSphere, vSAN, Tanzu.
- Skills gained from self-study: AWS basics,  CI/CD.

Certification

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Personal Information

Nationality: Egyptian
Marital Status: Single
Military Status: Completed

Timeline

Technical Support Engineer

Sandvine
05.2023 - Current

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

02-2023

VMware Certified Professional - Application Modernization 2022

12-2022

Senior Product Support Engineer - Tanzu Kubernetes

VMware
12.2021 - 05.2023

Udacity Cloud DevOps Engineer nanodegree

06-2021

VMware Specialist - vSAN 2019

06-2021

VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Data Center Virtualization 2020

12-2020

Senior Technical Support Engineer - VSAN/Infra

VMware
05.2018 - 11.2021

AIX Remote Software Support Engineer

IBM
03.2017 - 04.2018

Wireless Access Integration Professional

Alcatel-Lucent
03.2012 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Zein El-Abedeen Experimental School
04.2001 -
Hazem Zein Elabedeen Hamed IsmailSenior Technical Support Engineer