Karam Ajaj

Helmond , The Netherlands . karam.ajaj@hotmail.com

A certified professional, enthusiastic about new technologies, eager to learn, and be challenged in order to grow and further improve my IT skills.
I possess excellent analytical and communications skills that I utilize to achieve my greatest passion in life which is using my technical know-how to benefit other people and organisations.
Currently looking for an opportunity to utilise my technical skills in a challenging working environment and become a valuable asset to the organisation that I work for.


Experience

Datacenter and Cloud Specialist

• Aligning architecture choices with the security team, consultants and project engineers.
• Lifecycle management and capacity management for cloud and data center services.
• Maintaing the highest level of quality of our customers' infrastructure.
• Delivering and maintaining relevant commissioning, management guidelines and technical documentation of data center and cloud services.
• Training and coaching junior and medior data center engineers.

Waalre, The Netherlands
September 2021 - Present

System Engineer Cloud

• Designing, implementing, monitoring and ensuring timely troubleshooting within an advanced IT infrastructure.
• Managing the lifecycle of servers, storage and network hardware.
• Automating tasks, using "state of the art" configuration management tools.
• Developing technical implementations of new products and services at both hardware and software level.
• Support of the product managers in translating the requirements from the business into specifications for the infrastructure.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands
April 2020 - September 2021

ICT system administrator

• Design, develop and maintain automation of VMWARE infrastructure.
• Design installation, management and routine upgrades of VMWARE infrastructure.
• Document the architecture and all procedures; prepare guidelines for other teams working with the platform.
• Monitor performance and maintain systems according to requirements.
• Ensure security through access controls, backups and firewall.
• Perform server administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, research event log warnings and errors, and resource monitoring, ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly.

Helmond, The Netherlands
July 2018 - April 2020

Network and system engineer

• Design and develop of the Network Infrastructure (new structure migration).
• Manage system rolls (Java based medical insurance system).
• Resolve problems for network components, cameras, printers, computers and servers.
• Coordinating the tasks for IT team.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware.

Damascus, Syria
March 2015 – October 2016

IT Specialist

• Printers and pc's hardware and software maintenance.
• Responsible for hardware, OS and network maintenance for (62) servers.
• Manage networks in several organizations (more than 1000 client).

Damascus, Syria
February 2014 – March 2015

Education

Hack Your Future

Coding School
Front End Web Developer

Amsterdam, Netherlands
March 2018 – June 2018

Damascus University

Bachelor of Science
Computer and Automation Engineering

Damascus, Syria
September 2009 – June 2015

Damascus University

HIAST
Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology

Damascus, Syria
September 2008 - June 2009

Certifications


Courses


Badges


Languages

Arabic (Native proficiency)
English (Full professional proficiency)
Dutch (Full professional proficiency)