Asif Jilani Sheikh

• Spearheaded and managed a team of 10+ professionals to expertly resolve
• Veeam Backup issues for clients, resulting in high levels of client satisfaction.
• Cultivated strong relationships with clients to facilitate smooth onboarding of new projects and seamless migration of Veeam backup solutions to different systems.
• Developed and implemented effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that optimized team performance and workflow, resulting in increased efficiency and improved outcomes.
• Strategically planned and deployed Veeam Cloud Connect Setup and Veeam Service Provider Console for clients with bespoke infrastructure setups, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
• Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills by effectively supervising team members and driving superior outcomes, resulting in high levels of productivity and client satisfaction.
• Experience with Deployment of Veeam Backup and Replication
• Experience with configuring all type of backup jobs with Veeam (Backup,Backup Copy,Replication,SureBackup)
• Good knowledge at all the key components used for jobs configuration (Forward Incremental/Reverse Incremental/Active Full/Synthetic Full/App-aware processing/Backup Health Check/Encryption)
• Experience with protecting different types of infrastructure with Veeam like Microsoft Hyper-V/vmware/Physical/Public Cloud/Nutanix.
• Experience with configuring backup repositories with Veeam (NAS/DAS/AzureBlob/S3 Compatible storages)
• Experience with configuring Veeam Linux Hardened Repositories
• Experience with configuring Scale out backup repositories with Veeam
• Experience with configuring all types of backup proxies like vmware,hyper-v,Agent
• Experience with configuring Replication jobs and performing Failover during the DR situation
• Experience with planning and configuring Veeam Cloud Connect Servers
• Experience with Configuring Cloud Gateway server, Veeam Database server, Veeam Cloud Connect server, Creating tenants and allocating the storage Quota
• Experience with deployment of Veeam Service Provider Console for backup management
• Experience with configuring backup SureBakup jobs and Virtual Lab for backup validation and ensure backups are healthy
• Experience with performing all types of restores with Veeam (Instant VM Recovery/Full VM Restore/VM files restore/Virtual Disk Restore/Guest File Restore/Application Database Restore/Bare Meta Restore for Physical servers)
• Experience with configuring Veeam Backups for M365 using both modern authentication and basic authentication
• Experience with configuring Veeam Nutanix Backup jobs
• Experience with deployment and backup configuration using Veeam backup for Microsoft Azure
• Experience with deployment and backup configuration using Veeam backup for AWS
• Knowledge of configuring Reports using Veeam ONE
• Experience with configuring Backup Reports using Backup Radar
• Worked with other backups solutions like Cove Backups/MSP 360 backups/Azure Backups
• Experience with Managing NAS/QNAP (Firmware upgrade/Creating Share Folder for backups/Creating users and groups) Synology/QNAP/Bufallo Terrastation NAS

· Installing configuring maintaining 1000+ Veeam BNR.

· Experience in Veeam backup versions 9.0, 9.5,9.5 U1,U2,U3, 9.5 U3a,9.5 U4 9.5 U4a 9.5 U4b, 10a, 11

· Recently upgraded Veeam cloud connect the server to Veeam 11.

· Disaster recovery plans.

· Failover and failback plan and testing.

· Configure, Maintain and troubleshoot the backup infra, Physical server backups, VMs, VMware/Hyper-V, Nutanix, and Veeam backup for Azure.

· Experience in the File system, SQL, Oracle, Exchange, and Active Directory backup configuration and restore.

· Performing file level\VM\IR\BareMetal recoveries restoration task.

· Strong troubleshooting experience for backup failures.

· Knowledge of different types of Veeam BNR services and its service management

· Having Experience on Install, & maintain Veeam Cloud Connect server.

· Capacity planning and housekeeping activities for Backup repositories.

· Restoration like File system DB, SOL DB, Oracle DB Exchange DB.

· Experience on Perform recovery operations for VMs and physical machines, including 1-Click restore, 1-Click guest OS file restore, and application items restore (for Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, Microsoft SQL Server databases, and Oracle databases).

· Experience in vProxy Backups

· Experience in All types of backups like incremental, full, forward incremental, Forever forward incremental, and Reverse incremental backups.

· Decommissioning of clients by taking full backup with infinite retention and adding of new clients with customer approvals.

· Experience in Importing Backups like imported encrypted, Scale-out backup repositories.

· experience in Exporting Backups.

· Experience in creating Veeam ZIP backups.

· Having knowledge of WAN Acceleration.

· Deployment of Veeam Cloud Connect Server and managing Tenants and Storage

· Deployment of Veeam Service Provider Console and Managing Companies and Backup Failures

· Installing configuring maintaining 300+ Veeam BNR.

· Experience in Veeam backup versions 9.0, 9.5,9.5 U1,U2,U3, 9.5 U3a,9.5 U4 9.5 U4a 9.5 U4b, 10a

· Worked on various backup management tools to install and configure backups for servers as well as workstations. Also managing the schedule of backup jobs, restoration, space-related issues, and backup failures effectively within the specified window.

· NAS upgradation, mapping NAS through iSCSI initiator, Repairing & Scrubbing NAS

· Worked on Adhoc activities such as: Required software installation/up-gradation on remote machines

· Responsible for handling data through restoration like File system DB, SOL DB, Oracle DB Exchange DB, and VM ware based on client request.

· Experience on Perform recovery operations for VMs and physical machines, including 1-Click restore, 1-Click guest OS file restore, and application items restore (for Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, Microsoft SQL Server databases, and Oracle databases).