Asim Ali Tahir
IT Infrastructure & Security Consultant
MSc | AWS SA | VCP 6.5 | MCSE | RHCSA
Professional Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
December 2025
AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
November 2025
VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5)
December 2018
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHSA)
July 2017
MCSA: Cloud Platform – Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
April 2017
VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP 6)
December 2016
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) – Server Infrastructure
January 2013
VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP 5)
February 2015
Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization (CCP 7)
July 2014
Technical Skills
☁️ Cloud Platforms
- AWS (EC2, S3, Glacier, VPC, IAM, RDS, EBS)
- Azure (VMs, Networking, Active Directory)
- Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- Cloud Burst Rendering
- Multi-Region Deployments
🌐 Networking
- Fortigate Firewalls
- SSL VPN & IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN
- Layer 3 Switching (FS, Dell S-Series, Aruba)
- VLANs & Inter-VLAN Routing
- DMZ Setup & Network Segmentation
💻 Virtualization
- VMware vSphere & vCenter
- VMware Workstation & vGPU
- Hyper-V
- Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop
- Proxmox
- VDI Solutions
🔒 Security & Compliance
- DUO 2FA
- Teradici / HP Anyware
- ShotGrid Security
- KASM (Workspace Streaming)
- TPN Compliance (Gold/Blue Shield)
- Wazuh, Zabbix Monitoring
- Solarwinds SEM
⚙️ Automation & Configuration
- Ansible AWX
- Puppet
- Cobbler
- PXE Deployment
- MDT (Microsoft Deployment Tools)
- SCCM
💾 Storage
- Dell Isilon
- QNAP
- Hammerspace
- NFS & SAMBA
- AWS Glacier & S3
- iSCSI SAN
Disaster Recovery & Backup
🔄 Backup Solutions
- AWS Backup
- MSP360
- Veeam Backup
- BackupExec
- Offsite Backups
- 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
- Immutable Backups