Muhammad Aiman

Dedicated IT System Engineer and Technical Consultant with 4+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise server, storage, virtualization and data center operations. Proven track record in leading storage migrations, data center migration, executing infrastructure technical refreshes and managing VMware, Hyper-V and backup & disaster recovery. Experienced in team leadership, ensuring system stability and delivering enterprise-scale IT solutions while maintaining optimal team productivity.

Technical Consultant, Technology Lead at Alaunus Sdn Bhd (2024-01 – Present)

Led and supported large-scale enterprise data center migration projects, managing technical planning, risk assessment and implementation.

• Led enterprise storage migration projects, successfully transitioning from Dell Unity and VPLEX systems to Huawei OceanStor infrastructure for Ambank (2026).
• Led the end-to-end architecture, planning, and deployment of a multi-site, highly available hyperconverged solution for a SAS Virtualization Environment utilizing Dell PowerFlex R660 appliances, VMware vSphere 8.0, monitoring & log management using VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs and Disaster Recovery (DR) and replication strategies leveraging VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0 and vSphere Replication for Genting MY (2025).
• Orchestrated end-to-end storage migrations from Dell ME5024 to Dell PowerStore systems via Hyper-V Live Migration, managing comprehensive pre-migration assessments, hardware deployment, transitional Fibre Channel (FC) and MPIO connectivity design, and the secure validation and decommissioning of legacy environments for IGB (2025).
• Managed and executed critical data restoration operations from tape libraries directly to Dell EMC NetWorker servers. Performed traditional NetWorker client and NDMP filesystem recoveries utilizing the NetWorker Management and Administration Consoles for Halliburton MY (2025).
• Acted as Assistant Migration Lead for BKRM (Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad) Data Center Migration (2024-2025) managing infrastructure relocation.
• Served as technical lead for Petronas Lubricant International Data Center Migration (2024), coordinating 50+ server migrations with zero unplanned downtime.
• Architected and deployed a highly available VDI environment using VMware Horizon 8 Enterprise and NSX-T Data Center Enterprise Plus, engineering complex network topologies (Tier-0/1 Gateways, distributed switching, Server Load Balancers for UAGs) and implementing clustered NSX Managers, Edge nodes, and ESXi transport nodes with dedicated TEP IP pools and LAG for Halliburton MY (2024).
• Delivered server and storage migration projects utilizing P2V, V2V, and physical migration methodologies across VMware and Hyper-V platforms.
• Conducted technical workshops, risk assessments, and runbook preparation for migration planning and execution.
• Provided knowledge transfer sessions and training to customer technical teams and internal staff.
• Supported Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations, disaster recovery activities, and complex infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Managed team operations, daily assignment trackers, and task delegation while optimizing workflow and maintaining team productivity.

Deployment Engineer at Alaunus Sdn Bhd (2022-06 – 2023-12)

Dell Certified Deployment Engineer responsible for enterprise data center infrastructure deployment, maintenance, and optimization.

• Planned and configured a multi-site enterprise data protection solution for PTTEP (2023) across seven locations, deploying DellEMC Data Domain (DD6900/DD3300) and Veeam Backup infrastructures with 7-year retention policies featuring automated DR replication.
• Acted as Migration Engineer to deploy and execute seamless virtual machine migrations across four distinct data center environments KWSP (2023) utilizing VMware HCX, encompassing pre-migration replication, gateway transition management, and zero-downtime routing policy configuration.
• Deployed and maintained Dell EMC servers (PowerEdge), storage arrays (PowerStore, Unity, SC, MD, ME Series), and network switches in enterprise environments.
• Designed and implemented VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environments with high availability clustering and failover capabilities.
• Configured SAN environments including iSCSI and Fibre Channel zoning for Dell EMC storage platforms, optimizing storage performance and connectivity.
• Installed, hardened, and maintained Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 and VMware ESXi/vCenter infrastructure following security best practices.
• Planned and implemented Disaster Recovery solutions using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Performed firmware upgrades, security patching, health checks, and system reporting across 100+ enterprise servers.
• Conducted hardware maintenance including server racking, cabling, labeling, and data center relocation activities.
• Collaborated with customers on deployment planning, technical troubleshooting, and infrastructure optimization initiatives.

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours in Mechanical Engineering – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (2016 – 2020)

Foundation in Life Science in Life Science – Universiti Malaya (2015 – 2016)