Haqi Lolah

Senior Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 20+ years of IT experience and extensive expertise designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud environments. Proven experience managing large VMware ecosystems, hyperconverged platforms, AWS cloud operations, and data center transformation initiatives. Specialized in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, HPE Synergy, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix, Cisco UCS, Windows Server, AWS, and hybrid cloud architectures.

Experienced leading infrastructure modernization, cloud migrations, disaster recovery solutions, automation initiatives, and enterprise platform optimization. Hands-on expertise supporting environments with 7+ vCenter platforms, 500+ ESXi hosts, 4,000+ virtual machines, 1,000+ physical servers, and 100+ remote locations. Skilled in PowerShell, Python, PowerCLI, Ansible, REST APIs, Git/GitHub, and infrastructure automation to improve operational efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Strong technical leaders experienced collaborating with cloud, security, networking, application, and operations teams to deliver secure, highly available infrastructure solutions supporting mission-critical enterprise workloads.

Expert IT Infrastructure Engineer - OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (OXY) - Houston, TX, USA

(2019-05)

Environment: CyrusOne Houston & Dallas Data Centers, Remote Sites, HPE Synergy 12000, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10, MSA 2050 SAN, NetApp Storage, Cisco UCS, Nexus Switches, HPE OneView, VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure.

• Manage and support enterprise data center infrastructure across multiple data centers and remote locations, including servers, virtualization, storage, and cloud platforms.
• Manage, support, and troubleshoot AWS cloud environments, including EC2 instances, VPC networking, subnets, security groups, IAM, route tables, load balancers, storage services, monitoring, and connectivity issues.
• Perform AWS operational support including incident troubleshooting, performance analysis, resource optimization, patch coordination, and cloud infrastructure health monitoring.
• Administer large-scale VMware environments including vSphere ESXi 6.x/7.x, vCenter Server, clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, templates, cloning, patching, and upgrades.
• Design, deploy, and maintain VMware infrastructure including cluster configuration, resource optimization, lifecycle management, and automation workflows.
• Manage HPE Synergy, HPE ProLiant servers, Cisco UCS, Nutanix, HPE SimpliVity, and SAN storage platforms including hardware upgrades, firmware updates, and troubleshooting.
• Configure and maintain enterprise storage solutions including HPE MSA, NetApp, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NAS, NFS, RAID, and SAS connectivity.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and third-level support for server, virtualization, storage, and infrastructure incidents.
• Support Windows Server environments including Windows Server 2016/2019/2022/2025, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, IIS, File Services, and Failover Clustering.
• Perform server hardware administration using HPE iLO, OneView, HPE SIM, and remote management tools for monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation.
• Implement infrastructure automation using PowerCLI, REST APIs, VMware Orchestrator, and scripting solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Manage VMware patching and upgrades using vSphere Lifecycle Manager / Update Manager, maintaining compliance with enterprise standards and SLAs.
• Support cloud infrastructure initiatives across AWS and Microsoft Azure, including migration activities, provisioning, and hybrid cloud operations.
• Implemented proactive infrastructure monitoring using SolarWinds, SNMP, VMware monitoring tools, and hardware management platforms including HPE iLO and OneView to improve availability, capacity planning, alert management, and incident response.
• Support enterprise networking technologies including Cisco L3/Nexus switches, VLANs, TCP/IP, VPN, firewalls, routing, and network connectivity troubleshooting.
• Participate in data center migrations, hardware refresh projects, system builds, disaster recovery activities, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.

System Engineer (Contract) - HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE (HPE) - Houston, TX, USA

(2018-11 - 2019-04)

Environment: HPE Synergy, Nimble Flash Storage, MSA 2050 SAN, ProLiant DL360/DL380 Servers, StoreOnce Backup, HPE OneView, VMware vSphere, NSX, vRealize Suite, Linux, Windows Server.

• Supported and managed enterprise HPE data center infrastructure including Synergy blade systems, ProLiant servers, SAN storage, fabric switches, and HPE OneView software-defined infrastructure.
• Administered VMware environments including vSphere 5.5/6.5, vCenter, ESXi, DRS, HA, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, NSX, and PowerCLI automation.
• Configured VMware networking including vSwitch, vDS, VMkernel ports, port groups, and NIC teaming.
• Installed, configured, and supported vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Automation, and vRealize Orchestrator for monitoring and infrastructure automation.
• Managed HPE Nimble and MSA SAN storage including provisioning, connectivity, and troubleshooting.
• Administered Windows Server environments including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, IIS, WSUS, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Supported Linux platforms including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian.
• Developed automation solutions using PowerShell, VMware PowerCLI, Ansible, and Ansible Tower to automate deployments, configuration management, and repetitive infrastructure tasks.
• Implemented Ansible playbooks for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and AWS environment automation.

System Administrator II - DATAMATICS GLOBAL SERVICES - Kansas City, MO, USA

(2016-11 - 2018-11)

• Managed enterprise VMware vSphere environments including vCenter Server, ESXi clusters, VM provisioning, templates, snapshots, cloning, vMotion, HA, and DRS.
• Support Windows Server environments including Windows Server 2008r2/2012/2016/, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, IIS, File Services.
• Administered Active Directory environments across Windows Server 2008/2012/2016, troubleshooting logon failures, account lockouts, Group Policies, authentication issues, network connectivity, and file/print permissions.
• Installed, configured, and administered Veeam Backup & Replication v9.x for backup, replication, and disaster recovery operations.
• Supported and optimized Linux environments including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Fedora, including OS upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Installed, configured, and supported HPE ProLiant Gen8/Gen9 servers, HPE MSA 2040 SAN storage, and HPE iLO 4 remote management.
• Administered Windows Server environments including Active Directory, Domain Controllers, DNS,