Tanaka Kambasha

IBM Power and AIX specialist with strong experience in banking infrastructure and full-stack capability across SAN, VMware, replication, backup, and disaster recovery. Delivered production infrastructure at Mitra Systems across Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia, including storage migrations, PowerHA clustering, FlashSystem PBHA, and dual-site replication in live banking environments for clients such as First Capital Bank, BancABC, and ZECHL.

Systems Engineer, Data Centre and Infrastructure - Mitra Systems (Pvt) Ltd - Harare, Zimbabwe

(2024-08)

• Design and implement IBM FlashSystem PBHA across dual-site environments, including partnerships, quorum configuration, partitions, and replication policies supporting high availability and disaster recovery.
• Lead storage migrations from legacy platforms to FlashSystem across live banking environments, achieving zero data loss and controlled maintenance windows.
• Own AIX LVM operations, including rootvg migrations, mirroring, and recovery of degraded volume groups, including emergency recovery on production systems.
• Configure and stabilise PowerHA clusters for production workloads, resolving RSCT and CAA communication failures and failover issues.
• Run IBM Power9 and Power10 environments end-to-end, including LPAR provisioning, Dual VIOS, and NPIV, ensuring stable compute operations.
• Design dual-fabric Brocade SAN zoning with full path validation, ensuring redundant host-to-storage connectivity.
• Manage backup and recovery using Veeam and IBM Spectrum Protect, including verified restore testing, while troubleshooting cross-layer issues across AIX, SAN, storage, and VMware environments.

Systems Support and Pre-Sales Engineer - Mitra Systems (Pvt) Ltd - Harare, Zimbabwe

(2022-11 - 2024-08)

• Supported IBM Power, VMware, SAN, and backup environments across banking and public sector clients, building the foundation for production delivery work.
• Drove pre-sales engagements end-to-end, including client discovery, solution design, sizing, and BoM preparation across IBM Power, FlashSystem, and VMware platforms.
• Authored technical proposals and RFQ compliance responses for banking and public sector tenders across IBM, Dell, and Lenovo platforms.
• Executed infrastructure deployments hands-on, including server commissioning, SAN zoning, storage presentation, and post-deployment validation.
• Operated at the intersection of pre-sales and delivery, translating designs into working environments and ensuring what was sold functioned in production.

BSc Honours - Computer Engineering - University of Zimbabwe (2024)