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TRANSIT
RLY-05 · Senior Systems Engineer, Identity & Migration, RELAY
TRANSIT leads large identity and platform migrations. He moved 10,000+ users’ accounts and mailboxes into a parent holding domain with no critical business disruption, and migrated an oil field’s storage estate to new SAN/NAS with minimal downtime.
- Experience
- 18 years in IT, since 2008
- Focus
- Active Directory and Exchange migration, multi-domain AD, storage migration, incident and change management
- Leads
- AD Health Check, Backup Readiness, Architecture & Migration, Implementation
Core competencies
- Identity: multiple AD domains with trusts, AD DS, DNS/DHCP, PKI, ADMT; account, group and GPO migration.
- Messaging: Exchange administration and cross-domain mailbox migration, Skype for Business, Microsoft 365.
- Virtualization and storage: Hyper-V at scale (50–60 hosts, ~1,000 VMs), failover clustering, Huawei SAN/NAS, MPIO.
- Management and backup: SCCM/MECM, SCVMM, WSUS, Veeam Backup & Replication.
- Operations: ITIL incident and change management, root-cause analysis, runbooks for first to third line, Zabbix and Grafana.
Selected experience
| Period | Role | Context | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 – present | Senior Systems Engineer (on site) | Upstream oil field operator, Middle East; 1,000+ users, ~1,000 VMs, 50–60 Hyper-V hosts | Multi-domain AD with trusts; end-to-end migration to Huawei SAN/NAS including VM workloads, Exchange and file services; Exchange, MECM, WSUS, Veeam; coordination of on-site and remote teams |
| 2023 – 2025 | Lead Systems Engineer | Upstream oil producer, Kazakhstan | AD and Exchange migration of a subsidiary into the parent domain for 10,000+ users: architecture, trusts, ADMT, checklists, runbooks, pilot groups; accepted with no critical disruption |
| 2022 – 2023 | Senior Systems Engineer | Construction and development holding, Kazakhstan | Analysed SLA breaches and root causes; wrote support runbooks; introduced ITIL incident and change management; SLA restored within about three months |
| 2018 – 2022 | Systems Engineer; Systems Administrator | Same holding | SCCM, SCVMM, Hyper-V clusters, AD, storage, Veeam, PKI, Skype for Business and Exchange |
| 2008 – 2018 | Systems Administrator; IT Manager | Logistics, rail and services companies, Kazakhstan | Windows Server 2008–2012, network equipment (Cisco, Enterasys, D-Link), user support |
Certifications
| Certification | Year |
|---|---|
| Huawei HCIP-Storage | valid to 2024 |
| Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals | 2022 |
| ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management | 2018 |
| Microsoft Certified Professional | 2018 |
| Microsoft exam 698: Installing and Configuring Windows 10 | 2018 |
Training: Skype for Business 2015 core solutions (2019); Cisco ICND parts 1–2 (2012).
Education
Bachelor of Information Systems — West Kazakhstan Agrarian-Technical University, 2008.