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Abdulaziz Saeed Alghamdi

Riyadh

Summary

Design and implement Kubernetes infrastructure, manage CI/CD pipelines, ensure cloud platform reliability, secure containerized environments, and monitor server performance. Also, build monitoring and observability systems using Grafana and Prometheus, address security vulnerabilities, transition applications from monolithic to microservices, oversee message-passing systems, provide technical support, automate tasks with Ansible, and manage deployments across platforms like Wildfly, Tomcat, and Nginx.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2014
2014
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Cloud Services Assistant Manager

Diriyah company
Riyadh
02.2025 - Current
  • Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure on Alibaba, AWS, Azure.
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process, ensuring rapid and reliable releases.
  • Configuration Management: Use tools like Ansible to automate configuration management and ensure consistency across environments.
  • Monitoring and Logging: Implement monitoring and logging solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, and CloudWatch to ensure the health and performance of systems.
  • Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce human error.
  • Security: Implement and maintain security best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and network security.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with software development, QA, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of new features and updates.
  • Disaster Recovery: Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
  • Cost Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud costs, identifying opportunities for savings without compromising performance or security.

Solutions Operation Specialist

Saudi Technology and Security Comprehensive Control (Tahakom)
Riyadh
06.2022 - 01.2025
  • Migrate and build applications from monolith to micro services by design and implementation strategy.
  • Build and design message passing systems with integrity in all required systems.
  • Implement and design a Kubernetes architecture in the infrastructure using Rancher to scale containers.
  • CI/CD with cloud native tooling.
  • Implement and design cloud monitoring and observability.
  • Hardening and securing Docker, Kubernetes, and software composition in the cloud.

Infrastructure / Operating System Engineer

National Information Center
10.2020 - 06.2022
  • Perform administration and support on AD 2016 and DC.
  • Maintain Firmware updates, troubleshoot, and setup hardware HPE servers.
  • Maintain, support, and monitor VMware vSphere 6.0/6.7 and vCenter and VMs.
  • Provide support and administrator to the NAGIOS monitoring.
  • Upgrade infrastructure components with the latest security patches, fixes, and updates using Satellite RedHat & WSUS.
  • Deploy, setup and upgrade web applications on IIS, Tomcat, Jboss and Websphere.
  • Implement and configure TLS/SSL on OS servers.
  • Setup and configure high availability mechanism between nodes.
  • Troubleshooting abilities on connectivity OS issues.
  • Mange and configure network on OS system.

Systems Administrator (UNIX & Linux)

Saudi Aramco
06.2016 - 12.2019
  • Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
  • Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.
  • Installing and configuring new hardware and software.
  • System performance tuning.
  • Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running.
  • Configuring, adding, and deleting file systems.
  • Set up and manage a large number of software developer workstations and development servers, virtual machines, and services based primarily on Linux OS.
  • Manage user accounts and permissions.

Software Engineer

Emirate of Eastern Province
02.2015 - 05.2016
  • Worked with Emirate of Eastern Province as a Software Engineer for handling applications and developed features using Java, Android Studio, C#, ASP.NET MVC4 Web application.

Software Engineer

Saudi Aramco
05.2014 - 02.2015
  • As a SAP Web Dynpro for ABAP Developer, I was involved with Saudi Aramco Company in The Plant Operation Information System Project, and I used to design SAP Crystal Report for screens and do the final testing for the system before moving it to production using XML.

Education

Bachelor - Computer Science

Al Baha University

Skills


  • Cloud Architecture
  • Message Passing (RabbitMQ)
  • Manage and build a distributed Kubernetes cluster using Rancher
  • Hardening and securing Docker, Kubernetes, and software composition in the cloud
  • Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
  • Working on cloud platforms (AWS, Alibaba, GCP, Azure)
  • Working on programming languages (Java EE, Python)
  • Working on Extensible Markup and Scripting Languages (XML, JSON, HTML, JS, JSP, CSS)
  • Leadership skills
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Problem-solving

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA
  • Cloud Native Application Architecture Certificate, Udacity
  • HiPo Program
  • Redhat Certified System Administrator, Redhat
  • Red Hat Engineer Certificate, Red Hat
  • Introduction to Programming using Python Certificate, Misk - Udacity
  • VMware Certified Associate (VCA-DCV) Certificate, VMware
  • Development ASP.NET MVC4 Web Applications Certificate, Microsoft
  • Discovering and Implementing Your Leadership Strengths Certificate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Design Thinking: A Toolkit for Breakthrough Innovation Certificate, Kellogg Executive Education
  • AI Applications for Growth, Kellogg Executive Education
  • Business Analytics for Strategic Decisions, NUS Business School

PROJECTS

● CI/CD & Kubernetes Orchestration Designed and implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Nexus. Automated build, test, and deployment workflows with Jenkins, pushing Docker images and Helm charts to Nexus. Leveraged ArgoCD for GitOps-based continuous deployment to Kubernetes clusters. Built end-to-end observability with Prometheus and Grafana, enabling real-time monitoring and alerting for applications and infrastructure.


● Atlassian Suite Implementation Project
Automated the deployment and configuration of Atlassian Jira and Confluence instances.

CONTRIBUTE PROJECTS

● Riyadh Infrastructure Project Center system ( https://ripc.gov.sa/ )
● Transport General Authority ( https://tga.gov.sa/ )
● Truck Permit ( Ministry of Transport and Logistics Services - http://tep.sa/Truck-Permit/)
● Objection platform for truck weight and dimension violations ( Ministry of Transport and Logistics Services - https://obs.mot.gov.sa/)

Timeline

Cloud Services Assistant Manager

Diriyah company
02.2025 - Current

Solutions Operation Specialist

Saudi Technology and Security Comprehensive Control (Tahakom)
06.2022 - 01.2025

Infrastructure / Operating System Engineer

National Information Center
10.2020 - 06.2022

Systems Administrator (UNIX & Linux)

Saudi Aramco
06.2016 - 12.2019

Software Engineer

Emirate of Eastern Province
02.2015 - 05.2016

Software Engineer

Saudi Aramco
05.2014 - 02.2015

Bachelor - Computer Science

Al Baha University

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