AHMED FATHI
Riyadh
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in cloud-native architectures specializing in OCI and GCP. Proven experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows. Skilled in building high-availability systems, implementing comprehensive observability solutions, and designing secure infrastructure. Known for delivering resilient platforms that drive operational efficiency and business innovation.
Experienced DevOps professional prepared for this role with strong background in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation tools. Adept at fostering team collaboration and achieving results, flexing with changing needs, and ensuring reliability. Skilled in containerization, orchestration, and configuration management, with focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification
Work History
Sr. DevOps Engineer
TAKAMOL Holding
09.2023 - Current
- Designed and managed infrastructure primarily on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with supporting disaster recovery systems in GCP using Terraform
- Architected and implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative application deployments across environments
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with comprehensive Terraform modules for GitLab, Teleport, Bytebase, and RabbitMQ and ArgoCD
- Deployed and managed Vault for centralized secrets management and enhanced security posture
- Led PostgreSQL database administration with high-availability configurations using PgPool for connection pooling and load balancing
- Implemented robust backup and disaster recovery solutions using PgBackRest and GCP Storage Transfer Service for synchronizing S3 DR production data
- Deployed Bytebase for database change management and governance, improving database CI/CD processes
- Built and maintained highly available Kubernetes clusters across Oracle Cloud regions (Jeddah/Riyadh) in active/active configuration
- Implemented NGINX Service Mesh for enhanced service discovery and communication
- Integrated and managed Teleport in multi-region HA architecture for secure infrastructure access
- Deployed SealedSecrets for secure Kubernetes secret management
- Conducted security assessments using Burp Suite and implemented remediation measures
- Set up ClamAV and Qualys for ongoing security scanning
- Configured and managed GCP Certificate Authorities for secure communications
- Architected observability stack with Prometheus, Thanos, and Pushgateway for metrics collection and long-term storage & Configured custom ScrapeConfigs for detailed monitoring
- Implemented Grafana dashboards for visualization of system and application metrics
- Deployed Loki with Promtail for centralized log aggregation and search
- Integrated Trivy and SonarQube for vulnerability scanning and code quality in CI/CD pipelines
- Led regular infrastructure patching initiatives and security hardening tasks
- Automated system configuration management using Ansible and Ubuntu Landscape
DevOps Engineer
TIS
01.2022 - 08.2023
- Designed and deployed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters with complex networking configurations, including multi-zone private and public subnets
- Developed CI/CD workflows using Jenkins Groovy scripts for automated Helm chart deployments and rolling updates
- Implemented GitHub integration with Jenkins for event-driven and manual pipeline execution
- Managed PostgreSQL deployments and integration with application workloads
- Deployed and configured PLG stack for centralized logging and visualization
- Implemented Kube Prometheus Stack for comprehensive cluster metrics and performance monitoring
- Optimized container resources through liveness/readiness probes to ensure service resilience during updates
- Enhanced Docker image efficiency through multi-stage builds and container optimization techniques
- Integrated security scanning with SonarQube and Trivy for vulnerability detection in CI/CD pipelines
- Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.
- Deployed TLS-secured Nginx ingresses with cert-manager for automated certificate management
- Managed GKE cluster upgrades while ensuring service stability and minimal disruption
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
- Deployed and supported Camunda Platform for business process automation using Helm
Sr. System Engineer
EXAHOST
09.2020 - 01.2022
- Managed Windows and Linux server infrastructure, ensuring high availability of internal services
- Led server migration initiatives with focus on security hardening and backup strategy implementation
- Implemented monitoring solutions using Nagios plugins on Opsview platform
- Managed Azure DevOps repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact deployments
- Deployed and configured Zabbix for infrastructure monitoring and alerting
- Implemented AWS cloud solutions utilizing EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, and Auto Scaling groups
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize workflow efficiency and delivery speed
- Managed IAM policies and access controls for secure cloud resource management
- Maintained critical production systems, performing troubleshooting and performance optimization
- Established CI/CD workflows with GitLab CI for developer-friendly deployment processes
Linux System Engineer
ROOTGATE
08.2018 - 08.2020
- Managed Linux system security, backup, and recovery procedures
- Configured and maintained server networking infrastructure
- Deployed and managed LAMP/LEMP stacks for web applications
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to streamline release processes
- Built and configured RHEL/CentOS virtual machines in VMware environments
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve application performance and stability
- Migrated server workloads and resolved complex hosting issues
- Managed AWS services including EC2, S3, Route53, ELB, and EBS
- Implemented containerization strategies using Docker to modernize legacy applications
Education
Bachelor's degree - Communications and Electronics Engineering
Higher Institute of Engineering And Technology
Egypt06.2015
Skills
- Configuration management
- Automation
- Monitoring systems
- Disaster recovery design
- Highly available applications
- Fault-tolerant distributed applications
- Vulnerability scanning
- Scripting languages
- Containerization technologies
- Cloud computing expertise
- Microservices architecture
- Monitoring and logging
- Infrastructure automation
- Continuous integration
- Continuous deployment
- Virtualization technologies
- Software development tools: JIRA, confluence
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Security architecture design
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Database administration
- PostgreSQL
- PgPool
- PgBackRest
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- Vault
- SealedSecrets
- Teleport
- RabbitMQ
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate
- Google Associate Cloud Engineer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 01/12/91
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Sr. DevOps Engineer
TAKAMOL Holding
09.2023 - Current
DevOps Engineer
TIS
01.2022 - 08.2023
Sr. System Engineer
EXAHOST
09.2020 - 01.2022
Linux System Engineer
ROOTGATE
08.2018 - 08.2020
Bachelor's degree - Communications and Electronics Engineering
Higher Institute of Engineering And Technology
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