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Hussam Alahmadi

Riyadh

Summary

Cloud Operations Director with 10+ years driving digital transformation across government and enterprise sectors in Saudi Arabia. Led migration of 730+ workloads to Azure, achieving 20% operational cost reduction and 40% infrastructure scaling. Expert in Kubernetes, DevOps automation, and building high-performing technical teams that deliver 60% faster deployments and 90% reduced downtime.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Operations Director

SPL
04.2024 - Current
  • Defined and led the organization's cloud strategy, aligned with corporate digital transformation goals.
  • Built the cloud function, laying the foundation for a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient environment.
  • Directed the development of cloud-native digital services and enabled high-performance DevOps delivery.
  • Led the successful migration of over 730 workloads to Azure, helping the business cut operational costs by 20%.
  • Developed and guided our cloud strategy and roadmap, which helped us scale infrastructure by 40%.
  • Reduced our overall cloud spend by 20% by identifying opportunities to rightsize resources.

DEVOPS MANAGER

STC
04.2022 - 04.2024
  • Led and managed a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and setting strategic goals, resulting in a 40% improvement in deployment speed and team performance.
  • Designed, deployed, and managed Kubernetes clusters in production, leading to a 90% reduction in infrastructure downtime and enhanced scalability.
  • Automated software build, deployment, and release processes, resulting in a 60% improvement in deployment.
  • Migrated legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes, reducing cloud costs by 35% and improving system performance and fault tolerance.
  • Enforced infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, enabling consistent, repeatable environments and cutting configuration drift by 80%.
  • Implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems.

DevOps Engineer | Senior Integration Developer

THIQAH Business Services
04.2020 - 04.2022
  • Contributed to the development of digital integration platforms and automation frameworks.
  • Collaborated across departments to support digital innovation initiatives.

INTEGRATION DEVELOPER

Ministry Of Hajj and Umrah
11.2015 - 04.2020
  • Played a key role in digitalizing services, improving government operations through software integration.

Education

Bachelor of Science - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

King Abdul-Aziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
06-2015

Skills

  • Strategic Planning & Execution
  • Cloud operations management
  • Organizational Leadership & Team Development
  • Stakeholder Management & Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Building and Transformation Systems and Cloud Solutions

Certification

  • High Impact Leadership, London Training for Excellence
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Professional Scrum Master I
  • Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate
  • API Designer- API Academy
  • API Security Architect - API Academy
  • API Development on Google Apigee API Platform

Timeline

Cloud Operations Director

SPL
04.2024 - Current

DEVOPS MANAGER

STC
04.2022 - 04.2024

DevOps Engineer | Senior Integration Developer

THIQAH Business Services
04.2020 - 04.2022

INTEGRATION DEVELOPER

Ministry Of Hajj and Umrah
11.2015 - 04.2020

Bachelor of Science - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

King Abdul-Aziz University

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