galal elatfawy, Senior DevOps Engineer

galal elatfawy

Senior DevOps Engineer

ChannelVAS

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Digital Control
Experience
14 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 11 Months

Senior DevOps Engineer at ChannelVAS
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since December 2018

Managing cloud Environment (AWS, Azure, digital ocean).
Managing DEVOPS tools like (Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Containerization, Docker, SWARM, Kubernetes, Ansible, Monitoring, nginx, etc.)
Develop requirements, outlines, budgets, and schedulers for information technology projects.
Oversee all phases of project from conception to completion.
Assist with upgrading information security.
Manage team of SysAdmin, Technical Support, and Application Support.
Ensure project is completed within budget and on time.
Develop work-breakdown structures.
Develop project tracking and variance reports.
Assemble risk management plans and work effort documents.
Create project documentation.
Provide risk assessment.
Review estimates.
Assess new opportunities.
Prepare proposals.
Flag potential issues.
Manage multiple vendors.
Utilize in-depth technical knowledge and business requirements to design and implement secure solutions to meet customer / client needs while protecting the corporation's assets.
Develop security standards, procedures, and guidelines for multiple platforms

IT Manager at Efile and DevOps Engineer. at Efile
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2017 to December 2018

• Managing cloud Environment (AWS, Azure, digital ocean).
• Managing DEVOPS tools like (Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, Docker, SWARM, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Responsible for entire IT infrastructure of corporate headquarters and 2 offices (Egypt and UAE). Provide leadership and direction for 3 Employees at locations. Hands-on manager and technical lead for all IT-related projects.
• Responsible for ongoing development and management of the servers and network, system security, overseeing department budget and planning, and maintaining accurate documentation including resource time tracking and network design documents.
• Provide daily support of individual computers and employees. Led special projects while ensuring they met strategic business requirements and were completed on time and within budget constraints:
• Facilitated server builds and network configurations, including migration to virtual environment
• Designed intranet for employees to share and search for information housed in the database, library or archives
• Established asset management practices to track technological assets from purchase to disposal
• Develop and implement network security policies
• Build new HQ including electric and network design and implementation.
• Build new data center for the new HQ.
• Developed and implemented Backup policies.
• Designed, configured and installed wireless network at remote offices.
• Defined, documented and published all IT policies, procedures and standards.
• Administration and support of all infrastructure including Windows servers, /print servers, Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 servers, Active Directory and DNS services, firewalls, Switches and Cisco routers.

senior system administrator "Data center manager" at aloula
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2015 to February 2017

Projects:
 Migrating AD Environment to 2012 for some DCs and planning to migrate other DCs.
 Installing Hyper V and ESXI on some Hosts.
 Install Veeam Backup and replication v8.
Operations:
 Managing Active directory (2003, and 2012) on 2 physical sites and 2 logical sites.
 Managing Active directory (2003, 2012) Users and Computers.
 Managing DNS, DHCP, Print servers, .
 Managing Active directory GPOs.
 Managing Fortigate UTM.
 Managing Virtualization with Hyper V, , NAS Storage, HP SAN storage.
 Clustering and Replication Solutions for HA with Hyper V.
 Managing MS Exchange 2010, and planning to migrate to exchange 2013.
 Managing backup solutions using Veeam Backup and replication v8 and backup exec 2014 for about 10 servers.
 Basic knowledge of scripting using VBscript and Power Shell.
 preparing to managing linux enterprise v 6 on 6 servers including clustering.
 managing SQL databases backup and security.
 communicating with vendors and suppliers.
 managing file servers Quotas and FSRM.
 deploy new patches and updates.
 deploying new OS systems using WDS.
 managing antivirus server using kasper security center v 10.

IT Senior System Administrator at sigma-pharmaceuticals
  • Egypt
  • July 2013 to January 2015

Projects:
 Install SCCM 2012.
 Upgrading to Exchange 2013 .
 Migrating AD Environment to 2012 for some DCs and planning to migrate other DCs.
 Installing Hyper V and ESXI on some Hosts.
 Install Lync 2013 for basic features only.
 Install Veeam Backup and replication v7.
Operations:
 Managing Active directory (2003, and 2012) on 4 physical sites and 2 logical sites.
 Managing Active directory (2003, 2012) Users and Computers.
 Managing DNS, DHCP, Print servers, File Servers.
 Managing Active directory GPOs.
 Managing TMG before changing our firewall to Fortigate.
 Managing SCCM 2012 services like (End Point Protection, Software Update, Windows Deployment, and Software Deployment).
 Managing Virtualization with Hyper V, VMware V-Sphere on 2 HP Blade (32 Hosts) system and Virtual San Storage, NAS Storage, 2 EMC storage.
 Clustering and Replication Solutions for HA with Hyper V and VMware V-center.
 Managing MS Exchange 2007, and planning to migrate to exchange 2013 with about 1000 Mailbox.
 Managing backup solutions using Veeam Backup and replication v7.
 Basic knowledge of scripting using VBscript and Power Shell

IN & IT Operation Senior Specialist at Etisalat
  • Egypt
  • April 2013 to July 2013

 Managing global
Outages for all company network, nodes components and systems include (exchange server, file server, etc...).
 (Billing & Rating LHS - Bill Cycle - Data Warehouse - Business application)
 (Charging system CS4.0) health checks on all modules and handling trouble tickets regarding any IN problem.
 Executing Bill Cycle.
 1st line troubleshooting of business applications.
 Undergoing all Production tasks according to Operational manuals.
 Monitoring All Business Critical Applications and systems.
 Ensure all applications changes are followed by the Change Management Process
 Data Warehouse Extraction.
 Provisioning & missing profile (Billing or IN or HLR) & Trouble Tickets Handling.
 Billing Payments.
 Managing Rating chain.
 Monitoring tools.
 IN Voucher Activation.
 UC4 usability.

IN & IT Operation analyst at Etisalat
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2012 to April 2013
IT Technical Support Site Engineer at etisalat-misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2009 to October 2012
Microsoft Instructor at Orascom Academy
  • Egypt
  • June 2009 to December 2009

MCSE instructor

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Digital Control
  • at Tanta
  • November 2005
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering; Computer Science & Digital Control
  • at Tanta University
  • November 2005

Specialties & Skills

Backup Exec
Microsoft Servers
Blade Servers
Virtualization Technology
Unix Shell Scripting
Unix solaris 10
Exchange server
Hyper V
VMware Virtualization Products
Backup Exec
Microsot ISA Server
Virtualization
SCSM 2012
IT Technical Skills
Active Directory

Languages

English
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

MCITP (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
January 2013
Unix Shell Scripting (Training)
Training Institute:
Unix Shell Scripting
Date Attended:
January 1930
SCCM 2007/2012 (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
January 1930
Solaris 10 admin (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle solaris
Date Attended:
December 2012

Hobbies

  • Playing Ping Pong