devops engineer
confidential
Total years of experience :7 years, 6 Months
Implemented Ansible playbooks to automate system provisioning and
configuration management, reducing deployment times by 40%.
Orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes, ensuring high
availability and scalability of microservices.
Developed infrastructure as code (IAC) templates using Terraform,
enhancing infrastructure provisioning and management.
Collaborated with development teams to establish CI/CD pipelines,
integrating GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins for automated testing and deployment.
Conducted regular security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and patch
management to ensure a secure infrastructure.
Created and maintained documentation for system configurations,
troubleshooting procedures, and best practices.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical
issues and optimize performance.
.Managed a 2.5 Million QR budget and Reduced costs while improving the level of service by utilizing the latest tools & technologies.
.Performed to build state-of-the-art active-active Data centers where
both can serve an application anytime with 24/7 automated monitoring.
.Presented design solutions to implement software load balancing services like F5 LTM, GTM, ASM, load balancers, and traffic managers in addition to diagnosing performance and stability-related issues resulting in a 35% average increase in performance.
.Introduced a process and monitoring automation to improve and consolidate end-to-end service processes, restructured monitoring flow among IT departments, and cut down human error by 75%.
.Optimized legacy data storage and search queries for the high-volume external web application, minimizing the average response time by 63%.
.Developed automation tools that streamlined infrastructure deployment processes and reduced manual effort and cost by 92%.
.Led two key projects targeting the improvement of data protection and security, increasing the security rate by 24%.
.Proposed and carry on a vehicle tracking system which decreased the maintenance and fuel consumption cost by 30%.
.Established dark fiber networks between the branches which increased the bandwidth & availability by 100%.
.Reduced power requirements by 40% through improving multiple performance measures and shifting from per metal to Virtualization and Docker.
.Managed RHEL, Solaris 11, Ubuntu,
Oracle SPAC, Oracle T8-4, and Oracle ZFS storage appliance
Projects
Ldom Migration
HPE 3PAR to ZFS Migration
Migration from HP-UX to Oracle Solaris & SPARC servers
.Managed and fielded DDOS protection, Arbor, and F5 ASM which drop the attacks by 60%.
. Implemented 2FA solution across multiple services using Cisco DUO.
The project leads to transforming IT organizations to comply with ISO 27001.
. The project leads to transforming Swift payment Gateway to comply with ISO.
.Increased help desk team productivity by 56% by implementing the JIRA service desk ticketing system.
.Mentoring the support team, providing training, and conducting performance evaluations
.Conducted the server configuration and performance-tuning of crucial infrastructure to ensure seamless business operations by setting up automation tools to monitor servers' HW, App utilization, and networks at 5 remote locations.
.Conducted regular maintenance and access reviews on domain controllers, Linux, Unix, and Virtualization including patching and updating software on a monthly schedule.
.Achieved RCA for service downtimes by administering extensive diagnostics which enabled continuous development velocity leading to 40% shorter downtime. as well as determining the root causes for any performance issues.
.Improved surveillance using custom scripts for proper monitoring.
Reduced the false positive alerts by 80%.
.Trained and supervised 6 system engineers in daily operations, such as system backups, system restores, and managing 350+ infrastructure devices.
.Introduced and implemented open source project PFsense firewall, Squid,
Snort, BF Blocker NG for web filtering.