Natheer Daly, Sr DevOps Engineer

Natheer Daly

Sr DevOps Engineer

Emirates Community Empowerment

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Master's Degree in System and Network Administration
Experience
14 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 6 Months

Sr DevOps Engineer at Emirates Community Empowerment
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since December 2020

o Orchestrated and executed complex migrations of large-scale critical databases with minimal downtime.
o Set up the Kubernetes infrastructure by integrating industry best practices and essential add-ons while streamlining the application migration process and resource management with a scalable and Dont Repeat Yourself (DRY) approach.
o Implemented High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies for mission critical systems.
o Configured and maintained secure VPN connections for reliable third-party integrations.
o Provided dedicated support to development teams, enhancing productivity and collaboration.
o Ensured optimal uptime for the infrastructure through proactive management.

DevOps Engineer at Sicca Tech
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2018 to April 2020

o Orchestrated production and development Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
o Spearheaded the seamless migration of applications from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes environments.
o Managed the infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for consistency and efficiency.
o Implemented robust Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines employing Jenkins, Spinnaker, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions to accelerate and facilitate seamless multiple process deployments.
o Proficient in utilizing advanced logging and monitoring tools, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Influx DB, and Prometheus, to ensure system health and insights.
o Managed relational database systems, specifically MySQL and PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and accessibility.
o Provided dedicated support to development teams, enhancing collaboration and facilitating continuous improvement.

DevOps Engineer at LEGEND Information Technology
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • October 2017 to April 2018

o Led infrastructure migrations to Huawei cloud. Design and deliver hybrid cloud Infrastructure with IaC, network security, data encryption, disaster recovery, etc.
o Deploy and configure Kubernetes (online and offline), migration deployment from docker-compose
o Orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes and Helm
o Developed and maintained monitoring and logging systems using Loki, Prometheus, Zabbix and Grafana, improving system observability and uptime.
o Infrastructure as code with terraform for VMware and Huawei cloud infrastructure
o Collaborated with software development teams to integrate DevOps principles into the software development life cycle, resulting in improved quality and speed of software releases
o Configure integrated windows authentication (SSO) with key cloak, AD, ADFS for the application

System Engineer at Poulina Group Holding
  • Tunisia - Tunis
  • August 2015 to August 2017

o Maintaining Linux services (lxc, lxd, nginx, hap Roxy, MySQL, Swift) o Gathering, monitoring and analyzing logs (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Kiwi syslog, Zabbix, Host monitor). o Migrating of static files storage to an Object storage cluster (OpenStack Swift) o Introduced logs and metrics collection and analysis tools o Supporting high performance HLS video streaming (based on Nginx and FFMPEG) o Automating deployment using salt stack o Led new infrastructure on Azure cloud and disaster recovery configuration o Supporting Windows services: AD, DNS, GPO, DHCP, print server, WSUS, DFS, ISA, TMG Exchange 2010 (DAG, NLB), MS SQL 2008, 2012, remote app, Openfire o Upgrading Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 with DAG and NLB and Installing, configuring and supporting cisco ESW (IronPort) and ASA o Installing, configuring and supporting NetApp 2240 and 2455 with cifs shares and fiber channel to ESXI and EMC VNX 5300 with cifs shares and ISCSI to ESXI
o Configuring network security, hosts security, making and implementing security policies, documentation, remote offices combining (side-to-side, VPN, DMZ). o Upgrading VMWare vSphere from 5.0 to 6.0 and Vcenter from windows server to

Computer Science Instructor at PRIVATE CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
  • Tunisia - Tunis
  • September 2014 to July 2016

- Provided advice and support to students both individually and in groups, allowing optimal academic results to be achieved.
- Evaluated and graded students classwork, papers and assignments to assess course success and student understanding of materials.
- Worked with distance learning technology to facilitate online classroom environments.
- Administered sudden and rapid tests to determine comprehension rates among students.

Sr System Administrator at 3S Sharing Standard Software
  • Tunisia - Tunis
  • August 2014 to August 2015

o Supporting and configuring infrastructure and services: Virtualization (VMware, OpenStack), Windows services and Linux (asterisk, Apache, nginx, postfix, GIT, SVN)
o Deploying and configuring of VMware vSphere (clusters, Vcenter, SAN (Fiber Channel, iSCSI),
o Storages (NetApp, Free NAS, nexenta, open filer)), templates, configuring and managing of virtual machines.
o Python scripting for various tasks: backup, monitoring, to automate administration tasks and deployments using fabric.
o Configuring and supporting of CI/CD environment: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven, Apache Ant.
o Security project for control updates and collecting logs (greylog) and vulnerability scan use Kali-Linux, Nstalker, Acute tix, Lynis.
o Maintaining infrastructure security on all OSI layers (Vlans, ACL, Iptables, firewall, security groups, VPN, SSO, etc.)

IT Web Developer at INOVA SOFTWARE
  • France - Paris
  • June 2013 to June 2014

- Development of a callbot for customer relationship management.
Keywords: Node JS, Express JS, Angular, Mongo DB, Google Speech API, Asterisk, IBM Watson, Socket.io
Web Skills: Angular, React.js, Vue.js, Node.js, Nuxt.js, Server-Side Rendering, VueX,
Redux, Typescript, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, SOAP, REST Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Service

IT Support Engineer at INOVA SOFTWARE
  • France - Paris
  • October 2012 to June 2013

- Responsible for the documentations for technical support, data center designs and requirements and project workflows.
- Provides technical support for systems operating system, software and hardware to Linux Desktop users.
- Responsible for the effective handling of incidents and change request in emergency situations and assist team in resolution of software and system issues.
- Involve in technical support with third-party providers/vendor to resolve the incidents and bugs in their provided services and prepare the resolution documents in case of same incidents in future.

IT Web Hosting Technical Support Specialist at FUNIO
  • Tunisia - Ariana
  • August 2010 to August 2012

- Responsible for installation of web hosting panels such as Apache, cPanel, Direct Admin on CentOS and ubuntu servers.
- Responsible for MySQL high availability with master and slave rule in server. - Design authentication form to check whether the user is an authorized person to use the system.
- Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining CodeIgniter, PHP, Apache, DNS and MySQL on AWS cloud servers.

Education

Master's degree, Master's Degree in System and Network Administration
  • at Paris Est Marne la Vallée Computer university
  • January 2014
Master's degree, Master's Engineering Degree in Network Advanced Technics
  • at High college of communication (Sup'com)
  • January 2012
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's Degree in software Engineering
  • at High institute of computer science and Mathematics
  • July 2010

Specialties & Skills

Computer Service
C coding
C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
INFRASTRUCTURE
ARTIFACTORY
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
COLLABORATION
CISCO ADAPTIVE SECURITY APPLIANCE (ASA)
JENKINS
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
Virtualization VMware, Hyper-V
Linux systems Administration
Mendix Development Environment
Redhat administration
Windows administration
Power shell
MySQL, SQL Server
Network Administration
Mendix development
Terraform
Git Flow

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Languages

French
Expert
English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

Club Securinet INSAT Tunisie
  • Instructor Linux
  • November 2011
Club Robotix
  • Vice-President
  • September 2015

Training and Certifications

CCNP R&S (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2016
RHCE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
RHCSA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
MCSA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2014
LPIC2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
LPIC1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013

Hobbies

  • Swimming
  • Music