Cloud Engineer & DevOps Engineer & Linux Administrator

DevOps engineer with 3 years of experience. For over a year and half he has been working mostly with Ansible, Kubernetes and Docker. He is also skilled in ELK, OpenShift, Podman, Cloud providers such as IBM Cloud, Nexus. He has experience with networks and Linux. He was currently building Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Clusters on VMware vSphere using UPI air gap method on customer's data center. He also deploys ELK/ELK Stack for monitoring OCP and apps running on it, supports Red hat OpenShift Cluster on Day2 Operations, applies the customer's security Technical Specifications and standards, and provides IVT Testers the test steps and evidence for everything that has been deployed on the customer's environment to ensure everything has been built accordingly. He was also modifying and editing Python and Bash scripts. However, he was never writing them from the beginning. In his free time, he is also learning AWS and Azure. He was deploying databases inside the Openshift. Previously he worked as a Linux System Administrator, where he provided 2nd level support regarding operating systems, evaluated Software to be installed from security perspectives, planned and executed back-up configurations, monitored system performance, processes, and space, installed, deployed and administered special software upon request for customers, and implemented systems hardening policies. He is holding several certifications. He is fluent in English and Arabic.

DevOps Engineer, 2021-present:

• Designing and building Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Clusters on VMware vSphere using UPI air gap method on customer's data center.
• Deploying ELK/ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Fluentd, and Kibana) for monitoring OCP and apps running on it.
• Supporting Red Hat OpenShift Cluster on Day2 Operations.
• Applying the customer's security Technical Specifications and standards for all environment servers, mainly for OCP deployments using RHCOS VMs on VMware vSphere.
• Integrating external solutions with OpenShift like LDAP, Qradar, Netcool, IBM Secret server Vault, IWS, ServiceNow, etc.

Linux System Administrator, 2020-2021:

• Providing 2nd level support regarding operating systems.
• Evaluating software to be installed from security perspectives.
• Planning and executing backup configurations.
• Monitoring system performance, processes, and space.
• Installing, updating, and managing resources for system installations and allocations.