Ali Mohamed

Key Responsibilities

• Managed cloud infrastructure across AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPN) and Huawei CCE, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, enhancing deployment speed and consistency.
• Designed, developed, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing manual interventions.
• Automated application deployments with ArgoCD for reliable GitOps workflows.
• Implemented monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for proactive incident response.
• Optimized AWS staging environment costs by 50% through resource rightsizing.
• Reduced CI/CD pipeline runtime using Docker layer caching, cutting build time and compute usage.

Project: Wukad Duration: 3 Months

Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Provided part-time DevOps support for the Wukad project in collaboration with cloud, security, and development teams.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build, integrated with Bitbucket for automated builds and deployments.
• Installed, configured, and managed Argo CD to enable GitOps-based deployments on Kubernetes.
• Deployed and configured Kubernetes Ingress Controller, managing routing, TLS, and service exposure for applications.
• Containerized applications using Docker and automated image builds and pushes via Cloud Build.
• Supported SAMI security and compliance audits, including audit preparation, evidence collection, and remediation activities.
• Installed and configured Kaspersky Security Agent on servers to meet endpoint security and compliance requirements.
• Deployed and managed Splunk Universal Forwarder for centralized logging, monitoring, and audit visibility.
• Supported GCP and GKE operations, troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, and security issues.
• Ensured adherence to security and operational best practices across CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Managed cloud infrastructure across AWS EKS and OCI, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Developed CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments using ArgoCD, Jenkins.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Led the development and maintenance of infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring consistent, reproducible, and scalable deployments across cloud platforms.
• Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Deployed and managed observability tools including Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki to monitor application performance and logs. Conducted tuning and proactive troubleshooting to improve system efficiency.
• Development Team Collaboration: Worked closely with developers to identify and resolve technical issues, improve CI/CD workflows, and maintain a seamless transition from development to production. Participated in on-call support to reduce downtime and ensure stability.
• Process Automation & Efficiency: Automated key operational tasks to reduce manual effort, enhance deployment reliability, and accelerate development cycles.