Ismail Latona
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since August 8, 2022
Ismail is a DevOps and site reliability engineer with ten years of work experience. He started his career in networks and server management and has worked for well-established companies like Ericsson, Huawei, and McAfee. He is an AWS, Cisco, and Red Hat Certified professional keen on working with systems architecture and diverse DevOps and SRE tools. Ismail is willing to work on new exciting projects that will benefit from his knowledge and expertise in DevOps and IT security.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 10 years
- Bash - 9 years
- Ansible - 6 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
- Python - 5 years
- Azure - 5 years
Work Experience
[Enterprise] SRE Engineer
Procore Technologies Inc. - Main
- Optimized service infrastructure and decommissioned old infrastructure for improved SLI and cost savings.
- Helped improve CICD workflows for faster deployment and efficient use of resources.
- Migrated to Terraform Cloud and modularization of the Terraform code.
DevOps Engineer
McAfee
- Implemented monitoring and deployment automation for 5,000 VPN service servers across over 50 countries.
- Refactored the application for connection and user monitoring on the VPN servers, reducing the failure rate by more than 50% and significantly increasing response time.
- Created data ingestion Lambda functions to ensure data is preprocessed before being sent to the data warehouse.
Senior Consultant
CGI
- Managed development and production environments for multiple clients in the financial sector.
- Implemented log aggregation and monitoring solutions for production and development servers.
- Created infrastructure as code for VMware and Azure environments.
Infrastructure Specialist
Rogers Communications
- Maintained Kubernetes clusters for development and production environments.
- Managed Jenkins environment for development builds, tests, and continuous integration.
- Set up logging and application performance monitoring (APM) for application and database monitoring.
Infrastructure Engineer
Huawei Technologies Co.
- Implemented configuration management and deployments using Ansible and Packer.
- Dockerized applications and set up container clusters and orchestrations.
- Set up centralized logging, monitoring, and configuration management for new network devices such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers.
Infrastructure Engineer
Ericsson
- Implemented ATM to the IP migration of microwave short-haul radios.
- Managed production servers and network devices, including firewalls.
- Engaged in security audits and analysis of existing and new devices.
Project History
VPN Service
I worked on the infrastructure provisioning for all the 5,000+ servers across the 50 countries supported by the VPN service. I also implemented monitoring and deployment pipelines, integrating back-end applications and databases to maintain the VPN servers.
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
The Linux Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco
Skills
Tools
Ansible, Terraform, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS IAM, AWS CloudFormation, VMware, Chef, Jenkins, OpenVPN, WireGuard, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Packer, KVM/Qemu, Nagios
Languages
Bash, Python, Go, SQL
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker
Storage
PostgreSQL, Datadog, SQL Performance
Other
Load Balancers, Cloud Services, Networking, Amazon RDS, AWS DevOps, Monitoring, Security, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Database Optimization, Dashboard Development, Technical Documentation, Network Security, Firewalls, Networks, SSL, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Argo CD, IOPS, AWS NAT Gateway
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