Rowan is available for hire

Rowan Wally

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Porto, Portugal

Toptal member since December 3, 2025

Expertise

Linux Kubernetes Postman Ubuntu Jira Jenkins Grafana AWS System Administration AWS RDS DevOps AWS DevOps Python Ansible

Bio

Rowan is a DevOps engineer with over four years of experience in cloud automation, CI/CD pipeline development, and infrastructure management. Leveraging expertise across AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible, Rowan has built and maintained scalable, automated systems for enterprise environments. She also holds certifications, including AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, and Kubernetes Administrator.

Portfolio

Vodafone Intelligent Solution

AWS IoT, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines, Confluence, Bash Script, Grafana, Git...

Orange Business Services

AWS IoT, Linux, Python, Bash Script, APIs, Postman, Ansible, Terraform...

Experience

Ansible - 4 years
Terraform - 4 years
Bash Script - 4 years
Grafana - 4 years
Jenkins - 4 years
Ubuntu - 4 years
CI/CD Pipelines - 4 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4 years

Preferred Environment

Linux, AWS IoT, GitHub Actions

The most amazing...

...solution I've built was a full CI/CD pipeline I deployed with Kubernetes, Jenkins, Grafana, APIs, and Terraform, optimizing deployment and monitoring processes.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

2024 - 2025

Vodafone Intelligent Solution

Monitored infrastructure with Grafana and Zabbix to optimize performance and ensure reliability.
Worked with WebLogic application servers and gained hands-on experience with Puppet and Ansible for configuration management and automation.
Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Argo CD, and Kubernetes to enable automated, reliable deployments.

Technologies: AWS IoT, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines, Confluence, Bash Script, Grafana, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Kubernetes, Terraform, Zabbix, WebLogic, Puppet, Python, Argo CD, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Documentation, Agile, GitHub, GitHub Actions, DevOps, DevSecOps, Automation, AI Automation, AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Microservices, Docker Compose, NGINX, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS DevOps, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, ECS, NoSQL, MongoDB, SQL, Terraform Cloud, Scalability, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer, Observability, Telemetry, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Configuration Management, Bash, Monitoring, Networking, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Cloud Security, Podman, Containerization, Scripting

Public Cloud Automation and Implementation Engineer

2021 - 2024

Orange Business Services

Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments to enable automated deployments.
Implemented monitoring tools for cloud services using APIs and monitored infrastructure with Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Grafana to ensure performance and reliability.
Collaborated with team members to support troubleshooting and facilitate knowledge transfer activities.
Architected solutions and scripts to enhance site functionality and support the operation and maintenance of infrastructure.
Documented all steps involved in changes and prepared any required documentation or guides as needed.
Gathered and analyzed information to identify the root cause of the problem after recovery, providing customers with a detailed reason for the outage (RFO).

Technologies: AWS IoT, Linux, Python, Bash Script, APIs, Postman, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, GitLab CI/CD, Git, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Grafana, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Documentation, Agile, GitHub Actions, DevOps, Automation, AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitLab, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), RESTFul APIs, JavaScript, Microservices, Docker Compose, NGINX, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, ECS, NoSQL, MongoDB, SQL, Terraform Cloud, Scalability, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer, Observability, Telemetry, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Configuration Management, Bash, Monitoring, Networking, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Cloud Security, REST APIs, Containerization, Scripting

Experience

Test Cloud Services: Flexible Engine

I executed comprehensive testing of customer workflows across our cloud platform using Terraform and APIs. I also built monitoring pipelines and integrated Grafana alerting to proactively notify the operations team of performance issues or failures.

Education

2020 - 2021

Diploma in System Administration

Information Technology Institute (ITI) - Egypt

2015 - 2020

Bachelor's of Science Degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering

Alexandria University - Alexandria, Egypt

Certifications

JANUARY 2025 - JANUARY 2027

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation

JULY 2024 - JULY 2026

Professional Cloud Architect Certification

Google Cloud

NOVEMBER 2023 - NOVEMBER 2026

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Amazon Web Services

MAY 2022 - MAY 2023

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft

APRIL 2021 - PRESENT

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Skills

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs

Tools

Postman, Jira, Jenkins, Grafana, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Git, Amazon EKS, GitHub, AWS IAM, Google Compute Engine (GCE), GitLab, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Docker Compose, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Confluence, Zabbix, Puppet, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), NGINX, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Platforms

Linux, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS IoT, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Azure

Languages

Python, Bash Script, Bash, JavaScript, SQL

Paradigms

DevOps, Automation, Agile, DevSecOps, Microservices, Azure DevOps

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, MongoDB, Azure Active Directory

Other

APIs, ECS, System Administration, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), RESTFul APIs, AWS DevOps, Amazon RDS, Terraform Cloud, Scalability, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer, Observability, Telemetry, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Configuration Management, Monitoring, AWS Auto Scaling, Containerization, Scripting, WebLogic, Argo CD, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), SA, Cloud, Scheduling, Orchestration, Service, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Data Cloud, Azure Administrator, Documentation, AI Automation, Prometheus, Networking, AWS Cloud Security, Podman

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