Ismail is available for hire

Ismail Latona

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Location

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.

Security Amazon RDS AWS DevOps Linux Bash DevOps Ansible Terraform Kubernetes Amazon Web Services (AWS)Microservices Amazon CloudWatch Amazon EKS Firewalls Python AppDynamics

Portfolio

Procore Technologies Inc. - Main

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Python, Go, Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

McAfee

Ansible, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Python, Go, Bash...

CGI

Linux, VMware, Azure, Bash, Python, Jenkins, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana...

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

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, Go, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Argo CD

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on involved setting up monitoring, CI/CD, deployment automation, and configuration management for over 5,000 servers across 50 countries.

Work Experience

[Enterprise] SRE Engineer

2022 - 2023

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.

Technologies: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Python, Go, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Datadog, Load Balancers, DevOps, Microservices, Cloud Services, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, Database Optimization, Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, AWS DevOps, AWS NAT Gateway, Dashboard Development, Monitoring, Technical Documentation, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, Firewalls, Security

DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2022

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.

Technologies: Ansible, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Python, Go, Bash, Kubernetes, Load Balancers, DevOps, Microservices, Cloud Services, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, Database Optimization, SQL Performance, Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, AWS DevOps, AWS NAT Gateway, Dashboard Development, Monitoring, Technical Documentation, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, Firewalls, Security

Senior Consultant

2021 - 2021

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.

Technologies: Linux, VMware, Azure, Bash, Python, Jenkins, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Load Balancers, DevOps, Microservices, Cloud Services, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, Database Optimization, SQL Performance, IOPS, Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, AWS NAT Gateway, Monitoring, Technical Documentation, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, Firewalls, Security

Infrastructure Specialist

2019 - 2021

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.

Technologies: Jenkins, Chef, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Bash, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VMware, Load Balancers, DevOps, Microservices, Cloud Services, Database Optimization, IOPS, Amazon EC2, AWS DevOps, AWS NAT Gateway, Dashboard Development, Monitoring, Technical Documentation, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, Security

Infrastructure Engineer

2015 - 2018

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.

Technologies: Linux, Networks, Bash, Python, Ansible, SQL, Packer, Docker, DevOps, Cloud Services, Networking, IOPS, Monitoring, Firewalls

Infrastructure Engineer

2013 - 2015

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.

Technologies: Linux, Bash, Networks, Python, Nagios, Networking

Experience

VPN Service

A VPN service feature on the McAfee app.

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

JANUARY 2024 - JANUARY 2027

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

The Linux Foundation

APRIL 2023 - PRESENT

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Linux Foundation

DECEMBER 2020 - DECEMBER 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

NOVEMBER 2020 - NOVEMBER 2023

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Red Hat

JANUARY 2020 - JANUARY 2023

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Cisco

Skills

Tools

Ansible, Terraform, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), 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

Industry Expertise

Network Security

Storage

Datadog, SQL Performance

Other

Load Balancers, Cloud Services, Networking, Amazon RDS, AWS DevOps, Monitoring, Security, Database Optimization, Dashboard Development, Technical Documentation, Firewalls, Networks, SSL, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Argo CD, IOPS, AWS NAT Gateway

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