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Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Port Said, Egypt
Toptal member since October 18, 2021
Bio
Mazen is a DevOps engineer with four years of experience. Apart from having developing skills in a Unix and Linux environment and being an expert in several flavors of Linux, he has excellent knowledge in automating and optimizing mission-critical deployments, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Mazen can deliver innovative solutions with his strong understanding of computer security, numerous applications, and mixed platforms.
Portfolio
Dell
Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, Linux, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Satellite, GitHub...
DXC Technology
Bash, AWS RDS, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Kubernetes, Amazon EKS...
Beltone Financial
Bash, Linux, Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, NGINX, Azure, Azure DevOps, Docker...
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Linux, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Python, Bash, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Information Technology, Databases, Containerization, Heroku, Cloud Migration, Bash Script
The most amazing...
...thing I've delivered is a solution that saved the project hosted on AWS with performance issues caused by high traffic.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
2022 - PRESENT
Dell
- Worked side by side with developers, product managers, product owners, program managers, and key executives to plan ongoing feature development and product maintenance.
- Implemented a new process and policies for the build process and was involved in auditing; built a continuous integration environment in Jenkins and a continuous delivery environment.
- Orchestrated microservices through Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Provided management, maintenance, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure as code for microservices in an Agile DevOps environment.
Technologies: Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, Linux, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Satellite, GitHub, GitHub API, CI/CD Pipelines, Agile DevOps, Ansible, Vault, Terraform, Bash, Git, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Databases, Containerization, Heroku, Cloud Migration, Ubuntu, SSH, Mail Servers, Nextcloud, Cloud, Debian Linux, Email, Debian, Bash Script, Argo CD, Virtualization, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Helm, Programming, Security, Kubernetes Security
DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2022
DXC Technology
- Created and maintained highly scalable, fault-tolerant, multitier AWS environments spanning multiple availability zones using Terraform.
- Used Kubernetes to deploy, load balance, scale, and manage Docker containers with multiple namespaced versions on Amazon EKS.
- Involved in maintaining the IAM user accounts. Actively managed, improved, and monitored the cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, EKS, Route 53, VPC, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.
- Monitored, built, and deployed software releases and supported production deployments.
Technologies: Bash, AWS RDS, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Bash Script, Terraform, Linux, Ansible, Argo CD, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Azure DevOps, Docker, CentOS, Red Hat Linux, Cloudflare, Python, GitLab CI/CD, AWS DevOps, Amazon EC2, GitOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Git, LEMP, AWS Cloud Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS CLI, Amazon Route 53, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Site Reliability, DevOps, NGINX, CI/CD Pipelines, Software, Container, SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Databases, Containerization, Heroku, Cloud Migration, Ubuntu, Bitbucket, SSH, Mail Servers, Nextcloud, Cloud, Debian Linux, Email, Debian, Virtualization, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Helm, Programming, Security, Kubernetes Security
DevOps Engineer
2020 - 2021
Beltone Financial
- Wrote Ansible scripts to automatically install and configure system components, which saved 40% of the time.
- Automated security upgrades by writing scripts; cut vulnerabilities by 15%.
- Set up and managed 30+ Linux servers with 99.9% uptime.
- Managed Azure DevOps repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
- Built and deployed Docker containers to help break up monolithic apps into microservices.
Technologies: Bash, Linux, Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, NGINX, Azure, Azure DevOps, Docker, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, AWS RDS, CentOS, Ansible, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Cloudflare, Python, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon EC2, GitHub, GitOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Kubernetes, Bash Script, GitLab, Git, LEMP, AWS Cloud Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), AWS CLI, Amazon Route 53, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Site Reliability, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Redis, Software, Container, SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Databases, Containerization, Cloud Migration, Ubuntu, Bitbucket, SSH, Mail Servers, Cloud, Debian Linux, Email, Debian, Argo CD, Virtualization, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Helm, Programming, Security, Kubernetes Security
DevOps Engineer
2019 - 2020
Root Gate
- Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to cut release times by 20%.
- Managed various services such as EC2, S3 Bucket, Route 53, ELB, and EBS.
- Collected the new technologies and tools and introduced them to the company, which helped build up an agile development environment. It improved the product quantity and work efficiency.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Zabbix, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Site Reliability, Linux, Git, Bash, DevOps, cPanel, NGINX, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS RDS, DigitalOcean, Redis, Memcached, Software, Terraform, Container, SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Databases, Containerization, Cloud Migration, Ubuntu, SSH, Mail Servers, Cloud, Debian Linux, Debian, Bash Script, Virtualization, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Programming, Security, Kubernetes Security
Linux System Engineer
2018 - 2019
Root Gate
- Set up and managed 50 Linux servers with 99.95% uptime, including system security, backup, recovery, network, and repair administration.
- Built and configured RHEL and CentOS over 100 VMs and monitored daily operations of VMware servers.
- Migrated VMware virtual machines to AWS while maintaining availability.
Technologies: DevOps, Linux, Bash, Git, cPanel, NGINX, SMTP, LEMP, LAMP, Red Hat Linux, CI/CD Pipelines, CentOS, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Docker, AWS RDS, Ansible, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Cloudflare, Python, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon EC2, CircleCI, GitHub, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Bash Script, GitLab, Continuous Delivery (CD), Zabbix, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Site Reliability, DigitalOcean, Redis, Memcached, Software, Container, SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Kubernetes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Databases, Containerization, Cloud Migration, Ubuntu, SSH, Mail Servers, Cloud, Debian Linux, Email, Virtualization, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Security, Kubernetes Security
Experience
FindCars
The project involved creating the infrastructure hosted on Amazon EKS with RDS, using S3 and CloudFront.
My task was to create the infrastructure from scratch with Terraform scripts to make it highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant. I also designed a CI/CD pipeline using Docker layer caching for faster building and releasing.
My task was to create the infrastructure from scratch with Terraform scripts to make it highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant. I also designed a CI/CD pipeline using Docker layer caching for faster building and releasing.
OnBill
OnBill is an online marketplace that helps retailers provide the best prices for the required products through an instant comparison between the suppliers.
I built the project on microservices architecture with 30+ microservices connected through a service bus. It's deployed on EKS.
I built the project on microservices architecture with 30+ microservices connected through a service bus. It's deployed on EKS.
AWS Cloud Security Improvements
An AWS account security for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) services by developing a set of security controls.
I configured the ELK stack to ingest the output of running Cloud Custodian and use that data to create reporting dashboards.
I configured the ELK stack to ingest the output of running Cloud Custodian and use that data to create reporting dashboards.
Education
2015 - 2019
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems
Suez Canal University - Ismailia, Egypt
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub API
Tools
NGINX, Apache, Git, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, AWS CLI, Zabbix, Bitbucket, Helm, GitHub, RabbitMQ, Red Hat Satellite, Vault
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Linux, LEMP, LAMP, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Ubuntu, Debian Linux, Debian, CentOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Heroku, cPanel, Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, Azure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, Memcached, MySQL, MongoDB, Databases, Nextcloud
Languages
Bash, Bash Script, SQL, Python
Other
AWS RDS, Argo CD, Cloudflare, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Site Reliability, Container, Containerization, Cloud Migration, SSH, Mail Servers, Cloud, Email, SMTP, CI/CD Pipelines, Information Technology, AWS Cloud Architecture, Amazon Route 53, Software, Virtualization, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Security, Kubernetes Security, Programming, AWS DevOps, Agile DevOps, GitOps
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