Marwan Abbas
Dun Laoghaire
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Member of Technical Staff 3
VMware
2023.06 - Current
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for Go and Java apps
- Automate the infrastructure using Terraform
- Collaborated with other architects on design strategies and best practices
- Created detailed documentation including diagrams and flowcharts
- Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production
- Implemented systems automation using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
- Monitored system health using Wavefront for early detection of issues
- Ensured proper backup strategies are implemented across environments.
Senior DevOps Engineer - Telco as a Service
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (_VOIS)
Cairo
2023.02 - 2023.07
- Work as a part of a SAFe scrum squad
- Providing the core idea of TaaS through automating the full development lifecycle through Ansible tower and Azure DevOps
- Deployment, securing and management of Apigee hybrid on EKS and GKE
- Deployment, securing and management of Vault on EKS using Terraform, and then configure it using Ansible
- Deployment and mgmt of Consul on EKS using Terraform, and then configure it using Ansible
- Enabling DevSecOps pipelines using SonarQube, Whitesource and Jfrog artifactory, Vault, Consul and Apigee
- Contribute with the architecture team to get design ready before implementation
- Document all steps based on design and implementation.
DevOps Engineer II - Platform Engineering
Unifonic
Cairo
2022.07 - 2023.05
- Ensuring Infrastructure reliability by doing DRs and Backups (Velero, restic)
- Implementing Object Storage solution (MinIO)
- Owner of Data Platform (Databases/Queuing systems)
- Ensuring our infrastructure databases and queuing systems are HA and plan for DR between different cloud providers
- Implementing scalable and HA prometheus using Thanos
- Create dashboards to monitor our infrastructure, databases, queuing systems and storage (Grafana)
- Migrate apps between different cloud providers using Velero and Restic
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify root cause and plan for resolution
Cloud Operation Engineer - Platform as a Service
Orange Business Services
Cairo
2020.08 - 2022.01
- Working proactively and reactively, to ensure the best user experience using Orange Cloud
- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
- Recommend technical solutions that will enhance performance, increase redundancy, and add flexibility to the existing infrastructure
- Manage configurations and the deployment of equipment in compliance with established technology policies
- Validating new releases provided by the implementation team
- Identify service bugs and report it to R&D to review it
- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and platform maintenance
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
- Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guideline.
Education
System Administration Diploma -
Information Technology Institute (ITI)
12.2020
Electronics & Communications Engineering BSc. -
Arab Academy for Science & Technology
12.2017
General Secondary School -
Pioneers International School
12.2012
Skills
- Well-versed in Linux based operating systems (Redhat)
- Experienced with setting up Kubernetes clusters and microservices deployment (Kubernetes)
- Experienced with CI/CD (Jenkins/Azure DevOps)
- Experienced using Service mesh solution to enable communication between microservices (Consul)
- Experience using AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Deployment and management of API management portal (Apigee hybrid)
- Deployment and management of Secret management tool (Vault)
- Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experienced with configuration management tools (Ansible, Ansible tower)
- Familiar with Version Control System (Git/Github Enterprise/Azure Repos)
- Administration of Linux webservers (Apache, Nginx)
- Knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python)
- Exposure to virtualization technologies (VmWare vSphere)
- Understanding of Agile methodologies (SAFe/Scrum)
- Understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
- Knowledge of backup strategies
- Experienced with observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/DataDog/Alert manager)
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- AWS Certified Solution Architect (SAA)
- Google Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate
Languages
Arabic
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Timeline
Member of Technical Staff 3
VMware
2023.06 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer - Telco as a Service
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (_VOIS)
2023.02 - 2023.07
DevOps Engineer II - Platform Engineering
Unifonic
2022.07 - 2023.05
Cloud Operation Engineer - Platform as a Service
Orange Business Services
2020.08 - 2022.01
System Administration Diploma -
Information Technology Institute (ITI)
Electronics & Communications Engineering BSc. -
Arab Academy for Science & Technology
General Secondary School -
Pioneers International School
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- AWS Certified Solution Architect (SAA)
- Google Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate
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