Amr M.

Amr M.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Leipzig, Germany
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About Me

Amr is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in AWS, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Certified in Kubernetes and Terraform, he is highly experienced in Linux and building server-side web applications. Amr has hands-on experience with automation tools and is able to design a complete CI/CD pipeline cycle from build to production deployment.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior DevOps Engineer
2021 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Delivering CI/CD as part of an Agile team to improve performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.

  • Helping build and improve infrastructure, application, and performance development and ensuring tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environmental scanning.

  • Ensuring high-quality deliverables and implementing DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.

IT Creative Labs
IT Creative Labs
Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS Cloud Architect
2022 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Migrated a mobile app from DigitalOcean to AWS, built a network foundation, and established subnets, security groups, and other AWS-related services.

  • Designed a scalable solution using Fargate services via ECS and a Terraform template for an application load balancer.

  • Provided CloudWatch custom metrics and used them as data sources in Grafana.

DevOpsAWSTerraformDockerBitbucketNode.jsGrafanaAWS Fargate Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) AWS CloudWatchDigitalOcean
EPAM Systems
EPAM Systems
Senior DevOps Engineer
2019 - 2021 (2 years)
Remote
  • Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using PowerShell, used Ansible for configuration management, and automated build and deployment processes with Jenkins.

  • Collaborated with DevOps engineers to maintain a deployment and management strategy and developed automation using Shell Scripting, Linux, Chef.

  • Designed CI best practices for the development team using Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins and managed deployments to CSP environments, including AWS.

Aurea Software
Aurea Software
DevOps Engineer
2015 - 2019 (4 years)
Remote
  • Processed monthly royalty payments of $300 million and assisted in the normal processing of an additional $35 million/day.

  • Assisted in debugging data, communications, and system processes as a team leader and led the development of SQL scripts for internal reporting and monitoring of SQL Server-based applications.

  • Handled all test and production PGP key requests and led the troubleshooting of PGP errors 8.

  • Containerized the FTP and SFTP applications from EC2 servers to Docker containers.

Trilogy
Trilogy
DevOps Engineer
2014 - 2019 (5 years)
Remote
  • Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment. using PowerShell.

  • Contributed to writing complex SQL queries and developing stored procedures and functions in a SQL Server environment.

  • Represented the Operations department on all new trading partner testing and production migration and participated in converting the previous data center to AWS.

DevOpsAWSTerraformDockerLinuxNginxMicrosoft Visual StudioCI/CD Pipelines Azure PowerShell SQLSQL ServerSQL Stored Procedures

Portfolio

DevOps Engineer - Stars Align
DevOps Engineer - Stars Align

The project is a mobile application project for star-aligned dating based on astrology signs. Managed the design of high-level AWS architecture to migrate the whole application from DigitalOcean to AWS Cloud. Created a network foundation using Terraform and developed a scalable solution for the application via ECS and ALB behind. Implemented a custom scaling policy for the application to ensure a cost-optimization solution. Created automated deployment using a branching strategy.

DevOps Engineer - Burberry eCommerce Fashion Web Application
DevOps Engineer - Burberry eCommerce Fashion Web Application

Carried out pure DevOps activities with the major goal of creating a GitLab-based pipeline that would allow any developer to create their own monitor and integrate with Grafana by configuring particular CloudWatch events for each AWS microservice via CDK JavaScript code.

DevOps Engineer - Car Rental Services
DevOps Engineer - Car Rental Services

The project is based on a .NET application that generates a Terraform build and deploys AWS resources for microservice infrastructure. Managed and maintained multiple IaC systems for multi-sub applications via blue-green deployment.

Education

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (Expired November 2023)
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (Expired November 2023)
HashiCorp
2021 - 2021
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Expired May 2023)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Expired May 2023)
The Linux Foundation
2020 - 2020