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Amr Fathy

Amr Fathy

Senior DevOps/AWS Cloud Architect
Leipzig

Summary

IT Industrious DevOps Operations Engineer offering 8 years background setting up CI and CD pipelines, AWS and scripting deployment activities. Well-rounded and conscientious professional committed to proactively managing change and quickly deploying critical applications. Expertise in configuration management and Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.


Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

AVIV Group
Berlin
06.2023 - Current
  • Maintained metrics visibility using Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors.
  • Ensuring the usage of cricle CI/CD pipelines
  • Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CDK, AWS CloudFormation, or similar.
  • Collaborate with development teams to define and implement scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions.
  • Automate the deployment process and ensure smooth and efficient releases.
  • Implement security best practices and work with the security team to conduct regular audits.
  • Manage and optimize containerized applications using Amazon ECS and EKS.
  • Implement scalable and reliable container orchestration solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.

Senior DevOps Engineer

EPAM Systems
Berlin
07.2019 - 05.2023
  • Applied automated testing solutions for unit, integration and system testing.
  • Managed AWS assets and integrated multiple AWS resources into solutions appropriate for company projects.
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using PowerShell
  • Automate build and deployment process with Jenkins to eliminate manual work.
  • Worked on Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, Cloud Front, IAM,RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, SNS,).
  • Developed automated scripts to deploy services and infrastructure components in AWS.
  • Setup/Managing VPC, Subnets; make connection between different zones, Blocking suspicious ip/subnet via ACL.
  • Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS).
  • Creating/Managing DNS records on Amazon Route 53 and go-daddy panel.
  • Supported the application in production and worked closely with off-shore teams.
  • Responsible for installing Jenkins master and slave nodes.
  • Maintained Jenkins continuous integration infrastructure and automated releases to DEV/TEST/STG/PROD environments.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cybrid Technology Inc
Newark NJ
03.2022 - 01.2023
  • Designed a complete AWS architecture, logging, security, and others to migrate microservices from Heroku AWS.
  • Migrated a giant Docker-composed application to Kubernetes manifests, including configMap, secrets, deployment, pods, president-volume, etc. Terraformed the entire solution to AWS EKS.
  • Used Helm-charts to deploy Argo CD, Grafana, and a Github action runner across production and lower environments.
  • Built Terraform custom modules for each microservice and deployed them via Github action on a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Implemented Tomcat connection pooling and thread management to optimize database connectivity and application responsiveness.
  • Skilled in optimizing web server configurations, including caching mechanisms, gzip compression, and tuning resource allocation for optimal performance.
  • Deployed load-balancing solutions like Nginx, HAProxy, and mod_jk to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers for improved reliability.
  • Utilized monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, and Prometheus for real-time performance tracking, proactive issue identification, and capacity planning.

EDI Analyst & DevOps Engineer

Aurea Software, Trilogy
Austin
05.2015 - 06.2019
  • Handle all Operations responsibility for maintaining IBM Sterling B2B
  • Handle all Operations responsibility for maintaining IBM Sterling B2B integrator including upgrades.
  • Responsibility for the processing of monthly royalty payments of$300 million and assist in the normal processing of an additional $35
  • Handle all test and production PGP key requests and troubleshooting of PGP errors
  • Design, implement, and maintain Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems, ensuring seamless and secure exchange of business documents.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into effective EDI solutions.
  • Collaborate with business partners and trading partners to establish and maintain EDI connections.
  • Manage EDI communication protocols, standards, and document formats for different trading partners.
  • Deep understanding of EDI standards such as ANSI X12, EDIFACT, and XML.
  • Provide training and support to internal teams on EDI best practices and usage.
  • Work closely with developers to integrate EDI processes into CI/CD pipelines for continuous improvement and deployment.


Application Support Manager

Abercrombie & Kent Egypt
Cairo
03.2010 - 04.2015
  • Liaise with the Contracting Manager to ensure that rates and other contract information, product description/itineraries blocks, and client & supplier information are collected
  • Implement the company margin policy in database
  • Make such revisions that may require by the Management
  • Ensure that the number of price records built is kept to a minimum within the margin policy
  • Planned and conducts structured testing of database designs to confirm functionality and performance
  • Perform routine and customary operational and monitoring activities to ensure the database environment is stable and capable of meeting ongoing business needs - planned and executed testing and implementation of major systems
  • Report any malfunction & "bugs" of the system to DMC IT in London & follow-up for correction
  • Maintain user rights in line with the company structure/organization chart
  • Ensure the security of the database
  • Train new users (Mainly Tour Operators & Finance Team) and offer more training to existing users
  • Ensure that library if Messages reflects the needs of users, and design message template where necessary
  • Updating users & management on new development & features available in the system
  • Research information, compile statistics, gather and compute various date
  • Liaise with other A&K DMC's (A&K offices world wide) as necessary to share new ideas and operational improvement
  • Produce such reports required by management and assisting directors &
  • Managers to run their own regular report
  • Maintain an inventory of desired new reports and forward such requests to
  • UK to be designed.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Tourism And Travel Management

6th of October, Egypt, Cairo
01.2000 - 02.2004

Skills

SKILLS Oracle Database administrationundefined

Cool Teams I worked with:

  • Dayton Power & Light
  • Hudson Energy
  • Green Mountain Energy Company
  • EOG Resources
  • Direct Energy: Electric Company & Natural Gas Provider
  • MidAmerican Energy
  • Accent Energy Group
  • Offizieller Shop von Bose® - Bose Weihnachtsangebot
  • Schneider Electric



Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer - AVIV Group
06.2023 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer - Cybrid Technology Inc
03.2022 - 01.2023
Senior DevOps Engineer - EPAM Systems
07.2019 - 05.2023
EDI Analyst & DevOps Engineer - Aurea Software, Trilogy
05.2015 - 06.2019
Application Support Manager - Abercrombie & Kent Egypt
03.2010 - 04.2015
6th of October - Bachelor of Science, Tourism And Travel Management
01.2000 - 02.2004
Amr FathySenior DevOps/AWS Cloud Architect