Omar Albalouli

January 2025 - Present

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Manage and operate highly available, self-managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS EC2.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated testing, deployment, and infrastructure updates.
• Collaborate with application security and IT teams to identify, assess, and mitigate security threats.
• Set up and maintain Opensearch, Prometheus, and Grafana for system monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Administer on-prem MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB databases
• Manage Ubuntu servers, including updates, configuration.
• Ensure backup strategies, replication, and high availability.

August 2023 - January 2025

• Manage 10+ Kubernetes clusters across multiple infrastructures (Azure, AWS, OCI, on-premises), ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Architect and deploy high-availability Kubernetes clusters on-premises using Ansible, Kubeadm, MetalLB, and Longhorn.
• Design and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Python, and Bash scripting, ensuring efficient and consistent software delivery.
• Integrate SAST and SCA tools such as Prisma Cloud, Veracode, and SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines to enforce application security and compliance.
• Install and configure centralized logging and monitoring stacks such as ELK, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, to ensure alignment towards shared objectives.
• Documenting maintenance procedures tailored for support teams to effectively manage and sustain the developed software.

March 2023 - June 2024

• Deployed and managed AWS resources, including EC2 instances, and EKS clusters using terraform.
• Deployed and managed containerized applications using EKS, helm.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeBuild.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, to ensure alignment towards shared objectives.
• Managed and automated the configuration and maintenance of Linux servers using AWS Systems Manager and Ansible, ensuring consistency across environments.

September 2022 - February 2023

• Managed critical environments with zero downtime, ensuring continuous availability and reliability of services.
• Managed on-premises Red Hat Linux servers, ensuring their optimal performance and security.
• Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for automating the configuration and deployment.
• Configured and managed monitoring tools such as Nagios, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Configured and managed high-available load balancers using HAProxy and Keepalived.