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Senior DevOps Engineer

Governata

Saudi Arabia · On-site

Building and owning the cloud infrastructure for a data governance SaaS platform, delivering secure enterprise deployments to high-profile government and institutional clients across the region.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Architected and provisioned production-grade AWS infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring scalable, repeatable, and auditable environments aligned with enterprise compliance requirements.
• Air-Gapped Deployments: Designed and deployed fully isolated, air-gapped environments for government clients, including institutions at the level of the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia, meeting strict security and data sovereignty requirements.
• Automation & Operations: Deployed Jenkins as a central automation server and built Ansible playbooks to manage operational tasks, reducing manual effort and standardizing configuration management across client environments.

Stack: Terraform · AWS · Ansible · Jenkins · Air-Gapped Infrastructure · IaC

Senior DevOps Engineer

Majid Al Futtaim · Contract

Amman, Jordan · Remote

Contracted to modernize DevOps practices at one of the Middle East's largest retail conglomerates, owning mobile release pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation end-to-end.

• Mobile CI/CD Pipelines: Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for both Android and iOS teams, automating the full build, test, and release process to the App Store and Google Play — reducing release friction and enabling faster, more reliable app delivery.
• Infrastructure as Code: Managed and maintained cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring consistent, repeatable environments across development, staging, and production.
• Kubernetes Deployments: Automated application deployments to EKS clusters using Helm charts, standardizing the release process and reducing manual intervention in production rollouts.

Stack: Terraform · Ansible · AWS EKS · Helm · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Android · iOS · Fastlane

Senior DevOps Engineer

Baaz, Inc.

Amman, Jordan · On-site

Owned the full DevOps function at a fast-growing startup, building and scaling the infrastructure that took code from commit to production reliably and fast.

• CI/CD Architecture: Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing manual deployment steps and enabling frequent, low-risk releases across multiple microservices.
• Automation at Scale: Built automation workflows with Ansible, Bash, and Python that significantly cut manual intervention, accelerated deployment cycles, and reduced human error across environments.
• Observability Stack: Deployed a full monitoring solution using Zabbix for infrastructure metrics and ELK Stack for MongoDB cluster log analysis, enabling proactive incident detection before users were affected.
• ChatOps Integration: Built a real-time alerting system using AWS Chatbot, SNS, and CloudWatch, routing critical alarms directly to Slack for rapid team response.
• Incident Response: Served as the primary on-call engineer, owning incident diagnosis and resolution end-to-end to minimize production downtime.
• Release Management: Led cross-functional release coordination, implementing practices that reduced deployment risk and improved delivery predictability.

Stack: Jenkins · Ansible · Python · Bash · AWS · ELK Stack · Zabbix · Kubernetes · Microservices

Site Reliability Engineer

Vardot

Amman, Jordan · Hybrid

Joined as the SRE responsible for production reliability across a portfolio of enterprise Drupal platforms, managing multi-cloud infrastructure and building the first automated operational workflows.

• Jenkins Automation: Deployed and configured a Jenkins server from scratch to automate backup and restore operations in production, significantly improving data reliability and cutting recovery time.
• Operational Automation: Designed automated solutions for routine production tasks, reducing manual overhead, minimizing human error, and improving overall system performance.
• Multi-Cloud Management: Managed infrastructure across AWS, OVH, DigitalOcean, and Platform.sh, optimizing for availability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability per platform requirements.
• Incident Management: Served on the on-call rotation, leading structured incident response — diagnosing, mitigating, and implementing post-mortems to prevent recurrence.

Stack: Jenkins · AWS · OVH · DigitalOcean · Platform.sh · Linux · Bash

DevOps Engineer

NADSOFT

Amman, Jordan · On-site

• Built and configured CI/CD systems to streamline deployment workflows.
• Utilized Ansible for production system and service configuration management.
• Established a comprehensive monitoring system using Nagios.
• Managed cloud infrastructure across DigitalOcean and AWS.

Technical Writer

Fedora Project (Writer)

Publishing deep-dive technical guides on container technologies like Podman and systemic administration, reaching a global audience of developers.