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Omar Mohamed

$DevOps & Cloud Engineer — GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform

3+ years designing, automating, and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. CKA certified & Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect & Security Engineer. Specialist in K8s, Docker, Linux, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability

80% Deployment Time ↓

50% Downtime Reduction

5 Cloud Certifications

3+ Years Experience

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Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

Google Cloud (GCP) Microsoft Azure AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Ansible

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes GKE EKS Docker Helm

CI/CD & DevOps

Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD Cloud Build Kaniko Git

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Jaeger

Security

Cloud Armor IAP Secret Manager Zero Trust RBAC OIDC TLS/SSL

Scripting & Programming

Python Bash SQL

Other Tools

Nginx HAProxy Redis Locust Auth0 Flask Cloud Run n8n Ollama AI

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Experience

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DevOps Engineer DevOps

June 2024 – Present

xFusionCorp · Remote

Reduced deployment time by 30% and increased app uptime by 20% via containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Git, and Ansible.
Automated cloud deployments with Ansible playbooks, cutting manual config effort by 40% and improving environment consistency across dev, staging, and production.
Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters with auto-scaling and self-healing policies, cutting downtime by 50% during peak traffic events.
Optimized Docker build pipelines, reducing build times by 15% and lowering compute costs by 10%.
Streamlined collaboration with Git branching strategies, reducing merge conflicts by 25%.

System Administrator SysAdmin

July 2023 – May 2024

xFusionCorp · Remote

Configured and tuned Nginx and HAProxy, improving page load times by 15% while sustaining a 30% traffic increase with zero performance degradation.
Automated server provisioning with Ansible, reducing new environment setup time from hours to under 20 minutes.
Designed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, accelerating release cycle by 50% and cutting deployment failures by 60%.
Standardized environments using Docker containers, reducing dependency issues and troubleshooting time by 25%.
Managed configuration files with Git version control, enabling instant rollbacks and reducing config errors by 40%.

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Projects

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Cloud-Native Observability Stack on GKE

Production-ready GKE cluster for a 15-service microservices app (Go, Java, Python, C++) with distributed tracing, WAF, managed TLS, and load-tested Redis caching.

↗ 80% faster environment setup · MTTD reduced via OTel distributed tracing

GKE Terraform Helm OpenTelemetry Prometheus Jaeger Cloud Armor Managed SSL Redis Locust

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Secured Self-Hosted AI Automation Platform on GCP

Zero-Trust private AI platform (n8n + Ollama) with no public IPs. Identity-based access via IAP, private VPC networking, hardened CI/CD pipeline, and 99.9% availability.

↗ 99.9% service availability · 30% lower deployment latency after registry migration

GCP Terraform Cloud Run Cloud SQL Cloud Build Kaniko Artifact Registry IAP Zero Trust n8n Ollama

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Production-Ready Istio Service Mesh on GKE with Automatic HTTPS, mTLS & Real-Time Observability

Production-grade Istio service mesh on GKE to secure and observe microservice traffic. Implemented automatic HTTPS via cert-manager, enforced mutual TLS (mTLS) for all service-to-service communication using PeerAuthentication policies, and wired up a full observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, and Jaeger for real-time traffic visibility and distributed tracing.

↗ Zero-trust mTLS across all services · Real-time mesh topology via Kiali · Full distributed tracing with Jaeger

GKE Istio mTLS cert-manager Prometheus Grafana Kiali Jaeger PeerAuthentication Envoy Sidecar

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Certifications

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Linux Foundation

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Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud

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Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Google Cloud

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Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud

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Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Microsoft

🏅 See all verified credentials & badges on Credly →

05

Education

Mar 2022
— Aug 2022

Cloud Developer Nanodegree

Udacity · View Program ↗

Focused on building and deploying scalable cloud applications on AWS. Covered RESTful API design, SQL data modeling, authentication & authorization (RBAC with Auth0 and Flask), CI/CD pipeline design, and containerization with Docker. Capstone project: containerized Flask microservices deployed to AWS EKS using Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.

Apr 2021
— Oct 2021

Cloud Developer Using Microsoft Azure Nanodegree

Udacity · View Program ↗

Hands-on cloud development on Microsoft Azure covering microservices architecture, cloud migration strategies, event-driven workflows, and performance monitoring. Built production microservices using Azure Cosmos DB, Azure App Service, and Azure Pipelines. Explored serverless computing, Azure Functions, and container orchestration strategies in a cloud-native context.

Completed

100 Days of DevOps Challenge

KodeKloud · View Program ↗

Structured 100-day hands-on challenge covering the full DevOps toolchain — Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud platforms. Daily practical labs with real-world scenarios reinforcing skills through consistent, progressive practice across the entire DevOps lifecycle.

Ongoing

Google Cloud Skills Boost

Google · View Public Profile ↗

Completed 682 labs and 910 lessons of practical, hands-on Google Cloud training via the Google Cloud Skills Boost platform. Covers GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform on GCP, security, observability, networking, data engineering, and advanced cloud architecture patterns — all verified through interactive, real-environment labs.