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Karim Fadl
From Egypt 03:44 PM (GMT+03:00)
$25/hr or $60,000/yr

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Senior DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
8+ years
Experience level
Senior
Available for
Full-time, Contract, Freelance
Available from
01 Jul 2026
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I love working in DevOps because it allows me to solve complex problems and continuously improve processes. The dynamic nature of the field keeps me engaged, as I get to work on a variety of challenges, from optimizing CI/CD pipelines to orchestrating scalable microservices. What excites me the most is the ability to automate and streamline workflows, reducing manual intervention and empowering development teams to deliver high-quality software faster and more efficiently. Every day, I see the impact of my work in real-time improvements in system performance, security, and scalability. This tangible progress and the collaboration with cross-functional teams make DevOps incredibly fulfilling for me.

I am a Principal DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the technology industry. Strong background in streamlining and automating CI/CD pipelines by leveraging varied technical proficiency. Successfully transitioned monolithic applications to scalable microservices architecture, delivering over 100 microservices that contributed to exponential revenue growth. Proven track record in reducing infrastructure costs by 50%, through Terraform and Ansible.

Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and deliver high-quality software solutions. Known for personal agility and problem-solving abilities, consistently improving system reliability and reducing downtime.

If you’re looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer who can drive automation, optimize cloud infrastructure, and enhance security while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, I’m excited to bring my skills to your team. Let’s connect to discuss how I can contribute to your organization’s success and take your DevOps processes to the next level.

Employment History

Principal DevOps Engineer at Virtualfusion AI 2025 - 2026
An AI company delivering smart, automated solutions for modern infrastructure and operations. • Designed and implemented a production-grade cloud infrastructure using Terraform, covering VPC, EKS clusters, RDS PostgreSQL, ECR, IAM, networking, and all supporting AWS services. • Built a multi-cluster, multi-environment architecture with dedicated dev, stage, prod, and a management (mgmt) EKS cluster hosting shared services and cross-cluster integrations. • Implemented HashiCorp Vault with best-practice automation, enabling secure secrets management, auto-unseal via AWS KMS, IRSA integration, and seamless secret delivery across all workloads. • Established end-to-end observability using OpenTelemetry for logs, traces, and metrics, integrating distributed tracing and centralized monitoring across microservices. • Developed scalable Kubernetes deployments for frontend, backend, RabbitMQ, ArangoDB, Metrics pipelines, and Kong API Gateway, ensuring high availability and smooth service communication. • Built secure GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines enabling automated container builds, security scans, testing, and zero-downtime deployments into EKS. • Implemented Kong as the unified API Gateway, managing routing, authentication, traffic control, and service governance across all environments. • Owned the reliability, performance, and scalability of the entire platform, ensuring consistent deployments, environment parity, and robust DevSecOps practices.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Dell 2021 - 2023
A multinational technology company, specialising in the end-to-end process of manufacturing computers. • Directed CI/CD process design, reducing deployment times by 60% and increasing frequency by 80% using GitHub and Jenkins. • Integrated DevSecOps Tools (Sonarqube, Trivy, Kube-Scan, Kube-Bench) into pipeline stages, reducing vulnerabilities by 30%. • Orchestrated microservices using containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift), improving scalability by 40% and reducing deployment errors by 80%. • Implemented Ansible for automation and configuration management, reducing manual tasks by 50% and ensuring infrastructure consistency. • Configured GitOps methodology with ArgoCD, ensuring consistent Kubernetes deployment with Helm Charts, reducing manual intervention by 30%. • Implemented Agile-based release strategies, decreasing the release cycle by 80% for various applications. • Established ELK/EFK as logging tools, enhancing visibility into system logs and reducing incident response times by 30%.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Mobymax 2019 - 2025
An educational technology company, providing comprehensive online learning tools. • Successfully refactored Mobymax web apps from monolithic to microservices architecture by containerising services with Docker/Docker-Compose, improving scalability by 90%. • Designed application layers on AWS utilising services (i.e. EC2, RDS, Elasticache) and configured AWS CloudWatch for application monitoring, resulting in a 50% reduction in resolution time. • Implemented automated build and deployment processes using Jenkins, resulting in an 80% increase in deployment frequency. • Developed Ansible playbooks to deploy, configure and manage servers, automating tasks and reducing manual intervention by 60%. • Utilised Vagrant to deploy and bring up Mobymax web apps in developers’ local environments, reducing set-up time by 30% and accelerating development cycles. • Created AWS AMIs using Packer for different environments, reducing AMI creation time by 90% and ensuring consistent application environments. • Enhanced Docker image quality by scanning for vulnerabilities in Dockerfiles using Trivy, reducing vulnerabilities by 40% and improving application security.
SaasOps Engineer at Crossover 2018 - 2019
A company specialising in remote talent acquisition and management. • Deployed, automated, and troubleshooted DevOps infrastructure on AWS, Docker Hosts, and Kubernetes clusters, improving system reliability by 20%. • Monitored and supported infrastructure to rectify failures and performance bottlenecks, reducing downtime by 10% and improving system stability. • Utilised Terraform and Ansible tools for provisioning and automation tasks, streamlining deployment processes and reducing infrastructure costs by 20%.
DevOps Engineer at Code95 2017 - 2018
A web technology company specialising in software development and digital solutions. • Supporting Code95 clients in technical issues which they face 24/7 to fit with SLA. • Troubleshooting Linux Web server Issues on Apache, Nginx, Mysql, PHP and Varnish. • Troubleshooting Linux Mail server Issues on Cpanels, Postfix and Zimbra. • Deploy more than 60 Projects By using Ansible Configuration Management Tool. • Install and configure many Development servers using the Openstack Cloud platform. • Deploy and Configure VMware vSphere Product with almost features as a DCV Solution and FreeNas as Storage Solution to Design Code95 Datacenter. • Deploy vROPs as an infrastructure monitoring and automation tool for vSphere Datacenter.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Software Engineering at City St George’s, University of London 2023 - 2025
Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Sohag University in Egypt 2011 - 2016