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Senior DevOps Engineer · DevSecOps & Cloud Security · 4+ years
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cfi (HEAD -> main, tag: v5.0) Senior DevOps Engineer @ CFI
Author: Omar Albalouli <[email protected]> · Date: January 2025 — present
Senior DevOps Engineer · CFI

Leading DevSecOps across the SDLC for a regional fintech.

  • Lead DevSecOps across the SDLC — threat-modeling services and embedding SAST (SonarQube), SCA, and container image scanning into CI/CD, reducing high/critical vulnerabilities reaching production by 90% and auto-blocking insecure builds.
  • Centralized secrets and credentials across all applications with HashiCorp Vault, eliminating hard-coded secrets and enabling short-lived, dynamic credentials.
  • Secured internet-facing workloads with Cloudflare (WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust access).
  • Operate business-critical, highly available Kubernetes clusters on self-managed AWS EC2, sustaining 99.95% uptime with zero-downtime upgrades.
  • Provision cloud and on-prem infrastructure as code with Terraform for repeatable, version-controlled deployments.
  • Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security gates, and deployment across all services.
  • Design, provision, and operate OpenSearch clusters on AWS alongside Prometheus and Grafana for proactive monitoring, alerting, and security visibility.
  • Implement New Relic APM to surface latency, errors, and bottlenecks across services.
  • Administer and secure on-prem MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, plus highly available RabbitMQ and Kafka on Kubernetes, with backup, replication, and HA strategies.
network-… (tag: v6.0) Cloud Engineer @ Network International
Author: Omar Albalouli <[email protected]> · Date: June 2024 — January 2025
Cloud Engineer · Network International
  • Managed 10+ Kubernetes clusters across Azure, AWS, OCI, and on-premises, ensuring scalability and high availability.
  • Architected and deployed high-availability Kubernetes clusters on-premises using Ansible, Kubeadm, MetalLB, and Longhorn.
  • Designed and implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.
  • Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Python, and Bash scripting.
  • Automated the release process to a single click — Slack notifications and Confluence release notes.
  • Integrated SAST and SCA tools (Prisma Cloud, Veracode, SonarQube) into CI/CD to enforce application security and compliance.
aspire-i… (tag: v7.0) DevOps Engineer @ Aspire IT Services (Client: Network International)
Author: Omar Albalouli <[email protected]> · Date: March 2023 — June 2024
DevOps Engineer · Aspire IT Services (Client: Network International)
  • Deployed and managed AWS resources including EC2 and EKS clusters using Terraform.
  • Deployed and managed containerized applications using EKS and Helm.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild.
  • Partnered with development and QA teams to containerize applications and automate EKS deployment pipelines, reducing release friction and environment drift.
electron… (tag: v8.0) DevOps / Linux System Administrator @ Electronic Health Solutions (EHS - Hakeem)
Author: Omar Albalouli <[email protected]> · Date: September 2022 — February 2023
DevOps / Linux System Administrator · Electronic Health Solutions (EHS - Hakeem)
  • Managed critical environments with zero downtime, ensuring continuous availability and reliability.
  • Managed on-premises Red Hat Linux servers for optimal performance and security.
  • Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
  • Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for configuration and deployment automation.
  • Configured and managed monitoring tools: Nagios, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Configured and managed high-available load balancers using HAProxy and Keepalived.

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~/career $ git tag -l "cert/*"
🏆 cert/cka-certified-kuber… CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
🏆 cert/aws-certified-solut… AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
🏆 cert/google-it-automatio… Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate
🏆 cert/devops-on-aws-speci… DevOps on AWS Specialization (AWS · Coursera)
~/career $ git show education
BSc, Computer and Network Engineering — Al Balqa Applied University, Amman (2022) · GPA 3.55
~/career $ git show security-research
Discovered and responsibly disclosed an authorization bypass in Moodle (open-source LMS) — CVE-2022-40208 (CWE-285): students could circumvent sequential quiz navigation via web services. Performed application and source-code analysis, reported upstream, and coordinated remediation through a responsible-disclosure process.
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