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Abdelrahman Elhais

Cairo,

Summary

Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate with 8 years in IT industry and +5 years of solid experience architecting on AWS cloud platform. Had been involved in technical roles designing and implementing architecture solutions, enhanced smooth operations, cost optimizing, end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, event data analysis, troubleshooting, infrastructure security, system configurations, and maintenance to ensure best quality service.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

AWS Cloud Engineer

Rackspace Technology
04.2020 - Current
  • Worked closely with teams to design and develop technically compliant, cloud-native enterprise architectures to meet business outcomes .
  • Experienced in AWS networking by participating in deploying huge network in multiple AWS accounts (VPC , Subnets , Route tables , NACLs, Transit gateway , Endpoint , internet gateway , nat gateway , VPC Peering ) .
  • Use ECR and ECS to deploy containerized applications for the clients .
  • Integrate between Rafay and AWS EKS to deploy and maintain kubernetes applications .
  • Designed highly available, cost-effective and fault-tolerant systems using EC2 instances, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
  • Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability .
  • Implemented network firewalls at all layers using security groups, NACL, AWS WAF, Advanced Shield and Firewall Manager .
  • In-depth knowledge of computing services: EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions .
  • In-depth knowledge of Storage services: S3 , RDS etc .
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients .
  • Leveraged AWS IAM service to implement a strong identity foundation and enforced least privilege principle, credential management .
  • Deploy SQL Servers and always on availability group cluster using (sql server ec2 instances , SSM automation , S3, IAM , Cloud watch ) .
  • Leveraged API Gateway, with lambda function to build required APIs .
  • Make use of AWS Backup -Restore services to backup databases between regions and AWS accounts .
  • Configured EC2 Auto Scaling with Elastic Load Balancing in cross-AZ and multi-AZ for high availability and fault tolerant .
  • Initiating alarms in Cloud watch service for monitoring the server's performance like CPU Utilization , disk usage etc and take recommended actions for best performance .
  • Utilized AWS Route 53 to manage DNS zones .
  • Optimized networking for global applications using S3 Transfer Acceleration, Route 53 latency based routing, Global Accelerator and CloudFront .
  • Managed and monitored mission-critical systems for optimal performance and high level of availability .
  • Utilized AWS Config and CloudTrail as part of the governance framework to enable compliance, auditing, troubleshooting, etc of AWS accounts and resources .
  • Participated in all phases of system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation .
  • Classified and encrypted data with KMS, managed secrets with Secret Manager and Parameter Store .
  • Using Cloud Endure to clone on-premises servers to AWS .
  • Utilized Terraform enterprise and Cloudformation to deploy infrastructure code .
  • Branching , Merging , Release activities on version control tool GIT .


Software Engineer (Backend, Front End , Cloud)

DXC Technology
10.2017 - 04.2020
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Utilized object-oriented programming , problem solving and design patterns for creating business logic .
  • Designed frontend web application using Angular , HTML and CSS .
  • Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using Java SE , Java EE , Spring , Spring boot , Hibernate .
  • Database (Oracle)
  • ·Created Restful APIS for increased scalability of the application .
  • Promoted experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Amazon Web Services.
  • Using AWS services to deploy backend APIs and frontend Apps to the cloud


Java Developer

ITG Egypt
10.2016 - 10.2017
  • Worked with the team to design, build, implement and support CI/CD framework
  • Wrote, modified, and maintained software documentation and specifications.
  • Built databases and table structures for web applications.
  • Design UIs using HTML/JSP/ CSS.
  • Using spring MVC and spring rest for backend services

Java Developer

GlowStar
10.2015 - 10.2016
  • Participated in a full lifecycle of development for an ERP System .
  • Design UIs using HTML /JSF/Prime faces/CSS .
  • Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance .
  • Participated in requirements gathering and design development meetings .
  • Participated in developing Database tables , indexes , triggers etc

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Mansoura
Mansoura, Egypt
07.2015

Skills

  • AWS Services (EC2 , EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • DevOps Tools (Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Networking (VPC, Peering , Endpoints )
  • Security (IAM, KMS, Security Groups, NACLs)
  • Monitoring and Logging (CloudWatch)
  • Database Management (MySQL, SQL Server , Oracle , Postgresql)
  • Scripting (Python, Bash)
  • Load Balancing (ELB, ALB, NLB)
  • Serverless Architecture (API Gateway, Lambda)
  • High Availability and Disaster Recovery (Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, Backup and Restore)

Timeline

AWS Cloud Engineer

Rackspace Technology
04.2020 - Current

Software Engineer (Backend, Front End , Cloud)

DXC Technology
10.2017 - 04.2020

Java Developer

ITG Egypt
10.2016 - 10.2017

Java Developer

GlowStar
10.2015 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Mansoura
Abdelrahman Elhais