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Aya Bakr

Aya Bakr

Cairo,Egypt

Summary

Offering strong candidate with background in team collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication with extensive expertise in cloud technologies and DevOps practices, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Microsoft Azure. Knowledgeable about agile methodologies and project management, capable of driving product development and aligning team efforts with business goals.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
2025
2025
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Cloud DevOps Advance Session Lead & Mentor

Udacity – FWD Program
2026.02

Cloud Product Owner Senior Lead

Vodafone Egypt
2024.11 - Current
  • Facilitated regular team meetings to monitor progress towards goals.
  • Integrated feedback into product improvements, drove customer retention rates up.
  • Conducted thorough competitor analysis for identification of market trends.
  • Oversee project timelines to ensure timely product launches.
  • Led brainstorming sessions for generation of new product ideas.
  • Assessed market demands for guiding new feature integration into existing products.
  • Collaborated closely with marketing teams to develop compelling promotional materials.
  • Implemented agile methodologies into daily work routines for increased productivity.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by prioritizing user experience in product development.

Solution Architect Consultant

Redhat-Mea
2023.11 - 2024.11
  • Created design documents, which resulted in clearer communication of solution concepts.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies, leading to competitive advantage through early adoption of such technologies.
  • Conducted extensive research on industry trends; this led to a more informed decision-making process about technology integration into current systems.
  • Oversee all phases of software development lifecycle, ensuring quality assurance at every stage.
  • Identified potential issues within the architectural landscape, enabling proactive resolution before full-scale impact occurred.
  • Provided technical leadership during projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and goals.
  • Implemented cloud computing strategies to optimize resources and maximize capacity utilization.

System Engineering Head

Fixed-MEA Group
2022.10 - 2023.10

DevOps Team Leader / Manager

Misr Digital Innovation (MDI)
2021.04 - 2022.10

DevOps Team Leader -Part Time-

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
2020.12 - 2021.04

DevOps Team Leader

Vodafone Shared Services
2020.12 - 2021.04

DevOps Consultant & Solution Architect

Vodafone Shared Services
2019.01 - 2020.12
  • I have been recognized as top performer and top talent for the year.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Vodafone Shared Services
2018.07 - 2019.01
  • I have been recognized as top performer and top talent for the year.

DevOps Engineer

Vodafone Shared Services
2017.07 - 2018.07

Clinical Engineer Trainee

Ain, Hospital, Shams
2015.08 - 2015.09

Field Service Trainee

Siemens HealthCare
2015.07 - 2015.08

Clinical Engineer Trainee

Military Production Hospital
2014.07 - 2014.09

Education

MCIT Egypt FWD Advanced Cloud DevOps -

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)
Egypt

MCIT AWS PDSA Data Scientist - undefined

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)
Egypt
2021.01 - 2022.01

DevOps Coach 3-month Program - undefined

DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)

MBA - Strategic Management

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
Giza, Egypt
2020.01 - 2022.01

MCIT Diploma - 9-month Professional Cloud Platform Development

Information Technology Institute (ITI)
Giza, Egypt

BSc. - Biomedical Department, Faculty of Engineer: Biomedical Engineering

Helwan University

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Micro-Services
  • Microsoft azure
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Bash-Shell Scripting
  • Linux Administration
  • Docker
  • Nagios
  • Grafana
  • Nexus
  • AWS/AWSCLI
  • Ansible
  • Git
  • Sonarqube
  • Stash/GitHub
  • Troubleshooting technical issues
  • Technical architecture
  • Good Communicator
  • Working Under Pressure
  • Self-Motivation
  • Good Presenter
  • Technical Review Leadership
  • Leading employees
  • Time Management
  • Jira and confluence proficiency
  • Product launch expertise
  • Facilitating negotiations
  • Agile and scrum methodologies
  • Backlog management
  • Product lifecycle management

Certification

  • AWS Architect
  • Agile Foundation
  • Agile Facilitation –Scrum Master-
  • ICAgile Certified Professional
  • ICAgile Certified Agile Facilitation.
  • AWS Technical Essentials
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate
  • AWS Database Migration
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Mastering Java Programming
  • Server Faces (JSF)
  • TOEFL ITP

Projects

Digital Egypt: 

Responsible for implementing/supporting the solution on one of MCIT datacenters as well as migrating the data from the old site. Responsible for deploying the application using CICD methodology. 

Egyptian Electricity Holding Company: 

Responsible for implementing/supporting the platform as well as designing their new architecture. Responsible for deploying the application and the portal using CICD methodology. Migration activities from their old sites to the new one.

Ministry of Finance: 

Responsible for implementing/supporting the platform as well as designing their new architecture. Responsible for deploying the portal using CICD methodology. Migration activities from their old sites to the new one.

Ministry of Higher Education: 

Responsible for implementing/supporting the platform as well as designing their new architecture. Responsible for deploying the portal using CICD methodology. Migration activities from their old sites to the new one. 

Deployment COE at Technology Shared Services Egypt: 

Leading the team to deliver CICD pipelines for all Vodafone Group markets and implementation end to end automated DevOps platform. Providing and supporting Skytap cloud environments. Providing high level design for secured cloud infrastructure. Responsible for application transformation from classic way to micro-services. Responsible for release and deployment for Dockerized and Legacy applications. Providing infrastructure as a code using terraform and CloudFormation. 

My Vodafone Application across Spain, Greece, Romania, UK, Germany: 

Responsible for the complete cycle of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) for the application. Support for the developers to utilize tools in the best way possible. Code optimization to be suitable for production infrastructure., Javelin: Fire up AWS infrastructure using terraform Creating required tools using ansible and bash scripting. Integrating the previous two points to create fully automated DevOps platform. On-boarding and supporting projects (E-sim & DPT) to use this platform by implementing the pipelines, providing Git flow best practices and automating its journey from dev to preprod. 

ESIM / Digital Price Tagging DPT: 

Responsible for the AWS infrastructure. Responsible for the complete cycle of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) for the application. Transformation of the application from the traditional way to micro-services concept. 

Remedy migration for Vodafone Germany: 

Responsible for designing a cloud solution to migrate the ITSM remedy tool from Vodafone datacenter to the cloud. Responsible for the project delivery and handling the customer side from commitment perspective.

Germany centralized DXL: 

Responsible for redesigning the cloud environments. Acting as a consultant for the DevOps best practices and CICD pipelines automation

Timeline

Cloud DevOps Advance Session Lead & Mentor

Udacity – FWD Program
2026.02

Cloud Product Owner Senior Lead

Vodafone Egypt
2024.11 - Current

Solution Architect Consultant

Redhat-Mea
2023.11 - 2024.11

System Engineering Head

Fixed-MEA Group
2022.10 - 2023.10

DevOps Team Leader / Manager

Misr Digital Innovation (MDI)
2021.04 - 2022.10

MCIT AWS PDSA Data Scientist - undefined

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)
2021.01 - 2022.01

DevOps Team Leader -Part Time-

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
2020.12 - 2021.04

DevOps Team Leader

Vodafone Shared Services
2020.12 - 2021.04

MBA - Strategic Management

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
2020.01 - 2022.01

DevOps Consultant & Solution Architect

Vodafone Shared Services
2019.01 - 2020.12

Senior DevOps Engineer

Vodafone Shared Services
2018.07 - 2019.01

DevOps Engineer

Vodafone Shared Services
2017.07 - 2018.07

Clinical Engineer Trainee

Ain, Hospital, Shams
2015.08 - 2015.09

Field Service Trainee

Siemens HealthCare
2015.07 - 2015.08

Clinical Engineer Trainee

Military Production Hospital
2014.07 - 2014.09

DevOps Coach 3-month Program - undefined

DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)

MCIT Diploma - 9-month Professional Cloud Platform Development

Information Technology Institute (ITI)

BSc. - Biomedical Department, Faculty of Engineer: Biomedical Engineering

Helwan University

MCIT Egypt FWD Advanced Cloud DevOps -

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)
Aya Bakr