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Hazem Zein Elabedeen Hamed Ismail

Senior Consultant
Cairo

Summary

I have more than 13 years of professional experience, supporting and configuring virtualized environments (ESXi/KVM) and containerized environments (Docker, kubernetes).

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Consultant

Ejada Egypt
09.2025 - Current

Provide consultancy professional services in Openshift and Devops projects.

Technical Support Engineer

Sandvine
05.2023 - 09.2025

- Support of 'ActiveLogic' Deep Packet Inspection portfolio in its different deployment forms as: bare-metal appliance, VM based on KVM or ESXi hypervisors, or a containerized network function (CNF) on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service or on Openshift clusters.

- Support of 'Insights Data Storage' database solution and its deployment as a docker container in a docker swarm cluster.

Senior Product Support Engineer - Tanzu Kubernetes

VMware
12.2021 - 05.2023

- Support All activities related to Tanzu kubernetes Grid service, Tanzu kubernetes Grid Multicloud (TKGm) and
Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) and their integration with:

1. Other VMware products: AVI, NSX-T, vSAN..

2. Open source software (OSS) like: private container registry (Harbor), monitoring system (Prometheus), multus container network interface..

- Support of Lifecycle of Guest kubernetes clusters (based on ClusterAPI), the health of ETCD database and other control node components, the creation and health of all system or user kubernetes resources on worker nodes.

- Support of VMware's container storage interface (CSI) and the creation of persistent volumes (PV) on VMware from all kubernetes solutions.

Senior Technical Support Engineer - VSAN/Infra

VMware
05.2018 - 11.2021

- Provide support to customers, using VMware vSphere product, in isolating, diagnosing, reproducing and fixing technical issues in a timely manner. Focusing on issues related to vCenter server, ESXi hosts and vSAN.
- Troubleshoot all vSAN related activities and configurations.

- Support all storage related activities on vCenter/ESXi hosts, including Fiber channel, NFS and iSCSI protocols.
- Support all activities related to virtual disks/VMs.

AIX Remote Software Support Engineer

IBM
03.2017 - 04.2018

- Deliver remote software support for IBM AIX
customers worldwide during US off-shift hours.
- Handle and manage customer problem
records related to different AIX OS components: Hardware Management Console (HMC) for Power machines, AIX TCP/IP
connectivity, (virtual I/O server) management.

Wireless Access Integration Professional

Alcatel-Lucent
03.2012 - 07.2016

I was a member of a project-based team and I did many roles as: BSS planning and operations, LTE commissioning, LTE support on the following projects:
Orange Project: Cairo, EG (03/2012 - 06/2014)
Mobily Project: Alkohbar, KSA (07/2014 - 07/2015)
Ice.net Project: Oslo, Norway (08/2015 - 12/2015)
Etisalat project: Abu Dhabi, UAE (02/2016 - 05/2016)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University
05.2010

High School Diploma -

Zein El-Abedeen Experimental School
05.2005

Skills

Virtualization (vSphere, vSAN and KVM) and OS (Linux, Windows)

Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Automation (CI/CD), Gitops (ArgoCD)

IAC (Terraform) and Configuration management (Ansible)

Microservices Service Mesh (Istio)

Business continuity Disaster recovery

Certification

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Personal Information

Nationality: Egyptian
Marital Status: Single
Military Status: Completed

Timeline

Senior Consultant

Ejada Egypt
09.2025 - Current

Technical Support Engineer

Sandvine
05.2023 - 09.2025

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

02-2023

VMware Certified Professional - Application Modernization 2022

12-2022

Senior Product Support Engineer - Tanzu Kubernetes

VMware
12.2021 - 05.2023

Udacity Cloud DevOps Engineer nanodegree

06-2021

VMware Specialist - vSAN 2019

06-2021

VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Data Center Virtualization 2020

12-2020

Senior Technical Support Engineer - VSAN/Infra

VMware
05.2018 - 11.2021

AIX Remote Software Support Engineer

IBM
03.2017 - 04.2018

Wireless Access Integration Professional

Alcatel-Lucent
03.2012 - 07.2016

High School Diploma -

Zein El-Abedeen Experimental School

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University
Hazem Zein Elabedeen Hamed Ismail Senior Consultant