Natheer Daly

Natheer Daly

DevOps Engineer
United Arab Emirates
French, English, Arabic

About Me

DevOps engineer with diverse work history and educational background. Professional experience as a system administrator and IT support Engineer. Knowledge of software development (Back-End Developer), testing, and deploy…

Experience

Sr DevOps Engineer

Emirates Community Empowerment, UAE
Apr 2020 - Present · 6 years 2 months

Orchestrated production and development Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies. Spearheaded the seamless migration of applications from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes environments. Managed the infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for consistency and efficiency. Implemented robust Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines employing Jenkins, Spinnaker, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions to accelerate and facilitate seamless multiple process deployments. Proficient in utilizing advanced logging and monitoring tools, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Influx DB, and Prometheus, to ensure system health and insights. Managed relational database systems, specifically MySQL and PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and accessibility. Provided dedicated support to development teams, enhancing collaboration and facilitating continuous improvement.

DevOps Engineer

Sicca Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 year 11 months

Orchestrated and executed complex migrations of large-scale critical databases with minimal downtime. Set up the Kubernetes infrastructure by integrating industry best practices and essential add-ons while streamlining the application migration process and resource management with a scalable and DRY approach. Implemented High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies for mission-critical systems. Configured and maintained secure VPN connections for reliable third-party integrations. Provided dedicated support to development teams, enhancing productivity and collaboration. Ensured optimal uptime for the infrastructure through proactive management.

DevOps Engineer

Legend Information Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018 · 5 months

Led infrastructure migrations to Huawei cloud. Design and deliver hybrid cloud Infrastructure with IaC, network security, data encryption, disaster recovery, etc. Deploy and configure Kubernetes (online and offline), migration deployment from docker-compose. Orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes and Helm. Developed and maintained monitoring and logging systems using Loki, Prometheus, Zabbix and Grafana, improving system observability and uptime. Infrastructure as code with terraform for VMware and Huawei cloud infrastructure Collaborated with software development teams to integrate DevOps principles into the software development life cycle, resulting in improved quality and speed of software releases integrated windows authentication (SSO) with key cloak, AD, ADFS for the application

System Engineer

Poulina Group Holding, Tunisia
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017 · 1 year 11 months

Maintaining Linux services (lxc, lxd, nginx, hap Roxy, MySQL, Swift) Gathering, monitoring and analyzing logs (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Kiwi syslog, Zabbix, Host monitor). Migrating of static files storage to an Object storage cluster (OpenStack Swift) Introduced logs and metrics collection and analysis tools Supporting high performance HLS video streaming (based on Nginx and FFMPEG) Automating deployment using salt stack Led new infrastructure on Azure cloud and disaster recovery configuration Supporting Windows services: AD, DNS, GPO, DHCP, print server, WSUS, DFS, ISA, TMG Exchange 2010 (DAG, NLB), MS SQL 2008,2012, remote app, Openfire Upgrading Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 with DAG and NLB and Installing, configuring and supporting cisco ESW (IronPort) and ASA Installing, configuring and supporting NetApp 2240 and 2455 with cifs shares and fiber channel to ESXI and EMC VNX 5300 with cifs shares and ISCSI to ESXI Configuring network security, hosts security, making and implementing security policies, documentation, remote offices combining (side-to-side, VPN, DMZ). Upgrading VMWare vSphere from 5.0 to 6.0 and Vcenter from windows server to appliance

Sr System Administrator

3S Sharing Standard Software, Tunisia
Jul 2014 - Jul 2015 · 1 year

Supporting and configuring infrastructure and services: Virtualization (VMware, OpenStack), Windows services and Linux (asterisk, Apache, nginx, postfix, GIT, SVN) Deploying and configuring of VMware vSphere (clusters, Vcenter, SAN (Fiber Channel, iSCSI), Storages (NetApp, Free NAS, nexenta, open filer)), templates, configuring and managing of virtual machines. Python scripting for various tasks: backup, monitoring, to automate administration tasks and deployments using fabric. Configuring and supporting of CI/CD environment: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven, Apache Ant. Security project for control updates and collecting logs (greylog) and vulnerability scan use Kali-Linux, Nstalker, Acute tix, Lynis. Maintaining infrastructure security on all OSI layers (Vlans, ACL, Iptables, firewall, security groups, VPN, SSO, etc.)

IT Support Engineer

INOVA SOFTWARE, Paris, FRENCH
Aug 2013 - Jul 2014 · 11 months

Responsible for the documentations for technical support, data center designs and requirements and project workflows. Provides technical support for operating systems, software and hardware to Linux Desktop users. Responsible for the effective handling of incidents and change requests in emergency situations and assisting the team in resolution of software and system issues. Involve in technical support with third-party providers/vendors to resolve the incidents and bugs in their provided services and prepare the resolution documents in case of the same incidents in future. Responsible for installation of web hosting panels such as Apache, cPanel, Direct Admin on CentOS and ubuntu servers. Responsible for MySQL high availability with master and slave rule in server. Design authentication form to check whether the user is an authorized person to use the system. Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining CodeIgniter, php, Apache, DNS and MySQL on AWS cloud servers.

Back End Mendix Developer

INOVA SOFTWARE, Paris, FRENCH
Sep 2012 - Aug 2013 · 11 months

Working on Mendix Platform: Designing Domain Model, Molding Microflows, Configuring Security, Handling Errors, and Tracking Application Behavior. Working on Siebel Tools, Configuring objects: Applets, Views, Business Components, Business Services, Integration Objects, and Workflows. Cooperate with other developers, designers, and business analysts to design, build, test, and maintain. Support customer staff, at all levels, to ensure customer satisfaction. Proactively working with the client to ensure their successful deployment. Conduct proactive technical reviews, workshops, or on-site/remote Expert Assistance. Work with the customer, implementation team to ensure proper design and implementation. Technical assistance with Software Installations.

ICT Instructor

Private Central Computer University, Tunisia
Sep 2010 - Jun 2012 · 1 year 9 months

Provided advice and support to students both individually and in groups, allowing optimal academic results to be achieved. Evaluated and graded students' classwork, papers and assignments to assess course success and student understanding of materials. Worked with distance learning technology to facilitate online classroom environment Administered sudden and rapid tests to determine comprehension rates among students.

Sr DevOps Engineer

Emirates Community Empowerment, UAE
Apr 2020

Orchestrated production and development Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
Spearheaded the seamless migration of applications from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes environments.
Managed the infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for consistency and efficiency.
Implemented robust Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines employing Jenkins, Spinnaker, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions to accelerate and facilitate seamless multiple process deployments.
Proficient in utilizing advanced logging and monitoring tools, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Influx DB, and Prometheus, to ensure system health and insights.
Managed relational database systems, specifically MySQL and PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and accessibility.
Provided dedicated support to development teams, enhancing collaboration and facilitating continuous improvement.

Skills

Linux Administration C/C++ Python Django Flask Golang Mendix NodeJS MySQL SQL Server Oracle DB MongoDB PostgreSQL Problem-solving Analytical skills Agile Methodology Scrum Jira Git GitLab GitHub Git Flow Bash PowerShell AWS Azure GCP Huawei Cloud Oracle Cloud OCI Jenkins Travis CI GitLab CI GitHub Actions Shared Library Pipeline as Code Groovy Docker Kubernetes Helm OpenShift Ansible Terraform CloudFormation YAML Prometheus Grafana Datadog Splunk
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