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Hakim Arhazzal

AWS Migration Expert / Senior DevOps consultant
  • Suggested rate
    $751 / day
  • Experience3-7 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Berlin, Germany
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Hakim in a few words
As a motivated, analytical, and result-focused certified AWS solution architect, and a professional DevOps Engineer specializing in infrastructure architecting, I guide customers in their journey to the cloud. My primary role is to design solutions that will help customers migrate, operate, deploy, and optimize cloud-based applications and infrastructure
to help accelerate the creation of new business value via rapid cloud-native application development. With a mindset of “Automate Everything”.

My methodology provides an assessment, prioritization, and categorization of the clients’ workloads, infrastructure audit, architecture design, automation, deployment, testing, cut-over, and disaster recovery planning, to provide a complete offering across the life cycle and ensure the optimal performance of your servers and applications while being agile and flexible.
Experience
  • CloudLink, LLC
    Kubernetes Engineer / Sr. DevOps Engineer
    DIGITAL & IT
    October 2019 - January 2022 (2 years and 3 months)
    Remote, OR, USA
    • Designed and implemented a continuous build-test-deployment
    (CI/CD) system with multiple component pipelines using Jenkins to
    support weekly releases and out-of-cycle releases based on business
    needs
    • Lead transition from manual configuration and deployment to
    ‘infrastructure as code’ using Terraform, including design and
    implementation of cookbooks and tooling
    • Implemented automated local user provisioning VMs created in
    Openstack and AWS cloud through Chef Recipes.
    • Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the
    Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and
    managed using Kubernetes
    • Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by
    Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
    Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the
    CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
    • Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers
    and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes.
    • Developed microservice on boarding tools leveraging Python and
    Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and
    Kubernetes deploy and services.
    • Refactoring of monolithic applications to a Microservices and
    Component based architectures.
    • Worked on deployment automation of all the microservices to pull
    image from the private docker registry and deploy to docker swarm
    cluster using Ansible.
    • Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by
    Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on AWS
    • Worked with OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers and
    Kubernetes Clusters.
    • Created Jenkins CICD pipelines for continuous build & deployment
    and integrated Junit and SonarQube plugins in Jenkins for automated
    testing and for Code quality check.
    • Integrated SonarQube with Jenkins for continuous inspection of code
    quality and analysis with SonarQube scanner for Maven.
    • Utilized Kubernetes for the runtime environment of the CI/CD
    system to build, test deploy.
    • Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load
    Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
    • Responsible for Design of different Release Environments for new
    projects.
    • Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & maven
    as build framework.
    • Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef,
    Maven & Nexus in Linux environment
    • Managed Chef Cookbooks to automate system operations.
    • Integration of Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy with
    Patterns/Release, Git, Confluence, JIRA and Cloud Foundry
    • Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy to AWS
    • Changing the AWS infrastructure Elastic Beanstalk to Docker with
    kubernetes.
    • Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Autos calling groups
    • Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud
    Watch
    • Experimented with Docker, by using Docker-compose
    • Assisted in developing an Inventory management using Cassandra
    and producing various reports.
    • Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - Batch,
    Ruby, Shell script etc.
    • Responsible for product deployments into QA, STAGE and PROD
    environments.
    • Managing day-to-day software configuration management activities
    for multiple product lines, including source code control,
    Version control, branch management, build management, release
    management, etc.
    • Maintaining source code repository for all major and minor releases.
  • Software Business, LLC
    DevOps Engineer / AWS Architect
    DIGITAL & IT
    March 2016 - October 2019 (3 years and 7 months)
    Remote, OR, USA
    Focused on automation, containerization, and integration monitoring
    and configuration management.
    • Streamlined applications delivery to get applications out to
    customers faster.
    • Design, implement and test a microservices EKS based architecture in
    AWS, leveraging the power of the AWS API Gateway and the AWS RDS
    Aurora Global Database feature.
    • Configure the API Gateway with Keycloak provider for authentication
    use case, and rate limiting with AWS
    • Developed and implemented software release management
    strategies for various applications according to agile process.
    • Used Puppet and Chef and Terraform for Configuration Management
    tool.
    • Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Puppet to
    deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers.
    • Automating the build process by configuring Subversion for projects.
    Build tracking so that whenever defect is detected, developers will be
    able to track the source code. Handling Environment issue in Linux
    boxes.
    • Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization.
    • Kubernetes is being used to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and
    management of Docker Containers.
    • Worked on Micro Services deployments on AWS EKS and EC2 instances
    • Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by
    Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on AWS . Utilized Kubernetes
    and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI / CD system to build,
    test deploy.
    • Experience on Deployment Automation & Containerization (-
    Docker, Kubernetes).
    • To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment,
    used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx.
    • Followed agile principles and used JIRA for maintenance and Bug
    development tasks.
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Education
  • Software Engineer
    National School of Applied Sciences
    2016
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