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Khaled Massad

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect II

Khaled Massad
Dresden, Germany

Experience

Dec 2022 - Present
3 years 2 months

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect II

Schrödinger GmbH

  • Understand the customer’s business & technical requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements
  • Design and implement Schrodinger’s applications on cloud systems, and experience convincing senior management and senior technical staff of the benefits of their journey with Schrodinger on the cloud
  • Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership, especially around AWS, GCP, and K8s architecture reviews, performance, high availability, cost, and security
  • Deep understanding of the Well-Architected pillars and all best practices for building a secure, performant Schrodinger’s applications on the cloud platforms
  • Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions
  • Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the cloud platforms
  • Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
  • Work with other team members to ensure quality and customer success
  • Define the tickets, tasks, and timelines of projects
  • Collaborate with account managers to ensure that the projects are executed according to the defined plan and timeline
  • Monitor the progress of the projects, identify risks and issues, and take proactive measures to mitigate them
  • Lead and inspire cloud architect teams, provide guidance, and make critical decisions
  • Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among team members
  • Collaborate with Schrodinger’s managers to improve deployment, support, and configuration of Schrodinger’s applications
  • Lead weekly standups and define priorities
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 7 months

Sr. Cloud Architect

Revolgy

  • Ensure that all projects are delivered on time
  • Ensure resource availability and allocation
  • Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
  • Measure project performance and schedule
  • Report and escalate to management as needed
  • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
  • Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
  • Delegate project tasks based on staff members' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels
  • Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
  • Design the cloud environment from a holistic point of view, ensuring it meets client requirements
  • Automate provisioning and configuring cloud infrastructures on AWS/GCP using Terraform and Gitlab CI
  • Migrate on-premise infrastructure data centers to cloud
  • Carry out deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management tasks within implemented cloud structure
  • Oversee cloud security
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
3 years 4 months

Cloud Devops Architect

Zeuz GmbH

  • Provide technical direction and support to the team
  • Facilitate communication of requirements, scoping, and design decisions between DevOps and business requirements
  • Participate in product road mapping and long-term planning for projects
  • Automate provisioning and configuring Kubernetes clusters (master and worker nodes) on AWS/Azure/GCP by Ansible and Terraform over Jenkins pipelines
  • Automate provisioning and configuring Swarm clusters (managers and nodes) on AWS/Azure/GCP by Ansible and Terraform over Jenkins pipelines
  • Automate deploying payloads on Swarm and Kubernetes nodes
  • Perform EKS and GKE provisioning by Terraform
  • Provision and maintain AWS, Azure, and GCP resources (DNS, storage, network, load balancers, etc.) by Terraform
  • Implement continuous monitoring and alerting around infrastructure, Swarm/K8s, and containers/pods availability and performance using Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana
  • Perform all responsibilities of the Infrastructure DevOps Engineer role
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
4 years

Sr. Cloud/Microservices Architect

Aurea Software

  • Provision and configure Kubernetes nodes and workers by Ansible and Terraform
  • Perform EKS and ECS provisioning and maintenance using Terraform
  • Provision and maintain AWS resources (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, etc.) using Terraform
  • Design and maintain resources (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, autoscaling, Route53, etc.) and provision them by Terraform
  • Containerize apps and systems on Docker and Kubernetes using Jenkins pipelines (CI/CD), Ansible, kubelet, docker run, and docker-compose files
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 4 months

Enterprise and Cloud Solutions – ISP Team leader

Zain

  • Manage budget (OPEX and CAPEX)
  • Manage team and support agreements
  • Document systems, procedures, SLAs, and policies
  • Perform VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM administration
  • Maintain Infoblox cache DNS and DHCP
  • Administer cPanel hosting and Zimbra mail
  • Manage SMS and FreeRADIUS gateway
  • Perform Linux/Red Hat administration
  • Administer Veeam and EMC CX-4/Data Domain systems
May 2013 - Jun 2014
1 year 2 months

Assets Management Database and Application Expert

InfoGraph

  • Implement and administer CityWorks assets management application and database
  • Implement Oracle database
  • Implement Red Hat cluster
  • Manage Windows Server 2008 and 2012 environments
  • Implement SQL Server 2008 and 2012 clusters
Dec 2006 - Apr 2014
7 years 5 months

Sr. System and Database Admin

wi-tribe

  • Administer Oracle BRM and EBS
  • Administer Oracle 11g and 10.2 databases, including implementation
  • Perform Red Hat Linux administration and Red Hat 5.x cluster implementation and design
  • Administer Red Hat Linux storage
  • Administer EMC CX-4 and CX-3 storage
  • Administer EMC Networker backup (v7.6)
  • Manage Quantum 500 tape library
  • Administer Java mail systems
  • Administer DNS with BIND 9 on Sun Solaris 10
  • Manage HP-UX 11i v3 clusters
  • Administer Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5 on Solaris 9
  • Administer Microsoft Exchange 2010
  • Perform MySQL administration
  • Manage ISA, Exchange, and Windows Server 2008
Feb 2006 - Dec 2006
11 months

Technical Support Engineer

SCS

  • Troubleshoot computer network hardware and software issues
  • Fix computer software and hardware problems
Jul 2005 - Feb 2006
8 months

Control & Monitoring Engineer

JEPCO

  • Operate UNIX Solaris 9 GUI for control stations by SCADA system
  • Troubleshoot computer network and Windows issues
  • Provide SQL training

Summary

Principal Cloud/Microservices Solutions Architect with +15 years of experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure, microservices and systems, integrating AWS/GCP/VMware based infrastructure components, and developing automation solutions. In addition, +7 years of experience in Leading projects, designing, managing, implementing multiple Applications and Databases. IT Professional bringing outstanding record in maintaining optimum information access, infrastructure performance and synchronization across server platforms while ensuring clear communications with executives, Business, and VPs.

Always looking for a challenging in a reputable organization to utilize my leading, management, and technical skills (infrastructure, Cloud, Microservices, Devops) for the growth of the organization as well as to enhance my knowledge about new and emerging trends in the IT sector.

Skills

  • Management: Leadership, Project Management, Planning, Coaching, Negotiating, Communication Skills, Problem Solving, Coordinating, Technical Knowledge, Networking/outreach, Collaboration, Execution, Decision Making, Innovation
  • Technologies: Aws, Gcp, Azure, Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, Consul, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, Vmware, Hyper-v
  • Database: Oracle, Mysql, Postgresql, Mssql
  • Scripting Languages: Bash, Python, Go
  • Operating System: Linux (Coreos, Redhat, Ubuntu, Centos), Windows

Languages

Arabic
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2000 - Jun 2005

Applied Science University

Bachelor of Computer Engineer · Computer Engineer · Amman, Jordan

Certifications & licenses

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

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