Khaled M.
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect II
Experience
Dec 2022 - Present
3 years 1 monthMannheim, Germany
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect II
Schrödinger GmbH
- Understand the customer’s business and technical requirements and translate them into system and technical requirements
- Design and implement Schrödinger’s applications on cloud systems and convince senior management and senior technical staff of the benefits of their cloud journey
- Provide technical design and thought leadership around AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes architecture reviews, performance, high availability, cost, and security
- Apply deep understanding of the Well-Architected pillars and best practices for building secure, performant applications on 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 cloud platforms
- Educate customers on best practices for successful cloud deployment
- Collaborate with team members to ensure quality and customer success
- Define tickets, tasks, and and project timelines
- Collaborate with account managers to execute projects according to plan and timeline
- Monitor project progress, 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 Schrödinger’s managers to improve deployment, support, and configuration of applications
- Lead weekly standups and define priorities
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 7 monthsPrague, Czech Republic
Sr. Cloud Architect
Revolgy
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on time
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop detailed project plans 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 clarify specific project requirements
- Delegate project tasks based on staff strengths, skill sets, and experience levels
- Track project performance to analyze short- and long-term goal completion
- Design cloud environments holistically to meet client requirements
- Automate provisioning and configuration of cloud infrastructures on AWS and GCP using Terraform and GitLab CI
- Migrate on-premises infrastructure data centers to cloud
- Perform deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management tasks within implemented cloud structures
- Oversee cloud security
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
3 years 4 monthsMunich, Germany
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 teams
- Participate in product road mapping and long-term planning
- Automate provisioning and configuring Kubernetes clusters (master and worker nodes) on AWS, Azure, and GCP using Ansible and Terraform over Jenkins pipelines
- Automate provisioning and configuring Swarm clusters (managers and nodes) on AWS, Azure, and GCP using Ansible and Terraform over Jenkins pipelines
- Automate deploying payloads on Swarm and Kubernetes nodes
- Provision EKS and GKE clusters by Terraform
- Provision and maintain AWS, Azure, and GCP resources (DNS, storage, network, load balancers) by Terraform
- Implement continuous monitoring and alerting around infrastructure, Swarm/Kubernetes, and container/pod availability and performance using Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana
- Perform all responsibilities of an infrastructure DevOps engineer
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
4 yearsUnited States
Sr. Cloud/Microservices Architect
Aurea Software
- Provision and configure Kubernetes nodes and workers using Ansible and Terraform
- Provision and maintain EKS and ECS clusters by Terraform
- Provision and maintain AWS resources (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, etc.) by Terraform
- Design and maintain cloud resources (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, autoscaling, Route 53) and provision them by Terraform
- Containerize applications and systems on Docker and Kubernetes using Jenkins pipelines (CI/CD), Ansible, kubelet, docker run, and Docker Compose
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 4 monthsJordan
Enterprise and Cloud Solutions – ISP Team Leader
Zain
- Manage OPEX and CAPEX budgets
- Lead and manage the team
- Document systems, procedures, SLAs, and policies
- Manage support agreements
- Administer VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM environments
- Manage Infoblox cache DNS and DHCP
- Provide cPanel hosting administration
- Administer Zimbra mail systems
- Administer SMS and FreeRADIUS gateway
- Perform Linux/Red Hat administration
- Administer Veeam backup solutions
- Administer EMC CX-4 and Data Domain storage
May 2013 - Jun 2014
1 year 2 monthsJordan
Assets Management Database and Application Expert
InfoGraph
- Implement and administer Cityworks assets management application and database
- Implement Oracle databases
- Implement Red Hat clusters
- Manage Windows Server 2008 and 2012 environments
- Implement SQL Server 2008 and 2012 clusters
Dec 2006 - Apr 2014
7 years 5 monthsJordan
Sr. System and Database Admin
wi-tribe
- Administer Oracle BRM and EBS
- Administer Oracle 11g and 10.2 databases, including implementation
- Administer Red Hat Linux and design and implement Red Hat 5.x clusters and storage
- Administer EMC CX-4 and CX-3 storage
- Administer EMC Networker backup solutions
- Administer Quantum 500 tape libraries
- Administer Java mail systems
- Administer DNS 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
- Administer MySQL
- Administer ISA, Exchange, and Windows 2008
Feb 2006 - Dec 2006
11 monthsJordan
Technical Support Engineer
SCS
- Troubleshoot network hardware and software issues
- Repair computer hardware and software problems
Jul 2005 - Feb 2006
8 monthsJordan
Control & Monitoring Engineer
JEPCO
- Operate SCADA control stations with Solaris 9 GUI
- Troubleshoot computer networks and Windows systems
- 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.
Languages
Arabic
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2000 - Jun 2005
Applied Science University
B. of Computer Engineer · Computer Engineer · Amman, Jordan
Certifications & licenses
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS
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