Elmehdi D.-Senior DevOps & Platform Automation Engineer
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Senior DevOps Engineer
Amber Tech GmbH
- Automated Kubernetes deployments to over 400 customer target environments (Rancher/RKE2) using versioned Helm charts and Argo CD ApplicationSets for daily releases.
- Created self-service customer onboarding based on versioned runbooks, reducing the process from days to hours; coordinated with customer IT teams (AD/LDAP, SMB/DFS, network).
- Migrated selected services to AWS alongside the Open Telekom Cloud platform: provisioned VPC, EC2, and IAM roles with least-privilege policies using Terraform; operated workloads on EC2.
- Set up Keycloak realms and OIDC/SAML clients for product SSO, federated with customers’ Active Directory.
- Set up tenant-specific strongSwan IPsec sidecars on Kubernetes instead of a central transit VM, with keys in HashiCorp Vault: reduced connectivity costs by approximately 80%, with DFS indexing over the tunnel.
- Designed the high-availability migration of the Redis environment to managed OTC DCS; set up alerting and on-call rotations with incident.io by severity, and improved Grafana queries and indexing.
Freelance DevOps Engineer
Hamdiservices Inc
- Built an end-to-end internal delivery platform for a B2B software consultancy: infrastructure provisioning, GitLab CI pipelines with Trivy image scans as a blocking stage, and Argo CD deployments.
- Provisioned a production-ready seven-node RKE2 Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox VE in 27 minutes with a single command (Terraform, Ansible, Bash).
- Built the full platform stack with Cilium CNI, Longhorn Storage, Traefik Ingress, Prometheus/Grafana, and ELK; declarative GitOps synchronization with Argo CD and Kustomize.
DevOps Engineer (ERP Infrastructure)
Hauber Group GmbH
- Set up test environments on the RKE2 Kubernetes cluster using Helm and GitLab CI; managed ERP releases from rollout during maintenance windows through verification with business teams and the vendor.
- Managed the ERP infrastructure (DIAMOD) on VMware vSphere: Oracle databases (access management, backup and restore with regular restore tests), Linux servers, and storage snapshots.
- Automated EDI data exchange (XML/EDIFACT) on Linux integration servers using Bash and cron; monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana.
Cloud Migration Engineer
HIQ Technology & Consulting GmbH
- Migrated customer workloads to Microsoft Azure, from analysis through cutover; contributed to ongoing operations.
- Automated container image builds and deployments of customer applications in Azure using Docker and GitLab CI pipelines, replacing manually maintained Linux server installations.
- Configured Microsoft Entra ID for migrated customer applications: app registrations for OIDC/SAML SSO, service principals for CI deployments, and security groups with Azure RBAC roles.
- Created Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for Terraform deployments of Azure infrastructure, alongside GitLab CI.
- Automated processes through REST APIs and ScriptRunner (Groovy); managed workflow and permissions structures.
Solution Designer
Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH (Junkers)
- Supported the global rollout of the OneCRM platform (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service) in Bosch’s enterprise IT (GitHub Enterprise), and administered user systems for international service areas.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Fashion, and Manufacturing.
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Experienced in Information Technology.
Summary
Kubernetes Platform Engineer (CKA, CKS) for automated delivery platforms: Helm and Argo CD GitOps deployments (ApplicationSets) for over 400 customer environments, self-service onboarding, infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Open Telekom Cloud, as well as CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI and Azure DevOps with Trivy scans as blocking stages. Cloud security with Microsoft Entra ID and Keycloak SSO (OIDC/SAML), Azure and Kubernetes RBAC, Vault, and IPsec. Four years in SaaS, IT consulting, and enterprise IT.
Skills
- Kubernetes & Platform Orchestration: Kubernetes (Rke2/Rancher), Helm, Kustomize, Cilium (Ebpf), Longhorn, Istio; Multi-Tenant Platform For Over 400 Customer Environments; Cka And Cks.
- Internal Developer Platform & Gitops: Self-Service Onboarding, Automation Of Kubernetes Deployments With Argo Cd (Applicationsets) And Flux Cd, Versioned Helm Charts, Automated Image Tag Promotion.
- Ci/Cd Pipelines, Code Scans & Validation: Gitlab Ci/Cd, Azure Devops Pipelines, Github Actions, Github Enterprise; Docker Image Builds, Blocking Trivy Scans, Kubeconform Validation, Unit Tests.
- Infrastructure As Code & Cloud: Terraform, Ansible, Bash; Aws (Ec2, Vpc, Iam, S3, Ecs Fargate, Ecr, Rds, Secrets Manager), Microsoft Azure, Open Telekom Cloud, Vmware Vsphere, Proxmox Ve.
- Cloud Security, Sso & Rbac: Microsoft Entra Id, Keycloak (Oidc/Saml Sso, Ad/Ldap Federation), Azure And Kubernetes Rbac, Hashicorp Vault, Networkpolicies, Pod Security, Tls/X.509, Ipsec, Falco.
- Monitoring, Scripting & Ai Tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Elk, Incident.Io; Bash, Python, Groovy, Sql, Yaml; Postgresql, Oracle, Redis; Llm Tooling: Claude Code With Mcp Servers.
Languages
Education
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
M. Eng. · Information Technology · Frankfurt, Germany
ENSA Khouribga
Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Embedded Systems · Electrical Engineering and Embedded Systems · Khouribga, Morocco
Certifications & licenses
CKS Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
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Elmehdi is based in Stuttgart, Germany.
Elmehdi speaks the following languages: Arabic (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced), French (Advanced).
Elmehdi has at least 5 years of experience. During this time, Elmehdi has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year. Note that Elmehdi may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Elmehdi would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior DevOps Engineer, Freelance DevOps Engineer, DevOps Engineer (ERP Infrastructure).
Elmehdi's most recent position is Senior DevOps Engineer at Amber Tech GmbH.
In recent years, Elmehdi has worked for Amber Tech GmbH, Hamdiservices Inc, Hauber Group GmbH, HIQ Technology & Consulting GmbH, and Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH (Junkers).
Elmehdi is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Fashion, and Manufacturing.
Elmehdi is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology.
Elmehdi holds a Master in Information Technology from Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and a Master in Electrical Engineering and Embedded Systems from ENSA Khouribga.
Elmehdi has 2 certificates. These include: CKS Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist and CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Elmehdi will be available full-time from November 2026.
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