Cairo & Alex, Egypt — Available for senior platform engineering roles

Ahmad Ibrahim
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Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer with 5+ years architecting enterprise container platforms for banks across MENA and pan-African financial institutions. Specialist in Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Temenos delivery.

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5+
Years engineering
15+
Banking deployments
99.95%
Platform availability
6
Active certifications
01 — About

Building the platforms that regulated banks trust to run on.

NAMEAhmad Ibrahim
ROLESr. DevOps Engineer
BASEDCairo, EG & Alex, EG
FOCUSOCP / Platform Engineering
CERTSCKA · RHCE · RHCSA
STATUS● Open to roles
LANGSArabic · English

I deliver production OpenShift platforms for banks — the kind that have to clear a SAMA CSF or PCI DSS audit before a single workload goes live. Most of my work sits at the intersection of Red Hat OpenShift, Temenos core banking (Transact, Infinity, Payments Hub, FCM), and the GitOps machinery that makes the whole thing reproducible.

Across roles at NTG Clarity, ALINMA Bank, and Sumerge, I've operated multi-cluster OCP estates running mission-critical workloads with 99.95% availability, onboarded core banking suites onto containers, and built the CI/CD and observability backbones that let small platform teams support large customer footprints.

I also wrote OMDS — an internal OCP Managed Deployment Service framework — covering Day-0/1/2 activities, sizing translation, and customer handover. It became the team's delivery standard and cut engagement setup time by ~40%.

02 — Expertise

A stack built for regulated, high-availability environments.

[01] Container Platforms
Red Hat OpenShift 4.x Kubernetes Docker Podman Helm Kustomize
[02] GitOps & CI/CD
ArgoCD App-of-Apps Tekton Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions
[03] Cloud & Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud (OCI) AWS VMware vSphere Tanzu Ansible Terraform
[04] Observability & SRE
Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack AlertManager Jaeger SLO / SLI
[05] Security & Compliance
Kyverno Trivy Cert-Manager SonarQube
[06] Banking Stack
Temenos Transact Infinity
03 — Experience

A career delivering platforms that can't go down.

03/2025 — Present ● Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

NTG Clarity Networks Egypt — Cairo, Egypt
  • Lead OCP 4.x and Kubernetes lifecycle management (install, upgrade, capacity planning) across multi-node production environments serving banking customers.
  • Design and maintain GitOps delivery pipelines using ArgoCD App-of-Apps with multi-environment Helm value stacks; manage 10+ ArgoCD applications across dev/staging/production.
  • Build IaC modules — Ansible, Helm, Kustomize — reducing new-environment provisioning time by ~60%.
  • Implement OPA/Gatekeeper and Kyverno admission policies enforcing security baselines; integrate Trivy into CI for image scanning.
  • Define and track SLO/SLI targets, author post-incident reviews, and mentor 3 junior engineers on Kubernetes troubleshooting and SRE practices.
04/2024 — 02/2025

Staff SRE Engineer

ALINMA Bank — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Operated 2 production OCP clusters (12+ nodes each) hosting core banking workloads; maintained 99.95% availability aligned with SAMA CSF.
  • Led incident response and blameless RCA process; achieved 35% MTTR reduction over 6 months through runbook automation.
  • Enforced PCI DSS controls via RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, network segmentation, and audit logging — passed internal compliance audit with zero critical findings.
  • Onboarded 8 banking applications onto OCP with resource quotas, HPA policies, and per-team GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
  • Integrated HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, replacing static env vars in 100% of onboarded apps.
  • Authored IaC and CI/CD pipeline standards adopted as the bank's internal DevOps baseline.
01/2024 — 03/2024

Staff DevOps & SRE Engineer

Sumerge — Cairo, Egypt
  • Promoted to Staff level; led platform architecture decisions for Temenos suites (Transact, Infinity, Payments Hub, FCM) on OCP across 4 banking customers.
  • Defined OCP sizing and deployment models translating Temenos on-premises IBM WebSphere footprints into containerized OCP workloads, cutting estimated infrastructure cost by 30%.
  • Established the formal OMDS (OCP Managed Deployment Service) framework — adopted as the team's delivery standard.
01/2022 — 12/2023

DevOps & SRE Engineer

Sumerge — Cairo, Egypt
  • Delivered OCP platforms to 5+ banking customers including ALINMA (KSA), AFREXIM Bank (MANSA platform), and a 7-bank IPN consortium; managed 15+ application deployments.
  • Built Jenkins and Tekton pipelines cutting release cycles from weekly manual to automated daily deployments with rollback.
  • Designed NGINX Ingress with TLS, MetalLB load balancing, and DMZ-based ingress for banking network security zones.
  • Integrated Istio service mesh for east-west traffic management and mTLS on 3 microservice banking apps.
  • Tuned ELK and Prometheus/Grafana stacks, reducing MTTD from hours to under 10 minutes.
  • Resolved 100+ L3 escalations with documented RCA reports across IBM Middleware (WebSphere, Case Manager, FileNet, DataPower).
12/2020 — 12/2021

Associate DevOps & SRE Engineer

Sumerge — Cairo, Egypt
  • Installed IBM Middleware (WebSphere, Case Manager, FileNet) in HA configurations on RHEL/Windows for 3 government and financial sector clients.
  • Managed containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OCP; performed daily ops, pod troubleshooting, log-based RCA.
  • Maintained SLA compliance for 5+ production applications through L2/L3 incident response.
04 — Selected Projects

Where the work has been most consequential.

Banking Consortium · Egypt

Instant Payment Network — 7-Bank Egyptian Consortium

Designed and operated the CI/CD and OCP infrastructure underpinning real-time interbank payment processing across AlexBank, Bank Du Caire, Credit Agricole Egypt, Mashreq, ENBD, Al Ahly Kuwait, and MID Bank.

7 banks 99.9% uptime Real-time processing
Cloud Architecture · OCI

OCP 4.18 on Oracle Cloud — 19-Node Agent-Based Topology

Architected end-to-end OCP 4.18 installation on OCI using the agent-based method across a 19-node topology (3 masters, 6 workers, 3 infra, 4 app-foundation, 3 storage). Authored the installation guide consumed across 3 customer engagements.

19 nodes 3 engagements Agent-based install
Cloud Architecture · VMware

OCP 4.18 on VMware vSphere — UPI Deployment

Architected OCP 4.18 on VMware vSphere using the UPI method across the same 19-node topology. Produced design documentation covering node sizing, network design, ODF/Ceph storage, and DNS for VMware UPI.

UPI method ODF / Ceph storage vSphere integration
Regulated Operations · KSA

ALINMA Bank — OCP Platform Operations

Led SRE operations for OCP clusters hosting core banking workloads in a SAMA CSF and PCI DSS regulated environment. Passed compliance audit with zero critical findings; reduced MTTR by 35%.

SAMA CSF compliant 0 critical findings −35% MTTR
Pan-African KYC · AFREXIM

MANSA — Pan-African KYC Platform

Delivered OCP infrastructure, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack for MANSA, the African Export-Import Bank's KYC platform spanning 15+ African markets.

15+ markets GitLab CI/CD KYC at scale
Internal Framework · Productized

OMDS — OCP Managed Deployment Service

A reusable service-delivery framework for OCP-on-OCI engagements covering Temenos sizing translation, Day-0/1/2 activities, acceptance testing, and customer handover. Adopted as the team's delivery standard.

−40% setup time Day-0/1/2 coverage Standardized handover
05 — Certifications

Verified credentials, maintained continuously.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CKA · Linux Foundation
Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCE · Red Hat
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
RHCSA · Red Hat
Red Hat Specialist — Containers & Kubernetes
EX180 · Red Hat
Red Hat Delivery Specialist — Container Platform
Deployment · Red Hat
VMware vSphere with Tanzu Specialist
Broadcom · VMware
06 — Contact

Let's talk platforms.

Open to senior platform engineering, SRE, and consulting roles — particularly in regulated banking and financial-services environments across the GCC and EMEA.

Ahmed.ibr.kamel@gmail.com LinkedIn +20 128 767 9493