Mohamed Balizi

DevOps Engineer | 3+ Years Experience | AWS | Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD) | CI/CD | Terraform | DevSecOps

Salary / Daily rate

Agadir 80000, Morocco

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

AWSTerraformKubernetesJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsDockerAmazon EC2AnsibleMicroservices

About me

Intro

๐Ÿš€ ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜€ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ with 3+ years of experience in building, automating, and optimizing ๐—–๐—œ/๐—–๐—— ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€, cloud infrastructure, and containerized applications. ๐—ž๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ (๐—–๐—ž๐—”, ๐—–๐—ž๐—”๐——) with strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code and automation. Hands-on experience with ๐—”๐—ช๐—ฆ, including EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, and EKS, designing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures. Strong background in ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜€ practices, including IAM management, ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ using ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜, and container/image ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด with tools such as Trivy, Syft, SonarQube, and Veracode. Currently working at ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—บ, where I design and optimize ๐—–๐—œ/๐—–๐—— ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€, manage ๐—ž๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€-based deployments, and improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of AWS-based infrastructure. Focused on improving deployment speed, system reliability, scalability, and security. ๐Ÿ’ก ๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™„ ๐˜ฟ๐™ค ๐˜ฝ๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ: โœ… ๐—ž๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ & ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ โ€“ Deploy and manage containerized applications in production using Kubernetes โœ… ๐—–๐—œ/๐—–๐—— ๐—ฃ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€ โ€“ Design and optimize automated pipelines using GitLab CI for fast and reliable releases โœ… ๐—–๐—น๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฑ & ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ โ€“ Build scalable AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, EKS) using Terraform and Ansible โœ… ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด & ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† โ€“ Ensure high availability using Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting โœ… ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜€ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€ โ€“ Integrate security into pipelines using Vault, IAM policies, and container/image scanning tools ๐Ÿ“ฉ Letโ€™s connect and talk about ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜€, ๐—–๐—น๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฑ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป!

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Work experience

Cegedim Maroc

Apr 2023 - Present

3 years 7 months

Agadir 80000, Morocco

DevOps Engineer

Jul 2023 - Present

3 years 4 months

Agadir 80000, Morocco

โ€ข Designed and maintained scalable cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, reducing manual provisioning time by over 60%. โ€ข Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, enabling faster and more reliable deployments across multiple environments. โ€ข Deployed and managed containerized applications using Kubernetes, improving system scalability and high availability. โ€ข Used Helm to manage Kubernetes deployments and simplify application configuration. โ€ข Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing incident response time by 40%. โ€ข Strengthened platform security by integrating DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secrets management. โ€ข Integrated security tools Trivy and SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines. โ€ข Managed container images and registries using Docker, streamlining development and deployment workflows. โ€ข Collaborated with development teams to implement microservices architecture and improve release cycles. โ€ข Maintained system reliability with proactive incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement processes. โ€ข Implemented GitOps workflows using Argo CD for automated and version-controlled deployments.

DevOps Engineer

Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

4 months

On-site

Software Developer

YouCode Maroc

Nov 2021 - Jul 2023

1 year 9 months

Safi, Morocco

Web Developer

Cegedim Maroc

Jul 2022 - Aug 2022

2 months

Agadir 80000, Morocco

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Education

ENSET Mohammedia

LP Administration et Cybersรฉcuritรฉ des Systรจmes et Rรฉseaux Informatiques

2024 - 2025

1 year 1 month

Simplon Grand Ouest

Dรฉveloppement Web

2021 - 2023

1 year 5 months

Specialized Institute Of Applied Technology NTIC

Technicien Spรฉcialisรฉ en Dรฉveloppement Informatique

2019 - 2021

2 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Issued: Jan 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Issued: Jul 2024

Certified by The Linux Foundation

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