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Ahmed D.

Senior DevOps Engineer | Production Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure

DevOps Engineer , Production Infrastructure That Stays Up I build and operate cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes clusters, Terraform-managed environments, CI/CD pipelines, and the monitoring and backup layers that make them survivable. CKA certified. 103 completed contracts, 92% job success, Top Rated. Most DevOps engineers can build a pipeline. Fewer can take over someone else's production environment, find out what's actually wrong with it, and fix it without downtime. That's the part of this work I'm known for. Recent client outcomes • Took over a live production environment and integrated Nginx, Grafana and PostgreSQL with zero downtime to running systemd daemons • Migrated an on-prem Windows Hyper-V domain controller to GCP • Built Terraform automation on GCP, OCI and Azure storage triggers, full IaC environments • Deployed and hardened a 21-site WordPress fleet across multiple production servers with automated backups, staging and monitoring • Architected a multi-tenant Supabase/PostgreSQL platform with row-level security for UK property compliance • Failover automation with Virtualizor, R1Soft, Keepalived and PXE • Resolved a production outage another managed-hosting provider had failed to fix for 24 hours , 30 minutes Stack Kubernetes (CKA) · Docker · Terraform · Ansible · Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps · GCP, Azure, AWS, Hetzner, OCI · Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky) · Nginx, Cloudflare, DNS, SSL, reverse proxies · PostgreSQL, Supabase · Python, Bash, Node.js · Prometheus, Grafana · Infrastructure security and hardening Also MCP server development and AI integration built on real infrastructure production MCP servers shipped for ServiceM8 and Jobber, with OAuth 2.1 and full tool surfaces.

🇪🇬Cairo, Egypt$30/hr100% JSS4.86 (103)Since Feb 2025

Earnings and projects

MRR
$3.2k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#11,810 / 412k
🇪🇬Country#101 / 6,384
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.9k

Last 6 months: $19k

Total earnings
$41k

Billed in all: $42k

World#88,181 / 412k
🇪🇬Country#799 / 6,384
Per project
$290

$421 in the last 6 months

World#234,100 / 412k
🇪🇬Country#3,234 / 6,384
Projects, last 6 months
45

Across 46 contracts

87% fixed13% hourly
World#1,194 / 412k
🇪🇬Country#3 / 6,384
Projects in all
143

Across 155 contracts

86% fixed14% hourly
World#16,930 / 412k
🇪🇬Country#203 / 6,384

Earnings, last 30 days

$42.2k+$1.9k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$40k$41k$42k$43kNo dataOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Read once a week before Oct 29, 2026, daily since. Dotted: longer than usual between two readings. Hatched: over two weeks without one.

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