01. About

Mahmoud Hamra 👋

SRE Lead & DevOps Engineer

SRE lead with deep hands-on production experience in designing and operating large-scale cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes. Specializes inplatform engineering, GitOps-driven automation, and building observable, self-healing systems. 🚀

Currently leading cloud platform and reliability engineering at Foodics, one of the region's fastest-growing fintech platforms serving 20,000+ outlets across MENA.

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02. Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Vercel

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Crossplane

Ansible

CloudFormation

CI/CD & GitOps

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Observability

Grafana / LGTM

OpenTelemetry

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Datadog

Container & Orchestration

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

EKS

AKS

Databases & Cache

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

MySQL

Amazon RDS

ElastiCache

Messaging & Streaming

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Amazon SQS

Security & Secrets

HashiCorp Vault

Trivy

Snyk

SonarQube

Scripting & Systems

Linux

Shell / Bash

Python

03. Experience

2025

Present

SRE Lead

Foodics

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

“Leading cloud infrastructure and SRE practices for a fintech platform serving 20,000+ outlets across MENA.”

→Leading cloud infrastructure and SRE practices for a fintech platform serving 20,000+ outlets across MENA.
→Driving monolith-to-microservices migration (F7 initiative), owning the AWS/EKS platform across four environments.
→Architected GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Terraform, and Crossplane for self-service infrastructure provisioning.
→Replaced PagerDuty and Datadog with a unified Grafana Cloud stack (LGTM + IRM).
→Led migration from EC2/ASG to Docker/EKS including containerization strategy and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
→Implemented Disaster Recovery with cross-region RDS backups and EC2 snapshot automation via AWS Backup.
→Integrated Trivy container security scanning in CI/CD with severity-based blocking policies.

2023

Oct 2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

geidea

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

“Led DevOps workflows for a fintech platform handling 10M+ transactions/day from POS terminals.”

→Led DevOps workflows for a fintech platform handling 10M+ transactions/day from POS terminals.
→Containerized applications and configured Azure infrastructure for streamlined deployment.
→Built Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for AKS and on-prem Nutanix Kubernetes (NKE) clusters.
→Provisioned Azure cloud infrastructure from scratch using Terraform.
→Deployed a 10-node Elasticsearch cluster monitoring 10+ apps across 200+ VMs.
→Fortified CI/CD pipelines with code signing, vulnerability scanning, and secrets encryption.

2023

Apr 2023

DevOps Engineer

UPayments

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

“Containerized applications with Docker for consistent cross-environment deployment.”

→Containerized applications with Docker for consistent cross-environment deployment.
→Managed deployment and scaling on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE).
→Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline for automated build, test, and deployment.
→Implemented scalable AWS infrastructure to handle varying workload demands.

2021

Jan 2023

DevOps Engineer

SANAM

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

“Built and managed CI/CD pipelines from development to production.”

→Built and managed CI/CD pipelines from development to production.
→Set up Kubernetes clusters on OKE and implemented GitOps practices.
→Provisioned infrastructure using IaC tools and performed performance monitoring.
→Helped establish a sustainable DevOps culture across the organization.

2020

Jun 2021

DevOps Engineer

Jasoor Systems

Riyadh

“Maintained CI/CD pipelines ensuring reliable deployments across multiple environments.”

→Maintained CI/CD pipelines ensuring reliable deployments across multiple environments.
→Managed system updates and patching to keep infrastructure secure.
→Performed routine monitoring and troubleshooting to minimize downtime.
→Documented deployment procedures and system configurations for team knowledge sharing.

04. Education

credentials.log — ~/portfolio

secure

guest@portfolio:~$ cat /etc/credentials▌

[ROOT CA] Computer Engineering

├── Issuer: Middle East Technical University

├── Period: 2015 — 2020

├── Location: Ankara, Turkey

└── Status: ● VERIFIED

Fingerprint: A3:1B:9E:4F:7C:0D:2E:8F:1A:6B

guest@portfolio:~$ openssl verify —certs

[2023-03] OCI Foundations Associate [VALID]

[2022-06] Google ACE [VALID]

[2023-01] Azure Fundamentals [VALID]

[2020-08] Data Analyst Nanodegree [VALID]

✓ 4 certificate(s) loaded. All chains valid.

05. Testimonials

“I highly recommend Mahmoud for his impressive problem-solving skills and dedication to engineering excellence. He is the type of colleague who does not just fix issues but identifies ways to optimize the entire workflow. His commitment to staying ahead of industry trends and his ability to tackle challenging technical hurdles with a calm, analytical approach has a significant positive impact on our team's delivery and output. ”

Mehdi BEN FEGUIR

Acting Director / Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - @Foodics CKA | CKAD | HCTA Terraform | AWS | AlibabaCloud | GCP | OCI

Managed Mahmoud directly • May 16, 2026 • Source: LinkedIn

“I had the pleasure of managing Mahmoud during my time as a DevOps Team Leader at Geidea. He is intelligent, tech-passionate, fast-learning, and profoundly understands DevOps practices and CI/CD. Mahmoud consistently demonstrated solid problem-solving skills, a proactive approach, and an impressive ability to apply new concepts quickly. His contributions were invaluable to our team's success, and I highly recommend him for any future opportunities. ”

Kamel Jazmati

Managed Mahmoud directly • September 13, 2024 • Source: LinkedIn

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