Ahmed Elsayed Salah
Linux Admin / DevOps Engineer
Objective
Infrastructure & Scalability
Results-Driven IT Engineer with strong hands-on 2 years of experience across Windows Server Administration, Linux Systems, and DevOps Automation. Adept at designing, securing, and optimizing infrastructure for scalability and high availability.
Security & Compliance
Skilled in managing firewall security using Fortigate and Sophos, ensuring robust perimeter defense and compliance with best practices. Proven expertise in web hosting environments, including WHM/cPanel, DNS management, and email systems.
DevOps Automation
DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in building CI/CD pipelines, containerizing apps, and deploying to cloud platforms using Docker, automation using tools like Ansible, Git, Terraform, Vagrant.
Experience
- Linux (Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora) as an expert user and Manager
- Install / Setup new system based on RHEL 8 & RHEL 9
- Advanced configuration for services [Apache, Nginx, Supervisor, PHP-FPM, Named, Jenkins, Docker, FTP, DNS]
- Shell scripting, process management, and automating common administrative tasks
- Virtualization [KVM, OpenVZ and LXC] over [ESXi, Proxmox, VMware]
- Web Server Administration [With or Without Control Panel]
- Hosting control panel management [WHM/cPanel, CWP and Plesk]
- CI/CD with Jenkins for WordPress & PHP Laravel App
- Build Docker images for [Laravel, NodeJs, Java, .Net] and Docker Compose for WordPress
- Using Terraform with Proxmox Provider to create new [VPS, KVM, Container]
- Automate daily tasks with Bash Scripting
- Building, Securing, and Monitoring all Servers
- Manage and Maintain 7 Branches
- Link Branches with VPN Technology using Sophos Firewall
- Resolve Technical Problems with LAN and WAN
- Windows Environment Support
- MySQL Management for Student System
- Network troubleshooting and exploration
- Windows Server (AD, GPO, Security, WDS & WSUS, Hyper-V Replica, ADC, DNS, DHCP)
- Fortigate Firewall (CIA Triad, Security Policies, ACLs, Threat Mitigation)
- Virtualization System (ESXi7, Proxmox)
- Backup & Data Recovery Solution
- File Sharing Server (Iomega)
- Panasonic Telephone System
Skills & Abilities
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Faculty of Science, Banha University
2019 – 2023
Graduation Project: Network & End-user Support — Grade: A (GPA: 4.0)
Certifications & Courses
International Certificates
cPanel Professional Certification (CPP)
cPanel University
WHM Administration Certification (CWA)
cPanel University
cPanel & WHM System Administration (CWSA-1)
cPanel University
Sophos Home Certification
Sophos
CCNA 200-301
Mac Training Center