Abdel Latif Naser
Project Management
AMM, Jordan
Skills
Cloud Computing
About
AbdelLatif Naser's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). AbdelLatif also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). AbdelLatif Naser has 27 years of work experience, with 22 years of management experience, including a mid-level position.
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Work Experience
Director of Infrastructure and DevOps
baaz.com
January 2019 - Present
- * Managing the Infrastructure and the setup for the website. * Revamping the current setup using the latest technologies and proper solutions architect methodologies. * Implementing a well-architected frame work in terms of security, performance efficiency, reliability, operation excellence and cost optimization. Monthly invoice for example is now 50% less. * Reviewing the architect with development team to decide the proper setup and roadmap. * Moving most technologies to AWS services for better high availability, stability and security. "ex: MongoDB to AWS DocumentDB" * Implementing DevOps setup "Docker, Kuburnetes, Jenkins, Ansible .." for sufficient CI ? CD platform.
Head of Infrastructure and Service Delivery
cashu.com
October 2017 - December 2018
- * Manage overall systems infrastructure and operations including hosting and related services. * Manage and maintain tools to monitor and improve site availability and work with development teams to promote integration and adoption of those tools. * Manage and enhance continuous integration and deployment pipelines and infrastructure. * Ensure processes and resources are in place to maintain expected availability, scalability, and maintainability. * Develop and implement disaster recovery procedures. * Ensure business is following compliance processes, standards, guidelines and latest technologies.
Freelance Technical Adviser
arabiacell.com
October 2016 - September 2017
- Apply best practices for implementing and designing an AWS cloud-based technology solution for arabiacell.com websites "and cashu.com for 1 month" to have well-architected sites with better security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and operational excellence. * Apply security at all levels and enable traceability "IAM, Security Groups, ACL, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, " to ensure proper access management and infrastructure / data protection. * Automatically recover from failure and scale horizontally to increase aggregate system availability "Load Balancer, Amazon Route 53, Auto-Scaling". * Democratize advanced technologies: Technologies that are difficult to implement can become easier to consume by pushing that knowledge and complexity into the cloud vendor's domain. "RDS, NoSQL, Storage services, " * Big Data "Collection: Kinesis, IoT. Storage: S3, DynamoDB. Processing: EMR, Machine Learning. Analysis: Redshift, ElasticSearch" * Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership. * Perform operations with code: Use CI / CD for automating configuration management, changes, and responses to events. "CodeDeploy, CodePipeLine, Jenkins, "
Technical/Project Director
ITP.com
March 2014 - August 2016
- * Managing Jordan office operation "Development FrontEnd / BackEnd, System Administration, designers, SEO / SEM and content" * Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company's services. * Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all web-based services. * Ensure technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization. * Oversees IT budgets to make sure there are no unnecessary expenditures. * Migrated the whole setup and websites "TimeOutDubai.com, ArabianBusiness.com, ITP.net and all B2B sites" from RackSpace to AWS Cloud with a great enhancement with the performance and massive saving. Hosting cost reduced from $20K monthly to $6K only. * Design high availability and fault-tolerance setup using Load Balancing, CloudFront and Auto-Scaling.
Service Engineering Manager
Yahoo.com
January 2009 - November 2013
- * Key contributor on complex projects and initiatives which have a sizable impact on the function. * Has full operational ownership of component/property/product/platform and has direct operational responsibility for all related production systems and applications; is responsible for its overall health and performance. * Design, develop, implement and administer monitoring systems, infrastructure and frameworks for application monitoring (Nagios, YAMAS, Splunk). * Identify deployment architectural operability. * Develop, implement and maintain tools to automate deployment, administration, build processes and monitoring (Pogo, Hudson). * Own configuration/build out of new deployments to facilitate growth. * Categorize, prioritize and resolve software application issues, dealing with all levels of Yahoo corporate and enterprise infrastructure. * Develop "best practices" processes and procedures for high availability and reliability. * Enhance and document system operability. * Determine protocols and perform application maintenance, configuration processes, systems troubleshooting, long term capacity planning, BCP design.
System Administration Manager
Maktoob.com
October 2000 - September 2009
- I have worked on Linux platform and Windows as well for the channels that were developed and acquired to create the largest online community in the Middle East. Main systems that I worked on: * Mail system: worked on different mail system applications to create a stable Arabic/English free webmail "Mirapoint, surgemail, axigen, dovcot, CommuniGate, postfix and sendmail" * LAMP: Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP. Installing and configuring Maktoob channels with LAMP technologies. This was also include "tuning, monitoring, backup, replication, creating admin tools, caching techniques, " I was managing and responsible for a team of 7 system administrators holding more than 20 properties with about 200 production servers. We were hosting our servers in 2 colos "Dallas & Houston" with a redundancy setup. * Monitor the stability, performance and security of our properties. * Remotely troubleshoot and diagnose network and systems problems. * Resolve technical challenges encountered in LAMP technologies * Develop and maintain monitoring tools/scripts and automation systems. * Identify and triage all outage related events. * Facilitate communication, coordinate escalation, and work with subject matter experts to implement critical fixes.
IT Technical Support / Webmaster
B.O.C
May 1997 - October 2000
- * Installing and configuring computer hardware, software, systems, networks, printers * Planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance upgrades * Investigating, diagnosing and solving computer software and hardware faults. * Maintain websites for clients and businesses. * Ensure web servers, hardware and software operating accurately. * Examine and analyse site traffic. * Utilize scripting languages such as Javascript. * Configure web servers such as Apache. * Serve as the server administrator. * Regulate and manage access rights of different users on website.