Akram Dhiabi
Casablanca,Morocco
Summary
Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer with over 8 years of experience in designing and managing scalable systems in multi-cloud environments. Expertise in containerized microservices, serverless architectures, and infrastructure automation across AWS, GCP, and OCI. Proven ability to build CI/CD pipelines, implement DevSecOps practices, and enhance operational efficiency through advanced monitoring solutions. Achievements include significant cost optimization, performance improvements, and increased system reliability.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer
Vanilla Steel GmbH
01.2026 - 08.2026
- Built the entire platform as code in Pulumi (Python) on GCP across 8 environment stacks.
- Architected a provider abstraction seam enabling identical workloads on Cloud Run or Kubernetes with zero code changes.
- Deployed private GKE Autopilot clusters delivered through ArgoCD GitOps with Helm and ExternalSecrets.
- Engineered multi-tenant deployments provisioning the full stack into isolated per-client GCP projects.
- Designed CI/CD with release-please and tag-based staging-to-production promotion gated by automated LLM evals.
- Implemented keyless auth across all pipelines using Workload Identity Federation, eliminating service account keys.
- Consolidated 8 repositories into a single uv-workspace monorepo with path-based affected-detection CI.
- Standardized secrets on Pulumi ESC with hash-driven rotation and automatic Cloud Run rollout.
- Delivered LLM infrastructure: extraction orchestrator, pgvector knowledge base, and self-hosted vLLM GPU cluster.
- Hardened Cloud SQL, VPC, and cross-service events for Sprinto security compliance.
DevOps Technical Lead
2K Games
07.2023 - 06.2025
- Maintained 99.9% uptime for game backend and multiplayer services supporting millions of sessions.
- Architected developer portal using S3, CloudFront, and ECS Fargate for over 100 engineers.
- Integrated Agones for dedicated multiplayer server orchestration, reducing provisioning time by 60%.
- Deployed production-ready Kubernetes clusters on GCP and AWS (EKS) using GitOps pipelines.
- Established secure service mesh with Istio for zero-trust communication and observability.
- Engineered modular Terraform infrastructure stacks adopted across game and platform teams.
- Implemented HashiCorp Vault for secrets management with IAM integration and policy controls.
- Enhanced system observability through Datadog dashboards and SLO tracking per service.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Filestage
06.2021 - 05.2023
- Engineered fully automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to enable self-service environments and reduce release friction.
- Migrated backend systems to serverless architecture on AWS, utilizing ECS Fargate, EFS, ECR, and MongoDB Atlas to decrease operational overhead by 40%.
- Achieved ISO 27001 certification by integrating compliance tools into delivery pipelines.
- Implemented dynamic PR-based environment provisioning for rapid creation of testing environments within minutes.
- Established blue-green deployment strategies for zero-downtime releases and automated rollback capabilities.
- Automated error diagnostics and remediation through CloudWatch metrics and Lambda alerts, enhancing recovery time by 30%.
- Provisioned production-ready infrastructure with reusable Terraform modules ensuring auditability.
- Boosted frontend delivery performance using S3 and CloudFront deployments, cutting load times by 50%.
DevOps Engineer
Amaris Consulting
01.2019 - 04.2021
- Developed multi-cloud infrastructure strategy with Kubernetes, AWS, and Oracle Cloud, achieving over $5,000 in monthly savings.
- Built and managed resilient infrastructure for 15,000+ users, ensuring 99% uptime through proactive monitoring.
- Transformed legacy deployment architecture by containerizing 50 servers and 40 microservices.
- Created CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Terraform for automated testing and reliable delivery.
- Implemented robust monitoring stack with Prometheus and custom alerts to minimize downtime.
- Mentored junior engineers on cloud-native practices and DevOps methodologies.
- Enhanced workflow efficiency through internal tooling and alerting integrations with Slack, Trello, and GitLab.
DevOps Support Engineer
Evolving Systems
03.2014 - 12.2018
- Directed infrastructure operations for mission-critical loyalty and marketing platforms for Morocco's largest telecom operator.
- Engineered Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and Maven-powered release processes, decreasing deployment time by 60%.
- Developed a custom Ansible deployment framework with reusable roles, achieving zero-downtime rollouts.
- Designed performance testing strategies using JMeter, validating system behavior under ten times normal traffic.
- Established incident response protocols and SLA monitoring to facilitate rapid issue resolution.
- Contributed to technical pre-sales activities, securing over $2M in business opportunities.
Education
Computer Sciences Engineer - Information Technology
ENSI - École Nationale Des Sciences De L'Informatique
Tunis, Tunisia06-2010
Skills
- Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, OCI
- Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/Fargate
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, Ansible
- Configuration management: Helm, Kustomize
- CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Jenkins
- Service mesh: Istio
- Monitoring tools: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch
- Security compliance: Vault, Security Hub, ISO 27001
- Programming languages: Python, Golang, Nodejs
Certification
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002), HashiCorp, Inc., January 2021
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Amazon Web Services, August 2020
- AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, Amazon Web Services, May 2020
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services, April 2020
Accomplishments
- 99.9% System Uptime Achieved
- $65K+ Annual Cloud Cost Savings
- 75% Deployment Time Reduction
- 100+ Engineers Supported
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
French
Proficient (C2)
C2
Arabic
Native
Native
Timeline
Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer
Vanilla Steel GmbH
01.2026 - 08.2026
DevOps Technical Lead
2K Games
07.2023 - 06.2025
Senior DevOps Engineer
Filestage
06.2021 - 05.2023
DevOps Engineer
Amaris Consulting
01.2019 - 04.2021
DevOps Support Engineer
Evolving Systems
03.2014 - 12.2018
Computer Sciences Engineer - Information Technology
ENSI - École Nationale Des Sciences De L'Informatique