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Mohamed Amounir

Mohamed Amounir

DevOps, Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer (AWS | Kubernetes | SOC Automation)

Casablanca, MA
+212 700120335
Arabic, French, English

Background


About

About

Highly technical Cloud, DevOps & DevSecOps Engineer with over 4 years of cloud automation and SecOps experience built on a solid 15+ year enterprise systems and networking foundation. Proven expertise in architecting resilient, multi-region AWS EKS platforms, HashiCorp Vault secret management, Multi-AZ RDS failovers, and automated SOC security operations. Expert in executing zero-trust Kubernetes architectures using Istio mTLS, Falco runtime protection, and central SIEM/SOAR monitoring (Wazuh & ELK).

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • DevOps, Cloud & Security Consultant, Freelance / Projects

    Jan, 2022 - Present

    Consulting and implementing high-availability cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, and threat monitoring platforms.

    • Architected highly available AWS EKS environments using modular Terraform and Terragrunt. Integrated Multi-AZ AWS RDS/Aurora instances with automated Route 53 health-check DNS failover to ensure zero downtime during region or availability-zone degradation.

    • Deployed HashiCorp Vault integrated with External Secrets Operator and AWS KMS to dynamically inject lease-based database credentials and API secrets directly into EKS pods, eliminating static credentials across git repositories.

    • Engineered automated stateful container disaster recovery pipelines using Kasten K10, creating custom Kanister blueprints for database snapshot lifecycles and offsite S3 object locking.

    • Deployed Wazuh SIEM agents across cloud hosts and integrated Falco into EKS clusters for real-time kernel-level anomaly detection including unauthorized privilege escalations and interactive shell spawns.

    • Built custom SOAR automation workflows using Python (Boto3) and webhooks to trigger dynamic AWS Security Group isolations and instant Slack alerts upon high-severity Wazuh and Falco alerts.

    • Deployed Istio Service Mesh to enforce mTLS service-to-service encryption, combined with Kyverno policies for strict admission control and Pod Security Standards enforcement.

  • Technical Support Engineer & Network Specialist, Teleperformance

    Jan, 2010 - Present

    Providing L2 network infrastructure support and building internal operational automation tools.

    • Delivers L2 infrastructure support for enterprise-grade broadband, fiber, and cloud connectivity services under strict SLAs.

    • Diagnoses complex high-priority network routing, BGP/DNS resolution, and core infrastructure availability issues.

    • Built a Python-based SOAR script utilizing Boto3 and the ELK Stack to parse operational logs, automatically correlation-matching alerts and reducing manual incident handling time by 70%.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Enterprise AWS EKS Resilient Platform & Disaster Recovery

    - Present

    Multi-environment AWS EKS cluster orchestrated using modular Terragrunt infrastructure code.

    • Configured automated Multi-AZ database replication for AWS RDS alongside Route 53 health-checked DNS failover routing.

    • Deployed Kasten K10 to execute declarative, volume-consistent backups of stateful Kubernetes workloads to encrypted AWS S3 buckets.

    • Integrated HashiCorp Vault with AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to achieve dynamic credential rotation and RBAC isolation.

  • Cloud SOC Engine & Threat Detection System (SIEM / SOAR / Runtime)

    - Present

    Integrated Security Operations Center (SOC) ecosystem monitoring AWS EC2 instances, EKS nodes, and container workloads.

    • Configured Wazuh SIEM rules to correlate audit logs, host system changes, and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) events.

    • Deployed Falco kernel probes on Kubernetes worker nodes to catch container escape attempts and unauthorized runtime execution.

    • Developed automated response lambdas/scripts to quarantine compromised pods, block malicious IP ranges, and alert SRE/SecOps teams instantly.

Skills

Skills

  • Cloud & Resiliency

    AWS (EKS, EC2, Multi-AZ RDS, Route 53, KMS, S3, VPC)

    Terraform

    Terragrunt

  • Security, SIEM & SOC

    HashiCorp Vault

    External Secrets Operator

    Wazuh SIEM

    Falco

    Kyverno

    IRSA

    Trivy

  • Containerization & Mesh

    Kubernetes

    Helm

    Kustomize

    Docker

    Istio Service Mesh

    ExternalDNS

    Cert-Manager

  • CI/CD & GitOps

    GitHub Actions

    ArgoCD

    Bash

    Python (Boto3, Incident Response)

  • Observability & SRE

    Prometheus

    Grafana

    ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

    Filebeat

    Slack/Alertmanager

  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

    Kasten K10 (Kanister Blueprints)

    AWS Route 53 Active-Passive/Active-Active Routing

Education

Education

  • Security & Automation of IT & Cloud Architectures, Master's Degree, School of New Sciences and Engineering (ENSI)

    Jan, 2025 - Jun, 2026

  • Application Design and Development, Bachelor's Degree, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Settat

    Jan, 2010 - Jun, 2011

  • Computer Systems and Networks, Specialized Technician, Professional Institute of Computer Science (IPI)

    Jan, 2007 - Jun, 2009

Certificates

Certificates

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Amazon Web Services

    Issued on: Invalid date