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Storage and Backup • Creating, extending and shrinking Lvs using LVM2 • Rsync and zfs snapshot • Deployed SFTP, FTP and FTPS setup for backup • Veeam Backup and Replication. • DoubleTake Live backup and Replication. • Zerto Virtual Replication. Email Systems • Experience with multi-tenant email hosting using Zimbra, quota management, SPAM control, email backup • Some experience with Postfix based MTAs • Microsoft Exchange Server. DNS Servers • Bind • DNS Client tools like nslookup, dig and drill • Extensive knowledge with extremely secure and reliable, authoritative-only server, used in many TLD and ROOT registries Virtualization • Extensive experience of VMware(5,6) • Experience of OVMM, OVS and VMs • Virtual Box and VMware workstation • Physical to Virtual server migration tools. Operating Systems • Proficient with Centos, Ubuntu, Redhat and window(7,8,10,2008, 2012, 2016) Web Technologies • Apache HTTP Server • Squid with Dansguardian Web Content Filtering. • cPanel/WHM and DirectAdmin for webhosting control panels. Server Monitoring and Misc Projects • Nagios, ManageEngine OPmanager, Zabbix and Cacti • Deep knowledge and implementation of Linux channel bonding. • Deep understanding of zfs snapshot, File system encryption, compression and deduplication • Bash Scripting.

I'm a Linux infrastructure engineer with 10+ years of experience keeping production systems fast, secure, and running -: for clients as large as 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐜𝐨, 𝐍𝐘 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. My work shows up in results, migrations completed with zero data loss, sites brought back from attacks the same day, servers rebuilt to handle 3× the traffic without throwing money at more hardware. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫: 🔹 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦-𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘱 — Architected and provisioned high-capacity server environments spanning bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-native infrastructure, covering OS hardening, storage configuration, network segmentation, and service orchestration for enterprise-grade workloads. 🔹 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 & 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 — Configured and shipped 70+ production deployments across shared hosting, VPS, and cloud environments, covering full-stack setup, SSL, DNS, caching layers, and database tuning. 🔹 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 — Moved production stacks across clouds and control panels (cPanel → Plesk, bare metal → AWS/Azure) with planned cutovers and minimal downtime. If it has data and it needs to move, I've done it. 🔹 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 — Diagnosed and resolved slow sites, high TTFB, and overloaded databases at the root cause, not surface level. Tuned Apache, NGINX, PHP-FPM, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Varnish, and Opcache to deliver real, measurable improvements. 🔹 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 & 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 — Hardened servers post-attack, cleaned malware, locked down SSH, deployed WAFs (ModSecurity, Imunify360), and set up SIEM monitoring with Wazuh and other providers as per client's request. 🔹 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 & 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘴 — Deployed and managed Proxmox clusters, KVM hypervisors, and containerized workloads on Docker and Kubernetes. 🔹 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 & 𝘖𝘱𝘴 — Eliminated repeat work with Bash and Python scripts, Ansible playbooks, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub/GitLab). If I've done a task twice, I automate it the third time. 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒙 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 👨‍💻: ✓ Ubuntu Server / Debian ✓ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ✓ Rocky Linux , AlmaLinux ✓ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 🫆 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 : SIEM: Wazuh, SIEMonster, FortiSIEM, Security Onion EDR/XDR: SentinelOne, Sophos Intercept X, Kaspersky Digital Forensics: Autopsy, OpenTIPS, Nagios, CheckMK 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 : Ubuntu · RHEL · Debian · Plesk · Apache · NGINX · MySQL/MariaDB · Redis · PostgreSQL · AWS (EC2, S3, Route53) · Azure VMs · Cloudflare · Docker · Kubernetes · Ansible · Bash · Fail2ban · iptables · Let's Encrypt · Varnish · LiteSpeed 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲 : ✨✨✨✨✨ 5.0 "Sujan is quick, available, highly professional and solved all the problems and communicates perfectly. Happy to hire him again!" ✨✨✨✨✨ 5.0 "Sujan did a great job on a LAMP REST API deployment to Azure. We'd be happy to work with this freelancer again." Let's work together 🤝 ✩✩ 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 - 𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 . ✩✩

I help engineering teams ship faster - including teams shipping AI-driven products - by building secure, automated cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with deep work in Kubernetes, observability, and infrastructure for LLM and AI workloads. With 13+ years of experience as a certified Kubernetes Administrator, I've migrated and managed 350+ applications, built LLM observability platforms on Kubernetes (Langfuse + OpenTelemetry + Grafana / Tempo / Loki / Prometheus / Sentry), shipped AI-powered DevSecOps automation using Claude's Model Context Protocol (auto-remediates SonarQube blockers via LLM-generated PRs), and delivered DevOps for Fortune 500 clients across E-commerce, Finance, VOD, Education, and PCI workloads. 🚀 What I Deliver • Kubernetes architecture (AKS, EKS, GKE) & microservices migration • Terraform IaC | secure, production-ready environments • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI) • DevSecOps workflows (SAST/SCA, SBOM, signing, policies) • Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, eBPF, Pyroscope • LLM observability and AI agent platforms on Kubernetes (Langfuse, OTEL, Tempo, Loki) • AI-powered DevSecOps automation (Claude MCP, LLM-generated remediations) • Cloud cost optimization, performance tuning, HA architectures 🔥 Recent Impact • Migrated 350+ workloads with zero downtime • Cut deployment time from hours to minutes using automated CI/CD • Designed multi-subscription AKS platforms with Workload Identity & AGIC • Implemented AppSec automation (Tines to Bugcrowd to Slack to Jira) • Built end-to-end LLM observability on AKS reducing alert noise by 82% across AI inference pipelines • Delivered AI agent (Claude MCP) that triages 400+ security findings and auto-remediates SonarQube blockers, cutting toil by 80% 🔧 Technical Expertise AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudflare, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, Anthropic Claude API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Linux, Python, Node.js, Java. 🤝 How I Work Clear communication, clean automation, and reliable delivery. If you need a senior DevOps engineer who can strengthen your cloud, improve reliability, and speed up delivery, let's talk.

Having more than 10 years of experience in Linux/Unix, from installation, configuration of OS, packages, designing High Available (HA) Solutions Worked for various clients and domains - IT, Telecom, E-commerce, Real-estate , Travel, OTT etc More than 8 years of experience in Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, etc. Designed and implemented HA and Auto Salable environments. More than 4 years of k8s on productions env. Worked on Hardening security, Cost optimization and Performance Optimization. Load Balancing, Backup and Disaster Recovery ( DR ) environments. Managed and monitored 1000+ VMs for 50+ clients using various tools and scripts. Regular security audits, cost optimization, backup audits. I am always look for new challenges.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A+++. Highly recommended!! Nour was very responsive and dedicated himself to assisting with our AWS EC2 server migration which went smoothly and problem free. Nour was willing to chat over Zoom to facilitate quicker resolutions to the issues we were having. If you're searching for a quality Upwork professional with strong AWS, WHM and cpanel skills, look no further." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "NourEddine is a pleasure to work with. Despite our considerable timezone difference he was easy to work with. His Docker skills are next-level compared with others. Even when working slightly outside his area of expertise he proved himself innovative, adaptable, capable and persistent. Every time I came up with a new requirement, NourEddine found a solution. I'm very pleased with the end result, that being a fully functioning and well integrated production system. I can recommend NourEddine without hesitation." 🏆 Top Rated Plus • ✅ 2700+ work hours billed! • 60+ Projects 👨‍💻 Professional Linux Engineer for 6+ years with DevOps, Automation, and Cloud experience, solving problems and delivering results, for innovative startups as well as established unicorns! ● 📜👨‍💻 Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE: RHEL 8 and Ansible), Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA: RHEL 7), Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers, and Terraform Certified Associate. ● ⚙️ System and software configuration, installation, deployment, optimization, troubleshooting, and automation. ● 🐧 Linux kernel management. ● OS 💿: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Arch Linux, Manjaro, Proxmox, OPNsense, OpenWRT, Raspberry Pi OS, TailsOS, Whonix. ● Web and Proxy services 🌐: Apache, Nginx 🄽, Squid 🦑, Varnish, HAProxy, Taefik, Caddy, 3proxy, Gost. ● Databases and Datastores 💽: MySQL🐬, MariaDB, PostgreSQL🐘, Redis, Memcached ● Self-hosted apps and Control panels: Control Webpanel (CWP), cPanel, Plesk, Webmin, Cockpit, Nextcloud, Confluence, Jira, Wekan, Focalboard, Wordpress, Matrix Synapse, Mattermost, Dokkuwiki, Git, Gitea. ● DNS: Cloudflare, PiHole, Bind, AWS Route53, experience with SPF, DMARC, DKIM, PTR records for Email services. ● EMail ✉️: Mailu, iRedmail, Modoboa, Mailman, Postfix, Dovecot. ● Automation with Bash, Python, Web scraping, Selenium, and Ansible ● Virtualization, Containers and Cloud☁️:: Docker🐋, Kubernetes☸️, Rancher, K3s, RKE, QEMU/KVM, LXC, Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Hashicorp Packer, Hashicorp Terraform. ● Cloud Providers ☁️: Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Hetzner. ● Object Storage 💾: AWS S3 and Wasabi ● Secrets & Certificates 🔏: SSL Self-signed Certificate and Certificate Authority, Let's Encrypt ( ACME.sh, Certbot, others), SSH PKI, Vault. ● Networking 🕸: TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, FTP, SFTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, FTPS, DNS, TLS, WebSockets, Tor onion routing, ngrok, ebtables, iptables, firewalld, iproute2, NetworkManager, netplan. ● VPN 🔏: OpenVPN, Wireguard, Tinc VPN, Outline VPN, OpenConnect, Anyconnect. ● Web scraping 🌐🕷️: Python requests, scrapy, beautiful soup, lxml, selenium. ● Development with Python 🐍, Bash scripting, Flask, SQL, HTML, JQuery, and JSON. ● Packaging 📦: Rpm, Deb, and Pacman.

20+ years of IT Service/Project Management, System Administration, Automation experience building and supporting IT for Enterprise & SMB businesses in healthcare, hospitality, telecom and retail. Here are some of the things I have done and can do very well for you: - Streamline, optimize and automate your IT operations bringing you more bang for your bucks. - Manage large scale IT projects with 1000s of WBS tasks and large teams. - IT Security investigations and audits (BlueTeaming) - IT Security Pentesting (RedTeaming) - Windows and Linux installations, security and administration. - Cloud infrastructure migrations and support (AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean/Linode/Private etc) - Virtualization and Containerization setup and management - Email and Collaboration systems management - Storage and Backup implementations and support - Setup, maintain and troubleshoot web hosting, CMS, DNS & CDNs. - Set up, support. secure and troubleshoot wired or wireless networks. - IP/Analog Telephony Support - ERP/CRM/HRMS implementations - Automation of tasks and processes using Python - Installation and maintenance of a whole host of Open Source and Free systems. A little more about me: A certified geek. Volunteered as a WebMaster for the UAE PMI chapter. In my free time play CTFs. Member of CTF team 0xff0000.