WISSAM ATALEH

WISSAM ATALEH // AMMAN, JORDAN

Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

8+ years architecting, automating, and scaling production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS, Azure, public cloud, and enterprise on-premises. CKA & Terraform-certified. Deep in GPU-enabled AI/ML platform engineering, zero-trust security, and high-throughput telemetry across hybrid architectures.

EXPERIENCE
8+ YRS
PROD CLUSTERS
20+
CERTIFICATIONS
CKA · TERRAFORM
BASED IN
AMMAN, JORDAN

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02 / IMPACT

PROD CLUSTERS20+
UPTIME99.99%
SERVICES AUTOMATED100+
MIGRATION DOWNTIME0
STATIC SECRETS0
  • Placement operator pushes pod placement into a Go controller — PDB-aware rotation across 14 EKS clusters and hundreds of services, zero downtime.
  • Zero-downtime cluster upgrades and single-click rollbacks after replacing Jenkins pipelines with ArgoCD GitOps.
  • Consolidated fragmented node pools to cut compute cost and resource waste while improving SLIs for resource-intensive workloads.
  • Fully auditable Vault platform removed static secrets from prod and non-prod, meeting strict compliance requirements for global clients.

03 / EXPERIENCE

Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Careem — Sep 2024 — May 2026 · Amman, Jordan

AWS / EKS / Kubernetes / Go / Terraform / ArgoCD / GitHub Actions

  • Architected and deployed the "Placement Operator", a custom Go Kubernetes controller automating pod placement and PDB-aware workload rotation across 14 clusters and hundreds of services — with zero downtime.
  • Optimized multi-cluster AWS environments using Terraform (IaC) to lower compute costs while keeping Rides, Food, and Pay verticals highly available.
  • Defined SLI/SLO metrics, led critical incident management, and established post-mortem processes that significantly reduced MTTR.
  • Standardized multi-cluster deployments using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, shifting deploys to a self-service model for engineering teams.

Senior DevOps Engineer

BeyondAI (Beyond Limits) — Oct 2021 — Sep 2024 · Glendale, CA / Remote

AWS / EKS / AKS / Kubernetes / NVIDIA GPU / Terraform / HashiCorp Vault / Prometheus / Kubeflow

  • Provisioned and administrated production Kubernetes clusters across private on-premises and hybrid clouds, including NVIDIA GPU nodes for deep-learning training and real-time inference.
  • Spearheaded MLOps infrastructure with Kubeflow, MLflow, and KServe to build scalable model-serving platforms and automated feature stores.
  • Launched hardware-isolated confidential-compute environments using Intel SGX, Gramine, and Kubernetes; enforced RBAC, network policy segmentation, and Vault secrets.
  • Implemented end-to-end observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki plus custom alerting.

DevOps Engineer

Jordan Open Source Association — Sep 2019 — Oct 2021 · Amman, Jordan

Kubernetes / DigitalOcean / Keycloak / ArgoCD / Mailu / Nuxt.js / Strapi

  • Designed and deployed a self-managed, high-availability Kubernetes cloud hosting internal tools, mail servers, SSO identity, and CI/CD platforms.
  • Led cross-functional developer teams to build and launch core digital platforms, including the organization's main web application and digital safety portals.

Certifications

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate — IBM Professional Certification, 2026
  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator — The Linux Foundation, 2024

Education

  • Master of Science in Computer Engineering — German Jordanian University, 2017 – 2019
  • Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering — Al-Balqa Applied University, 2008 – 2013

04 / PLATFORM & SKILLS

CLOUD & ON-PREMISE

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS EKS
  • Azure AKS
  • Bare-Metal K8s
  • DigitalOcean
  • Rancher

INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Helm
  • Kustomize

OBSERVABILITY & TELEMETRY

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Loki
  • ELK Stack
  • Dynatrace

SECURITY & GOVERNANCE

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Keycloak
  • RBAC
  • Trivy
  • SonarQube
  • Kyverno
  • Network Policies
  • SOC 2

CI/CD & GITOPS

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • ArgoCD
  • FluxCD

DEVELOPMENT & SCRIPTING

  • Go
  • Python
  • Bash
  • JavaScript

AUTO-SCALING & MLOPS

  • KEDA
  • Kubeflow
  • MLflow
  • KServe

AI TOOLING & METHODOLOGIES

  • Applied AI Integration
  • LLMs
  • LM Studio
  • Ollama
  • SLO/SLI
  • Incident Management
  • Cost Optimization

05 / PROJECTS

Placement Operator

IN PROD — CAREEM

Production-grade Go Kubernetes controller automating declarative pod placement, node-pool consolidation, and PDB-aware workload rotation across 14 production EKS clusters. Enables blue/green bulk migrations and graceful node draining with zero downtime.

Go / controller-runtime / Kubernetes / AWS EKS

HashiCorp Vault Secrets Platform

BEYONDAI

Highly-available Vault across 3 AWS availability zones using DynamoDB/S3 backends and AWS KMS auto-unsealing, with AD SAML + Kubernetes Service Account auth. Eliminated static secrets and established full auditability across prod and non-prod.

HashiCorp Vault / Terraform / AWS KMS / SAML / Kubernetes

Multi-Environment GitOps (ArgoCD)

BEYONDAI

Replaced hardcoded Jenkins deployment scripts with declarative ArgoCD pipelines across Dev, QA, UAT, and Prod. Automated sync, diff tracking, single-click rollbacks, and eliminated configuration drift.

ArgoCD / GitOps / Kubernetes / Git

MLOps Platform on EKS

BEYONDAI

Cloud-native platform for data scientists to build, train, and deploy models at scale, integrating Kubeflow and MLflow with standardized CI/CD for experimentation and automated artifact tracking.

AWS EKS / Kubeflow / MLflow / KServe

Confidential Compute (Intel SGX)

BEYONDAI

Encrypted memory enclaves using Intel SGX chipsets, Gramine, and Kubernetes across Azure and private on-premises, enabling secure processing of AI algorithms, sensitive client data, and PII.

Intel SGX / Gramine / Kubernetes / Azure

JOSA Cloud Initiative

JOSA

Self-managed, open-source DigitalOcean Kubernetes cloud hosting Keycloak SSO, Mailu mail, Nextcloud, Jitsi, Monica CRM, and security tools — all delivered via ArgoCD and CircleCI.

Kubernetes / DigitalOcean / Keycloak / ArgoCD / CircleCI

josa.ngo Web Platform

JOSA

High-performance, secure digital platform built on Nuxt.js 3 (SSG/SSR) and a Strapi headless CMS, running in Docker on Kubernetes with zero-downtime automated delivery.

Nuxt.js 3 / Strapi / Docker / Kubernetes

06 / CONTACT

OPEN TO SENIOR SRE / DEVOPS / PLATFORM-LEAD ROLES — AMMAN-BASED, REMOTE OK

EMAIL
wissam_ataleh@outlook.com
LOCATION
Amman, Jordan
GITHUB
https://github.com/wissamataleh
LINKEDIN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wissamataleh
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