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Based in Morocco · Available for opportunities

Zakaria Ait Ali

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

I operate production AWS workloads and build Kubernetes/GitOps delivery platforms, focused on infrastructure automation and deployment reliability.

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Experience

I started out writing software, then pivoted into DevOps during my final-year engineering project. Since then the work has progressed through infrastructure automation and Kubernetes/GitOps platform delivery into operating production AWS systems day to day.

January 2026 — Present

Wiggli · Morocco

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

  • Diagnosed ECS/Fargate deployment failures caused by exhausted Fargate vCPU quota.
  • Troubleshot production issues across private VPC connectivity, Route 53 DNS, ACM/TLS certificates, and load-balancer configuration.
  • Investigated worker OOM failures during controlled concurrency testing, identifying container memory pressure to inform resource adjustments.
  • Built and maintained GitHub Actions and Docker delivery workflows to ECR/ECS while operating containerized services with AWS Copilot and CloudWatch.
March 2025 — January 2026

Lotel Partners · Agadir, Morocco

DevOps Engineer

  • Provisioned and operated an EKS-based delivery platform with Terraform as the sole DevOps engineer.
  • Implemented GitOps delivery with Argo CD, Helm deployment templates, and Karpenter node autoscaling.
  • Automated CI/CD and configured shared load balancing, ACM-managed TLS, and Cloudflare DNS for application environments.
October 2024 — November 2024

Doctoclic Maroc · Remote / Morocco

DevOps Engineer

  • Automated provisioning and deployment of a Python application on a VPS with Ansible.
  • Configured Celery workers, SMTP, and Elasticsearch-based log indexing in a reproducible Ansible-managed environment.
February 2024 — August 2024

TrouveTaVoie

DevOps Engineer Intern — Final-Year Engineering Project

Intern
  • Designed and built Kubernetes infrastructure on Amazon EKS for the final-year engineering project, with GitOps delivery through Argo CD.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows with Terraform and GitHub Actions.
  • Set up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring and managed core AWS IAM, VPC, and S3 resources.
June 2023 — September 2023

FeverTokens

Full-Stack Developer Intern

Intern
  • Developed transaction-handling and access-control features for a Wallet-as-a-Service platform.

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Selected Projects

Zero-to-Prod
An ongoing hands-on DevOps project building a secure source-to-development delivery path on AWS, with each capability implemented, deliberately tested, and documented.
  • GitHub Actions authenticates to AWS with OIDC and temporary credentials instead of long-lived AWS keys.
  • Docker images are built once, transferred between CI jobs, published to ECR with immutable commit-SHA tags, and deployed as the exact same artifact.
  • The delivery path reaches an ECS/Fargate development service using scoped IAM permissions, with deliberate validation and failure testing.
GitHub ActionsDockerAWSIAMECRECS/Fargate
Portfolio Website
Personal portfolio and engineering showcase built with Next.js 16 and React 19, with CI validation, deployment, SEO, and accessibility-focused implementation.
  • GitHub Actions CI runs lint and build checks on pushes to main and pull requests targeting main; deployed to Vercel with Web Analytics enabled.
  • Docker support for containerized builds alongside the primary Vercel deployment path.
  • Structured metadata, sitemap, robots, Open Graph, and JSON-LD for search and social presentation.
  • Built with accessibility in mind — semantic landmarks, keyboard navigation, and reduced-motion support.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSVercel

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Technical Skills

Cloud & AWS

AWSECS/FargateEKSECRVPCIAMRoute 53ACMS3SQS

Containers & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesKarpenterAWS Copilot

Infrastructure & Automation

TerraformAnsibleBash

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub ActionsArgo CDHelm

Observability

CloudWatchElasticsearchPrometheusGrafana

Systems & Networking

LinuxDNSTLSLoad BalancingCloudflare

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Background

Education

Diplôme d’Ingénieur d’État en Génie Informatique

ENSA Tétouan — Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi

2019 — 2024

Specialization: Systèmes d’Information et Aide à la Décision (SIAD)

Selected Certifications

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified DevOps Professional — 2025
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Architect Professional — 2024
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — 2024

Languages

  • Arabic — Native
  • French — Professional
  • English — Professional

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Get in Touch

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