Youssef Horo

DevOps Engineer AI Cloud

BITMARCK

October 2024 - Present · Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Westfalen-Lippe (KVWL)

January 2024 - September 2025 · Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia

• •Provisioned and managed Kubernetes clusters using VMware Tanzu
• •Contributed to completion and optimization of existing cluster infrastructure regarding IT security requirements
• •Implemented IT security requirements and compliance standards
• •Provisioned and managed GitOps repositories
• •Maintained and serviced Kubernetes cluster components
• •Implemented monitoring solutions using Grafana
• •Optimized technical processes and workflows

System Engineer

itemis AG

July 2022 - December 2023 · Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia

• •Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters in GCP using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for the Workadventure project
• •Implemented Kubernetes clusters in AWS using AWS CDK for Nexus Repository Manager
• •Implemented GitOps workflows using FluxCD for continuous deployment
• •Cloud administration and management (AWS, GCP)
• •Extended and maintained Ansible repositories for infrastructure automation
• •Configured and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• •Linux system administration (Debian, CentOS)
• •Ticket management and incident resolution

System Engineer

meap GmbH

October 2022 - March 2023 · Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia

• •Infrastructure automation using Ansible (server provisioning, process automation)
• •Setup and configuration of log management system (Graylog)
• •Customer hosting services (web, email, domain registration, DNS management)
• •Renewal of internal and external SSL certificates
• •Monitoring and maintenance (server logs, scheduled tasks, data backups)
• •Installation and deployment of VoIP phone systems for customers
• •First level support (internal staff, customers, website go-live)

IT Support Engineer

Computacenter

January 2018 - June 2020 · Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia

• •Linux system administration and troubleshooting (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• •Website support and maintenance
• •DNS zone management and configuration
• •Server monitoring and log analysis
• •Incident resolution and ticket management
• •Network troubleshooting and configuration