Rakan Bakir
DevOps Architect
About
Rakan Bakir is a seasoned DevOps Architect and Team Lead specializing in engineering secure, high-velocity platforms. With over 17 years of experience, he excels in AWS EKS, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and incident management, particularly within regulated industries. He has a proven track record of building and transforming DevOps practices from the ground up, implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and comprehensive observability. He seeks challenging roles where he can leverage his expertise to drive innovation and operational excellence in technology environments.
Looking For
Experience
DevOps Team Lead
Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mosIntegrated Computer Systems (ICS), Jordan · Amman, Jordan
- Founded DevOps practice, hiring team and architecting AWS EKS platform.
- Architected multi-environment AWS EKS with Terraform IaC and VPC isolation.
- Rolled out GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and Jenkins for continuous delivery.
DevOps Senior Manager
Jan 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mosJordan Ahli Bank (Qawn — Innovation) · Amman, Jordan
- Led bank-wide DevOps transformation aligned to PCI-DSS, NIST, and AWS Well-Architected.
- Founded DevOps team, hired 6 engineers, and institutionalized GitOps standards.
- Directed security program across 7 segregated AWS accounts.
DevOps Consultant
Jun 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mosOrange Jordan · Amman, Jordan
- Spearheaded cloud-native CI/CD platform on on-premise Kubernetes from zero.
- Engineered hardened on-premise Kubernetes CI/CD with ArgoCD and Terraform.
- Reduced environment provisioning time by 70% (17 days to 5 days).
Senior DevOps Engineer
Mar 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mosMBC Group (Shahid.net) · Amman, Jordan
- Orchestrated CI/CD for shahid.net, containerizing services to Docker on AWS.
- Engineered Jenkins and Ansible CI/CD pipelines for broadcast-scale traffic.
- Containerized 15+ legacy services, cutting deployment failures by 80%.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Dec 2019 – Jun 2020 · 6 mos525K Global Solutions · Amman, Jordan
- Managed AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform and CDK.
- Instrumented observability, reducing mean time to detection by 60%.
- Integrated shift-left security scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
Skills
Cloud & DevOps
Architecture & Compliance
Industries
GCC Readiness
Languages
Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Amman, Jordan · 2008