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Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Rai Trabelsi

Open to relocation worldwide- Open to Remote Jobs
Cloud · Infrastructure · DevOps · Platform Engineering

Building resilient infrastructure for real-world environments.

I design and deploy secure networks, high-availability systems, and containerised platforms using Proxmox, pfSense, Docker Swarm, HAProxy, monitoring, and automation workflows. My final-year micro data center project was graded 19.5 / 20.

19.5/20 Final year project grade
10+ VLANs engineered
3 Production-grade platforms built
25+ Failure scenarios tested
60% Deployment effort reduced via CI/CD

📍 Based in Tunis, Tunisia · Open to relocation to Europe, Canada, UAE, and beyond · Visa sponsorship required and welcomed

About

I build infrastructure other engineers get to build on top of.

Junior DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer working in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD, with a growing interest in platform engineering. I turn manual, error-prone processes into systems that just work, and then I try to break them on purpose to see if they actually hold up.

My final year project was a multi-tenant SaaS platform with automated CI/CD and built-in high availability, validated through live failure simulations, zero downtime. I also run CloudOps Lite, a self-service Kubernetes platform on Hetzner Cloud with GitOps deployments (FluxCD) and a full Prometheus/Grafana observability stack. More recently I built a diagnostic tool that uses a local LLM to root-cause Kubernetes failures, tested across 25+ scenarios, where the real work was teaching it to show its reasoning instead of just handing back a verdict.

Before infrastructure automation, I did the manual version: VMware administration, firewall configuration, Linux deployments by hand. That's still how I think about most of what I now automate.

Based in Tunisia, open to remote work worldwide.

Featured work

Projects that show how I build and operate infrastructure

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CloudOps Lite Platform

Production-inspired Kubernetes platform on Hetzner Cloud using k3s, FluxCD GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, and a FastAPI microservice with live health and metrics endpoints.

  • Real cloud deployment on Hetzner VPS
  • GitOps sync from GitHub to k3s via FluxCD
  • Custom CloudOps dashboard for platform health
  • Full Prometheus + Grafana observability stack
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AI Ops Assistant

Kubernetes-deployed AI diagnostic assistant using FastAPI, NGINX, and a locally hosted LLM to analyse infrastructure failures and return structured root cause analysis.

  • 25+ failure scenarios tested and validated
  • Structured output: summary, causes, commands, remediation
  • Deployed on Kubernetes (kind) with full API flow
Core stack

Skills

Infrastructure & Cloud

Hetzner Cloud, Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux, Ubuntu Server, virtualisation, high availability, backup and recovery

Networking & Security

VLANs, pfSense, FortiGate, HAProxy, routing, segmentation, firewalling, reverse proxy, secure access

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, k3s, kind, deployments, services, namespaces, containerised workloads

DevOps & GitOps

GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, FluxCD, GitOps workflows, Terraform, automation, deployment pipelines

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, metrics endpoints, dashboards, service health checks, platform visibility

Backend & Infrastructure Code

Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, Bash, Terraform, health check endpoints, metrics exposure

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