TRS Core

Enterprise Platform

TRS Banking Ledger

Financial System

Ahmed El Tahir

Founder & CEO, TRS Core & TRS Banking Ledger

Ansible Automation Platform - Product Owner, Consultant & SRE

TRS Core Enterprise-grade orchestration and automation platform for large-scale infrastructure deployment, configuration management, and operational automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
TRS Banking Ledger Engine High-performance, double-entry accounting system designed for financial institutions requiring real-time transaction processing, audit compliance, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Consultant and Site Reliability Engineer with deep expertise in designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale automation and application deployment platforms across AAP 2.4 / 2.5 / 2.6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments. Extensive experience automating infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration management, and day-2 operations across complex, multi-environment enterprise landscapes. Proficient in Private Automation Hub configuration, custom collection development and distribution, and enterprise content governance across Ansible Galaxy and certified content repositories.

Recognized as a subject-matter expert in Ansible automation, with proven mastery of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Configuration as Code, and Event-Driven Ansible (EDA), delivering secure, scalable, and resilient automation solutions. Strong background in AAP version migrations, execution environment strategy, and platform modernization, leveraging OpenShift, Kubernetes, and major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Expert in architecting Automation Hub ecosystems for centralized content management, building reusable Ansible Collections, and implementing collection lifecycle management from development through production deployment.

Experienced in DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and observability platform implementation, supporting production-grade application and platform rollouts with a focus on compliance, resilience, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud ecosystems. Known for driving automation maturity, accelerating delivery velocity, and enabling self-service application and infrastructure automation at scale.

15+
Years Experience
10+
Major Enterprises
3,600+
Servers Managed

Products

Enterprise-Grade Platforms For Automation And Financial Services

TRS Core

Enterprise Deployment Orchestration & Automation Platform

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TRS Banking Ledger Engine

High-Performance Accounting System

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Trusted by Industry Leaders

Accenture

Accenture

Rio Tinto

Citi Bank

Citi Bank

Morgan Stanley

Bell Canada

Bell Canada

IBM

IBM

Ontario Government

Ontario Government

Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra

Zain Sudan

Zain Sudan

ITS

ITS

Career Journey

Enterprise, SRE & DevOps, Banking, Telco BSS/OSS, Governments, Platform Engineering

December 2025 – Present

Ansible Automation Platform Owner & SRE

Accenture / Rio Tinto

Leading Ansible Automation Platform deployment for global mining operations in partnership with Red Hat. Managing multi-cloud region AAP 2.5/2.6 environments on Azure. Integrating Dynatrace with AAP for automated observability-driven remediation. Building observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, and Tempo. Implementing SRE best practices, GitOps workflows, and Event-Driven Ansible for infrastructure self-healing across hybrid cloud environments.

Ansible AAP 2.5/2.6 Automation Hub SRE OpenShift Dynatrace GitOps Kubernetes Azure Event-Driven Ansible
Jun 2025 – Dec 2025

Assistant Vice President - DevOps & GenAI

Citi Bank

Supporting GenAI and Developer Tools Infrastructure on Red Hat OpenShift. Managing CI/CD pipelines using Harness, Tekton, and Jenkins with DevSecOps best practices. Leading AI deployments and database workloads on OpenShift for mission-critical financial systems. Supporting Software Factory App deployments and operations.

GenAI OpenShift DevSecOps Harness Tekton Jenkins Kubernetes Kafka Prometheus Grafana Loki Elasticsearch Kibana
Nov 2022 – May 2025

Senior DevOps Consultant / Production Support

Morgan Stanley

Deployed Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.4/2.5 in OpenShift across DEV, OAT, NONPROD & PROD environments. Implemented GitOps and Configuration as Code for hybrid cloud automation. Built Execution Environments and managed multitenant pipelines. Managed wealth management deployments using Cloudify orchestration.

Ansible AAP 2.4/2.5 OpenShift GitOps Prometheus Grafana Loki Tempo Jaeger Python RHEL Cloudify RabbitMQ ZooKeeper
Mar 2022 – Dec 2023

Infrastructure, DevOps & Ansible SecOps

Bell Canada

Led migration from Puppet to Ansible for configuration management. Remediated CVE security vulnerabilities on RHEL systems. Automated SSL certificate monitoring and installed MongoDB in Kubernetes for Genesys solutions. Implemented OpenSCAP for compliance auditing. Developed Ansible Playbooks for Bell Non-Prod environments managing 3,600+ servers.

Ansible RHEL Security Kubernetes OpenSCAP VMware
Sep 2018 – Sep 2019

Oracle Solaris Consultant

IBM

Provided operational support for 1,000+ production servers. Conducted Solaris patching, SAN upgrades, and logical domain migrations. Configured VxVM, VCS clusters, and ZFS storage pools for Oracle databases. Performed P2V migrations and network installations.

Solaris Unix Oracle VxVM VCS ZFS
Jan 2018 – Aug 2018

Systems Analyst – Data Center Operations

Ontario Government

Administered large farm of RHEL and Solaris servers hosting government production systems. Migrated systems (P2V) and automated server installations using Kickstart and Solaris AI. Managed LVM, centralized patching, and disaster recovery testing.

RHEL Solaris Data Center LVM DR Testing
Nov 2016 – Apr 2017

Linux Administrator

Tech Mahindra

Supported PoC for Bell Mobility's Cellwise SON project. Enforced security hardening of RHEL/CentOS platforms. Refreshed MySQL schema and participated in sprint planning. Implemented Self Organized Network solution based on VMware and Linux.

Linux RHEL MySQL Agile/Scrum VMware
Oct 2011 – Oct 2016

Database Administrator & OSS/BSS Engineer

Zain Mobile Group

Managed UNIX/Linux systems and SAN/NAS storage for multi-vendor Network Management Systems. Administered Sybase ASE/IQ and Oracle databases for Ericsson OSS-RC and billing systems. Ensured fault, configuration, and performance management for 2G/3G/4G networks.

Oracle DBA Sybase OSS/BSS Telecom Unix/Linux
Aug 2009 – Sep 2011

Application Support Engineer

International Turnkey Systems (ITS)

First role in career. Provided application support for telecom billing and OSS systems. Managed database operations and system administration for telecom infrastructure. Supported production environments for carrier-grade telecommunications.

Application Support Telecom OSS/BSS Database

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Technical Expertise

Comprehensive technology stack across cloud, DevOps, and enterprise infrastructure

Cloud Platforms

Azure AWS GCP Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloudify Orchestration

Cloud Native

Podman Docker Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift

Linux Environments

Ubuntu CentOS CoreOS Red Hat Unix Solaris

DevOps Tools

CI/CD Git Jenkins Ansible AWX AAP Terraform Puppet Pulumi GitOps Harness Tekton Rundeck Azure DevOps Jira Kanban Confluence GitHub GitLab Bitbucket JFrog Artifactory SonarQube Maven

SRE & Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana Loki Kibana Dynatrace Dash0 Jaeger Tempo Fluent Bit Fluentd Promtail Cortex Elasticsearch Splunk AppDynamics

Networking

OS-level Config Ansible Network Firewall Mgmt VLANs VPN Setup Load Balancers DNS Routing

Languages

Python Bash JavaScript Node.js Go Lang Java Spring Boot

Databases

Oracle MySQL MongoDB Elasticsearch PostgreSQL

Methodologies

Agile Scrum Incident Response Postmortem Incident Triage RCA