Conceptor and Principal Architect of a DevSecOps platform in AWS (project name: PIF - two times Octas winner in 2024, innovation and public award)Essentially a cloud native platform leveraging Pulumi, Kubernetes, Gitlab end to end GitOps infra and applicative deployments, complete integration of the Government of Québec landing zones, therefore adhering to the federal PBMN standard of security.The platform fully automates the SDLC with GitOps and RBAC approvals for gating.It comes with helm templates for shared services, quickstart templates for developpers, and comprehensive documentation in confluence.A new application can be sent in production with its external storage requirements day one.

Enable teams with backstage self service portalEnable teams to use the Openshift Kubernetes platform in Azure and AWS, linked to a broad selection of cloud native servicesDemocratize the use of terraform and internal contributions to the terraform modules with a common pipeline that provides a complete SDLC and validation cycle to generic terraform templatesCo-architect and maintain a central monorepo that provides mostly everything a dev needs to get up and running in DevOps mode, in compliance with security standardsEnsure optimal reliability of services running in productionContribute to the creation of a common Security pipeline that basically vets any new code that runs in a pipeline in the organizationMake recommendations on Cloud Architecture and technology choicesReduce cloud costsMake Artifactory enterprise available globally and ease adoption for teams with sample uses generic pipelineNormalize SDLC processes so they follow best practicesArchitect a central polyglot pipeline to build Angular, C++, C# applications to ease migration from jenkins to Azure DevOpsKey DevOps role in the successful migration of a 500M$ company from legacy stack to AWS using lift and shift strategy given tight deadlinesOptimize process and scripting and ensure optimal reuse of those among the various squadsIntegrate monitoring and observability to Infrastructure and applicationsDeploy Infrastructure using IAC/gitops

Empower squads with all the tooling and help required to deliver software features with blazing speedEnsure optimal reliability of services running in productionMake recommendations on Cloud Architecture and technology choicesReduce cloud costsNormalize SDLC processes so they follow best practicesDefine/optimize pipelines for Angular, C++, C# applicationsOptimize process and scripting and ensure optimal reuse of those among the various squadsIntegrate monitoring and observability to Infrastructure and applicationsDeploy Infrastructure using IAC/gitopsTechnologies used:Azure Cloud (serverless, AKS, web apps, IOT, event hub/grid, firelake, etc)Azure DevOpsKubernetes and Kong ingressPython, bash and powershell scripting

Principal Architect and Conceptor of the Azure Cloud Platform:Architect, integrate and implement end to end SDLC DevOps toolset for cloud native applications such as:- CI/CD pipeline- Continuous security tooling- Azure and multi-cloud ready IAC- Kubernetes / Docker micro-services architecture environments orchestration and configuration management- Kong API gateway- Kuma service meshArchitect and implement Azure Cloud Foundations with multi-cloud openness via GitOps mostly using- Pulumi/Terraform- Python- shell scripting- Gitlab CI pipelines- powershell

Management and Engineering of Cloud Infrastructure for Autodesk Forge productsTerraform Cloud IAC (Azure, AWS)Continuous Integration and Delivery of EnvironmentsApplications Containerization (NodeJS, Java, C++, C Sharp, ...)AWS Cloud Architecture, Automation and Maintenance

Lead the DevOps effort for the Microservices/API/Innovation Direction at Desjardins.Innovate whenever and wherever possible since our Direction is generally in "R&D mode".Define standards and procedures for my Direction and share them to other directions to maximize impact and avoid process duplication.Contribute to the DevOps ecosystem code base.Define CI-CD pipelines and associated tooling and resources with teams that require it.Write code to Automate the automation enablement process through meta-programming techniques, mainly for CI/CD pipelines.Coach Dev teams with DevOps practices.Be on the watch for any gap in the organizations' DevOps processes or deltas with DevOps best practices, and counter any and all found with creative solutions - generally this is a big team/multi-team coordinated effort.On a per requirement basis, act as an Architecture Consultant for other departments such as the Cloud Infrastructure team.Ensure every process, tooling and practice is on par with 6 other Directions that share a very closely related technical landscape and mission.

Application portability & infrastructure automation applied to public multi cloud landscape as well as hybrid cloud / on prem infrastructure.Architect & implement CI/CD pipeline & tooling and integrate to current workflowsLead Devops enablement across the organization and provide guidelines to ease the transition in a smooth and efficient change management perspective.

Architect portable solutions and tools across all possible infrastructures: public Cloud, Converged and Hyperconverged InfrastructureEmpower the teams with the best automation tooling and features, both for the on premise & Cloud stackSimplify and optimize the workflow of operations and the CI/CD pipeline and act as a change management facilitatorDefine Automation & DevOps Corporate Guidelines to standardize best practices in every aspect of the Development and Operations across the organizationMigrate and upgrade the Corporate Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Stash/Bitbucket) in Azure Automate Azure public Cloud and VMWare vCenter Converged on prem Cloud

• Architect and engineer solutions to automate technical operation tasks in the cloud environment• Work with Systems and Development teams on designs and performance optimization• Write documentation, including data standards and procedures• Customize SAP Hybris platform to match requirements of enterprise customers until project reaches maturity, respects standards and is ready for go-live.

My responsibilities include redesigning the architecture of automation technologies on 2 datacenters using: RHCE Linux hosts, Puppet & Ansible automation, HAProxy & Galera clusters, VMware virtualized linux VM’s running various in-house applications for tens of thousands of users.• Improved the Puppet CM architecture by enforcing an extended and exhaustive usage of the PuppetDB.• Developed an advanced synching mechanism that enables the Ansible Orchestrator to inventorize node groups based on the improved centralized data source, i.e. PuppetDB• Migrated secure RHCE systems to new nodes with the latest OS and software versions.• Standardize the use of the best practices and tools on the market on the newer infrastructure (as code).• Define a better architecture for the ELK stack for advanced centralized log management.• Coach team members to clean code and agile methodologies.Define a mini python framework for maximum efficiency in coding mini applications that improve automation.

Responsible for managing all levels of hardware and software support for the OpenStack cloud infrastructure for thousands of customers on 3 datacenters, for the following services: • Linux Hosts • Docker &LXC Containers • HAProxy Clusters • OpenStack Cloud Services • MongoDB Clusters • MariaDB / Galera Clusters • Ceph storage • KVM virtualized windows / Linux VM’s • DC’s and inter DC’s vLans containing LACP and GRE connectivity between hosts • LDAP, DNS & DHCP • Agile team managementCompletely automated the DC’s deployment with Puppet and then Ansible / Kolla.Redesigned and connected DC’s together to make multiple customer portals around the world talk to multiple OpenStack clouds on all corners of the world.Transformed the R&D sysadmin team into a cloud Devops team running infrastructure as code.Designed a continuous integration solution for the cloud 28 marketplace.

I supported 30K+ servers on 4 DCs including Debian and Red Hat based Linux servers, Windows, Mac and FreeBSD servers, running various services such as Apache, Php and Mysql, services using protocols such as IMAP, SMTP, FTP & DNS, as well as DRBD and Haproxy cluster solutions XEN virtualized servers, hybrid servers, Cisco firewalls and switches and 3com switches.My high customer focus was awarded several times by the QA team and I was seen as a leader both for the quality of my interventions and my drive to deeply understand the customer needs and solve my customer problems at their source, once and for all.This drive to satisfy our customers has been an inspiration for my innovative conceptions, namely the spider cluster and the 2.0 KBS. Both, in their own way, address the most common issues in an elegant and cost saving way.I also drove the deployment of the next generation of system administration workstations improved with a host of power tools that significantly increase system administrators productivity.As a result, ticket resolution speeds were improved by more than 25% in the first months, despite the gradual rate of adoption of the new power tools by the agents.

Researched and identified blockers during testing and bug filing in JIRA.Collaborated with development team to improve isolation of bugs and achieve high quality documentation on bug reports