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Geneva, Switzerland

Genève, Suisse

Worked within the Engineering team of the infrastructure department, managing the Linux administration of 250 Red Hat hosts using Red Hat Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform.Successfully migrated all hosts from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 under a tight deadline, ensuring minimal disruption and adherence to project timelines.Contributed to the migration of infrastructure and service monitoring from Nagios to Prometheus and Grafana, enhancing observability and response capabilities.Developed a custom Prometheus exporter to monitor Oracle databases, providing tailored insights for better database performance management.Administered the Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and Harbor Docker registry cluster, ensuring efficient container orchestration and image management.Improved CI/CD processes by simplifying pipelines, which significantly reduced time to market and streamlined development workflows.Initiated a migration project from Mirantis Kubernetes Engine to Red Hat OpenShift to leverage enhanced orchestration capabilities.

Ville De Paris, Île-De-France, France

Worked as a freelance Site Reliability Engineer at Thales Digital Identity and Security, contributing to the industrialization of a private cloud platformAutomated the VM provisioning and hardening workflow using Ansible, enabling VMs to be provisioned in minutes, significantly reducing manual effort and provisioning timeDeployed core services as Docker containers to enhance scalability and managementDelivered comprehensive SRE dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana, providing critical observability and ensuring proactive monitoring of platform health and performance.

Ville De Paris, Île-De-France, France

Worked in the cloud team as a FinOps specialist at Groupe La Centrale, focusing on AWS cost monitoring and detailed analysis.Implemented infrastructure improvements and cost optimization strategies, achieving a 30% reduction in expenses by leveraging creative solutions and fine-tuning resource usage.Collaborated closely with the Data Science team to align cost-effective infrastructure strategies with data processing and analytical needs.Implemented data workflows on AWS to streamline data management and maintained Tableau software to support reporting and visualization requirements.

Ville De Paris, Île-De-France, France

Created and managed a fully terraformed AWS infrastructure for the billing application, provisioning and managing services such as EC2, S3, ELB, API Gateway, RDS, SQS, Route 53, and CloudWatch to ensure a reliable and scalable setupImplemented CloudFront to enable efficient global web content distribution, reducing latency and improving user experience.Migrated the Kubernetes setup from EC2 to Amazon EKS, simplifying Day 2 operations and enhancing platform maintainability

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, France

Worked as a DevOps engineer within a feature team focused on a microservices architecture.Improved the team's time to market by building a secure and reliable software supply chain, simplifying the deployment process and enhancing release speed.Managed Day 2 operations on the OpenShift cluster to ensure smooth ongoing service delivery and reliability.Handled both Day 1 and Day 2 operations on AWS infrastructure, maintaining and scaling resources to support the team's needs.Managed observability, including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting for the team's services, ensuring high reliability and rapid issue detection and resolution.

Ville De Paris, Île-De-France, France

Worked as a freelance professional, leading the migration of legacy Java applications to a microservices architecture and containerizing them for seamless deployment on KubernetesUsed Ansible to automate Linux server configuration management, simplifying complex processes and reducing manual interventionEliminated "push and pray" practices by integrating automated testing and continuous integration, ensuring that each stage was reliable and deployment-ready, making production releases a non-event

Issoire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Served as a Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) specialized in network administration in a signal battalion with advanced technical and military trainingDesigned and deployed CISCO-based LANs for command centers, ensuring high availability, reliability, and security compliant with NATO standardsLed teams with discipline and strategic thinking to maintain mission-critical network performance under high pressure, ensuring operational success

Master, Technologie Informatique

Dut, Computer Science