Ali Cheriaa

Project: Context International – Responsible for DevOps operations and

international Cloud solutions management on GCP.

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, with a structured workflow for reliable and controlled deployment of microservices across various environments.

• Deployment of a multi-environment Kubernetes architecture using Kustomize, facilitating declarative configuration management.

• Creation and management of cloud infrastructure on GCP with Terraform, including configuration of GKE, Artifact Registry, buckets, Compute Engine, Secret Manager, and service accounts (IAM).

• Implementation of centralized secret management using HashiCorp Vault and Google Secret Manager, integrated into automation pipelines.

• Automation of microservice deployment with ArgoCD, ensuring traceability and version control in Kubernetes environments.

• Active participation in production incident management via Datadog, with log analysis, metric tracking, and continuous improvement.

• Monitoring and cost optimization on GCP, with the implementation of best practices for cloud resource budget management.

• Development of Ansible playbooks and roles.

• Daily collaboration with international teams, technical communication in English, both written and oral.

Technology Stack:

GCP (GKE, Artifact Registry, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Secret Manager,

IAM), Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Kustomize, Helm, ArgoCD, Airflow,

HashiCorp Vault, Python, Shell, Datadog, Prometheus.

Responsibilities:

• Management of various AWS services such as S3, EC2, RDS, Instance Scheduler,

AWS Backup, CloudWatch, and EKS.

• Development and deployment of AWS services using Terraform and

GitLab-CI.

• Creation and publication of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) optimized for

Kubernetes, created with Packer.

• Design of scripts to automate the creation of Kubernetes clusters on

AWS via Terraform.

• Development of a project for deploying workloads on the EKS cluster.

• Programming in shell and Python for automation and continuous integration.

• Maintenance and updating of the Prometheus server for monitoring.

• Writing detailed technical documentation and user guides.

• Technical support and training for user teams to help them adopt

the newly deployed technologies.

• Written and oral communication in English with multinational teams and

project stakeholders.

**Technology Stack**: AWS, Git, GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, Shell Scripting, Python, Packer, Helm.

Project: Technical assistance and preparation for the production rollout for the

switch from the ATLAS2 core banking system to SAB for BNP PARIBAS subsidiaries

in the Pacific and overseas.

Responsibilities:

• Migration of the project to Ansible Tower for increased automation.

• Development of Ansible playbooks to orchestrate and automate deployment

processes.

• Externalization of installation binaries to JFrog Artifactory to optimize artifact

management.

• Anonymization of customer personal data in Oracle production databases,

enhancing data protection compliance.

• Coordination between development, production, and operations teams to ensure a

smooth transition.

• Management of export and import processes for Oracle databases.

• Implementation of resilience solutions for PostgreSQL databases,

improving system robustness.

• Security consulting for the bank's mobile solutions.

• Encryption of sensitive data with GPG to secure customer information.

• Writing technical documentation and operational procedures for the

project.

• Training technical teams on the new solutions and processes

implemented.

Environment: Linux RHEL, Git, WAS, Jfrog, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Oracle, Postgres, Shell Script, Python, Ansible Vault, PostgreSQL, SSL, GPG.