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Freelance network engineer working on LAN and datacenter environments, primarily around Cisco and Arista technologies.
I operate in critical production environments with activities in operations, troubleshooting, L2/L3 support, and technical operations support during and outside of business hours.
I have also participated in datacenter deployment and migration projects from Cisco Fabric Path to Arista EVPN/VXLAN, including operational preparation, risk analysis, stakeholder coordination, and go-live.
Accustomed to multi-site environments and teamwork, I approach my work with a focus on reliability, service continuity, and operational quality.
Based in France, available for on-site or remote assignments.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 40km)
Experience
- Orange BusinessFreelance Network EngineerDIGITAL AND ITApril 2024 - October 2025 (1 year and 6 months)Nanterre, France
Ongoing assignment in IT outsourcing for Orange Business Services on a multi-site datacenter scope
- L2/L3 operations and maintenance in operational condition of multi-site datacenter infrastructures
- Network supervision and troubleshooting using Grafana, Nagios, Elastic Stack, Arista Cloud Vision Portal
- Incident and request handling (L2/L3) via ITSM tool (ticket management, SLA tracking, prioritization)
- Operation of datacenter network architectures: EVPN/VXLAN, OSPF, BGP, and MP-BGP
- DNS/DHCP/IPAM management via Infoblox
- Use of Nautobot as a source of truth (inventory, network data)
- Technical operations during and outside of business hours, and production interventions
- Coordination of technical and business operations
- Writing technical documentation and operational procedures
- RMA management and vendor support
- MetanextNetwork EngineerENERGY AND UTILITIESJune 2021 - March 2024 (2 years and 9 months)Nanterre, FranceEnd client: Energy sector via OBS IT outsourcing
Build Project: Migration of 2 datacenters (~1000 devices) from Cisco FabricPath to an Arista EVPN/VXLAN architecture (multi-fabrics)
• Deployment and integration of LAN/DC infrastructures (OSPF underlay, EVPN/VXLAN overlay)• Configuration of Cisco Nexus/Catalyst and Arista equipment as part of migrations• Configuration of protocols: VLAN, STP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN• Use of Nautobot as a source of truth to drive network configurations and ensure deployment consistency (IPAM, inventory, device parameters)• Development of cabling matrices and preparation of migration operations• Execution of approximately 100 operations during and outside business hours in a critical environment (OIV)• Contribution to migration phases: technical execution and coordination of stakeholders (network, systems, business)• Risk analysis and securing of operations• Supervision and troubleshooting via Zabbix, ELK, and Nagios• Adherence to migration deadlines and decommissioning of Cisco infrastructures• DNS/DHCP/IPAM management via EfficientIP - MetanextNetwork and Automation EngineerDIGITAL AND ITMarch 2020 - May 2021 (1 year and 2 months)Sèvres, France
- Introduction and implementation of automation techniques using Python/Ansible
- API manipulation via Postman
- Setup of a development environment with Docker
- Network scripting (Netmiko/Paramiko)
- Introduction to Azure Cloud (AZ900 Certification)
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Education
- Master of Computer Science, Networks specializationSorbonne University/ Telecom Paritech2019
- Bachelor of Computer SciencePierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6)2017Licence Informatique
Certifications
- Fortinet FortiGate 7.6 OperatorFortinet2026
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)Cisco2025