Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

As a Cloud Solutions Architect, my role is to support clients in their digital transformation, primarily on the Microsoft Azure platform.

To meet consumer expectations, applications must be performant, reliable, secure, scalable, and obviously fit within the budgets established by clients.

My role is to define and implement architectures that meet all these criteria while respecting business constraints.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Paris (up to 15km)

Sodexo SA
Azure Cloud Solutions Architect
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
August 2019 - Today (6 years and 10 months)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Project: Reduce the group's digital footprint in various physical data centers and promote a Cloud First vision within the group.

Sodexo is committed to consuming €20 million in Azure by the end of 2020. The teams are Cloud by Design oriented and aim to meet the needs of the group's various worldwide Business Units for the transformation of their infrastructures/services.
The CCoE brings together over 30 people divided into 7 teams and comprises a wide range of skills:
Cloud Architects, DevOps, Engagement Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Managers

AREA OF EXPERTISE:
Audit, Challenge, Support Business Units, Design, Support DevOps Teams:

Audit / Challenge existing resources
o Assessment of application portfolio
o Identify applications eligible for migration/transformation
o Promote and apply High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity concepts
o Minimize financial impact

Support business units in their new projects
o Demonstrate the added value of a service/component through POCs
o Define and apply best practices
o Define migration/transformation milestones
o Provide support to internal/external integration teams

Design target architectures
o Write Technical Architecture Documents in English
o Define migration/transformation scenarios based on the target infrastructure and components to be used (IaaS / PaaS)
o Demonstrate the security level and the rationale for using a service/component/feature to network and security teams
o Identify/Define/Validate network flows
o Promote the group's global security rules

Support the DevOps team
o Provide elements for the delivery of target infrastructures
o Validate the conformity of deliveries with respect to DATs, business needs/requirements
o Support/Provide escalation for the DevOps team
Solocal
Azure Cloud Solutions Architect / Lead Migration - Azure
E-COMMERCE
October 2018 - June 2019 (8 months)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Project: Reduce the group's digital footprint in various physical data centers.

The Solocal Move to Cloud program aims to migrate 4500 VMs, requiring 10,000 man-days, across multiple clouds (GCP, Azure). The program's goal is to aid in the transformation of legacy infrastructure and services like Pagesjaunes.fr or Business Units like Mappy. Asset distribution is split between the cloud and a new Data Center.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:
Audit, Challenge, Support Business Units, Design, Migrate, Support/Train Operations Teams on Lift & Shift Migration:

Audit / Challenge
o Audit/Challenge the existing technical foundation
o Audit/Challenge/Evaluate the feasibility of integrating existing operational tools with Azure as the target
o Assessment of the existing application portfolio
o Identify applications eligible for Lift & Shift migration based on business constraints
o Reduce financial impact

Support Business Units
o Define and apply best practices
o Define migration/transformation milestones
o Provide support to internal/external integration teams

Design
o Write Technical Architecture Documents in French
o Demonstrate the security level and the rationale for using a service/component/feature to network and security teams
o Identify/Define/Validate network flows

Lead Technical Migration
o Define/Install the migration factory
o Define migration processes
o Supervise the technical migration team: 5 people (Solocal employees + Linkbynet employees)
o Provide support to the systems integration team

Support / Train Operations Teams
o Support teams through change
o Integrate new operational tools (Backups, Logs, Supervision)
o Train operations teams on their Azure scope (multi-day sessions)
Linkbynet
Azure Cloud Solutions Architect
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
December 2017 - Today (8 years and 6 months)
Saint-Denis, France
Project: Participate in the development of the company's Cloud team.

To strengthen its expertise and widely disseminate the challenges and benefits of the Cloud to internal teams, Linkbynet decided to create a dedicated Cloud Explorer team responsible for managing all technical aspects related to the three main market players: AWS, Azure, and GCP.
This team is also intended to work with the group's clients.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:
Support internal teams, define product roadmap, Support group clients/prospects:

Support internal teams
o Define and communicate best practices (Establish a committee)
o Technical escalation for operations teams and engineers
o Lead internal training sessions

Define product roadmap
o Define Azure's roadmap with the marketing team
o Integrate IaaS / PaaS services into Linkbynet's service catalog
o Promote integrated services internally/externally to sales and technical teams

Support group clients / prospects
o Define architectures during Pre-sales, Build, and Run phases
o Involve in IT transformation projects towards the Cloud throughout the entire process:
 Evaluation,
 Migration,
 Operation,
 Optimization,
o Lead external training sessions