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Description

Solution architect for 10 years, with strong skills in multiple disciplines: Cloud, infrastructure, network, databases, DevOps, security, deployments… Possessing team spirit and leadership. My experience has allowed me to participate in several international information system implementation projects and to acquire solid skills in their implementation and deployment, in very varied technological and methodological contexts.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

ALSTOM
Azure Cloud & Kubernetes Principal Architect/ Kubernetes Offer Owner and C-Level advisor
TRANSPORTATION
May 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)
Paris, France
Design, implement and manage a turnkey enterprise grade Kubernetes platform (Platform Engineering) based on Azure AKS (Product centric, secured, multitenant, automation and GitOps, monitoring with Prometheus, cluster management with Rancher, FinOps with OpenCost, DevSecOps…)
Unify with the platform pattern the governance and the security principles and hardening of all Kubernetes (AKS) based products, provide a shared service layer and self-service namespaces to product teams
Structure and lead the Kubernetes offer at the enterprise level, setup onboarding process of products teams and promote its usage
Design and implement cybersecurity by introducing DevSecOps approach and tools, setup a security hardening guidelines and rules for the Kubernetes platform infrastructure and application deployed on it
Setup a centralized Kubernetes cluster management solution and benchmark vendors (Suse Rancher, Tanzu VMware, RedShift Red Hat)
Support and accelerate digital transformation of the products in term of moving to cloud, containerization / microservice architecture, secure the Alstom SaaS offering, enable automation, agility and self service
Provide close technical support to projects and delivery teams (architecture & design, Azure services, AKS, security, networking …) in build and run activities
Release architectures and designs for cloud (Azure) and onPrem to ensure high availability, security, resiliency, DRP, automation and DevOps, produce documentation, guidelines and architecture patterns
Drive Azure FinOps audit, implement immediate remediations and provide enterprise principles and guidelines for FinOps management
Design, implement and promote a new cloud operating model to bring more automation (IaC and CI/CD), agility, Platform Engineering and self-service approach to the organization and remove any bottleneck linked infrastructure and process
Introduce agile framework in architecture and design authority team, educate team to right balance between intentional and emergent Architecture when interacting with agile project teams
Design, support, and accelerate move to cloud of the different product across the company and advocate for public cloud adoption (PaaS, Serverless, CaaS)
Provide support and strategical vision to CTO and C-Level managers about cloud adoption, emerging technologies and patterns, automation and agility frameworks, benchmark solutions and vendors
Technical Environment : Azure Cloud, Kubernetes (AKS), Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Thanos, KubeClarity, Kubebench, Kubecost, Elastic Search, Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Azure Linux, alpine, Talos …), Fluentd, Log Analytics workspaces, Azure Monitor, Azure Cost Management, Azure PaaS (Cosmos DB, App Services, Azure Data base, Sentinel …), Azure IaaS (VM, Azure VMWare…), AVI, ZScaler
AKS Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Prometheus Thanos Grafana Helm Landing Zone Offer Strategy Cloud Architect Consulting DevOps Agile Methodology Product Ownership
IQVIA
Cloud & Kubernetes & Cyber security Architect
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
January 2021 - April 2023 (2 years and 4 months)
Paris, France
- Design and implementation of Cloud & DevOps architectures (AWS, Azure, Infra, network, automation, security, Cloud Native…)

- Support for products in their cloud and DevOps strategy and transformation
- Creation and submission of studies and architecture documents, FinOps
- Member of the enterprise architecture committee for review, consulting, monitoring, and strategy
- Support and guidance for products in their migration to Azure (Roadmap, Target Architecture, Lift & Shift, Hub & spoke …)
- Design and integration of SecOps approaches and tools at the cloud and platform level (WAF, vulnerability scanning, infrastructure audit and benchmarking …)
- Conduct and execution of POCs for new solutions and technologies
- Technical support and coaching of DevOps squads
AWS Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Monitoring Logging Infrastructure DevOps Cloud Native Observability CI/CD DevSecOps
IQVIA
Cloud & DevOps Architect
MEDICAL
May 2022 - April 2023 (1 year)
Paris, France
Implementation of an observability platform in a multi-cluster and multi-cloud environment, covering: Monitoring, Logging, Distributed Tracing, and centralization of AWS and Azure metrics
- Lead workshops and studies on the state-of-the-art of technologies, best practices, and team needs
- Design, implement, and discuss the architecture of the different components of the platform
- Implement a POC to study the feasibility of the architecture
- Submit the architecture to the board, launch and supervise development and production deployment
- Promote the platform to product teams
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Prometheus thanos Kafka Elasticsearch Kibana Logging Monitoring Observability Kubernetes AKS EKS Jaeger