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Cyprien NkounouCN

Cyprien Nkounou

Cloud Network Architect & DevOps Engineer

€850/day
5 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Cyprien

Looking tosecure your critical infrastructuresoraccelerate your Cloud transitionwithout compromising quality?

**With 8 years of experience**, I support companies (from startups to large accounts like EDF or Carrefour) in designing robust, secure, and cost-effective GCP architectures.


My added value for your projects:
  • Security & Compliance (**DevSecOps**): I don't just deploy; I secure your assets (Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, SCC) from the design phase to protect your customer data.
  • Cost Management (**FinOps**): I recently led strategies that reduced infrastructure costs by 65%. I can transform your IT expenses into controlled investments.
  • Advanced Cloud Networking Expertise: As a **certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer**, I manage complex interconnections (NCC, Cloud Interconnect, VPN, Shared VPC) to ensure high availability and performance.
  • Leadership & Methodology: Beyond technical skills, I act as aLeadcapable of energizing your teams (SAFe, Agile) and **bridging the gap with decision-makers**.

My typical deliverables: Study and architecture documents, POCs, Industrial Landing Zones (Terraform), secure CI/CD Pipelines (GitLab CI), Cloud & Data Architectures.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • EDF (DIGIT / CEC),
    Infrastructure Build Lead & GCP Network Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    Nanterre, France
    Missions:

    Data & Infrastructure Project Leadership:
    • Led the GCP infrastructure redesign for the Group Data Platform (PDG): Shared VPC study and subnet delegation strategy.
    • Provided technical management for a team of consultants in creating a custom Backup & Restore solution (Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL) orchestrated by Cloud Composer.
    Network Service Offering Architecture & Evolution:

    • Designed and implemented major GCP Landing Zone evolutions: Delivered local subnets, additional routed private subnets, and "VPC-less" projects with migration strategies.
    • Secured traffic: Studied and managed the privatization of API calls (EDF IT to GCP).
    • Power BI / GCP Connectivity: Led the implementation of dynamic whitelisting for Power BI Online to GCP connection and fully implemented the security aspects.
    Operational Security & Observability:

    • Optimized security monitoring: Reviewed SCC (Security Command Center) alerting system, calibrated Findings, and restructured notifications for better usability.
    • Led observability integration: Fed BigQuery traces and metrics into Dynatrace, and set up Service Health Alert Policies.
    Methodology, Cloud Provider Relations & Training:

    • SAFe Leadership: Facilitated workshops and prepared Program Increments (PI), evaluated, costed, and broke down tasks for consultants.
    • Strategic relationship with Google: Actively participated in discussions with Technical Account Managers (TAMs). Drafted and followed up on a Product Requirement Document (PRD) to influence the GCP product roadmap on a critical access management need.
    • Knowledge Sharing: Led presentation sessions on Cloud solutions (SCC, Service Health) across the group.
    Agile Methodology (SAFe) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) VPC SC Terraform GCP Private Service Connect
  • SFK Développement
    Lead DevOps & Cloud
    E-COMMERCE
    February 2024 - September 2024 (7 months)
    Paris, France
    **Context**:

    Took over the DevOps scope to ensure service continuity and migration to a new Cloud environment.

    **Mission**:
    • Collaborated with the CTO to redesign the internal organization and workflow of the DevOps team to better integrate with development teams.
    • Supervised a team of three DevOps engineers during the migration of applications and data from OVH to GCP Cloud infrastructure.
    • Coordinated with development and quality assurance team leads to ensure minimal to zero downtime during application migrations.
    • Implemented a global cost reduction strategy resulting in a 65% decrease in the company's Cloud infrastructure expenses.
    • Implemented HA VPN, the High Availability version of Cloud VPN, with the Infra team.
    • Introduced new service offerings for the company (SFTP, Nexus, GitLab).


    **Technical Environment**: GCP, Cloud VPN, OVH, GitLab, GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Helm, Cloud Logging and Monitoring, Nexus, Shell.
    Terraform Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Gitlab CI/CD Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cloud VPN
  • L'Équipe (journal)
    Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    June 2022 - January 2024 (1 year and 7 months)
    Paris, France
    **Context**:

    Provided expertise for the architecture and implementation of Cloud solutions with a focus on security and performance.

    **Missions**:
    • Designed and implemented a new DNS architecture for the company's applications on Google Cloud DNS, using Split Horizon DNS.
    • Successfully migrated critical company applications to a new domain, with added privacy and security features.
    • Implemented Google Cloud Armor for the Journal's website, a network security tool against DDoS and Web attacks.
    • Designed an optimal GCP architecture for hosting the company's entire GitLab CI toolset.
    • Successfully migrated the company's GitLab CI tool by implementing the optimized architecture.


    **Technical Environment**: Google Cloud DNS, Split Horizon DNS, Google Cloud Armor, Cloud VPN, GCP, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Shell.
    Google Cloud DNS Google Cloud Armor GKE Python Shell Script

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Education

  • Computer Science Engineering Degree (Master of Science)
    UTBM
    2017
    Diplôme d'Ingénieur Informatique (Master of Science)
  • Computer Engineering Technician Degree (Bachelor of Science)
    IAI-TOGO
    2015
    Ingénieur des Travaux Informatiques (Bachelor of Science)

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