About Farouk
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- INDEPENDANTFreelance DBA ConsultantCONSULTING AND AUDITSApril 2026 - Today (4 months)Paris, FranceFreelance Oracle & PostgreSQL DBA — Production · L3 Support · 24/7 On-CallI support Major Accounts, Medium-sized Businesses, and IT Service Companies in the administration, optimization, and security of their Oracle and PostgreSQL environments.I work on long-term dedicated contracts, fixed-price projects (migration, audit, performance tuning), or planned 24/7 on-call duty, in Île-de-France and remotely.My responsibilities include:✔Ensuring the operational maintenance of critical Oracle and PostgreSQL environments✔Resolving complex incidents in L3 Support✔Optimizing database performance (SQL, architecture, configuration)✔Performing technical audits, Oracle and PostgreSQL migrations, and upgrades✔Designing, implementing, and validating backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures (RMAN, PostgreSQL).✔Designing, deploying, and operating High Availability architectures (Oracle RAC, Data Guard, PostgreSQL HA).✔Industrializing DBA operations via Ansible (patching, deployment, configuration).✔Participating in 24/7 on-call shifts for critical infrastructuresValue provided:I bring an approach focused on availability, performance, automation, and risk reduction to secure production environments while facilitating their evolution.Environments:Oracle 11g/12c/19c/21c • PostgreSQL • Oracle RAC • Data Guard • RMAN • Ansible • Linux • Solaris
- Adecco FranceProd DBAHUMAN RESOURCESJanuary 2023 - January 2026 (3 years)Lyon, FranceWithin the Adecco France DBA team, I provided L3 Support for about fifty Oracle and PostgreSQL production databases in a Franco-Indian context. My mission was to ensure the availability of database services, support evolution projects, and industrialize administration operations.Major projects delivered:✔Industrialization of Oracle 19c patching via Ansible with an Infrastructure-as-Code approach (structured playbooks, idempotent logic, multi-server rolling patching) to ensure reliable maintenance operations, standardize DEV/TEST/PROD deployments, and reduce manual interventions.Result:Reliable maintenance operations, reduced manual interventions, and improved traceability of Release Updates.✔Oracle 19c → 21c cross-platform migration (2 TB) — Technical lead for the Windows → Red Hat Linux migration using the FTEX method (Full Transportable Export/Import).Result:Downtime limited to the final switchover phase, minimized unavailability window compared to a classic Export/Import approach.✔Deployment and operation of PostgreSQL HA clusters with streaming replication and automatic failover, industrialized via Ansible.Result:Standardization of deployments, improved configuration reproducibility, and reduced time-to-production.Additional interventions:✔Oracle (RMAN) and PostgreSQL backups and restores.✔Oracle and PostgreSQL Performance Tuning.✔Technical audits.✔OEM / PRTG Monitoring.✔Access administration and change management.Environments:Oracle 12c/19c · PostgreSQL 16 · Ansible · RMAN · OEM · PRTG · Red Hat Linux · Windows Server 2019 · CyberArk · Commvault
- VolkswagenProd DBAAUTOMOBILESeptember 2021 - September 2022 (1 year)Porto, PortugalOracle DBA Studies & L3 Support — Volkswagen France via Capgemini EngineeringWithin the Volkswagen France project teams, I supported the application teams in the evolution and optimization of approximately 80 Oracle databases, in a multinational Scrum/ITIL environment. My role was to improve database performance and support development on SQL and modeling topics.I was particularly involved in:✔Optimizing the performance of large tables through Oracle partitioning.✔Designing and evolving data structures (tables, indexes, views, and stored procedures) to support the needs of application teams.✔Analyzing SQL performance and locking issues.✔Deploying SQL evolutions in the production environment and supporting project teams during application changes.✔Maintaining Oracle statistics to ensure efficient execution plans.✔Performing schema export/import operations and supporting data migrations between environments.Value provided:Improved Oracle database performance, optimized SQL processing, and supported development teams to ensure reliable application evolutions.Environment:Oracle 19c • Oracle Linux • OEM 13c • SQL*Plus • TOAD • Citrix
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Education
- EngineerUniversity of Tunis2013Ingénieur