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Francis Dounga OtaboFD

Francis Dounga Otabo

Cloud & Kubernetes DevOps Consultant

€600/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Francis

DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of experience, I support technical teams in setting up and operating reliable, automated, and secure platforms, both in cloud and on-premise environments.

I primarily work on projects involving Kubernetes (EKS, Talos, RKE2, and many others), deployment automation, and operations (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform). I also have extensive experience in monitoring and observability (Centreon, Nagios, Datadog, ITSM integration), with an approach focused on stability, incident reduction, and continuous improvement.

Accustomed to critical production environments, I work on both build and run missions: architecture design, migration of monolithic applications to microservices architectures, securing flows (Cilium, NetworkPolicies), setting up backup and disaster recovery strategies, and automating recurring operations.

Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate, CKA, and CKAD, I bring concrete, pragmatic, and results-oriented technical expertise, with a clear objective: to deliver robust, maintainable platforms adapted to the real needs of the teams.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • RDMC
    DevOps / Kubernetes Consultant
    September 2025 - Today (9 months)
    • Design and implementation of a High Availability Kubernetes cluster based on Talos Linux (redundant control planes, security by design).
    • Definition of Kubernetes architecture patterns adapted to critical production environments.
    • Migration of monolithic applications to microservices architectures, with application decoupling and adaptation of deployment pipelines.
    • Migration of the CNI to Cilium and activation of advanced features (eBPF).
    • Implementation and management of NetworkPolicies for isolation and security of inter-service traffic as well as control of outgoing traffic.
    • Deployment and configuration of Traefik as an Ingress Controller (TLS, routing, secure service exposure).
    • Implementation of the backup and restore strategy for Kubernetes environments with Veeam Kasten.
    • Definition of DR / BC procedures (restore tests, incident recovery).
    • Automation of deployments and recurring operations (GitOps / Helm depending on context).
    • Support for teams in upskilling Kubernetes and operational best practices.
    • Monitoring, reliability, and continuous improvement of the platform.
    Kubernetes Linux Talos Bash Gitlab CI/CD
  • ESN
    DevOps Engineer
    March 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)
    • Implementation of DevOps cultures and practices for internal projects and clients (CI/CD, industrialization, security).
    • Design, development, and migration of applications to microservices architectures.
    • Containerization of applications and deployment on Docker and Kubernetes (critical environments).
    • Operations and Maintenance in Operational Conditions (MCO) of On-Premise and Cloud applications.
    • Administration and management of Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS & On-Prem).
    • Automation of deployments and infrastructure via CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code.
    • Configuration management and orchestration with Ansible.
    • Installation, administration, and security of On-Prem Kubernetes clusters with Rancher.
    • Implementation of auto-ticketing, auto-remediation, and advanced monitoring systems.
    • Application development (Python / automation scripts) for internal projects and clients.
    • AWS Cloud FinOps
    • Datadog Monitoring
    Kubernetes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud FinOps Datadog Python
  • Deveryware
    DevOps Consultant
    November 2022 - March 2023 (4 months)
    • Administration, optimization, and security of Linux systems (performance, hardening, monitoring).
    • Automation and configuration management with Ansible (playbooks, roles, environment standardization).
    • Containerization of applications and management of deployments with Docker (build, images, registry, best practices).
    • Design and deployment of AWS Cloud infrastructures via Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
    • Provisioning and management of EC2 and RDS
    • Management of dev / staging / production environments
    • Implementation of reproducible and versioned processes to ensure reliable deployments and reduce manual interventions.
    • Collaboration with development and operations teams to improve application stability and scalability.
    Linux Docker Terraform Ansible Gitlab

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Education

  • Master Systems, Networks & Cloud
    ESGI
    2019
    Master Système Réseau & Cloud
  • Computer Science Bachelor's Degree
    Université Paris 5
    2017
    Licence Informatique

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