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Hamdi LionHL

Hamdi Lion

Platform / DevOps/ SRE Kubernetes | AWS Azure GCP

€700/day
5 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Hamdi

🚀 SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineer specialized in Kubernetes, Cloud and Cloud Native

SRE / DevOps / Cloud Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, automating, and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms and cloud infrastructures.

Certified Kubestronaut 🚀, I assist startups, scaleups, and large companies in setting up modern cloud platforms, production-ready Kubernetes, multi-cloud, multi-region, and hybrid cloud.

☁️ Cloud & Multi Cloud Architecture

Expert in AWS, Azure, and GCP environments with extensive experience in:

AKS - EKS - GKE - OVH - Scaleway
Multi-cloud, multi-region, high availability, and disaster recovery architecture
Infrastructure as Code:

Terraform - OpenTofu - Ansible - GitOps

Objective: build scalable, secure, automated, and highly available infrastructures.

⚙️ Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Design, deployment, and optimization of production Kubernetes clusters:

Cloud: AKS - EKS - GKE
On premise: OpenStack - Proxmox - Kubespray

Kubernetes Optimization:

Autoscaling • performance • security • observability • high availability

Technologies:

GitOps: ArgoCD • FluxCD
Autoscaling: KEDA • Karpenter • HPA • VPA
GPU Workloads: Nvidia CUDA on Kubernetes

🚀 CI/CD & DevOps Automation

Implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation of DevOps platforms:

GitHub Actions - GitLab CI - Jenkins - GitOps

📊 Observability & SRE

Prometheus • Grafana - Loki - Alloy - Mimir - Tempo - Thanos - Alertmanager
Kubernetes Monitoring • alerting - platform reliability

👥 Technical Leadership

Managing teams of over 25 engineers, while remaining hands-on in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, and DevOps.

🏠 Passionate about the Kubernetes, DevOps, and Cloud Native ecosystem, I run my own home Kubernetes cluster (Proxmox, Kubespray) and often share technical articles.

📩 Let's discuss Kubernetes / Cloud / DevOps! 🚀
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Massy (up to 50km), Fontainebleau (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km), Rennes (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Servier Monde
    Platform / SRE / Cloud & DevOps Engineer
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
    Suresnes, France
    - Complete audit of the existing infrastructure to assess resource allocation and identify consolidation points
    - Design and implementation of a new deployment strategy adapted to multi-region/multi-zone needs and the scaling of multiple applications
    - Refactoring of Terraform/OpenTofu code applying best practices for clean code to facilitate maintenance and evolution
    - Rework of Terragrunt code to simplify deployment pipelines, adopting a GitOps approach for clear versioning and easier rollback
    - Automation of Terraform/OpenTofu state migrations between regions and zones to ensure environment consistency
    - Integration of Sops to centrally encrypt and secure secrets, including during automatic rotation across multiple zones
    - Implementation of GitHub Actions pipelines to orchestrate deployments, releases, and builds of various codebases worldwide
    - Creation and standardization of reusable and composite GitHub Actions to unify CI/CD chains, reduce duplication, and accelerate production releases
    - Development of a CLI in Go using Cobra to apply a GitOps approach to the deployment of all applications
    - Implementation of a monitoring stack with Azure Monitor; log collection via Log Analytics Workspace and data transformation via a Logic App before sending notifications to Microsoft Teams
    Microsoft Azure Terragrunt OpenTofu Kubernetes Github Actions
  • Stēto
    Platform/SRE/Cloud Engineer
    MEDICAL
    December 2024 - January 2025 (1 month)
    Paris, France
    • Migration of SSL ingress/certificate management from Traefik to Nginx with Cert Manager and Let's Encrypt, ensuring automated renewal and better compatibility with modern standards.
    • Complete audit of the existing Kubernetes infrastructure followed by automation of cluster provisioning on OVHcloud via Terraform, including advanced node configuration (taints, labels, affinities).
    • Implementation of a unified observability solution based on Grafana Alloy and Loki for centralized collection of logs and metrics from the entire cluster (Traefik, Nginx, Django, K8s, etc.).
    • Standardization and security of application deployments with Helm and Helmfile, along with SOPS integration for encrypted secret management.
    Helmfile Terraform Grafana Kubernetes OVH
  • Health Data Hub
    Platform / SRE / Cloud & DevOps Engineer
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    September 2024 - December 2024 (3 months)
    Paris, France
    - Conducted an audit of the existing infrastructure, including in-depth historical analysis.
    - Migrated Sonatype Nexus from version 3.62 to version 3.72.
    - Refactored the legacy codebase of the Scan command (ClamAV) into GoLang.
    - Implemented a baseline module to standardize Kubernetes cluster configuration.
    - Set up Private Endpoints / Private Links / NSG / Route Tables and opened flows between different services.
    - Deployed the Gitea component using Terraform/Terragrunt
    Azure DevOps Microsoft Azure Cloud Kubernetes Helm Terraform

Reviews

4.0

Out of 1 rating

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Stéphane

Ingé Cloud - Pass Culture - Pôle Tech

Reviewed on 5/28/2026

Hamdi is a very technical person who knows his subject. Easy communication, attentive. I recommend.

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Education

  • Engineering Degree, Computer Science
    Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies - ESPRIT
    2016
    Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Science de l'informatique
  • Fundamental License, Computer Science
    Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Carthage ENICarthage
    2013
    Licence Fondamentale, Science de l'informatique

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