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Ilham BakraouiIB

Ilham Bakraoui

DDI Architect - EfficientIP & Infoblox

€700/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Ilham

Are you looking for a specialist to migrate, operate, and secure your DNS/DDI infrastructure? With recognized expertise in EfficientIP, Infoblox, and DNS/DHCP/IPAM standards, I support companies throughout the lifecycle of their network environments.
✅ What I offer you

Architecture and Migration to DDI solutions: consulting, planning, implementation

Operation and L3 production: advanced support, incident resolution, continuous improvement

Optimization of DNS/DDI platforms for performance and resilience

Infrastructure security: DNSSEC, security policies, proactive monitoring

Protection of all URLs through Akamai, CloudFlare, WAF solutions
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • BNP PARIBAS
    DDI Architect (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) – Infoblox & EfficientIP
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2022 - Today (4 years and 2 months)
    Operation of the international DNS platform – McAfee Proxies
    • RUN activity monitoring
    • Management of global DNS / DHCP / NTP infrastructure
    • Operation of security appliances: Installation, configuration, hardware and system troubleshooting
    • L3 Troubleshooting for DNS/DHCP scope
    • Equipment compliance monitoring
    • Ensuring infrastructure evolution
    • Troubleshooting / compliance / continuous improvement / capacity planning
    • Managing escalations and participating in TaskForces
    • Incident communication (Reports to Domain Managers, Service Management, AOM)
    • Participating in continuous improvement initiatives within the domain (Internal projects, implementation of new ideas)
    • Implementing changes during business hours and off-hours
    • Implementing TP20 appliances for the DNS/DHCP infrastructure in France and Belgium
    • System and Hardware implementation for security appliances (PROXY, RPF, NTP)
    • Installing new Infoblox LABs
    • Major and minor upgrades of internal, external France, and Fortis (Belgium) Infoblox servers
    • L3 Support for DNS and proxy incidents
    • McAfee proxy management and upgrades
    • Facilitating technical evolution and improvement
    • Analyzing, advising, and making recommendations to improve the efficiency of implemented technical solutions
    • Leading and participating in technical and cross-functional meetings
    • Leading and participating in project committees and steering committees
    • Writing various technical documentation for the L2 support team to create APIs
    • Writing other types of technical and functional documentation (Migration strategy, Test plans)
    • Being on-call
    • Responding to business needs by performing DNS switchovers, network reservations
    • Protecting all BNP Paribas URLs by securing them with the Akamai solution
    • Regular cleaning of IPAM, zones, and DHCP
    • Training new joiners
    DDI
  • ORANGE
    Pre-Sales Engineer for Enterprise Network Solutions
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    October 2021 - May 2022 (7 months)
    Missions and Achievements: Pre-sales
    • Management and leadership of Key Accounts, high-end, and mid-market clients (LVMH, Banks, Amazon, SNCF…)
    • Qualification and analysis of client needs within the scope of tenders, RFIs, and RFQs
    • Design and techno-economic validation of solutions proposed to clients regarding WAN, SD WAN, MPLS, Internet, XoIP, BVPN, BI, Cloud, Security, Office 365
    • Contributing to the commercial approach by presenting the proposed offer to the client and ensuring the cost price of deals during negotiation phases
    • Ensuring project launch in coordination with various stakeholders
    • Qualification and demonstration of solutions to clients
    • Supporting sales teams Expert DNS – Infoblox

    Scrum Master
    • Agile Scrum Methodology: Daily stand-ups, coordination, Sprints, User stories
    • Collaboration in implementing the Agile Scrum methodology throughout the organization to improve communication between sales, project managers, and the delivery department
    • Assistance in team management to develop and maintain offer backlogs

    Multi-vendor environment: CISCO, PALOALTO, FORTINET, MERAKI, JUNIPER, HUAWEI, Ericsson Technological environments: BVPN, BI, MPLS, XoIP, Cloud, Office 365, LAN, WAN, WLAN, DC SDN DC, SD-WAN, SDA, WIFI.
  • ORANGE
    Architect Engineer, DNS Systems and Applications Expert - Scrum Master - Orange
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    October 2019 - October 2021 (2 years)
    Missions and Achievements:
    • Migration of the DNS platform from Bind to Infoblox
    • Reference expert for DNS solutions (Bind, Powerdns, and unbound)
    • Translating specifications into technical requirements
    • Support for DNS in France and AMEA subsidiaries (Africa Middle East Asia)
    • Functional and performance testing for all DNS solutions
    • Optimization and security of DNS configurations
    • Monitoring the evolution of different DNS solution versions
    • Writing test plans and validating DNS solution evolutions towards IPv6
    • Writing test reports on physical and VM servers
    • Writing installation procedures, test plans, and operational guides
    • Implementing DNS server monitoring using Cacti
    • Regulatory blocking of malicious sites
    • Creation and design of a new platform via VmWare for the link between DNS and RBCI
    • Creation of the Cyberfilter platform for traffic filtering for business clients
    • On-call duty and business/off-business hours operations for DNS and Cyberfilter platforms
    Scrum Master
    • Implementing the Agile Scrum methodology within the DNS expert team
    • Daily stand-ups for project progress, sharing difficulties, and defining possible resolutions
    • Organizing team-building activities
    • Collaboration in implementing the Agile Scrum methodology throughout the organization to improve communication between engineering and product management
    Multi-vendor environment: CISCO, Fortinet, Infoblox Technological environments: DNS, DHCP, IPAM, Proxy, LAN, WAN, WLAN, WIFI, FIREWALL, Git, Ansible, Nagios, Grafana, JURA, Confluence

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Education

  • Work-Study Program – Master's Degree in Computer Science, Networks track
    Paris Tech
    2018
    Cursus Alternance – Master Informatique parcours Réseaux
  • Work-Study Program – Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – Technical Sales
    IUT Belfort-Montbéliard
    2016
    Cursus Alternance – Licence informatique – Technico-Commercial

Certifications

  • Cisco CCNA 1 & CCNA2
    CCNA 1 & CCNA2 Certification
    2015

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