Jaouad K.

Infrastructure and network architect responsible for pre-project studies, solution qualification, and the definition and deployment of selected solutions. I participated in the following projects launched by the ISE division within AFD's IT department: - Datacenter strategy and relocation (choice of a new datacenter and relocation) - DR switchover (disaster recovery for the main datacenter) - Datacenter segmentation (segmentation and filtering of traffic to better secure exchanges within the datacenter) - Backbone routing review (backbone based on dark fiber and dynamic OSPF routing with physical loops managed via ERPS)

o Analyze client needs

o Respond to client tenders

o Analyze solution specifications (Technical/Functional/Economic)

o Propose solutions adapted to client requirements and economic constraints

o Create and share manufacturer estimates (CCW for Cisco, ICT Huawei, Iris Aruba)

o Write the technical proposal, highlighting the strengths of the offer

o Participate in the preparation of financial proposals jointly with sales representatives

o Verify the relevance and proper integration of the technical proposal with other documents in the response file

o Proactively contribute to identifying market differentiators

o Contribute to strategic decisions on assigned projects (manufacturer selection, response, strategy)

o Contribute, with project managers, to the development and framing of service offerings by actively participating in offer construction meetings

o Present and defend proposed solutions to clients

o Meet intervention schedule deadlines

o Ensure the transfer of projects to the designated production team for project execution

o Audit of the overall IT system architecture of Believe

o Technical referent for the team on Cisco ACI technology

o Design and deployment of a new ACI Multisite SDN network

o Architecture, design, and deployment of two new datacenters

o Deployment of BIG-IP LTM

o Deployment and operation of Firewalls (Palo Alto and Firepower)

o Implementation of the "SPLUNK" log management solution for consolidating logs from all network and security equipment

o Design and migration of Internet access and France-IX Peering to new DCs

o Definition of the migration plan and strategy

o Migration of workloads from old DCs to new DCs

o Design and migration of remote sites to a new infrastructure based on Meraki and Palo Alto

o Migration of Akamai CDN services to Cloudflare

o Implementation of Cloudflare ZTNA

o L3 Support and relationship management with partner and vendor support

o POC Cloudflare Magic WAN to replace firewalls at different remote sites and rationalize the use of various telecom links

o Audit of the Believe AWS infrastructure (50 accounts)

o Definition of the new AWS Landing Zone: LB, Routing, Filtering, WAF

o Migration of AWS accounts to the new AWS platform