Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Senior Linux engineer specializing in infrastructure automation with Ansible/Puppet, primarily on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Debian environments.

I work on critical environments with thousands of VMs, with high demands for security, compliance, and availability.

Main expertise:

• Advanced automation with Ansible / AAPv2 and Puppet

• Standardization and hardening of RHEL bases

• Industrialization of deployments (CI/CD GitLab)

• Implementation and administration of Red Hat Satellite

• Setup of secure rootless Docker / Podman environments

• N3 expertise and critical incident management on complex Linux environments (ACL, SELinux, NFS, security...)

• Experience with hybrid VM / container environments (Docker / Podman / Kube).

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bordeaux (up to 30km)

Agirc-Arrco
Linux / Automation Engineer – Critical Environment (Freelance)
PUBLIC SECTOR
March 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)
Gradignan, France
Challenge: Standardize and industrialize the operation of a massive RHEL park (+ 15,000 VMs + physical servers) with strong security and availability constraints.

- Industrialization of deployments via Ansible and Puppet
- Structuring of roles and automation best practices
- Standardization and hardening of RHEL 9 bases (Kickstart, automation)
- Setup of secure rootless Docker / Podman environments
- Advanced management of ACL, NFS, and SELinux policies
- Contribution to security initiatives (patch management, agents, compliance)
- Industrialization of application base deployments (ITESOFT, MinIO, Hadoop…)
- N3 Support for critical incidents
Docker Kubernetes Puppet Ansible Linux
Mutuelle Ociane Matmut
Linux DevOps Engineer
July 2023 - February 2024 (7 months)
Bordeaux, France
Implementation of Red Hat Satellite and server configuration automation via Ansible.
- Needs and prerequisites analysis,
- Implementation in collaboration with the internal team,
- Supervision and support of the implementation by the internal team,
- Advice and training of the team on Satellite and Linux.

Technical Environment:
- Red Hat Satellite 6.13
- Red Hat 9
- GitLab
- PRTG
- 100% Microsoft Infrastructure
Linux RedHat
CA-GIP (Crédit agricole group infrastructure platform)
LINUX System Engineer / DEVOPS (FREELANCE)
BANKING AND INSURANCE
April 2022 - July 2023 (1 year and 3 months)
Gradignan, France
Challenge: modernization and rationalization of the existing CI/CD.

Migration of 300 Jenkins pipelines to Ansible Tower then AAPv2 (GitLab CI/CD)

- Rationalization of workflows
- Standardization of deployments
- Removal of legacy dependencies
- Cross-functional coordination with application teams

Technologies: Ansible Tower, Ansible AAPv2, Jenkins, RedHat 7 & 8, Vmware