Jean Vaucouleur

Within the 'AKS as a Service' team, I am the technical referent for implementing Kubernetes cluster infrastructures on Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Container technical expertise in public cloud (Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service)

- Automation of AKS cluster deployment and associated environments (Azure Container Registry, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Key Vault, etc.)

- Use of Azure DevOps for pipelines, repos (Terraform deployment code), Wiki.

- Monitoring of features and actions with Azure DevOps (Epic, Features, Stories)

- SAFe methodology (Train, Sprints, Demos, PI Planning)

Within the 'Move2Cloud' team, I am responsible for migrating backups and archives as part of the decommissioning of 2 datacenters to Azure cloud.

Move2Cloud Project Management

- Management of backup and archive migration for 400 servers from datacenters to Microsoft Azure cloud

- Automated control and cross-referencing of data from multiple repositories

- Definition of scenarios and implementation of migration infrastructures

- Steering of migration phases and monitoring of migration operations with Azure DevOps

Technical Environment

- Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft Azure Container Registry, Microsoft Azure KeyVault, Microsoft Machine Learning, Microsoft Azure DevOps

- Terraform

Private cloud container project management (Red Hat Openshift)

- Implementation of the offer construction plan, establishment of stages, positioning of milestones, deadline control.

- Coordination with business teams (developers, operational toolchain teams) and suppliers (RedHat, NetApp, IBM).

- Schedules for time tracking of projects (stages, deadlines, milestones, due dates), human resources (organization, integration, training, recruitment, workload), and technical resources (consumption hierarchy, tasks, deliverables, workload).

- Facilitation of regular updates on schedule variations, alignment with different teams.

- Design of the production infrastructure (design, security, authentication, deployment, etc.).

- Definition of the implementation strategy.

- Definition of the technical scope and management of roadmaps.

- Identification of impacted processes and organization (build & RUN)

- Definition of service levels, planning, and implementation of target processes

- Implementation of the personnel support strategy (community, training, ...)

- Implementation of project documentation foundation for compliance with audit rules and traceability, management of deployment processes and operational tasks.

Private cloud IBM project management

- Design workshops for setting up a containerization offer on the IBM private cloud (ROKS offer - Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud)

Process Automation

- Design, testing, and implementation workshops for Ansible Automation Platform, a foundation for technical process automation

- Design and implementation of automation for container infrastructure deployment on the Red Hat private cloud (OpenShift/Ansible/Govc)

- Automation for checking and synchronizing Quay image repositories (Quay API, Skopeo)

Technical Environment

- Nexus, Quay, Artifactory

- Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Prometheus, AlertManager, Thanos, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Dynatrace, ServiceNow, PostgreSQL

- IBM Cloud private environments ICP, IKS, ROKS, Red Hat

- Git, Jenkins, Gitlab, GitLab CI

Management of a team of 3 people, alignment with client issues and business needs, compliance checks with business SLAs and operational rules (storage, backup, supervision, alert management).

Management of roadmaps, migration plans, and obsolescence of existing tools, definition of norms and standards, production of repositories.

Analysis and comparison of solutions (functional, technological, and financial).

Project monitoring in collaborative mode - Visual Kanban (Teams, Jira).

Kubernetes/OpenShift Environment

Definition of technical architectures for OpenShift clusters.

Design and configuration of the various components: masters, workers, CNI, CSI, ingress controllers (routes), egress routers, network policies, LDAP and OIDC authentication, Prometheus metric centralization with Thanos, EFK log centralization with Graylog, network flow isolation (router sharding), dedicated VIPs on F5 appliances, certificate management with Let’s Encrypt and Cert-Manager.

Service Mesh with GlooMesh (solo.io) - Istio base and Envoy proxy for encryption (mTLS) and flow control (Open Policy Agent).

Capacity planning with Grafana dashboards, cost management with Kubecost, resource consumption forecasts.

Technical components: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Prometheus, Thanos, Elasticsearch, Graylog, Grafana, Kasten, Kyverno, Kubecost, Instana, Dynatrace, ServiceNow, LitmusChaos, Google GKE, Google ANTHOS, Microsoft AZURE AKS, ManageIQ, CloudForms, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Zabbix.

CI/CD Toolchain

Design, testing, and implementation of tools in the CI/CD toolchain.

Technical components: Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Gitlab CI, SonarQube, CheckMarx, Nexus, Harbor, Trivy, Vault, Cypress, Selenium, Burp, Locust, XL-Release, Helm, DATD, Terraform, Ansible, Ansible Tower.

Automation Platform

Management of the automation platform (Ansible Tower) and migration to AAP2.

Technical components: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation Platform 2.