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Julien GourmelenJG

Julien Gourmelen

Supermalter

Devops / Cloud / platform engineer / Kubernetes AI

€650/day
80 projects
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Julien

Who Am I? 🛠️

Cloud Engineer/Platform Engineer/SRE/ **AWS DevOps**, I am now integrating AI into my processes to push automation and efficiency even further.

With over 15 years of experience in Systems & Networks, I master Cloud, Kubernetes, and Linux.
I am above all a Problem Solver: my role is to transform complexity into simple, robust, and maintainable solutions. **100% client satisfaction**.

My Side-Project: WizStatus.com 📡Sovereign Agentless Monitoring SaaS platform. Free offering.

My Value Proposition 🎯

✔️ I standardize
✔️ I scale
✔️ I secure
✔️ I empower your teams

Clouds:AWS, Azure, OVH, Scaleway, GCP

Tools & Technologies 🛠️

FromLinuxto **Kubernetes**, via **Docker**, **Ansible**, **Terraform**, and many others, I build reliable, high-performance stacks ready to handle the load.

Your Project, My Challenge 🚀

Budgets, constraints, objectives: I help you navigate the technological jungle and find the mostsuitable, sustainable, and securesolution.

Mixed Skills 🤹‍♂️

💻 I speak code
🌐 I speak network
☁️ I speak cloud

What I Do For You ✔️

⛅ Creation of next-gen cloud environments
🚀 Frictionless CI/CD pipelines
🚨 24/7 High Availability Infrastructures
🧑‍🔧 Real DevOps, not buzzwords
🔨 End-to-end automation
👮‍♂️ Security built-in by default

My Stack 🛠️

**CI/CD**: ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions

**Cloud**: AWS, OVH, Scaleway

**Containers**: Docker, Kubernetes

**IaC**: Ansible, Terraform

**Logs**: Loki, Prometheus, Mimir

**Monitoring**: Datadog, Grafana

**Code**: Linux, Shell, Bash, Python


Ready to collaborate?

Let's discuss your project and see how I can help you level up. 🚀
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km), Lille (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Okeiro
    DevOps Kubernetes GCP - Deployment of FHIR e-Health platform (HDS)
    MEDICAL
    February 2026 - March 2026 (1 month)
    Paris, France
    Deployment of the Fyrstain health interoperability platform on
    Predict4Health's (Okeiro) GKE Autopilot infrastructure, hosted
    on sovereign GCP S3NS (Thales x Google) in an HDS certification context.

    - [Helm Chart] Design of an "okeiro-interop" Helm chart packaging
    4 interdependent components: FHIR R4 server (HAPI - patient data),
    FHIR R5 server (HAPI - StructureMap/ConceptMap artifact repository),
    Mapping Service ( $transform transformations), and Apache
    Airflow 3.0 (interoperability pipeline orchestration).
    Official Airflow subchart integrated with LocalExecutor.

    - [GKE Adaptation] Transformation of the original Docker Compose
    architecture into production-ready Helm charts for GKE Autopilot:
    CloudSQL Proxy sidecar for secure connection to PostgreSQL databases,
    Workload Identity (zero static credentials), init containers for managing startup dependencies (wait-for health checks between components).

    - [Multi-environment] Creation of values per environment
    (sandbox, preproduction, production) with isolation by dedicated namespace
    (interoperability-fyrstain), node selector and tolerations
    for placement on dedicated nodes, Service Accounts with GCP Workload
    Identity per component.

    - [Individual Charts] Development of 3 separate Helm charts
    (fhir-simulator-r4, fhir-simulator-r5, mapping-service) integrated
    into the existing helm-charts monorepo, following team patterns:
    CloudSQL Proxy sidecar, Gateway API, Workload Identity, IAM authentication to CloudSQL (no passwords).

    - [Databases] Configuration of 3 dedicated CloudSQL PostgreSQL
    databases (hapi_r4, hapi_r5, airflow) with IAM authentication
    via GCP Service Accounts, PostgreSQL grants for Workload Identity.

    **Result**: FHIR interoperability platform deployed on GKE

    sandbox, ready for promotion to preproduction and production
    on sovereign HDS-certifiable cloud.
    Kubernetes Helm Google Cloud DevOps Airflow
  • KNDS
    DevOps Cloud & Security - Defense Kubernetes Infrastructure
    DEFENSE AND MILITARY
    February 2026 - March 2026 (1 month)
    Paris, France
    Design and deployment of asecure Cloud infrastructureforKNDS
    (Defense industry) via **UserAdgents**.

    Multi-environment Kubernetes architecture on OVH Cloud:
    • [Terraform] Complete modular Infrastructure-as-Code: vRack network, MKS Kubernetes cluster, managed PostgreSQL, Valkey (Redis), OKMS, S3 storage for state backend.
    • [Security] Secret management via OVH OKMS (Vault compatible) with mTLS authentication and External Secrets Operator (ESO) for automatic synchronization in Kubernetes.
    • [Isolation] Strict separation of environments (dev/preprod/prod): dedicated node pools with taints/tolerations, default-deny NetworkPolicies, isolated CIDR subnets per environment, granular RBAC.
    • [Kubernetes] OVH MKS v1.31 cluster with PriorityClasses (prod-critical/preprod-standard/dev-low), autoscaling on the production pool, hardened pod security contexts (non-root, read-only rootfs, dropped capabilities, seccomp).
    • [Helm] Development of a custom Helm chart integrating ExternalSecret templates, multi-env deployment of Strapi CMS v5 with PostgreSQL + Valkey.
    • [GitOps] ArgoCD with automatic sync, self-heal, and pruning. Kustomize structure for NetworkPolicies, RBAC, and namespaces.
    • [Observability] Grafana Alloy stack with Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo for metrics, logs, and traces.
    • [Network] NGINX Ingress + cert-manager (Let's Encrypt) + External DNS (OVH webhook). End-to-end TLS.
    • [Docker] Custom multi-stage Strapi v5 image on Node 20 Alpine with pre-compiled admin and integrated PostgreSQL driver.


    **Result**: production-ready infrastructure, compliant with Defense sector security requirements, 100% reproducible from code.
    Kubernetes Terraform OVH Helm Security
  • Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE) -- via BloomFlow
    Cloud Infrastructure Architect SecNumCloud -- BloomFlow / DGE
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    January 2026 - Today (7 months)
    Paris, France
    Design and deployment from scratch of a sovereign Cloud infrastructure on Outscale CloudGouv (SecNumCloud) for the DGE company monitoring platform. DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Native approach. AI-assisted collaboration with Claude Code for IaC.

    ━━ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) ━━
    ● Complete provisioning: 3 isolated VPCs, VPC Peerings, subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateway, EIPs, S3 object storage
    ● Lifecycle adapted to HA failover (ignore_changes on NICs and routes)
    ● GitOps: versioned infra, PR review, declarative and idempotent deployment

    ━━ Network Security / Zero Trust ━━
    ● Stormshield SNS EVA HA active/passive firewall cluster, automatic VIP failover
    ● Complete high availability configuration: file synchronization, SSH keys, authkey
    ● Filtering and NAT rules: DNAT SSH bastion, DNAT HTTPS to OKS, port monitoring IP whitelist
    ● Centralized secrets via HashiCorp Vault + External Secrets Operator

    ━━ Kubernetes / GitOps / Platform Engineering ━━
    ● Managed OKS v1.32 cluster, dedicated node pools (monitoring, application)
    ● GitOps ArgoCD CI/CD: multi-tier apps (Node.js/Moleculer API, frontend, CubeJS, backups), Airbyte ETL pipeline, n8n workflow automation, ClamAV, portal, and IDP
    ● Nginx Ingress controller with IP filtering at the firewall level

    ━━ Observability / SRE ━━
    ● LGTM Stack: Grafana 12, distributed Mimir, SimpleScalable Loki, OSU S3 storage
    ● Firewall log collection: syslog TCP pipeline → Grafana Alloy → Loki
    ● Alloy for K8s metrics/logs (migration from kube-prometheus-stack)
    ● Centralized alerting Mimir Ruler, PostgreSQL monitoring via Prometheus

    ━━ Technical Stack ━━
    Terraform · Sovereign SecNumCloud · Stormshield SNS · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Helm · Grafana LGTM · Alloy · Vault · Airbyte · n8n · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Prometheus · Claude Code AI
    DevOps SecNumCloud Stormshield Kubernetes Sovereign Cloud

Reviews

5.0

Out of 46 ratings

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Amaury

Audit technique plateforme AWS / Terraform - F2R2

Reviewed on 2/20/2026

Julien was very responsive and gave us good advice. He understood our needs and our short, medium, and long-term challenges. His audit report and his advice on the AWS infrastructure we implemented were delivered on time. Fully satisfied, we continue with Julien for the implementation of the proposed improvements.
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Antoine

Caast.TV

Reviewed on 5/6/2025

Always top.

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Education

  • Network & Telecommunications Engineer
    Telecom Lille
    2010
    Spécialité en système et réseaux Informatiques
  • IUT Network & Telecommunications
    Blois
    2007

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