Karim C.

Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud & Automation Consultant with over 10 years of experience in the design, operation, and evolution of critical infrastructures.

I support companies in their IT transformation, modernization, automation, and migration projects towards cloud and virtualised architectures. My experience covers both RUN activities and architecture, migration, and industrialization projects.

I participated in a global Cisco vIPTELA SD-WAN migration program covering over 2,000 sites across Europe, South America, and Asia, including over 900 sites in France. I also worked on complex environments integrating Cisco ACI, Palo Alto, NSX-T, AWS, Linux, Proxmox, and VMware.

My core competencies:

• Virtualization: VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, Proxmox VE, KVM/QEMU, LXC

• Cloud: OCI, OpenStack, hybrid and multi-site architectures

• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

• Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Packer, GitOps

• Network & Security: Cisco, SD-WAN, ACI, DNAC, Palo Alto, VPN, Zero Trust

• Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, CentOS

• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Centreon, Cacti

In parallel to my assignments, I operate a complete personal infrastructure replicating real enterprise environments. It includes VMware ESXi, vCenter, Proxmox, OpenStack, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

This platform is distributed between my homelab and several cloud regions (Paris, London, Madrid, and Zurich) interconnected via secure VPN tunnels. I develop and validate hybrid architectures, automation solutions, monitoring, DR/BCP, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code using Gitea, Ansible, Terraform, and Packer.

Autonomous, rigorous, and results-oriented, I undertake assignments in Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud, OpenShift, Automation, DevOps, and NetDevOps