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Khalil AliouichKA

Khalil Aliouich

Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

€500/day
Rennes, FR
8-15 years
CI/CD
DevOps
Kubernetes
Argo CD
Docker

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Khalil

Need to stabilize your Kubernetes clusters, automate your deployments, or secure your multi-cloud architecture? I support companies in designing resilient and scalable platforms, with a pragmatic SRE-oriented approach.
What I concretely bring you:
Kubernetes Mastery (CKA): Advanced troubleshooting, upgrades via kubeadm, high availability (HA) management, and resource optimization (HPA/VPA).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Full provisioning on AWS, Azure, and OpenStack via Terraform and Ansible for 100% reproducible environments.
GitOps & CI/CD Strategy: Implementation of fluid pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm) to accelerate your delivery frequencies.
Observability: Proactive monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
My Difference: The "Low-Level" Vision Serving the Cloud
Unlike purely application-focused DevOps profiles, I have in-depth expertise in systems (Linux Kernel, networks, drivers) from 10 years of experience in R&D and embedded systems. This dual skill allows me to:
Perform surgical troubleshooting on underlying network and OS layers.
Finely optimize resource consumption to reduce your Cloud costs.
Secure your complex data flows, especially on IoT/Cloud projects.
Types of deliverables:
Secure Cloud network architecture (VPC, Private Endpoints, RBAC).
Standardization of the Developer Experience (DX) via Docker and Dev Containers.
Coaching and upskilling your development teams.

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • EXFO,
    DevOps Engineer
    May 2021 - Today (5 years and 1 month)
    Rennes, France
    • • CI/CD & GitOps: Management of pipelines for containerized applications (GitLab CI, Docker, ArgoCD, Helm) and registries (Artifactory/ACR/GitLab Registry) → acceleration of Kubernetes deployments and standardized releases.
    • • Multi-cloud IaC (Terraform): Provisioning on AWS/Azure/OpenStack of 11 K8s clusters, compute/storage/network (EC2/VPC/IAM/ALB/NLB on AWS side; VNET/PE/LB on Azure side), RBAC, secrets, ingress → reproducible and auditable environments.
    • • Helm Charts: Creation of reusable charts (templating/values) → cross-cloud portability, environment parity, reduction of YAML drift.
    • • Kubernetes Ops: Advanced troubleshooting, upgrades via kubeadm/Rafay, guarantee of High Availability (HA) and production performance via HPA/VPA.
    • • Observability & SRE: Monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana (platform/service dashboards, alerting) and log management (ELK stack).
    • • Automation: Ansible scripts for VM and bare-metal management.
    • • Documentation: Writing architecture guides (GitOps/K8s/ArgoCD/Robot Framework) and troubleshooting guides.
    • • Development: C/C++ contributions for embedded telecom probe firmwares with containerized microservices on K8s.
  • Delta Dore,
    DevOps Engineer / R&D
    July 2016 - January 2021 (4 years and 6 months)
    Bonnemain, France
    • • Azure & AKS Architecture: Network design (VNETs, subnets, private endpoints, load balancers), compute/storage/monitoring (VMs, Storage, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics).
    • • IaC (Terraform): Provisioning of environments (AKS, build agents, network, security) and implementation of GitOps patterns.
    • • CI/CD: Implementation of GitLab CI + SonarQube → continuous quality/security, fast feedback, and automatic gates.
    • • Run Containerization and deployment of services/APIs on AKS ensuring availability, scalability, and autoscaling.
    • • Observability Prometheus & Azure Monitor → proactive alerts, service/infra visibility, incident reduction.
    • • Secure Embedded Linux IoT Gateway (X3D/UART) & SigFox (AES-CTR) ↔ Azure Cloud.
    • • Transverse & Lead Audits/workshops, coaching 5 developers on DevOps/SRE best practices, standardization, and cost optimization (cost awareness).

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Education

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
    2023
    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • OpenShift 3 for the Absolute Beginners
    2024
    OpenShift 3 for the Absolute Beginners
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