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Laurent Michenaud

Expert DevOps

€680/day
27 projects
Nantes, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 24 hours

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About Laurent

DevOps passionate with in-depth expertise in AWS cloud environments, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. I am committed to helping development teams improve their product quality and productivity by creating efficient infrastructure environments. With a collaborative approach, I work closely with teams to automate deployments, optimize performance, and ensure continuous and reliable deliveries. My goal is to create robust and scalable platforms that enable development teams to focus on innovation and value creation.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • Covéa
    Platform Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Within the System Team of the Smart IA department, I am responsible for infrastructure provisioning and AI project automation.
    🏗️ Study, design, and industrialization of the Azure Container Apps solution for business units, in close collaboration with business teams.
    🔧 Support for business units in their experiments and the deployment of data science projects.
    🧠 Experimentation in conversational AI in conjunction with OpenAI, with a concrete innovation approach serving the business units.
    Microsoft Azure Azure DevOps Python OpenAI Docker
  • GRTgaz
    DevOps Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    May 2019 - December 2024 (5 years and 8 months)
    Saint-Herblain, France
    • Setup and maintenance of the software factory enabling teams to implement DevSecOps: Gitlab, Gitlab runners, Harbor, Nexus, and SonarQube. Installation of products in Kubernetes on AWS cloud. Deployment with Terraform and use of Helm charts and bash/python scripting.
    • Standardization and reduction of infrastructure costs through rationalization of old software factories and migration from on-premise Gitlab to Gitlab SaaS.
    • Optimization of DevOps implementation time for teams by providing shared components: job & pipeline templates, terraform modules, and docker images.
    • Improvement of user DevOps skills through technical support.
    • Reduction of incident times and optimization of the software factory by implementing monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus.
    • Security enhancement through the implementation of SAST tools (Trivy, Kics, Checkov, and dependency-check).
    • Optimization of factory obsolescence management through the implementation of Renovate.
    Terraform Amazon Web Services Kubernetes Helm Python Gitlab CI/CD Docker Nexus SonarQube Grafana Prometheus Ansible
  • Enedis (Sopra Steria)
    Mobile Expert
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 2018 - March 2018 (3 months)
    Paris, France
    • Study and benchmark of automated mobile testing solutions: analysis of different automatons for manipulating mobile applications.
    • Study of solutions for managing test devices: Cloud and on-premise racks.
    • BDD approach with test writing in Gherkin & keyword-driven approach and test writing in Excel.
    Gherkins Android SDK

Reviews

5.0

Out of 5 ratings

V

Vincent

GRTgaz Région Ouest

Reviewed on 1/6/2025

Laurent Michenaud is a valuable asset to the team. His ability to understand needs and solve problems effectively is remarkable. During the launch of our software factory, he demonstrated great responsiveness and creativity, which allowed us to achieve our goals on time. In addition to his technical skills, his good humor and availability create a positive and motivating work atmosphere. It was a pleasure to work with someone so committed and reliable.
S

Sébastien

GRTgaz Région Ouest

Reviewed on 9/2/2022

Laurent always stays true to himself, consistently delivering quality work. He has a great ability to step back and always comes up with good ideas to move things forward.

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Education

  • IUP MIAGE
    University of Nantes
    2001
  • DUT Informatique
    IUT Informatique de Nantes
    1999

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