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Description

I am an Engineer with a mixed profile in networking, firewalling, and F5 for almost twenty years in production with major clients in the Paris region. I would be delighted to work with you on your projects.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 15km)

Hermès
Hermes
LUXURY GOODS
December 2023 - April 2024 (5 months)
Pantin, France
Network and Security Architect

Mission: Deployment of a bastion to secure Active Directory servers internationally (5 countries)
• Management of local IT teams:
◦ Definition of project steps
◦ Management of the installation of remote physical equipment (firewalls and switches)
◦ Regular follow-up meetings with the teams
• Configuration of firewalls in HNO (relative to the country)
• Follow-up meetings with the different teams at the Paris headquarters.
• Creation of HLD, LLD, and infrastructure diagrams.
Secondary mission:
• Intervention in HNO for updates or configuration changes and equipment deployment.
• Level 3 support for network incidents
• Proposal for redesign of the documentation tree
• Proposal and editing of infrastructure diagrams
• Improvement of the onboarding process for new employees
Technical environment:
• Cloud: AWS, Gitlab, Terraform (user, not administrator)
• Network: Cisco ACI
• Security: Palo Alto PA-VM, PA-5220, PA-3260, PA-3250 and Panorama, Checkpoint [80.10 and 80.30]
• Monitoring: Solarwind
• DNS: Infoblox
BNP Paribas Partners for Innovation (BP2I)
Network and Security Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
November 2020 - September 2023 (2 years and 10 months)
Level 3 Expert Support primarily on F5 Load Balancers with support on infrastructure firewalling and routing in a Hybrid Cloud

Mission: Update of the existing F5 fleet, OS updates, and Level 3 support for incidents
● Deployment of new F5 physical and virtual clusters: impact analysis, creation of documentation for installation and datacenter cabling, diagram creation, equipment configuration, and testing.
● OS Updates
● Debugging of Virtual Server creation via orchestrator
● Creation, deletion, analysis, and debugging of Virtual Servers
● SSL certificate updates

Mission: Analysis of erroneous flows at Level 3
● Debugging flows on firewalls and reporting errors to the teams responsible for rule creation and anti-spoofing updates. Verification of correction post-implementation.
● Update of Fortigate firewall clusters: impact analysis, creation of documentation for installation and datacenter cabling, diagram creation, configuration, and testing.
● Debugging flows on routers (Cisco infrastructure) VRF, BGP, and OSPF, and implementing corrections in HNO. (correction of asymmetric routing, incorrect routing between VRFs, access-list updates, etc.)

Technical Environment:
● Network: Cisco 2960, 3750, 6500, NEXUS [2K, 5K, 7K, 9K]
● Security: Fortigate 500 to 3600 version D or E, Checkpoint 80.10 and 80.30
● Load Balancer: F5 LTM I Series 5000 and 7000, and Viprion chassis.
● Monitoring: Grafana, Zabbix
● DNS: Infoblox
AXA Group Operations
Network Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
October 2019 - August 2020 (10 months)
Network and Security Expert

Mission: Ordering and project management for bandwidth upgrades on remote sites with Colt (WAN link)
● Bandwidth update on 50 sites
● Creation of quote requests for software and physical work to maximize bandwidth on current technology.
● Order tracking
● Planning interventions with partners and Colt
● Documentation and monitoring updates
Mission: VPN Migration from Checkpoint R77.30 to Cisco ISR
● Investigation for contact database update
● Configuration adaptation
● Routing switchover
● Access-list creation
● Planning / execution of switchover with partner
● Post-implementation testing

Technical Environment:
● Network: Cisco
● Security: Checkpoint R77.30 and R80.10
● VPN: Cisco ISR4451-X/K9 version 15.5(3) S5 used as VPN concentrator