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Malik Benmekki

Supermalter

Senior Engineer | Linux Systems Architect

€830/day
10 projects
Lyon, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 24 hours

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About Malik

Senior technical consultant with a proven track record in managing and executing a large number of open-source application integration projects.

I am responsible for project monitoring and consulting regarding the support of Zimbra, Alfresco, and other open-source products.

During my assignments, I have had the opportunity to work on numerous complex projects. I have carried out migrations of different messaging systems, performed needs analyses, feasibility and technical architecture studies, designed functional specifications, testing and acceptance procedures, training, compliance updates, and evolution monitoring.
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km), Strasbourg (up to 50km), Genève (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Scalenix
    Chief Technical Officer
    June 2024 - Today (2 years)
    • Piloted the implementation of an independent authentication system, designed and developed internal IAM components.
    • Participated in RUN (DevOps) and Agile Scrum development, ensuring system resilience.
    • Developed and designed the multi-cloud orchestrator in Python for on-premise and cloud provisioning (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Designed IAM and CIAM architectures (authentication, provisioning, SSO, PKI…).
    • Implemented SSO solutions with Keycloak, Lemonldap, and Entra ID.
    • Identity Governance: integration with LDAP and Active Directory, management of entity lifecycle and automated provisioning.
    • Deployed technical POCs on new authentication components, wrote documentation, and managed integration tests.
    • Maintained and evolved Python microservices of the orchestrator, handling resilience topics.
    • Set up CI/CD environments (Terraform, Ansible) and Bash/Python scripting for deployment automation.
  • Fiducial
    Application Manager
    March 2020 - Today (6 years and 3 months)
    • Participated in the integration of Intranet IT tools.
    • Administered over 200 RHEL servers in a virtualized environment (Proxmox, VMware).
    • Automated Patch/MCO operations with Ansible.
    • Maintained the Zimbra & Postfix Cluster platform in operational condition.
    • Developed dedicated business processes for messaging flows.
    • Designed and wrote complete GitLab CI pipelines.
    • Administered anti-spam/anti-virus protection environments.
    • Integrated Microsoft 365 into a Zimbra architecture.
    • Implemented solutions for securing and controlling mail flows.
    • Trained and sensitized teams on security issues and secure development.
    • Applied Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & internal modules) across the entire Zero-Trust project with maximum automation (Gitlab CI/CD, internal Python & PowerShell modules).
    • Developed internal audit tools to cover the entire scope within reasonable timeframes.
  • Prosodie-Capgemini
    Messaging Architect
    November 2018 - February 2020 (1 year and 3 months)
    • Audited the "Public" messaging platform with over 15 million mailboxes.
    • Designed Ansible playbooks for update orchestration.
    • Implemented AWX to centralize automation tasks.
    • Used RedHat Satellite for over 400 Zimbra stores (under RHEL).
    • Maintained the Zimbra infrastructure in operational condition.
    • Prepared for reversibility to ATOS Wordline.
    • Optimized multi-master LDAP directories.
    • Managed the supervision platform.
    • Controlled the security level of third-party applications (penetration testing, code review, configuration audit, etc.).
    • Managed directories and identities.

Reviews

5.0

Out of 8 ratings

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Ludovic

chef de projet - Institut National du Cancer

Reviewed on 5/29/2026

Malik is a highly competent professional, it is very valuable to work with providers of this quality.
M

Maxime

Chef de projets. - Institut National du Cancer

Several weeks project

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Reviewed on 4/13/2026

Malik understood the context very well and was proactive in our study. He went beyond our expectations and delivered high-quality work.

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Education

  • Master 2 Systems and Networks
    Université Paris Diderot - Paris VII
    2014

Certifications

  • Zimbra Instructor System Administration
    Zimbra
    2015
    LDAP ClamAV DNS Dovecot Zimbra Postfix Amavisd

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