Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

My name is Mohamed BEKRI, I am French and I live in Paris. I started my IT adventure in 2002 after obtaining my engineering degree, then by working as an intern at an internet service provider and then at HPe where I learned about SAN and NAS storage technologies.

Subsequently, by switching to the freelance world, I was a storage and infrastructure architect for banks such as AXA and BNP PARIBAS where I worked on migration projects, hardware refreshes, and level 3 support for internal teams.

In 2013, I joined SAP where I spent 10 years as an Infrastructure Architect, during which I installed entire on-premise infrastructures as well as public cloud infrastructures. I worked with NAS, SAN, Object Storage, Cloud, and Hybrid solutions. NetApp, EMC, Dell, Hitachi, IBM, HPe, Cisco, Brocade, Terraform, Ansible… I was everywhere!

In 2023, I returned to the freelance world for a major international project at AXA as a Storage and Cloud Architect, and I assisted them in migrating their entities located all over the world to the Cloud. I also helped with DevOps to automate solutions as much as possible for enormous time savings and a considerable reduction in the number of incidents.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Italian
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Strasbourg (up to 50km), Nice (up to 50km), Rennes (up to 10km)

AXA
Storage and Cloud Architect
BANKING AND INSURANCE
June 2023 - Today (3 years)
Paris, France
Hardware & Software Environment:

• NetApp (Cluster-Mode - On Legacy and Cloud), Azure NetApp Cloud Volumes Ontap CVO, AWS NetApp FSX, HDS, EC2, S3, AZURE, BROCADE, VEEAM, CISCO, VMWARE, Microsoft, RedHat
• SAN, NAS, SQL, Oracle, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, Iaas, DevOps, SecOps, Terraform, Ansible

Technical Environment:

• Writing specifications and designing On-Premise and Cloud AWS & AZURE storage solutions
• Writing data migration scenarios within the ATLAS project.
• Managing implementation and migration projects.
• Leading presentations for projects, POCs, and L3 incident management

• Optimizing and tuning NAS storage array performance
• Assisting entities by advising them on choosing the appropriate technology, methodology, and scenario for better migration/implementation of their data on AWS or AZURE Cloud technology.
• Level 3 production support infrastructure, in collaboration with production teams to resolve incidents
• Preparing various engineering/operation documents for Storage solutions and backup environments, respecting constraints / Production constraints / Cloud solution specifications
• Active contribution to projects: Support / Technical / Migration / Consulting
• Support for admin teams, delivery, and handling of SAN, NAS incidents.
• Writing documentation and instructions to facilitate ongoing operations and knowledge transfer to different teams
• Configuring and administering data recovery and disaster recovery from local DC devices or cloud-based solutions
• Storage analysis, participation in capacity planning and performance planning of data storage equipment.
• Compliance of storage environments / Hybrid-Cloud / Public Cloud,
Azure Storage Amazon Web Services NetApp Azure DevOps Cloud DevOps
SAP CONCUR
Senior Backup & Storage Architect
TECH
January 2013 - June 2023 (10 years and 5 months)
Paris, France
• • Writing specifications and design of storage and backup solutions
• • Writing of data migration scenarios.
• • Managing implementation and migration projects
• • Leading presentations for projects, POCs and incident management
• • Optimizing and Tuning the performance of Storage SAN arrays
Dell NetApp Cloud Architect SAN/NAS Team Management
BNP PARIBAS (BP2I)
SAN & Storage Infrastructure Architect
BANKING AND INSURANCE
January 2012 - January 2013 (1 year)
Paris, France
• • Preparing different scenarios for a data migration of a whole Datacenter between Italy and France.
• • Leading presentations for projects, POCs and incidents.
• • Being part of the Editorial staff of the feasibility study of the suggested solution.
• • Preparing migration and implementation processes of the data migration scenarios from Italy in IBM Storage Systems towards France on EMC Storage Systems
• • Storage and SAN implementation: EMC VMAX2 and NETAPP FAS
• • Implementation of Replication via MirrorView and Replication Manager.
• • Data migration via POWER PATH MIGRATION ENABLER, configuration of FAST VP and starting of the storage replications via SRDF on new EMC² VMAX2 and VNX5700.
NAS SAN NetApp Cisco Brocade