About Mohamed Khalil
Arabic
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Experience
- EngieDevOps Engineer / Cloud ArchitectENERGY AND UTILITIESJuly 2024 - Today (1 year and 11 months)Courbevoie, FranceLarge-Scale Kubernetes Infrastructure
- Operational management of 6 production Kubernetes clusters hosting over 200 virtual machines
- Full administration of cluster lifecycle: deployments, updates, scaling, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
- Implementation of intelligent autoscaling with migration from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter for better cost and resource optimization
- Management and orchestration of GitHub Actions runners and Jenkins controllers directly within Kubernetes clusters for native CI/CD integration
Infrastructure as Code & AWS Cloud- Automation and management of over 97 Terraform stacks covering the entire cloud infrastructure
- Advanced administration of AWS services: EC2 (instances, AMI Builder), EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), Lambda (serverless), DynamoDB (NoSQL), S3 (object storage), ECR (container registry)
- Design and implementation of multi-account AWS strategies with secure landing zones
Enterprise DevOps Platform- Operational maintenance of critical solutions for over 600 ENGIE organizations and 10,000 active users
- Administration of Github, Jenkin, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Xray
Observability & Distributed Monitoring- Design and deployment of a complete modern observability solution based on the Grafana stack
- Implementation of Grafana Alloy for unified metrics, logs, and traces collection
- Deployment of Vector as a telemetry data collection and transformation agent
- Configuration of Prometheus for metrics scraping and Mimir for scalable long-term storage
- Setup of Loki for centralized aggregation and analysis of logs from all clusters
- Creation of automated and custom Grafana dashboards for real-time infrastructure health visualization
- BNPPDevOps Technical LeadBANKING AND INSURANCEJune 2023 - July 2024 (1 year and 1 month)Montreuil, FranceTechnical Leadership & Management
- Direction and supervision of a team of 17 DevOps engineers for the implementation of modern DevOps practices
- Development and monitoring of technical roadmaps with weekly check-ins to assess progress and adjust strategies
- Active participation in critical incident and change management with RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and proposal of sustainable solutions
Training & Skill Development- Design and delivery of in-depth technical training on Kubernetes, IBM Cloud, and Ansible
- Development of customized training materials and technical documentation to foster team autonomy
Legacy Infrastructure Migration to IBM Cloud- Successful migration of a legacy infrastructure of 140 machines to IBM DMZR Cloud
- Complete architecture modernization with production deployment of Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Containerization of all applications with a progressive migration strategy
Security & Compliance- Implementation of a highly secure environment with mTLS (Mutual TLS) to ensure inter-pod communication confidentiality
- Regular security audits with Kube-bench, Falco, and implementation of strict network policies
CI/CD & Automation- Supervision of legacy CI/CD pipeline migration to GitLab CI with job parallelization
- Implementation of Kubernetes deployment pipelines with Helm and ArgoCD for a GitOps workflow
- Integration of security into pipelines (DevSecOps) with automated vulnerability scanning
Monitoring & Observability- Design of a proactive monitoring solution with Dynatrace API integration
- Automation of status and performance report generation via Ansible playbooks
- Development of custom Dynatrace dashboards for real-time platform health visualization
- Neurones ITSquad Leader & DevOps ArchitectCONSULTING AND AUDITSJune 2023 - December 2025 (2 years and 6 months)Paris, FranceMulti-Cloud Squad Leadership
- Leadership of the Containerization & Orchestration squad, coordinating multi-cloud projects
- Facilitation of the technical community via Workplace and LinkedIn, sharing best practices and feedback
- Participation in expertise and innovation committees to define the company's technological directions
- Technical mentoring of team members with code review sessions
Infrastructure Migration to Google Cloud Platform- Creation and configuration of three GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) clusters for dev, production, and management environments
- Integration of Rancher Manager for centralized management and multi-cluster orchestration
- Complete automation of GCP resource deployment and management with Terraform (reusable modules, remote state)
- Setup of a site-to-site VPN to restrict access to authorized personnel only
Nkube Application (Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Platform)- Design and technical lead: platform for managing multi-distribution Kubernetes clusters (Vanilla, K3S, RKE, RKE2, OpenShift)
- Go backend with microservices, Next.js frontend, and multi-cloud provisioning (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH)
- Use of Pulumi (IaC), Ansible (configuration), and Kubernetes API integration
- Multi-tenant system with customizable templates and advanced authentication
Kubernetes-as-a-Service Project (Outscale Marketplace)- Design of a complete Terraform project for automated Kubernetes cluster provisioning on Outscale Cloud
- Implementation of advanced features: high availability, automatic node scaling, worker count management based on needs
- Deployment of an automated backup solution for ETCD with snapshot storage on S3 or NFS
- Integration of an automatic cluster upgrade system with rolling update strategies and health checks
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Education
- National Engineering DegreeNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY2020National Engineering Degree
Certifications
- KubestronautThe Linux Foundation
- AZ-400 - DevOps Engineer ExpertMicrosoft2025