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Nacer Zaim Wadghiri

DevOps

€800/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Nacer

Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience, I support organizations in the design, industrialization, and security of critical platforms with high availability requirements.

I work at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and execution, with a dual technical and managerial skillset.

💡 What I bring to my clients

🔹 Cloud Transformation & Modernization

Deployment and migration of Kubernetes / OpenShift platforms (up to 13 multi-environment clusters)

Strategic selection of PaaS (TCO analysis, CAPEX/OPEX, RACI, contracting)

Complete automation via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD)

🔹 Resilience & Disaster Recovery

DRP architecture design

Backup/restore automation (Velero, MinIO, Kafka MirrorMaker)

Management of critical production environments

🔹 Security & Critical Platforms

Deployment and security of observability tools (ELK, Grafana, PTE) on Kubernetes

Implementation of HashiCorp Vault

Kafka / AMQ Streams management

Maintaining environments in compliance with publisher support

👥 Leadership & Delivery

Beyond technical skills, I have led:

- Teams of up to 12 engineers (DevOps & Software)
- 3 cross-functional projects involving 3 departments simultaneously
- Multi-country and multi-environment migrations over 12 months
- Complete overhaul of Agile organizations (Scrum, SAFe, Jira Plans)

I structure:

- Product vision and roles (Product Managers, RACI)
- Strategic planning & technical workshops
- Governance, 24/7 support, multi-stakeholder coordination
- Recruitment and team upskilling
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Conversational

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

Experience

  • Pictet (through Sentinel)
    External Consultant - DevOps Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)
    Genève, Switzerland
    Automated deployment and set up of ELK clusters on Kubernetes using ECK operator, Terraform and Helm Performed ELK clusters upgrades on Kubernetes and on VMs Designed and automated backup/restore and disaster recovery procedure of ELK clusters using Helm and Minio resulting on 5 minutes of Recovery Point Objective and 10 minutes of Recovery Time Objective Designed Puppet facts to get obsolete versions of tools (HAProxy, Java, ...) on VMs Automated deployment and set up of Hashicorp Vault using Helm
    Terraform Kubernetes Elasticsearch Helm Python
  • RC Technologies
    Managing Partner
    E-COMMERCE
    December 2023 - Today (2 years and 6 months)
    Casablanca, Morocco
    Developed a mobile application called RetroChic for buying and selling clothes, incorporating an efficient delivery system Led the hiring process, successfully recruiting a team of five professionals across commercial, marketing, and IT domains (UX/UI and Frontend) Negotiated contracts with delivery partners, establishing beneficial agreements to enhance service quality and customer satisfaction Established legal documents Coded the backend architecture using Flask, Python, Firebase, and PostgreSQL, ensuring robust performance and scalability Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices utilizing Ansible and Terraform for efficient deployment and management on the cloud Oversaw financial operations, including budgeting and forecasting, to optimise resource allocation and financial performance
    Python PostgreSQL Ansible Amazon Web Services Firebase
  • Sicpa
    Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
    CHEMICAL
    September 2019 - January 2024 (4 years and 4 months)
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    Automated deployment of OpenShift 4 clusters on VMware and AWS using Ansible, Kustomize, Helm, ArgoCD and Open Cluster Management operator resulting on the creation of 13 OpenShift clusters (DEV, QA, PERF, PREPROD, PROD, DRP) Performed OpenShift and AMQ Streams/Kafka upgrades resulting on being on track with Red Hat support Designed and automated backup/restore and disaster recovery procedure of OpenShift projects using Velero, Minio and KafkaMirrorMaker2 resulting on 5 minutes of Recovery Point Objective and 10 minutes of Recovery Time Objective Automated deployment of OpenShift 3.11 clusters on VMware using Ansible resulting on the creation of five OpenShift clusters (QA, PERF, PREPROD, PROD, DRP)
    OpenShift Ansible Helm Apache Kafka Argo CD

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Education

  • Communication Systems
    EPFL
    2018
    Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Python, Java, ...

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon
    2023
    Amazon Web Services
  • Professional Scrum Master
    scrum.org
    2020
    Kanban Agile methodology Professional Scrum Master Scrum SAFe

Skill set

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