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Aliou NiangAN

Aliou Niang

Supermalter

CloudOps & DevOps Expert

€700/day
24 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Aliou

Expert CloudOps & DevOps with over 10 years of experience in designing, industrializing, and securing critical infrastructures on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

I support my clients in their strategic projects by providing end-to-end expertise:

  • Cloud & Security Architecture: design of resilient and scalable architectures (multi-account AWS, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS, IAM, WAF, logging, 360° observability).
  • DevOps & Automation: implementation of CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, CDKTF), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Observability & Reliability: comprehensive instrumentation via OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk.
  • Leadership & Delivery: technical expert role and team mentoring, change management, dissemination of DevSecOps & DEX best practices.
Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified Terraform, OpenTelemetry Certified Associate.

I am passionate about the optimization, performance, observability, and security of Cloud platforms, and I am involved in both architecture design and operational implementation.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • ENGIE SA
    CloudOps & DevOps Expert
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    April 2020 - Today (6 years and 2 months)
    Paris, France
    • Design of highly available and resilient AWS architectures to support 3 million monthly visits.
    • Instrumentation of AWS environments with OpenTelemetry for complete observability,
    • Implementation of a self-service AI solution for provisioning microservices infrastructure based on MCP, AWS Bedrock, and Claude (Anthropic Sonnet 3.7).
    • Development of a RAG solution (Knowledge Base / vector storage) and AI agents trained on business processes to automatically generate unit tests from scenarios.
    • Implementation of industry-standard AWS security solutions, strengthening the protection of sensitive data.
    • Deployment of Cloud Custodian policies for cloud compliance, FinOps, and automatic vulnerability remediation.
    • Optimization of AWS costs through the use of appropriate services and the implementation of resource management strategies.
    • Automation of deployments via Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI, increasing deployment efficiency. Integrated with CloudWatch, Splunk, OpenSearch, and ElasticSearch.
    • Setup of a Kafka pipeline in the C3 Mastermind project to broadcast real-time business events related to energy consumption, facilitating asynchronous integration with other services.
    • Processing of structured Kafka events to dynamically trigger actions on the DGP API side, such as consumption alerts, monthly adjustments, or forecasts.
    • Training and mentoring of the application team on AWS services and best practices, strengthening internal skills.
    • Collaboration with stakeholders to identify specific needs and propose suitable AWS solutions.
    • Management of multi-team AWS projects, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery.
    Terraform Ansible GitLab CI/CD AWS EKS AWS ECS
  • Engie Global Markets
    DevOps Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    November 2018 - November 2019 (1 year)
    Courbevoie, France
    Engie Global Markets is the Engie Group company that offers risk management services in the energy sector. As a DevOps Engineer within the XRoad team of the Engie Global Markets entity, I was responsible for setting up and maintaining the CI/CD environment on Azure DevOps.

    • Creation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines with Azure Pipeline for the deployment in non-prod and prod of the XRoad backend Java and frontend React app
    • Setup of Git repos for development teams with Azure Repo
    • Management of private packages on Maven and npm with Azure Artifacts
    • Creation and management of Docker images with Azure ACR
    • Automation of tests with Azure Test Plans
    • Configuration of resources with Terraform
    • Handling of incident tickets
    Azure DevOps Terraform Docker Kubernetes
  • Mon Chef Pâtissier
    CTO as a Service
    E-COMMERCE
    December 2019 - April 2020 (4 months)
    Paris, France
    Delivery & Click&Collect Platform – Uber Eats model applied to event pastry.
    • Technical roadmap steering, Steering Committee participation, strategic decision-making
    • Modular back-end refactoring, scalable Docker + Kubernetes infrastructure
    • GitLab CI/CD, Ionos cloud deployment + migration initiated towards AWS
    • Integration of Stripe, partner APIs, payment flow security
    AWS Lambda Terraform React.js Node.js Symfony

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Education

  • Master 2 MIAGE
    Université Sorbonne Paris 1
    2014
  • Computer Engineering Degree
    Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire Pierre & Marie Curie
    2013

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