Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original languageAbout Nicolas
Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Architect, I have been involved for over17 yearsin IT architecture, cloud, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and IT system modernization projects in France and Canada.
I support companies in the key phases of a project: analysis of the existing system, scoping, impact analysis, target architecture, HLD/LLD, roadmap, migration, security, industrialization, and support through to implementation.
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Latest missions:
2022-2024: For an international group (banking), Lead Azure Architect: Functional design, infrastructure architecture, HLD & LLD
-Skills used: Azure AD, Tenant/management group, IAM Model, Federation Services(SAML/WS-FED), Landing Zone, Hub’n’Spoke Architecture, Azure Bastion, Azure Firewall, Express Routes, Azure Application Gateway, WAF, Vnet Peering…
2021: Validation & Audit of Target Architecture for an international group (insurance) for migration to Azure
-Skills used: Azure App Services, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Batch, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Datacenter Replication, Azure WAF, Azure ExpressRoute, Terraform
2020: Audit and preparation of an IT system for an international group for migration to the Cloud
-Skills used: IT Architecture, Systems, Microsoft Azure, Linux, Docker, Scripting
Main Expertise:
- Functional architecture design (HLD & LLD),
- Cloud architecture design (Azure, AWS, GCP),
- Infrastructure and application architecture design (HLD & LLD)
- IT System Urbanization,
- Integration of cloud services and infrastructures,
- Operational management of infrastructures and IT systems,
- API deployment & security,
- Cloud solutions deployment,
- SysOps (Linux, Microsoft, Scripting, Firewalling, Routing, ExpressRoutes, Vnet peering, Networking…),
- DevOps process implementation (CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD)
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Fluent
Can work on-site
Bordeaux (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 10km), Pau (up to 50km), Paris (up to 30km), Toulouse (up to 50km)
Experience
- Cloud OceanExpert Cloud / Infrastructure / DevOps ArchitectTECHApril 2019 - Today (7 years and 3 months)Bordeaux, France
Since 2019, Expert Architect & DevOps - Major Clients/SMEs (banking, insurance...)
Hard Skills (17+ years):-Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP)-On-prem Architecture (Openstack, kolla, ansible, linux, docker)-Impact & Feasibility Studies-Business analysis and roadmap, then solution design (technical and TOM)-Strategy, Governance (RBAC, IAM, authorization, and identity management)-Flow management, networking, and security (WAF, Firewalling, Nginx, HAproxy, SSH/HTTPS Bastion...)-DevOps (CI/CD, TDD, Release Management, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)-Cloud Integration and Operations (Build & Run)-QA, Event-driven Architecture, Test-driven development,-SysOps (Linux, Microsoft, Monitoring)-Ia/Data (Data Lake Architecture, API exposure and flow management, AI pipelines, BERT, LLama, FAISS...)Soft Skills:-Front-end and Back-end Development (React.Js, Node.Js, Javascript, HTML, Java, Android)-Financial/Budget Management,-Project Management - FriendNGoCTO/Lead Architect - SaaSSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGSeptember 2015 - December 2018 (3 years and 3 months)Montréal, CanadaCTO/Lead Architect of a SaaS platform hosted in the cloud.
- HLD/LLD Architecture
- TOM Definition
- Run & Build: IaaS - Cloud - Containerization
- Git, Docker, Nginx Load Balancing, Linux/Bash/Scripting
- Automation and QA implementation via CI/CD
- Gitlab, Azure, Linux, Networking
- Load-balancing, flow management, API exposure
- RichDistribLead Architect & DevOpsSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJune 2008 - June 2015 (7 years)Montpellier, France-Lead Architect & DevOps role:
- Run & Build: IaaS - Cloud - Containerization
- Git, Docker, Nginx Load Balancing, Linux/Bash/Scripting
- Implementation of DevOps processes and KPIs
- HLD/LLD Architecture
- TOM Definition
- Test-Driven Development - QA
- Gitlab, Azure, Linux, Networking
- Load-balancing, flow management, API exposure
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Education
- Master in International Business ManagementAcadémie Mercure, Montpellier, France2009-Finance internationale, -Gestion de projet -Commerce international
- Bachelor's degree in Networks and TelecommunicationsCCI de Nîmes, Nîmes, France L2008-Programmation informatique : C, PHP, HTML, JAVA -Réseaux et sécurité -Télécommunications
Certifications
- MCSA, MCITP, MCTS - Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft CANADA2012