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Olivier Le Penru

Infrastructure, Automation and Project Engineer

€770/day
Lausanne, CH
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Olivier

LINUX /AIX L3 Systems Engineer | IBM Spectrum Protect / Netbackup and Commvault Backup Management | Ansible & Terraform Automation | NAS and SAN Storage (DELL/EMC ISILON, HP 3PAR, HITACHI, NetApp)
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Fondation de Santé, Genève
    Automation and Project Engineer
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    August 2024 - July 2025 (11 months)
    Genève, Switzerland
    Mission: Administration of production AWX and automation of Linux, Windows, VMWARE, and NAS/SAN Storage infrastructures. Project Lead for Sybase migration. PRTG supervision administration. Key Achievements:
    • Administration of production containers: Installation, configuration, and administration of production Kubernetes (K3S/K8S) and Docker for critical platforms on Swisscom Cloud and RHEL 9.5
    • Storage Architecture: Design and implementation of storage solutions for critical environments. Automation with Ansible/AWX.
    • Supervision and Monitoring: Administration and configuration of the PRTG supervision system for monitoring the complete infrastructure (servers, network, storage)
    • Management of 2 datacenters hosting +500 Servers and 1 Swisscom Cloud datacenter
    • N2/N3 Incident Management: Resolution of complex incidents on containerized platforms and system infrastructure
    • Production AWX Administration: Update and configuration of the latest AWX version, K3S/K8S installation
    • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform scripts and use of HashiCorp Vault
    • RHEL 9.5 Linux Automation: Creation of playbooks and roles for AD management and Windows Server installations. Adaptation of Powershell scripts for AWX/Ansible
    • Application Integration: Installation of Sybase ASE 16 with automated playbooks
    • HP-UX Administration and configuration
    • Team Support: Training and collaboration with Windows/VMware teams on Ansible/AWX
    • CI/CD and DevOps: Intensive use of Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, JIRA Service Management
    • Certificate Management: F5 Big IP configuration with the security team
    Technologies: Ansible/AWX, RHEL 9.5 Linux, HP-UX, Kubernetes K8S, K3S, Docker, Terraform, Vault, VMware vSphere 8.0, DELL/EMC, Netapp, S3, Powershell
    Linux RedHat F5 BigIP AWX Ansible HPUX
  • Banque Privée
    Infrastructure Engineer and Automation Specialist
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    February 2023 - July 2024 (1 year and 5 months)
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    Infrastructure
    Key Achievements:
    • OpenShift Containerization: Installation, configuration, and administration of OpenShift in a production banking environment, Docker management (creation and image integration)
    • Installation and configuration of ArgoCD for continuous deployment between GitLab and Kubernetes/Openshift servers (synchronization verification)
    • Storage: ISILON and NetApp Level 3 administration (Chief Technology Officer)
    • AWX/Satellite Administration: Production management, update, and configuration
    • Automation of Updates: Ansible playbooks for RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 upgrades
    • Advanced Supervision and Monitoring: Administration and optimization of multiple supervision platforms: Centreon, Zabbix, Splunk, Dynatrace; Active participation in the migration project to Grafana and Prometheus
    • International Team Management: Coordination of Indian teams for AIX/Linux administration
    • Installation, configuration, and optimization of several Microsoft SQL Server/SSIS Servers in Dev and Production for XL Deploy and XL Release
    • Business Continuity Tests: Participation in 3 Disaster Recovery Plan Tests with automation
    • Management of 2 Datacenters with 2800+ Servers
    • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform scripts on Azure, use of HashiCorp Packer
    • Monitoring with Grafana
    • Maintenance, optimization, and development of Production PYTHON scripts (AXWAY)
    • Incident Management: JIRA Service Management, resolution of production incidents
    Technologies: Ansible/AWX, RHEL 7/8, AIX 7.3, ISILON F800, NetApp, OpenShift, ArgoCD, Kubernetes K8S, K3S, Docker, Terraform on Azure, JIRA, Powershell, Microsoft SQL Server, Tomcat, Websphere, XL Deploy, XL release, Grafana, Prometheus
    Terraform Cloud Grafana XLDeploy XL Release Ansible Automation Platform
  • Experis IT
    Storage and Application Architecture Expert
    DIGITAL AND IT
    March 2019 - February 2023 (3 years and 11 months)
    Nantes, France
    : Senior infrastructure architect and engineer who led 3 strategic missions in critical banking and energy environments, combining storage architecture (SAN/NAS), DevOps automation, and highly secure application administration.
    Key Achievements:
    • Storage Architecture & Engineering: Level 3 expertise in critical storage solutions — administration of VNX NAS, ISILON H500/A2000 (36 nodes), 3PAR SAN, DELL/EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, Scality S3 Object Storage; management of 3 high-availability datacenters; project lead for VNX to ISILON migration
    • Infrastructure Automation: Mastery of Ansible/AWX — installation of multiple applications via playbooks, Linux park management (Red Hat Satellite), deployment of 54 pivot VMs across 27 different VLANs (2 HA datacenters)
    • Secure Application Administration: Kerberos configuration for JBoss, Tomcat, Apache in a banking environment; administration of application servers on AIX 7.2 and RHEL Linux; compliance with critical security constraints (highly regulated environment)
    • Virtualization & Production: VMware vSphere 6.5 and 7 administration; Level 2 and 3 production on-call 24/7; management of network traffic and communication security
    • Project Leadership: SAFe and PMP methodology; participation in steering committees; responsible for vendor relations (DELL/EMC); OpenShift trainer and ISILON OneFS 8.2 certification expert
    Technologies: CentOS 7.7-7.9, RHEL 7.7-8, AIX 7.2, Debian, Ubuntu Server, VMware vSphere 6.5-7, Ansible/AWX, Red Hat Satellite, OneFS 8.1.2, Scality S3, DELL/EMC, 3PAR, Hitachi, NetApp, Kerberos, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Websphere, XL Deploy/Release, Salt, PowerShell, Kubernetes K8S, K3S
    Linux Ubuntu JBoss EAP VMware vSphere Ansible Automation Platform EMC

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Education

  • CNAM Networks and Databases Master's Level
    1996
    CNAM Réseaux et Bases de données niveau Master
  • DEUP Computer Engineering
    IUP
    1992
    DEUP Ingénierie Informatique

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