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Oussama Cherif

Cloud DevOps Engineer

€600/day
Paris, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Oussama

Are you looking for someone to reduce your cloud costs, accelerate your deployments, or stabilize your production? I transform complex infrastructures into reliable and optimized systems.

5 years of experience in critical environments (BNP Paribas, PMU), with measurable results:

At BNP Paribas (2024):
• Reduction of deployment times by 45%
• Decrease in critical incidents by 30%
• Optimization of the IBM Cloud compute fleet by 40%

At PMU (2021-2023):
• Complete migration to AWS without service interruption (15 microservices on EKS)
• Transition from 2-3 releases per month to over 20 per week
• High availability architecture with auto-scaling and proactive monitoring

What I do concretely:

Audit your infrastructure to identify quick wins, then implement them using Terraform and industrialized CI/CD. I set up real monitoring (Dynatrace, ELK, Grafana) and transfer my skills to your teams so they can gain autonomy.

My stack:

Cloud: AWS (EKS, RDS Aurora, EC2, VPC) and IBM Cloud (IKS)
IaC: Terraform with reusable modules, remote state, workspaces
CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
Kubernetes: Certified CKA administration, RBAC, Helm, Vault
Observability: Dynatrace, ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus

Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Terraform Associate, CKA

Format sought:

I only work on long-term missions (minimum 6 months), ideally on a contract basis. This format allows for real infrastructure transformation and effective skills transfer to your teams.

Project types:
• Cloud infrastructure redesign (AWS, IBM Cloud)
• On-premise to cloud migration
• CI/CD and GitOps industrialization
• Cost optimization and FinOps implementation
• Reliability improvement for regulated environments

First 30-minute call offered to understand your challenges.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • BNP-Paribas
    IBM Cloud Infrastructure Modernization & Incident Reduction - Banking Sector
    TECH
    January 2024 - April 2026 (2 years and 3 months)
    Levallois-Perret, France
    CONTEXT:
    Modernization of IBM Cloud (IKS) environments for banking applications subject to strict regulatory constraints.

    CHALLENGE:
    • Deployment times too long, hindering time-to-market
    • Recurring critical incidents impacting production
    • Non-standardized infrastructure with compliance risks
    • Constantly rising infrastructure costs

    SOLUTION IMPLEMENTED:
    • Complete Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code: reusable modules (network, compute, IAM, managed PostgreSQL), secure remote state.
    • GitLab CI/CD pipelines integrating quality and group security checks (policy-as-code, SAST)
    • Secure Kubernetes administration: hardened RBAC with least-privilege, Helm Charts, Vault Agent for dynamic secret rotation
    • Proactive Dynatrace monitoring + log centralization for MTTR reduction
    • Operational technical documentation (PVE, PTI, DEI)

    RESULTS OBTAINED:
    ✓ -45% deployment time (full automation)
    ✓ -30% critical incidents in production
    ✓ 40% reduction in compute fleet through consolidation and auto-scaling
    ✓ 100% compliance with banking group security standards

    TECHNICAL STACK:
    IBM Cloud IKS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Vault, Dynatrace, PostgreSQL
    Terraform Kubernetes Gitlab CI/CD Docker IBM Cloud
  • PMU
    Cloud Migration & Containerization - Critical 24/7 Activity
    December 2021 - September 2023 (1 year and 9 months)
    Paris, France
    CONTEXT:
    Migration of the on-premise monolithic IS to an AWS microservices architecture (EKS) for a 24/7 real-time betting activity.

    CHALLENGE:
    • Need to migrate without service interruption (zero downtime tolerance)
    • Monolithic infrastructure limiting scalability and product velocity
    • High on-premise hosting costs
    • Need to improve resilience and observability

    SOLUTION IMPLEMENTED:
    • AWS high availability cloud architecture: multi-AZ EKS, RDS Aurora Serverless (auto-scaling DB), secure VPC, least-privilege IAM
    • Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code: complete industrialization (compute, network, database, secrets management)
    • Observability stack: ELK (centralized logs), Grafana (application metrics), proactive alerting
    • GitLab CI/CD pipelines: multi-stage Docker build automation, testing, deployments with automatic rollback
    • Kubernetes administration: Helm Charts, hardened RBAC, network configuration, quotas

    RESULTS OBTAINED:
    ✓ 0 downtime migration (15 microservices deployed, 24/7 activity maintained)
    ✓ Scalable and resilient architecture: multi-AZ, auto-scaling, automatic failover
    ✓ Velocity multiplied by 7: from 2-3 releases/month to 20+ releases/week
    ✓ Significant improvement in application resilience
    ✓ Infrastructure cost optimization

    TECHNICAL STACK:
    AWS EKS, RDS Aurora Serverless, EC2, VPC, IAM, Secrets Manager, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Helm, ELK Stack, Grafana, Kubernetes
    Terraform Gitlab CI/CD Docker AWS Observability

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