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Description

My name is pascal.cohen

I have over 20 years in Unix / Windows production IT, including 13 years within an internal IT department as a VTOM (scheduler) administrator/operator for internal application flows (accounting, payroll, SAP).

Incident management and recovery using scripts.

Out-of-hours and on-call duties performed.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions
Unix OPS / SAP Production Engineer
January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
92000 Nanterre, France
• Daily monitoring and operation of Unix/Linux environments related to critical business applications (SAP).
• N2/N3 production support: diagnostics, incident resolution, technical alert monitoring.
• SAP environment administration (SAP Basis) in coordination with project and application teams.
• Automation of recurring tasks via shell/perl/ansible scripts.
• Participation in on-call duties, out-of-hours services, and production deployments.
• Collaboration with infrastructure, security, and development teams to ensure service continuity.
Technical Environment:
• Systems: Unix/Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Windows
• ERP / Business Applications: SAP ECC, SAP Netweaver
• Scheduler: Autosys Workload Automation (AWA)
• Supervision & Monitoring: Dynatrace, internal monitoring tools
• Secure File Transfer: CFT (Cross File Transfer), MFT
• Automation & Scripting: Ansible, Shell scripting (ksh), Powershell, batch
• IT Tools & Practices: ITIL, incident and change management, technical documentation
• ITSM: Service Now
SAP Dynatrace AWA
Sanef
Unix/Windows/SAP Production Engineer, Operations at IT Department
AUTOMOBILE
January 2024 - November 2024 (10 months)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Ensure the implementation and stabilization of an operations team dedicated to the "Flux libre" project, aiming to automate toll-free highways. Guarantee the proper functioning of critical production systems, particularly by monitoring business applications. Guarantee and perform financial flow interfaces with internal/external partners. (CFT/SFTP) Missions: Supervision and maintenance of SANEF Group's IT applications for the Flux Libre project (A13/A14 toll-free highways). Daily verification (check-list) of applications to ensure their proper functioning. Development of Unix Shell, Powershell scripts for financial transfer (CFT, SFTP). Regular production deployments on SAP Netweaver (billing) and the SANEF website. Incident management, change requests: creation, handling, ticket resolution (Team Run).
ELIOR
Application Operations Engineer
October 2010 - July 2023 (12 years and 9 months)
-Supervision and Maintenance of ELIOR Group's IT applications (over 100).
• Administration and Implementation of application processing flows (payroll, accounting, restaurant apps, Web) on the VTOM scheduler in Production, Qualification, Development.
-Supervision and Maintenance of internal backups (servers, Applications, Databases).
-1st level Oracle Database Administration.
-Creation and implementation of scripts in Powershell, Korn Shell (Linux), Batch, etc..
-Management of SSL certificates for internal servers and WEB applications (Tomcat, IIS, Websphere) (Creation of public DNS entries on Web portals).
-Production Deployment (MEP), Acceptance and deployment of applications on VTOM.
-Creation and Update of Technical Procedures for processing (VTOM sheets).
-Work in Collaboration with Study and Business Teams.
-Regular night and weekend on-call duties.
VTOM IIS WebSphere