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Paul R.

Linux System Engineer / DevSecOps / Integrator

€650/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Paul

IT Consultant with over 10 years of experience in securing, making reliable, and operating critical IT environments.
I support companies and organizations in their digital transformation projects: modernization and securing of information systems.
I combine technical expertise and a cross-functional project vision to ensure reliability, with an approach inspired by quality and security standards (ISO 9001 / ISO 27001)

🎯 My goal is to bring you:
✅️ Security for hybrid infrastructures (OnPremise/Cloud)
✅️ Reduction of operational risks and guarantee of service continuity
✅️ Better visibility on critical systems

Non-exhaustive list of solutions/products: Linux Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Ansible, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitLab, Docker, Vmware, HAProxy, F5, AWS, ELK, Graphana, Tomcat, Weblogic, Jira, Artifactory
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Melun (up to 50km), Versailles (up to 50km), Noisiel (up to 50km), Nanterre (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Ministère de l'Intérieur
    Application Integration Engineer
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    July 2025 - December 2025 (5 months)
    Paris, France
    • Maintenance in operational condition (MCO) of Legacy applications.
    • Design, maintenance, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines in an approach to industrialize operational processes.
    • Guarantee of platform compliance and security according to Ministry standards (access management, password policies, authorizations, firewall rules).
    • Installation and deployment of applications in non-production environments.
    • Writing and formalizing production deployment procedures.
    • Support and assistance to the Production team during deployments.
    • L3 Support: analysis, processing of requests, and resolution of production incidents within SLA.
    • Management, updating, and centralization of technical documentation on GitLab.

    Technical Environment: Redhat RHEL 6,7; AIX 7, Tomcat, Nginx, Openshift, Openstack, Docker, Oracle, Postgres, DevOps, GITLAB, GitlabCI, Ansible, Artifactory, Nexus, ELK, Python, APACHE, VTOM, Avamar, VMware, Centreon, Dynatrace, TUXEDO, KAFKA
    Ansible Gitlab CI/CD Continuous Integration Agile Method Linux
  • Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie
    Application Operational Pilot / Application Integration Engineer
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    November 2020 - May 2025 (4 years and 6 months)
    Paris, France

    Securing, making reliable, and ensuring the continuity of critical systems and services

    • Define and apply, in collaboration with the CISO, security policies: patch management, rights and authorization administration, access management, traffic security
    • Lead and participate in hardening and optimization (Tuning) actions for Linux servers and middleware
    • Processing and monitoring of security incidents and alerts, in coordination with CISO teams
    • Manage the certificate lifecycle
    • Implement and operate monitoring and observability tools

    Exploitation and continuous improvement

    • MCO of a portfolio of Legacy / Cloud applications
    • Continuous improvement of processes and implementation of DevSecOps practices to secure, make reliable, and industrialize critical environments
    • L3 Incident processing
    • Lead and contribute to technical and operational meetings, cross-functional coordination (Business Analysts, Developers, Operations)
    • Structure, maintain, and evolve technical documentation

    Leading, coordinating, and securing the production deployment of a portfolio of critical applications while ensuring quality, service continuity, and risk management.

    • Scoping of technical and operational needs:
    • Definition and compliance with security requirements
    • Management of technical environments (servers, traffic, certificates, VIPs)
    • Installation and configuration of servers and middleware
    • Coordination of pre-production and production deployments
    • Leading operational tests and securing cutovers
    • Writing a production deployment roadmap
    Technical Environment: Redhat RHEL 6,7; AIX 7, WEBLOGIC, TOMCAT, Oracle, Postgres, GITLAB, Rundeck, ANSIBLE, Artifactory, ELK, F5, BIG IP, SHELL, PYTHON, APACHE, Dollar Universe V6, Avamar, VMware, Nessus, Centreon, Dynatrace, Tuxedo, KAFKA
    DevOps Production Deployment Integration Linux System Administration Business Continuity (DRP / BCP)
  • Orange SA - Orange Digital Ventures
    DevOps Engineer / Application Operational Pilot
    TECH
    March 2019 - September 2020 (1 year and 6 months)
    Paris, France
    • Ensure MCO of server and application environments
    • L3 incident and request processing
    • Manage production deployments in an industrialized environment via Rundeck, Ansible
    • Manage minor and major OS version upgrades
    • Manage capacity: LVM disk, RAID disk,
    • Manage scheduled server and application restarts
    • Design CI/CD pipelines to structure and maintain Ansible playbooks in GitLab, to industrialize operations
    • Structure and maintain technical documentation on GitLab,
    • Organize, lead, and participate in technical meetings
    In Projects:

    Leading and executing the transformation of legacy applications to containerized cloud architectures (Docker Swarm, Cloud Foundry) in DevOps mode,
    • Planning, validation, and cross-functional coordination with all stakeholders
    • Design and implementation of Cloud Foundry environments integrating security and governance best practices
    • Design and implementation of containerized environments Docker Swarms (docker images, docker-compose, registry,)
    • Design and Industrialization of deployments via Cloud Foundry, Docker-compose, Ansible
    • Implementation of operability requirements
    Design and deployment of an ELK monitoring solution:
    • Installation and configuration of an Elasticsearch cluster
    • Continuous deployment and configuration of log collection agents (Filebeat, Fluentd, Syslog)
    • Implementation and configuration of log processing pipelines (Logstash, Fluentd)
    • Design and development of technical and functional dashboards on Kibana
    • Management of authorizations and administration of access to different dashboards
    Technical Environment: DevOps, Agile, Ubuntu, Debian 7, GTM, Gitlab, Jira, Ansible, Docker, Swarm, Artifactory, ELK, CloudFoundry, Rundeck, Mysql, XtraDB, Galera, Loadbalancing F5, Bash, Python, YAML, ITOP, CFT, Xymon
    Ansible Gitlab CI/CD Docker Cloud Architect DevOps

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Education

  • Master Pro Network, System, and Security
    UPMC (Paris Sorbonne) and Télécom Paris
    2014
  • Professional Bachelor's Degree in Network and Telecommunications Security
    University of Evry Val d'Essonne
    2012

Certifications

  • ITIL v4
    PeopleCert
    2025

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