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Philippe Antonov

Senior Infra & Networks Consultant — HCI - RUN N3

€650/day
6 projects
Lyon, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Philippe

Senior Infra & Networks Consultant, 17 years of experience.
I work with ESNs, multi-site IT departments, healthcare groups, hotels, and industries on their strategic topics: audits, infrastructure redesigns, cloud/hybrid migrations, hyperconverged projects, and L3 RUN — from the scoping note to operational handover.
Multi-skilled: audit · architecture · build · run.
Accustomed to taking over aging environments, sensitive migrations, and managing L1/L2 teams with knowledge transfer.
Notable achievements:
• ELSAN — bringing 130+ clinics to target (VLAN/Firewall/RADIUS/WiFi, HCI migration to vSAN & S2D, Azure/Cheops migration, L3 Task Force)
• C2S Sherpa — harmonization of 17 clinics (Nutanix/StarWind/VMware, Ansible/Python/Netmiko industrialization)
• Only Networks — 30+ managed multi-sector sites (shared Hyper-V cluster, Peplink SD-WAN, Ruckus, centralized Kaspersky)
Main stack: VMware/Hyper-V/Nutanix · vSAN/S2D/StarWind · Fortinet/PaloAlto/Peplink · Azure · Ansible/Python · 3CX · Veeam.
Trilingual FR (work) / RU (native) / EN (B2) — international outlook via NETIT GENUITY (founded in 2023).
Fully remote or on-site throughout France.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • ELSAN SAS
    Systems and Network Engineer
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    July 2022 - Today (3 years and 11 months)
    Paris, France
    Senior freelance mission within the L3 Task Force of the ELSAN group (130+ clinics). End-to-end management of newly integrated clinics: audit, bringing them to group standards, security, migration, and operational handover. Management of L3 incidents and validation of new infrastructure solutions.
    Audit & Scoping
    • Audit of existing infrastructures (network, virtualization, backup, security, AD)
    • Mapping of gaps vs. group target, remediation plan, DAT, and DEX
    Network & Security
    • Deployment and configuration of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls (integration, rules, VPN, SD-WAN)
    • Replacement and configuration of L2/L3 switches (Aruba, Dell, Cisco, HP)
    • Migration to group HLD VLANs, segmentation, and security reinforcement
    • Compliance with DHCP / RADIUS / group WiFi standards
    Virtualization & Storage
    • Deployment of new Microsoft S2D / Hyper-V hyperconverged infrastructures
    • Bringing existing VMware vSphere and Proxmox infrastructures into compliance
    • Decommissioning of StarWind HCI → vSphere + Veeam replication; Nutanix cluster optimization
    Active Directory & Application Migration
    • Deployment of new AD DCs, domain migration.
    • Migration and bringing business application VMs to target
    • Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V Cheops (Sigems Berger Levrault) application migration, access via MPLS
    Foundations, DR & L3 RUN
    • Deployment of standard and specific foundations, meeting prerequisites before RUN handover
    • DR design and testing, business continuity simulations
    • Crisis management, critical incidents, and audits in L3 RUN
    • POCs: Microsoft S2D · Graylog+Elastic · Prometheus+Grafana
    • Zabbix/Centreon monitoring, Desktop Central deployment, documentation for group architects
    IT Architecture Migration Hyperconvergence Network Security Active Directory
  • NetIT Genuity EOOD
    Founder & Managing Director
    TECH
    November 2023 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
    Sofia, Bulgaria
    Founder and CEO of NetIT Genuity EOOD, an IT infrastructure engineering and consulting company based in Sofia (Bulgaria) operating in Europe and internationally.
    Positioning
    Technical partner for multi-site groups where availability is non-negotiable: healthcare, high-end hospitality, industry, managed services. Coverage of France, Europe, and Worldwide, with a Bulgarian headquarters at the crossroads of Western Europe, the Balkans, the CIS, and the Middle East.
    Offering structured around 5 pillars
    • Cloud & FinOps (AWS, Azure, GCP, OVHcloud, Scaleway)
    • Infrastructure & Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox)
    • Network, Wi-Fi & Security (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Peplink, Ruckus, Aruba)
    • Sovereign Cloud & Backup (GDPR, NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 compliance)
    • 24/7 Managed Services (monitoring, patching, incident response)
    Intervention mode
    Founder-led execution: the senior expertise that designs the solution is also the one that delivers it and is accountable for it. No commercial overhead, no offshoring. For projects requiring complementary skills (DevOps, AI, databases), I rely on a network of senior European specialists with whom I have been collaborating for several years.
    SLA
    Remote response within 1 hour, 24/7. On-site intervention within 24-48 hours in core areas (France, Bulgaria). Written commitments, not just verbal.
    Clients & References
    Recent engagements in healthcare (clinic groups), luxury hotels (ski resorts, Caribbean), industry/construction, multi-client MSPs.
    Multilingual: French · Russian · English · Bulgarian.
    Website: netitgenuity.com
    Consulting IT Architecture Cybersecurity Technical Management International
  • ELSAN
    Systems and Network Engineer
    MEDICAL
    February 2022 - June 2022 (5 months)
    Lyon, France
    Mission to stabilize clinical infrastructures (network and servers) as part of the group's post-acquisition consolidation.
    • Resolution of L3 network and server incidents in newly integrated clinics
    • Implementation of offline backups and network segmentation per clinic
    • Design and deployment of centralized WSUS infrastructure
    • Migration of servers to new technical rooms
    • Knowledge transfer of HCI (StarWind, Nutanix) to L1/L2 RUN teams
    Backup Network Security Active Directory Migration Managed Services

Reviews

5.0

Out of 2 ratings

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Pascal

ELSAN SAS

Reviewed on 6/27/2023

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Pascal

ELSAN SAS

Reviewed on 12/22/2022

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Education

  • Master 2 Virtualized Systems and Networks, Computer Engineering
    Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
    2022
  • BTS in Information Systems Technology
    CNED
    2012

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