Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

I am Rachid Zarouali, Docker Captain and Microsoft MVP Azure,

after more than 20 years of experience in IT, multiplying successful experiences, notably as Head of the Infrastructure team and Head of Information Systems.

I decided to launch my freelance business around training and consulting.

Today, I support companies that want to integrate container-oriented microservices technologies and infrastructures.

I share my free time between my family, my teaching activity in an engineering school and my participation in multiple OpenSource projects.

I work mainly remotely,

don't hesitate to contact me

NB: the indicated DJM is an average, it evolves according to the duration of the mission and the contractual commitments.

Some projects carried out:

- Cloud infrastructure design (Infrastructure As Code) via Terraform and Ansible

- Cloud Migration:

- On-premise infrastructure to Azure

- Implementation of an Azure Kubernetes Services cluster

- Packaging applications in Docker images

- Design and deployment of a complete CI/CD based on AzureDevops

- Deployment and securing of a Docker Azure Container Registry registry

- Azure KeyVault integration to centralize and secure secret management

- Support for defining a group containerization strategy and migration to Kubernetes

- Audit of applications of good practices

- Audit and recommendations to improve the security of applications and the production platform

- Study of major CSP (Cloud Security Platform) solutions

...

Examples of Technologies and solutions implemented:

- Kubernetes: RKE, AKS, Vanilla

- CI/CD: Gitlab, gitea, drone, AzureDevOps

- Registry: ACR, Harbor

- Vulnerability scanner: Clair, trivy, kubei

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

SASU sevensphere
Cloud / DevOps Architect
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
March 2019 - Today (7 years and 2 months)
Lyon, France
- Consulting:
- Cloud Architect for Christian Louboutin (since September 2020)
- Cloud Architect for WIMOVA (since December 2020)
- Cloud architect for emlyon (since December 2019)
- Solution Architect for Traefiklabs
- Cloud infrastructure deployment via Terraform / Ansible
- Cloud Architect for Louis Dreyfus (Sept 2019- Oct 2020)
- Troubleshoot and reconstruction geo-cluster Cluster Percona xtradb for nets group
- NBS-System: Support for L2/L3 teams (monitoring, mysql database, high security hosting,....)
- Orchestration architecture (swarm, kubernetes)
- Architecture of an integrator and continuous deployment chain (ci/cd) based on Gitlab-ci and kubernetes.

- Training:
- Hashicorp Official Trainer
- more than 150 trained employees (Lufthansa, Deutsche Börse AG, Orange,...)
- Docker / Kubernetes Trainer
- more than 300 trained employees (Airbus DS, Banque CIH, Systematic, Alinéa, CINQT, ...)

- Teaching:
- Speaker IPI Lyon: DevOps course (since September 2018)
- Speaker Sciences-U Lyon (since June 2020)
Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Nomad Terraform Vault gitlab-ci Docker Ansible VMWARE mysql
IPI / EPSI
Teaching Speaker
EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
September 2014 - Today (11 years and 9 months)
Lyon, France
Project management
Virtualization platform architecture
SaaS (Cloud) platform architecture
Teaching DevOps Culture and associated tooling (Docker, Ansible, ...)
Docker Kubernetes Ansible Microsoft Azure
SYNOLIA
Head of information systems
DIGITAL AND IT
January 2012 - January 2019 (7 years and 1 month)
Lyon, France
Evolution, rationalization and structuring of the Internal I.S.
Management of technological partners
Creation of a SaaS service offer
Implementation of activity reporting
Implementation and management of budgets
Management of the workload plan
Development of new IT resources
Implementation of the training and career monitoring plan
Team management (5 people)
Docker VMWARE Linux Apache MySQL Ansible Kubernetes Team management