About Rafik
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Experience
- Société GénéraleTech Lead Kubernetes expert on AWSBANKING AND INSURANCENovember 2022 - April 2025 (2 years and 5 months)Paris, France
- Participated in the design of the cloud architecture for Secured xKS, a centralized Kubernetes platform on the public cloud, intended to host workloads for all company BUs/SUs.
- Deployed the EKS environment using Terraform, including the automation of Kubernetes add-ons.
- Set up Jenkins in resilient mode, hosted on AWS, and managed the tool completely (administration, maintenance, upgrades).
- Implemented secure IAM policies, limiting access to EKS resources shared with the client.
- Contributed to defining Kubernetes security standards, aligned with AWS best practices.
- Deployed the Kyverno admission controller, developing advanced security policies to strengthen clusters.
- BelieveDevOps/AWS ArchitectENTERTAINMENT AND LEISUREAugust 2021 - October 2022 (1 year and 3 months)- Optimized Terraform code- Maintained and managed over 50 AWS accounts in a hybrid environment (AWS + on-premise)- Architected infrastructure and deployed micro-services on Kubernetes (EKS) with ArgoCD and exposed URLs on Kong- Optimized pipelines on Gitlab (implemented golden images + used caches, etc.)- Wrote Technical Design Documents (DAT) and Technical Specifications (DEX).- Set up a Kafka cluster (MSK) with IAM authentication, then migrated to TLS authentication mode.- Automated notifications via email upon TLS certificate signing using AWS EventBridge, Lambda, and SES- Secured the AWS network with the help of network and security teams- Improved application images based on the principle "Build once, run everywhere."- Evolved the shared Helm chart to deploy new k8s resources (cronjob) + optimized following best practices (added probes, set resource limits)- Centralized AWS metrics on a single Grafana with cloudwatch-exporter- Optimized AWS costs: Selected appropriate instances, consolidated ALBs, used shared NAT Gateways, implemented S3 lifecycle policies, launched DMS in Cron mode, etc.
- PMUDevOps AWSENTERTAINMENT AND LEISUREDecember 2020 - August 2021 (8 months)- Provided daily support to developers on DevOps/AWS incidents- Expanded infrastructure with Terraform (created new environments, added infra components, etc.)- Proposed cost/performance optimizations for AWS services such as Lambda and EC2- Implemented CI/CD pipelines on Gitlab-CI
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Education
- Master de sciences en ElectroniqueUniversity of Texas at San Antonio (USA)2014
Certifications
- AWS Solution Architect - Associate LevelAWS2019
- Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperThe Linux Foundation2020