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Saad Benbachir

Service Manager/Incident, problem & change manager

€500/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Saad

With over 15 years of experience in IT service management, major incident management, and continuous improvement of operations, I support organizations in the stability, performance, and resilience of their production environments.

  • Expertise in Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and ITSM governance, with strong command of ITIL processes, crisis management, SLA monitoring, and coordination of technical and business teams.
  • Solid experience in managing crisis rooms, critical incident management (P1/P2), root cause analysis (RCA), monitoring corrective/preventive action plans, and continuous improvement of service quality.
  • Proven experience in Service Delivery Management, operational coordination, CAB management, release management, service continuity monitoring, and cross-functional communication with infrastructure, application, business, and management teams.
  • Interventions in complex and demanding environments: banking, insurance, industry, public sector, and large accounts, with a strong ability to manage high-criticality and multi-stakeholder contexts.
  • Accustomed to critical production environments with a focus on stability, reduction of recurring incidents, process improvement, and operational excellence.
  • Certified ITIL V3 Foundation & OSA, with a Master's in Information Systems Management, combining operational vision, service governance, and cross-functional coordination.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • BNP PARIBAS
    SRE/ DevOps
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    March 2021 - August 2025 (4 years and 5 months)
    93100 Montreuil, France
    Build:

    • Migration of deployment and monitoring tools within ITG (ArgoCD, XL release, Dynatrace)
    • Implementation of KIBANA within the LAAS project for the entire application scope.
    • Obsolescence management, job automation, certificate renewal, documentation writing post MES/MEP.
    • Management of IAAS to PAAS migration projects, development and monitoring of application migration projects to the DMZR cloud.
    • Creation of ecosystems, provisioning and configuration of instances and infrastructure resources.
    • Creation of CI/CD pipelines and configuration, administration of Kubernetes clusters and pods.
    • Management of flux openings for application builds.
    • Execution of corrective actions post MES/MEP.
    Run:

    • Production Support L3 (+ On-call): Incident and change management, installation automation via Ansible, server and middleware configuration (WebSphere, MQ, JVM, IHS, TOMCAT, IIS).
    • Creation, deployment, and maintenance of a middleware infrastructure on public and private clouds.
    • Production management in CIS (Critical Infrastructure System) environments.
    • Automation of deployments via Ansible Tower, ArgoCD, XLrelease.
    • Creation of infrastructure installation scripts using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible Tower.
    • Management of the deployment chain with Jenkins, Ansible Tower, and Gitlab.

    Monitoring:

    . Deployment of Datadog on a fleet of CIS servers.
    Design of clear and actionable dashboards for optimal performance monitoring.
    Implementation of an alerting system integrated with ServiceNow to accelerate incident resolution via Dynatrace.

    . Implementation of a LAAS solution (KIBANA) for a CIS application fleet, log transformation, implementation of LAAS dashboards in Kibana.
    Dynatrace Cloud Computing DevOps Incident Management Datadog
  • Interway
    Incident Manager - Operations Department
    LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
    December 2020 - December 2021 (1 year)
    Vitrolles, France
    • Monitoring and management of the daily incident backlog.
    • Ensuring incidents are handled within SLA timelines.
    • Following up with technical teams on incidents nearing SLA breaches.
    • Correcting ticket routing errors.
    • Performing necessary escalations for SLA breaches.
    • Organizing and leading daily/weekly incident review meetings.
    • Managing incident reports and analyzing KPIs.
    • Generating reports as requested by management.
    • Leading operational crisis meetings and coordinating responders.
    • Participating in the definition of ITSM tool evolutions.
    Technical Environment: Kimoce ITSM, ServiceNow, Network Architectures, SDWAN, G3X3, Ingenico Payment Systems, Axis Server, Evalesco SYSORB server and network Monitoring, Adipsys Hotspot Manager.
    ITIL4 ServiceNow Incident Management Change Management Microsoft Power BI
  • SEA TPI
    IT Operations Coordinator
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2020 - December 2020 (6 months)
    La Ciotat, France
    • Routine management of infrastructure across all Client and Project platforms (Banking, Insurance, Agriculture, Healthcare, etc.).
    • Guaranteeing the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure.
    • Monitoring servers, network equipment, and applications.
    • Analyzing alerts and handling incidents.
    • Supervising critical components and improving operating methods.
    • Scheduling and monitoring batch processes.
    • Supporting projects in routine management (instructions, alerting, etc.).
    • Writing and maintaining operational procedures.
    • Populating and publishing KPIs.
    Technical Environment: Microsoft Windows Server, Linux (Redhat, Centos), IBM AIX, SMA Opcon, Dollar Universe, Control-M, CyberArk, ServiceNow ITSM, BMC Truesight, ISM Pilot,...
    Cloud DevOps Infrastructure as Code Incident Management Dynatrace Interface Monitoring

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Education

  • Information Systems Management
    FST of Settat
    2014
    Management des Systèmes d'information
  • Professional License:
    The Faculty
    2008
    Licence Professionnelle:

Certifications

  • ITIL v3 Foundation
    ITIL
    2015
  • ITIL OSA Intermediate
    iTIL
    2015

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