Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original languageAbout Sami
Senior DevOps & SRE Consultant, I help companies build scalable, secure, and automated Cloud infrastructures.
Here are the areas where I bring immediate expertise:
🏋 WORKLOADS
- Deployment and advanced administration of Kubernetes clusters (EKS, self-managed).
- Setup and optimization of Elasticsearch clusters.
🛡️ SECURITY
- Application of Least Privilege (IAM, RBAC).
- Securing the Software Supply Chain and hardening clusters (CKS).
- End-to-end encryption and certificate management (mTLS with Service Mesh / Cert-Manager).
♾️ Continuous Integration
- Design of secure, fast, and reusable GitLab CI pipelines.
- Continuous deployment using GitOps principles (ArgoCD).
🤖 Automation
- Infrastructure industrialization via Terraform & Terragrunt (clean, modular, and maintainable code).
- Configuration management and automated onboarding with Ansible.
🔎 OBSERVABILITY
- Setup of a modern monitoring stack with OpenTelemetry.
- Centralization of signals (Metrics, Logs, Traces) on Prometheus, Grafana & Loki.
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Soft skills
An advocate of Egoless Programming and Agile methodologies, I quickly integrate into your teams to share my expertise. My priority: ensure high-quality deliverables while fostering a culture of constructive feedback and blame-less post-mortems, essential for SRE system stability.
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Updates:
Meetups, Devoxx, AWS Summit.
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Certifications:
AWS: AWS Solutions Architect & Developer – Associate
Kubernetes: CKA, CKAD, CKS
Terraform Associate
English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational
Can work on-site
Bordeaux (up to 50km), Paris (up to 20km), Toulouse (up to 10km), Pau (up to 10km)
Experience
- MangopaySenior SRE | Platform EngineerBANKING AND INSURANCEDecember 2022 - December 2025 (2 years and 11 months)Saint-Pierre, RĂ©unionAt Mangopay, as a member of the platform team, my role was to migrate the existing infrastructure from on-premise to the AWS cloud.Among the tasks assigned to me:
- Propose, plan, and actively execute tasks that improve the overall stability of the platform by reducing incidents, identifying and addressing incidents faster, and implementing preventive measures before problems reach production.
- Unify platform architectures
- Identify, implement, and actively apply programs aimed at reducing operating costs and increasing the efficiency of surrounding teams.
- Administer Kubernetes and Elasticsearch clusters
- Implement the GitOps approach (ArgoCD).
- Implement an observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Opentelemetry) for monitoring critical indicators, thereby improving anomaly detection time.
- Provide secure and reliable Gitlab/TeamCity runners for developers.
**Environment**: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Linux, Docker, Gitlab CI, GoLang. - SwanSenior DevOps EngineerBANKING AND INSURANCEOctober 2021 - August 2022 (10 months)Saint-Pierre, RĂ©unionFollowing a fundraising round at Swan, I joined the DevOps team to support the startup's growth. In addition to maintaining the operational status of the platform, which is a banking API 2.0, I worked closely with the development team to better guide them in deploying their micro-services.**Environment**: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Istio, Linux, Vault, Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, BlueGreen Deployment, GPG.
- GRTgaz - Direction Data et DigitalSenior DevOps EngineerENERGY AND UTILITIESJune 2018 - May 2021 (2 years and 11 months)Bois-Colombes, FranceSenior DevOps EngineerProject promoting gas ambassadors (1 year)• Development of a Web application (Angular 7)• Development of the Back-end part (Spring / Kotlin / mongoDB)• CI/CD update• Production deploymentProject for unifying processes across different compression stations (6 months)• Serverless Architecture.• Implementation of AWS components (API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, DocumentDB).• REST API• TDD• Deployment Pipeline Setup (CI/CD).• Kubernetes (POC)Project for calculating marketable capacity before sales• Ops: Evolution and maintenance of the infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform, Shell).• CI/CD: Continuous integration setup with GitLab CI• Microservices architecture• Scrum: Implementation of best practices• Feature development and production deployment.• Legacy decommissioning.
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Education
- Master's in Software EngineeringUniversité Paul Sabatier2011
- Licence 3 informatique fondamentalUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia2007
Certifications
- CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security SpecialistThe Linux Foundation2026
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2021Amazon Web Services2021