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Senior DevSecOps Engineer with 9 years of experience in critical environments (banking, GovTech, scale-ups).
-45% on deployment times, -25% on cloud costs, -35% on incidents: concrete results achieved at Crédit Agricole, National Bank of Canada, and the Quebec Ministry of Cybersecurity.
Expertise:
- Multi-cloud: AWS (EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM), Azure (AKS, Entra ID, Key Vault), GCP (GKE)
- CI/CD & GitOps: Kubernetes (CKA), Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, FluxCD
- IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi
- Security: SAST/DAST, Zero Trust, OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, Wazuh/SIEM
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
Certifications: AWS DevOps Pro, Azure SA Expert (AZ-305), CKA, RHCSA, CompTIA Security+, Fortinet NSE7, VMware VCP-DCV.
Team Manager (8 engineers). Bilingual French/English (C1). Available immediately for freelance.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- Banque Nationale du CanadaLead DevOps ConsultantBANKING AND INSURANCEJune 2025 - January 2026 (7 months)Montréal, Canada
- Led the DevOps transformation for 5 teams (40+ developers): unified CI/CD pipelines, Git Flow strategy, semantic release management
- Reduced deployment time by 45% through pipeline industrialization and automated quality gates
- Designed and delivered an Internal Developer Platform (IDP): DevOps golden path, shift-left testing, on-demand ephemeral environments
- Produced a reference documentation base (runbooks, ADR, C4) adopted as an internal standard
- SOQUIJCloud and Security ExpertPUBLIC SECTORFebruary 2025 - May 2025 (3 months)Montréal, Canada
- Architected and migrated 8 critical applications to Azure/AWS (HA, RPO<1h / RTO<4h), ensuring the continuity of Quebec's judicial services
- Reduced cloud costs by 25%, saving CAD 18,000/year (rightsizing, reserved instances)
- Deployed a complete IaC strategy with drift detection, reducing configuration drift to zero
- Ministère de la Cybersécurité du QuébecCloud Infrastructure and Security SpecialistPUBLIC SECTORMay 2024 - June 2025 (1 year and 1 month)
- Deployed and governed critical Azure infrastructures for 12 government applications — 100% ITSG-33 compliance
- Designed security-by-design CI/CD pipelines: integrated secret scanning, dependency analysis, and SBOM
- Hardened 80+ Linux servers (CIS Benchmarks level 2): compliance score increased from 61% to 94%
- Trained and coached 25 colleagues: DevSecOps, Zero Trust, OWASP Top 10 workshops
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Education
- Master Systems, Networks and Cloud ComputingESGI2020Master Systèmes, Réseaux et Cloud Computing
- Computer Science Bachelor's DegreeESGI2018Licence SYSTÈMES RÉSEAUX ET CLOUD COMPUTING
Certifications
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect - ExpertMicrosoft2023