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Description

Technical Director | Cloud Architect & Digital Transformation | 25 years of experience

CTO and cloud architect with 25 years of experience in systems engineering, cybersecurity, and digital transformation, including 3 years as Technical Director of a sovereign cloud (SecNumCloud, confidential) and 22 years at the CNAF on national critical environments.

I am looking for freelance assignments starting in June 2026, in the PACA region or full remote, on high-stakes technical topics:

• Cloud architecture (Azure, OCI, multi-cloud, governance, migration)

• CTO / CIO transition management (team structuring, technical roadmap, steering committee)

• Cybersecurity & compliance (ISO 27001, NIS2, ANSSI, IT audit, PSSI)

• DevSecOps Transformation (IaC Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD)

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Valbonne (up to 50km)

Cloud Souverain
Technical Director (CTO)
TECH
February 2023 - Today (3 years and 4 months)
Monaco, Monaco
Technical direction of a sovereign cloud platform for French institutional players and large companies, in a hyper-regulated context (SecNumCloud, GDPR).

› Definition and management of the technological roadmap (3-year roadmap) in line with the product strategy and regulatory requirements of a State Cloud.
› Direct management of a multidisciplinary team of 10+ engineers (Cloud, DevOps, Security, Data) managed by objectives with regular reporting to the Steering Committee.
› Sovereign multi-tenant architecture: design of infrastructure layers (compute, network, storage), Kubernetes orchestration, isolation of sensitive workloads
› Management of certifications and compliance audits (ANSSI, ISO 27001, HDS) in coordination with legal and CISO teams
› CAPEX/OPEX budget management, FinOps optimization, and executive reporting to the Steering Committee
› Recruitment and structuring of technical teams: definition of skills frameworks, training plans, skills development policy
› Technical representation with major clients (Government, Private Banking, Governmental Institution): facilitation of steering committees, support for tender responses, contract negotiation
› Public speaking at technology trade shows and conferences (Cloud, digital sovereignty, cybersecurity) - institutional representation and sectoral influence
› Strategic integration of AI within the platform: support for deploying sovereign AI platforms, integration of on-premise LLM models (Mistral, oLLaMA) in sovereign environments.
Cloud Architect Transition Management DevSecOps / IaC Cybersecurity Sovereign Cloud
CNAF
Cloud Architect / DevSecOps Engineer
PUBLIC SECTOR
June 2018 - February 2023 (4 years and 8 months)
Valbonne, France
Cloud and DevSecOps methodology architecture within the Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales, a national critical public service operator on digital transformation projects.

› Definition and execution of the Move to Cloud strategy: migration of 60+ legacy applications, technical debt management.
› Architecture and design of Event Streaming solutions (Apache Kafka) for critical business flows of the family branch
› Design and deployment of hybrid Public Cloud infrastructure (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & Microsoft Azure)
› Federation of multidisciplinary teams in a matrix mode (Cloud, DevOps, Security, Business) — 8 engineers directly + partners
› Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm): industrialization of deployments and GitOps governance
› Private Datacenter Cloud: deployment of a Self-Provisioning portal based on VMWARE (vRA/vRO/NSX …), reducing provision times by 70%
› Implementation of the DevSecOps methodology: Integration of automation in CI/CD pipelines
Cloud Architect DevSecOps / IaC IT Architecture Confluent Kafka Kubernetes
CNAF
Architect / Network & Security Expert
PUBLIC SECTOR
July 2001 - June 2018 (16 years and 11 months)
Valbonne, France
Technical expert and IT referent at CNAF for 8 years — in-depth knowledge of the regulatory, organizational, and technical constraints of Social Security organizations.

› Design and administration of perimeter security infrastructures: Checkpoint, Fortinet, Palo-Alto, Juniper, Cisco PIX, VMware NSX
› Implementation and management of Mail, Proxy, Load Balancer, IPS, WAF solutions - protection of all incoming/outgoing traffic
› LAN/WAN Switching Architecture, SDN, network supervision, DNS, NTP - 99.98% availability
› Management of security audits and incident response (CERT, SOC), writing of security policies (PSSI)
› Active participation in calls for tender and definition of Security markets (writing CCTP, offer analysis)
› Administration of Windows systems (Active Directory, GPO, PKI) and VMware virtualization (vSphere, vCenter)
› Deployment and operation of the Information System - DBMS, application services, messaging
DevSecOps / IaC Information Security