About Yacouba
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- MCM ACADEMY
On Malt
Consulting services in infrastructure, systems, and security choices.EDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGFebruary 2026 - April 2026 (2 months)Assisting MCM ACADEMY in choosing its IT infrastructure and defining system and security best practices. Needs analysis, technical recommendations, decision-making support for the target architecture, and improvement proposals to enhance the performance, stability, and security of the IT environment. - BLDDSYSTEMS, NETWORKS & CYBERSECURITY ENGINEERPRESS AND MEDIAFebruary 2022 - August 2025 (3 years and 6 months)Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, FranceContext:BLDD (Belles Lettres Diffusion Distribution) is a player in book distribution: the company markets the catalogs of nearly 200 publishers to over 5,000 clients in France and internationally.bldd.frFollowing a ransomware attack in a production environment (+200 users / 50 servers), I was mobilized to secure, modernize, and migrate the client's infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Objectives: restore operations, harden the security posture, and lay robust cloud foundations for the future.Cybersecurity: post-incident audit, refactoring of firewall rules (Fortinet, SonicWall), centralized monitoring (SolarWinds, Wallix), endpoint security (SentinelOne, Defender, Intune), identity centralization (Entra ID, MFA, PIM), and strengthening GDPR compliance (logging, segmentation, MFA).Systems & Networks: Operations and maintenance of 50+ servers (Linux, Windows Server), deployment of DRP/BCP with VMware SRM, Veeam backup management, SSL/TLS hardening (OpenSSL), automation via Ansible, monitoring and ticketing via ServiceNow.Azure Cloud: complete migration of on-premise Hyper-V servers to Azure (Azure Migrate), deployment of a 100% cloud environment, secure network segmentation, B2B/B2C identity management, conditional access policies, reporting via Compliance Manager and Azure Monitor.Management & Collaboration: coordination with development and project management teams (Jira), project management (Microsoft Project, Monday), technical documentation, training of internal teams, improvement of security processes.Results:- Complete recovery in 15 days- 80% reduction in critical vulnerabilities- Successful transition to a secure & scalable cloud architecture
- TotalEnergies Digital FactoryCLOUD & DEVOPS ENGINEERENERGY AND UTILITIESSeptember 2022 - February 2023 (5 months)Paris, FranceContext:Mobility platform (digital fueling & charging) connected to charging stations and gas stations. Event-driven microservices architecture exposing APIs, with availability, scalability, and security challenges.Main missions:Azure infrastructure administration & optimization: AKS, App Services, Functions, Storage, Cosmos DB, KeyVault.CI/CD automation with Azure DevOps (YAML pipelines, industrialized deployments).Monitoring & log analysis (App Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, ELK) for investigation and incident resolution.Incident management: prioritization, technical qualification, coordination with Ops / Customer Success / Dev squads.Continuous improvement of security and resilience: IAM, secrets management, DRP, alerting.Implementation of Microsoft IntuneKey achievements:30% reduction in deployment time thanks to CI/CD automation.Implementation of proactive monitoring detecting 80% of anomalies before customer impact.Contribution to the platform's scaling (several thousand API requests/minute).
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Education
- Cybersecurity ExpertF2i2020
- Expert Cloud, Security & InfrastructureYNOV PARIS CAMPUS2020
Certifications
- MICROSOFT 365 CERTIFIED ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATOR EXPERTGlobal Knowledge2024