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Systems engineer with expertise in cloud computing and virtualization. I have worked on various move to cloud projects, Datacenter Integration, and also the administration of hosting solutions. I am ready to take on new technical challenges and bring my skills to your projects.

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French
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English
Fluent
Arabic
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Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

THE KOOPLES
Systems Engineer | Consultant at Thez Kooples
February 2025 - February 2026 (1 year)
Paris, France
Acting as a Systems expert within The Kooples IT department, I assist the client in modernizing, optimizing, and securing its IT infrastructure.

Main missions:

Modernization and security of critical infrastructures: VMware optimization, VM reliability, performance point correction impacting critical services like Cegid Orli, management of the Azure and O365 foundation.

Backup and business continuity management: Veeam backup security, retention optimization, restoration procedure validation, and writing operational guides.

Supervision and continuity: Nagios and LibreNMS administration, adding probes, improving alerts, and proactive monitoring of critical services.

Infrastructure upgrade and migration: Installation of physical servers, configuration of dedicated ESXi hosts, implementation of the virtualized foundation, and migration of databases (Oracle / Cegid Orli On-Premise).

Security and network: Configuration of switches or Wi-Fi access points, adding WatchGuard firewall rules, and network best practices.
VMware ESXi System Integration Linux System Administration Microsoft Azure Office 365 Administration
Prolival ( Groupe Tenexa )
Build Systems Engineer
DIGITAL AND IT
September 2023 - February 2025 (1 year and 5 months)
Colombes, France
Systems engineer within Prolival's Systems Business Unit, my role is to advise and support clients in their IT system transformation.

- Upgrade VMware infrastructure from 6.5 to version 8
Analysis of the existing infrastructure
Verification of application and virtual machine compatibility with the target VMware version
Writing of the technical note & sending maintenance advisories
Update of vCenter and ESXi
Validation and testing after the upgrade
Writing of the report and updating existing documents

- Migration of Client infrastructure to our Private Cloud (+ 300 Servers)
Writing of the technical note
Automation of tasks via Ansible
Migration & acceptance testing of VMs in batches
Troubleshooting incidents during migration

- Integration & configuration of Storage Arrays (Purestorage - HPE Nimble) and servers in Datacenters
Reception & verification of ordered equipment
Analysis and writing of change requests
o Reservation of Names & IP addresses
o Writing of the cabling matrix
o Identify flows to open
o Write the monitoring matrix
Integration and cabling of equipment in datacenters
Installation & configuration of Storage arrays
Connections of arrays to vCenter + volume creation test

- Upgrade Veeam B&R
Analysis of the existing system
Backup and restore test
Planning and sending of maintenance advisory
Update of Veeam components
Upgrade validation
Writing of the report and updating existing documents

- Transfer of skills to Production teams
Prolival
Run Systems Engineer
DIGITAL AND IT
July 2015 - August 2023 (8 years and 2 months)
Colombes, France
Systems engineer within Prolival's Production and Operations Center. I have worked in a multi-client and international context, ranging from SMEs to large enterprises.

- Maintenance in operational condition, operation, and Level 2 and 3 support of client system infrastructures,
- Administration of Windows Server and Linux environments
- Administration of Microsoft 365 tenants (Tenant Global Admin): Management of tenant roles, application management/creation, Azure AD.
- Administration of Citrix environments: XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer,
- Management of vDisk deployments, Management of Citrix access via Ivanti Control Manager.
- Management of Netscaler ADC/Gateway: VIP creation/management, Equipment updates
- Administration of the VMware environment, version upgrades
- Management of the company's Private Cloud offering
VMWARE Veeam Backup & Replication Windows Server Active Directory Storage Nimble O365 Gsuite Linux System Administration Purestorage NetApp Centreon Microsoft Exchange Backup Exec Ansible ServiceNow Citrix XenApp Netscaler Ivanti WSUS SentinelOne

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Master in Network and Systems Engineering
Université Versailles saint Quentin
2014
Bachelor in Network and Intranet/Internet Services Integrator
IUT d'Evry
2012

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MCSA Windows Server 2012 - 70-410
Global Knowledge Center - Pearson Vue
2017
MCSA Windows Server 2012 - 70-411
Global Knowledge Center - Pearson vue
2017

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