Career Profile

Passionate about automation of on-premises or cloud infrastructures, I am looking forward to new DevOps/SRE challenges. I particularly enjoy public cloud architecture design, and distributed computing (containers, microservices, kubernetes).

Work Experience

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Security Specialist

Dawex, Lyon
2020-04 - Present

As Senior Infrastructure Engineer, I provision, configure, and destroy evolving infrastructures, used to host Dawex technology. We primarily use container based architectures, deployed onto multiple public managed Kubernetes offerings (AWS, Azure, Orange, GCP).

Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes CI/CD, and monitoring stacks are the main ones which I’m responsible for as of today.

As Security Specialist, I need to ensure and enforce high security standards, both for our product and the company itself, allowing me to work with all the teams, in order to build a state of the art platform.

Technologies used:

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jsonnet / Helm

Cloud Solutions Architect

Gfi, Lyon
2019-09 - 2020-03

AWS Solutions Architect inside the Cloud Fabric business unit.

  • Design and implementation of cloud landing zones and workloads.
  • Migration of existing customers on-premise infrastructures / applications to public cloud providers (mainly AWS / Azure).

Technologies used:

  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • CloudEndure
  • Azure DevOps

Lead DevOps Engineer

OVHcloud, Lyon
2018-01 - 2019-09

As technical leader (4 people international team) of WorkspaceONE SaaS offer in partnership with VMware, we built and maintained a state of the art and opensource automation platform. This platform allows to provision, configure and maintain a full software stack on hundreds of virtual machines, on multiple backends (Private / Public Cloud)

  • Managed Kubernetes cluster hosting (mostly) Ansible / AWX (Tower) cluster and an Ansible inventory microservice (REST API via Python Eve)
  • Data backed by OVH Database as a Service (MongoDB and PostgreSQL)
  • Traefik cluster maintains SSL endpoints automagically
  • All logs and metrics are collected and routed to respectively Graylog and Grafana, via Fluentd and Prometheus
  • All Kubernetes containers are built, tested and deployed via a CI/CD stack (CDS)

Technologies used:

  • Ansible / Tower
  • VMware vSphere
  • VMware WorkspaceONE
  • Python
  • MongoDB
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD

Citrix Team Lead

EDF SA, Lyon/Marseille
SEPT. 2016 - DEC. 2017

Head of a 7 people team, responsible for architecture and delivery of virtualization solutions (XenApp/XenDesktop), for the whole French national energy provider company.

Our work allowed drastic savings during Windows 10 migration, by leveraging application publishing for old, unsupported, but critical internal software.

Technologies used:

  • Citrix XenApp
  • Citrix XenDesktop
  • Windows Server
  • Windows Desktop

End-User Computing Consultant

LANexpert (Swisscom), Geneva - Switzerland
SEPT. 2012 - AUG. 2016

As a consultant, I specialized in End-User Computing and helped multiple customers to design and deploy such solutions.

  • Customer advice on their internal IT strategy
  • Design and delivery of technical solutions for end-user workspaces needs.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Virtual Applications delivery
  • Enterprise Mobility and Unified Endpoint Management solutions
  • Administration and automation of Windows / Linux server farms

Technologies used:

  • Citrix XenApp
  • Citrix XenDesktop
  • VMware Horizon View
  • Citrix XenMobile
  • VMware AirWatch
  • VMware WorkspaceONE
  • Active Directory
  • Puppet

Skills & Tools

DevOps

  • Ansible
  • Puppet
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD

Microservices

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

End User Computing

  • VMware WorkspaceONE
  • Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop

Education

  • Engineering degree - IT
    INSA Lyon - France
    2007 - 2012
  • Computer and Network Security
    Chalmers - Goteborg, Sweden
    2011

Awards

  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
    JAN. 2020
  • CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator
    MAR. 2020

Language

  • English (Fluent)
  • French (Native)

Interests

  • Cinema
  • Music / DJing