10/06/2026 updated

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Senior DevOps/Cloud Consultant

Le perreux sur marne, France
Only remote
Master of Engineering in Computer Science
Le perreux sur marne, France
Only remote
Master of Engineering in Computer Science

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Amazon Elastic Compute CloudDevOpsElasticsearchAnsibleInfrastructure as Code (IaC)KubernetesDeployment AutomationAzure AKSCloud OptimizationElastic KibanaTerraformDevSecOpsAWS EKSJenkins
CI/CD & DevOps Automation
Expertise in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Ansible, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Nexus, Maven, Sonar, and AWS SAM. Proven track record of automating configuration, deployment, and infrastructure management across multiple enterprise environments.

Cloud Architecture (AWS & Azure)
Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including architecture design, migration projects, cost optimization, and infrastructure as code with Terraform. Experience with services such as S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, EBS, KMS, AKS, ACR, KeyVault, EventHubs, and more.

Containerization & Orchestration
Strong command of containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Skaffold, Kaniko, Hadolint, and Container Structure Test. Experience managing EKS and AKS clusters, deploying workloads, and implementing scalable container-based architectures.

Monitoring & Observability
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools including Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Grafana, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, and Telegraf. Contribution to the architecture and evolution of observability platforms in production environments.

Programming Languages & Scripting
Proficiency in Python, Jython, and Serverless frameworks for automation, API development, and infrastructure scripting. Experience developing APIs and automating server hardening and deployment processes.

Middleware & Application Servers
Experience with middleware tools and application servers including WebSphere, JBoss, Postgres, Haproxy, Nginx, Keepalived, Portainer, Lynis, RabbitMQ, Keda, and Kafka. Administration and configuration of WebSphere 7 and 8.5 in banking environments.

Artificial Intelligence & Chatbot Tools
Knowledge of AI and NLP tools including Dialogflow, Rasa, and Watson. Implementation of a serverless chatbot architecture on AWS using Dialogflow as the NLP engine.

Agile Methodology
Practical experience working within Agile Scrum and SAFe frameworks across multiple enterprise projects in banking, insurance, and industry sectors.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2021

Languages

EnglishFluentFrenchFluent

Project history

Platform Engineer

Zurich Insurance
Contributed to the architecture and evolution of an observability platform based on the Elastic Stack. Responsibilities included designing end-to-end architecture on AKS, managing ELK clusters, deploying Apache Kafka via Strimzi operator, creating CI/CD workflows with Azure Pipelines, implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, remediating vulnerabilities identified by Prisma, integrating Keycloak and Oauth2 proxy for LDAP auth, and implementing Kafka Mirroring and migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft mode.

TechLead DevOps

Axa Bank
Supported AXA Bank's strategic migration from IBM cloud to AWS to reduce infrastructure costs and improve scalability. Responsibilities included architecture design for migration, building Docker images with OpenShift buildConfig, creating CI/CD pipelines via Jenkinsfiles, deploying serverless applications using AWS SAM, creating Terraform scripts, migrating npm registry from GitLab to Artifactory, encrypting AWS resources using KMS-CMK, code review, monitoring with CloudWatch, Grafana and Prometheus, and cost optimization for AWS and OpenShift.

Senior Cloud/DevOps Consultant

Stelliant Group
Worked on Stelliant's digital transformation hybrid cloud project, migrating the CI/CD stack to AWS and studying the implementation of an open API approach. Responsibilities included migrating CI/CD pipelines to EKS, implementing hot/warm architecture for Elasticsearch, designing the open API approach, implementing CI for Docker images, designing and automating new projects on AWS, optimizing AWS costs, and monitoring with Grafana, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch.

Senior Cloud/DevOps Consultant

Societe Generale
Joined the Airflow feature team to implement a PaaS model providing customers with Apache Airflow instances deployed on SG's private cloud. Responsibilities included creation of Helm charts, build automation and deployment on Kubernetes with Skaffold, creation of CI/CD pipelines via Jenkinsfiles, development of APIs for airflow instance management, logs parsing with Fluentbit, code review, monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus, and autoscaling of airflow workers with Keda.

Cloud/DevOps Consultant

Stelliant Group
Worked on several projects in parallel including hybrid cloud design, chatbot implementation, and CI/CD pipeline implementation. Responsibilities included creation of CI/CD pipelines via Jenkinsfile, automated configuration and deployment with Ansible, implementation of a serverless architecture for a Chatbot project on AWS with Dialogflow as NLP, design and automation of AWS architecture with Terraform, automation of CentOS server hardening with Ansible, and migration of servers from vcloud to vsphere 6.7 with Terraform.

System integrator/DevOps

BDSI Group BNP Paribas
Participated in the BMCI bank information system redesign project, creating and automating the implementation of SAB environments. Responsibilities included installation and configuration of applications and environments, automation of configuration and deployment with Ansible, automation of the WebSphere part with Jython scripting, and implementation of a log correlation platform via Elastic Stack.

Middleware Integration Engineer/DevOps

CihBank
Within the production team, automated and streamlined the process of putting applications into production as part of the banking IS redesign. Responsibilities included implementation of a continuous integration platform, implementation of a log centralization solution via Elastic Stack, WebSphere 7 and 8.5 administration, automation of the WebSphere part via Jython scripting, and installation and configuration of applications.

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