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Last update: 22.09.2023

Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer

Company: TBA Conseil
Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Elementary) | English (Full Professional) | French (Native or Bilingual)

Keywords

DevOps Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Software Engineering Kubernetes General Knowledge Terraform

Attachments

cv_2023_baron_en.pdf

Skills

Independant IT Engineer with 10+ years of experience, I help companies on large scale cloud migration, IT transformation projects, building and running state of the art cloud native apps. I lead and train teams regarding DevOps practices as well as state of the art tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Cloud).
I can provide services on various missions thanks to good analytical and abstraction skills and broad general knowledge about IT, from datacenters operations to containerization including software
development and support. I make sure to keep myself trained continuously in order to provide up to date and pertinent solutions.
I own CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), GitOps, Calico Operator certifications.
I provide remote services for European clients, rate depending on the project and speak english and french. I focus on remote missions in order to reduce costly trips from an environmental point of view and also because I am most efficient this way.

Project history

01/2021 - 09/2023
IT DevOps Engineer

Specialized on IT infrastructures, DevSecOps and SRE, cloud environment, automatization, infrastructure
as code, team lead.
Centreon (client) : Design and implementation of AWS Kubernetes clusters with GitOps (ArgoCD) in order
to reduce costs and improve reliability of infrastructure. App migration pattern based on helm charts.
GitHub Actions on EKS self-hosted runners to accelerate application deployment. Training teams.
Accenture (client) : Lead DevOps on Azure cloud migration (pre-sales, build) of large companies, building
landing zones in hub & spoke architecture with Terraform and GitHub Actions. Application (Java, Node JS
Angular, Python) migration templates for Kubernetes with Helm. Container security with Sysdig.
Training teams to those tools and practices, workshops and demo presentations.
Main Tech : Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, Docker, Helm, Argo, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Linux.

01/2020 - 01/2021
Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer
Snowsat

2020 - Context : SaaS software for ski resort.
2021 Missions : Technical lead, architecture definition and deployment for reliable and state-of-the-art cloudnative

softwares. Deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters with Docker containers.
Cloud migration (Azure, AWS), automation, Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (Gitlab).
Advice and support for developers. Implementation of best practices to promote reliability, improve team
work and reduce internal silos. Cloud technology watch
Tech : Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Terraform, Gitlab-CI, Docker, Helm, YAML, Linux, Ansible, Postgresql,
Prometheus, Grafana, Java, Python.

01/2017 - 01/2020
DevOps / SRE Engineer. (CNRS)
OSUG

(CNRS) Context : Research lab in environment, universe, earth sciences.
2020 - Missions : Virtualization (VMware), network and systems architecture. Management of security and
2017 backup of hypervisors and VM. Deployment and management of Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher clusters.
Transforming tools and work practices with DevOps, Infrastructure As Code and CI/CD orientation (packer,
terraform, ansible, saltstack, gitlab) . Technology watch.
Tech : Debian, CentOS, vSphere 6.5, vSAN, VDP, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Salt,
Ansible, Postgresql, influxdb, Zabbix, Grafana.

01/2016 - 01/2017
IT DevOps Engineer
CityMeo

2017 - Context : SaaS software for digital signage.
2016 Missions : Responsible for Continuous Integration and Deployment. Software packaging (Gitlab CI,
Docker). Automation scripts. Azure servers configuration (saltstack). Hardware/software L3 support.
Industrialization of the solution of the infrastructures via differentiated environments: prod, dev, tests.

Tech : GitLab, Docker, Debian, Ubuntu, SaltStack, Bash, Python django, mpv, Xorg, Scrum.

01/2014 - 12/2015
Datacenters Engineer. (CH)
EPFL

(CH) Context : University, datacenters management (1.5MW, PUE 1.2).
2015 - Missions : Operational management of datacenters, servers forecasting and load balancing. Integration of
2014 a taken over datacenter in Biotech Geneva. Installation and technical support of datacenter services,
server configuration, energy supplier relations. Development of a web datacenter infrastructure
management tool. Management of administration and supervision tools for datacenters, racks and PDUs.
Tech : Linux Red Hat, PHP/MySQL, Nagios, Cacti, PRTG, projects HERMES.

01/2013 - 01/2014
IT Systems Engineer. (CH)
CITCO

(CH) Context : Compliance in an international group.
2014 - Missions : Administration, L2 support, integration of systems and business application for compliance.
2013 Management of prod, dev, UAT, Disaster Recovery environments. Development of scripts to enhance
business tools. Writing technical reports about incident, systems health, DR plan.
Tech : UNIX Solaris, Linux Red Hat, Windows Server, Oracle and SQL Server, bash, python, VB, ITIL

01/2009 - 12/2012
IT engineer apprentice
EDF

2009 Missions : R&D and designing of a Cisco DMVPN network architecture for the remote start of combustion
turbines. Monitoring tools administration (Nagios, Centreon, Splunk). Development of Android application,
web generator of network equipment configuration.
Tech : Windows Server, Linux Red Hat, Debian, VMWare. HTML, PHP MySQL, Cisco, Fortinet.

Certifications

CKA
Linux foundation
2021

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