About Abderrahmane
Multi-disciplinary hands-on engineer with +14 years’ experience in Software development, Cyber Security, Cloud architecture, SRE, AI and data, Platform Engineering, Program and Product Management, Agile transformation and scaling, and teams staffing and management. This has been in an international context across multiple industries: Banking, Healthcare, Retail, Energy, Public sector, and Multimedia.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Japanese
Basic
Spanish
Basic
Can work on-site
Meudon (up to 20km), Paris (up to 20km), Caen (up to 10km)
Experience
- SoneparCyber Security Officer and Platform LeadRETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)November 2021 - Today (4 years and 7 months)Paris, France- Team leader of +30 people managing the build and run of the core platform for the Spark program.- Design and implement the cyber security program, covering DevSecOps practices and tooling, infrastructure hardening, operational security (Detect & Respond), compliance management, and continuous controls.- Design resiliency patterns for the cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes-based, multi-regions, and multi-cloud. This included performance challenges and failover testing using chaos engineering practices. This involved security by design using a landing-zone approach and reproducibility by relying mainly on IaC.- Set up operations team managing incident response and L3 support while migrating progressively to SRE practices on critical paths. Setup process and tools to ensure reliability using the follow-the-sun approach. This also included simplifying and optimizing the observability stack.- Generalize Chaos engineering practices across teams and perform regular incident and crisis response exercises.- Contributed to multiple task forces in “commando” mode to fix critical issues in a timely manner (e.g., Web Performance bottleneck and optimization)- Software development: internal tooling, custom performance gates, data pipelines
- Société GénéraleCompliance, Security and Risk Officer | Cloud & Security ArchitectBANKING AND INSURANCEJanuary 2019 - December 2021 (3 years)Paris, France- Team Leader of +15 cyber security experts managing the security concerns of private and public cloud assets.- Designed a generic approach to assess and manage the cyber security maturity and improvement actions across the private cloud services (OpenStack-based with +30 services to mimic public cloud capabilities)- Conduct risk analysis, establish remediation plan, follow up, and coach teams for implementation.- Contribute to the group initiative for public cloud security (Trust and Control Framework).- Developed internal tooling for Software Factory security, Vulnerabilities management, and Risk analysis aggregation and parsing.- Initiated and led the SAFe transformation for GTS/SEC department. Started and managed the first SAFe train as SPC first, then as Product Manager.
- ERCOMProduct & SaaS ManagerTELECOMMUNICATIONSJuly 2014 - December 2018 (4 years and 5 months)Vélizy-Villacoublay, France- Product Manager of cloud-based secure communications solutions (Cryptobox and Cryptopass): Collaborative solutions with E2E encryption for highly sensitive communications.- Led the product design and transformation from on-premises solutions to SaaS offers: functional and technical design while interacting with customers for proper shaping. This included the design of a large-scale web application for back-end management (Events and logs aggregation, users’ federation and RBAC, APIs integration, billing management, white-label customization, etc.)- Initiate SRE team and practices to ensure the high availability of cloud-based solutions. Established process and observability tooling as well as rotation and on-call management.- Cloud design and architecture: geo-redundant setup with self-managed Kubernetes cluster. Migrated the delivery process and CI/CD tooling from OS image packaging to a container-based environment.- Build and manage partnerships with Orange (OCD and OBS) and several French government entities.- Software development: web applications (Django-based), Android internals (C, Java), custom workflows (Python)
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Education
- Doctorat (Ph.D) Traitement de Signal et d'ImageSorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 132014
- Ingénieur systèmes embarquésENSEIRB2010Ingénieur systèmes embarqués
Certifications
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)ISC22018
- AWS ArchitectGlobal Knowledge2018