Description

Experienced SRE / Cloud DevOps Engineer with a strong background across multiple cloud providers. Skilled in migrating, deploying, and troubleshooting complex business services and infrastructure components on Kubernetes. Customer-focused and collaborative, with a strong sense of service and clear communication to align technical delivery with business goals. Methodical in breaking down complex projects into incremental steps. Advocate of automation and observability-first principles to ensure production-ready systems. Security-conscious and cost-aware, driving continuous improvement through scaling, Kubernetes operators, and SRE playbooks to optimize performance and reliability.

I’m currently looking for opportunities to help teams enhance their automation, increase service reliability, and simplify complex systems with first-class observability and resilient cloud-native setups.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Astek- Sophia Antipolis
SRE
May 2022 - October 2022 (5 months)
• Cost-optimization on public cloud by moving to Spot instances
• AWS EKS upgrade from 1.21 to 1.22
• Developed SNS, SQS, S3 Terragrunt modules to offer self-service to developers using Atlantis
• Application autoscaling using KEDA based on CPU/Memory, SQS queue length and custom Prometheus metrics
• Incident management
• Migrated monitoring stack from Prometheus to Victoria-Metrics
• AWS RDS (Postgres, MySQL) administration and troubleshooting
Amazon Web Services Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Microservices
Freelancing for SQUAD- Sophia Antipolis
SRE/DevOps Engineer/Scrum Master
February 2019 - April 2022 (3 years and 2 months)
Responsibilities and contributions:
• Scrum Master role (20%) for our Team in the scope of AMADEUS SAFe train
• Organizing and conducting hands-on and brainstorming sessions to foster knowledge sharing
• Cross-team communication and problem escalation
• Newcomers' mentoring, onboarding and tasks assignment within the team
• Preparing and presenting products' demo to Stakeholders and Kafka clients
• Investigating, experimenting and proposing new solutions to evolve our Kafka products in the Cloud
• Supported and helped development teams in designing event-based microservices based on Kafka
• Migrated CICD pipeline to a GitOps model using ArgoCD
• Deployed a full setup of the Strimzi operators in OpenShift with respect to security standards
• Sized and setup several Kafka Clusters on OpenShift using Kubernetes Operators
• Configured and enabled Cross DataCenter replication using Operators, Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker2
• Automated PVC disk resizing in Azure to meet AMADEUS distributed system high workloads
• Developed CLIs in GO to help for observability reporting and security layer auditing for PCI-DSS
• Designed and developed a Kubernetes Operator in JAVA managing Kafka Topics by adding more advanced features and developed integration testing
• Designed and implemented a fully-automated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to build, test and deliver Kubernetes Operators Docker images and OpenShift templates
• Collaborated with other teams to the design and implementation of a Kubernetes Operator in GO to Auto Scale Kafka Connect tasks based on consumer lag metrics
• Setup Several Kafka Clusters to different environments such as OpenStack, GCP and classic Virtual machines
• Documented several How-To articles to share knowledge across the team and provided step-by-step guides
• Building Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerting
• Participation to On-Call rotation
Apache Kafka OpenShift Argo CD Site Reliability Engineering Ansible
RICARDO GROUP
Lead Engineer
September 2013 - December 2019 (6 years and 3 months)
and a new platform based on with more than 5 programming languages and running ~250 containerized event-based microservices and in
Kubernetes Microservices GO Serverless Jenkins