Hamza Zineddaine

Designed and led hybrid cloud platforms combining Azure, on-premises infrastructure and Kubernetes, with a strong focus on performance, security, resilience and scalability for business-critical services.

Responsible for the architecture, governance and industrialization of Kubernetes platforms (AKS and self-managed clusters), while driving the adoption of Cloud Native, DevSecOps, GitOps and SRE practices across the organization.

Key Contributions

• Designed, deployed and operated highly available production-grade Kubernetes platforms

• Defined secure and scalable hybrid cloud architectures integrating Azure and on-premises environments

• Implemented GitOps practices with ArgoCD to automate deployments, configuration management and governance

• Industrialized infrastructure delivery through Terraform, Terragrunt and Ansible

• Automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

• Implemented DevSecOps practices including RBAC, Network Policies, Azure Key Vault, Defender for Cloud and compliance controls

• Deployed Zero Trust architectures and Istio Service Mesh for secure service-to-service communication and traffic management

• Built observability platforms leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Azure Monitor

• Defined and implemented SRE standards including monitoring, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, resilience and disaster recovery strategies

• Designed Azure Landing Zones, Hub-and-Spoke architectures and hybrid connectivity using VPN and ExpressRoute

• Enabled engineering teams through Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and Cloud Native best practices

• Led FinOps initiatives focused on cloud cost optimization and efficient Kubernetes resource management

• Integrated enterprise infrastructure services including VMware, Active Directory / Entra ID, PKI, backup and identity management solutions

Led the evolution of Azure and Kubernetes platforms supporting large-scale e-commerce workloads, ensuring scalability, resilience, security and operational excellence across critical production environments.

Played a key role in defining cloud-native architectures and platform standards, aligning technical solutions with business objectives while driving the adoption of DevOps, GitOps and automation practices across engineering teams.

Responsible for the design, implementation and continuous improvement of Azure and Kubernetes ecosystems, including infrastructure automation, platform reliability, observability, security and governance.

Key Achievements

• Designed and operated large-scale Azure and Kubernetes (AKS) platforms supporting critical business services

• Defined cloud architecture standards and best practices to improve scalability, reliability and maintainability

• Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and automated infrastructure delivery through Terraform and Terragrunt

• Strengthened platform security through DevSecOps practices, Azure Defender, Security Center and policy-driven governance

• Developed observability and monitoring capabilities using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

• Implemented resilience, backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure service continuity

• Automated CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps to accelerate software delivery

• Supported feature teams in adopting Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and Cloud Native best practices

• Drove FinOps initiatives focused on resource optimization, cost control and platform efficiency

• Contributed to continuous platform modernization and technology adoption through innovation and engineering enablement

Designed and industrialized Enterprise OpenShift platforms on Google Cloud Platform for mission-critical environments requiring high levels of security, availability, scalability and governance. Involved across the full platform lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to automation, standardization and operational excellence.

Key Contributions

• Designed and deployed OpenShift clusters on Google Cloud Platform

• Managed the complete platform lifecycle, including installation, upgrades, patch management and capacity planning

• Defined security and governance standards, including RBAC, OAuth integration, Network Policies and compliance requirements

• Designed multi-environment resource allocation strategies for production, staging and testing workloads

• Integrated GCP-native storage services and managed the OpenShift Operators lifecycle

• Implemented GitOps and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab to standardize platform and application deployments

• Designed and operated hybrid workloads using OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt)

• Led migration initiatives from legacy virtual machines to containerized and virtualized OpenShift environments

• Contributed to Edge Computing and distributed OpenShift deployments supporting industrial and IoT use cases

• Implemented centralized multi-cluster governance to ensure security, compliance and configuration consistency

• Defined observability and monitoring strategies leveraging Prometheus, Grafana and Kubernetes metrics

• Produced architecture documentation, runbooks and operational procedures for platform support teams

• Collaborated with architecture, development, security and operations teams to ensure platform reliability and operational excellence