
aymen ben khlifa
L3 VMware Storage and Windows
Salary / Daily rate
77000 Melun, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
Infrastructure Engineer with 13+ years specializing in VMware virtualization, storage systems, and enterprise datacenter operations. Led L2/L3 teams, automated deployments with Python/Ansible, and managed critical infrastructure for Air Liquide and SNCF. Expert in disaster recovery, performance optimization, and scaling enterprise environments.
Work experience
L3 VMware Storage and Windows
Air Liquide
Mar 2022 - Present
4 years 8 months
Paris, France
- Ensure the operational maintenance of the infrastructures for which it is responsible with a view to availability. - Supervise L2 Windows VMware and Storage teams (India) - Escalated incident handling - Verification of the states of the environments - Patch management of the different environments - Training of new team members - Writing operating procedures and updating documentation (DAT, diagram, etc.)
System Architect
Aubay
Feb 2020 - Present
6 years 9 months
Paris, France
Architect Virtualization and advisor for the customer in VMware and Infrastructures
Storage & Virtualization Engineer
E-voyageurs SNCF
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
- Ensure the operational maintenance of the infrastructures for which it is responsible with a view to availability - Planning of operations and interventions (upgrade, patch management, capacity increase, etc.) - Be in level 2 / 3 escalation in the event of an incident - Participation in on-call - Writing incident reports and experience feedback (REX) - Writing operating procedures and updating documentation (DAT, diagram, etc.) - Be the guarantor of the continuous improvement and industrialization of the infrastructure. - Automation of provisioning and deployment (Yaml/Yang, Ansible, Python, Rundeck, Jenkins, Git). - Supervision and scalability of infrastructures. - Implementation of indicators to monitor capacity planning, performance and quality of service. - Identification and planning of infrastructure improvement operations (redundancy, obsolescence management, etc.). - Participate in raising awareness and increasing the overall skills of the VSCT Operation teams on infrastructure topics. - Training of other members of the system team - Ensure the skills development of juniors on the activity (regardless of their attachment team) - Provide technical support and support to team members. - Ensure the follow-up of system problems and major incidents. - Contribute to system incident management and on-call management.
Storage & Virtualization Engineer
GROUPE FIGARO
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
1 year 2 months
Paris, France
- Ensure the production of new technologies in the FIGARO environment (HPE SYNERGY 1200) - Participate in the choice of technical options with architects and suppliers. - Deploy the new infrastructure under VMware. - Zoning with 3PAR, NETAPP and VNX bays - Administration of 3PAR Storage Rack; NetApp; NVX - Responsible for the backup solution Veeam Backup and replication - Deployment, maintenance in operational condition and implementation of evolution projects for virtualization (VMware) and backup (Veeam Backup and Replication) platforms - Deployment, maintenance in operational condition and implementation of Microsoft infrastructure development projects - Verification and inventory of data center wiring plans for moving to another site. - Technical Environment: HPE Synergy Hardware; HPE C7000 Hardware; Linux: Redhat; Windows Server 2012 R2 & 2016; Scripting (powercli / powershell / API (rest); VMware (Vsphere / Vcenter/ ESX), 3PAR Storage Bay, NETAPP, VNX
Senior IT Infrastructure and Virtualization Engineer
BNP Paribas
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
1 year 3 months
Paris Area, France · On-site
- Ensure the production of new technologies in the BNP environment. - Participate in the choice of technical options with architects and suppliers. - Validate platform performance level through testing. - Ensure the provision of all the necessary tools for production operation: (Inventory / Monitoring / Backup-Restore / Capacity Mgmt / Perf Mgmt / Log Management / Administration-Orchestration / Patching / Security Management), - Weekly reporting on activities - Support to MOE production entities. - Environmental Manager Bare Metal HCI (HPE Synergy 1200) Technical Environment: Datacenter Network: L3 (OSPF) / L2 (Nexus Fabric Path) / Virtualization (NSX); HPE Synergy hardware; Linux: Redhat / Ansible; Windows Server 2012 R2 & 2016; Scripting (powercli / powershell / API (rest); VMware Suite (Vsphere / VSAN / VvRA, vROPs, vRO, vSphere ..)
LEONI
Feb 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 11 months
Sousse, Tunisia
IT Systems Administrator – Microsoft & Virtualization
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
2 years 3 months
Sousse, Tunisia
- Configure the New Datacenter for the new Locations: Configure the new servers; Deploy the Operating System; Configure the Storage; Deploy and configure the Backup Servers and Tape Libraries. -Monitor the State of the Datacenters Via HPE One view, Veeam One, Nagios - Administration of Corporate Standard Backup Systems - Monitoring & Improvement of Global Backup Status and Procedures - Administration & Adaption of the Corporate Monitoring solution for Windows Systems - Administration of the Corporate Standard Windows Systems (MS OS) - Administer Microsoft Remote Desktop Server, Terminal servers, Citrix and VMware Horizon - Administration of Windows Applications (based on MS OS) - Administration of other related central hosted IT-Systems - Documentation of Processes, Errors Cases and their troubleshooting - 2nd level Support through the company internal Trouble Ticket System - Collaboration with other internal Support Teams, external Service Providers as well as 3rd level Support for solving problems in the related domain - Contribution in the dimensioning, installation and configuration of Windows Systems, including documentation - Contribution within the elaboration and validation of new Enterprise Solutions and new equipment in the related domain - Contribution within the coordination with the local IT staff regarding measures induced by incidents in the related domain - Contribution within the communication, training and awareness programs for the local IT staff regarding issues in the related domain
Service Desk Engineer & AIDC Administrator
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 9 months
Sousse, Tunisia
Analysis and qualification of Service Requests (i.e. Demands of users/customers regarding our IS/IT-Systems) Qualification of Tickets based on input templates (in content and logistical) Incident Analysis and troubleshooting per Remote-management Collaboration for permanent improvement of the processes in Service Desk (Incident, Problem and Change Management) Management of ITSM Tools: Leonardo, Remedy Management of GOOD and WebEx Management and troubleshooting of VPN Management of FORS
Technical Support Consultant II
Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2011 - Mar 2015
4 years 3 months
Tunisie
Do the hardware and software support for HP Business Critical Server (BCS) and HP industry standard server (ISS), HP Networking ( ProCurve, 3Com and H3C), HP storage bay (HP EVA Storage, HP MSA Storage, Storage Area Network environment and HP 3PAR). - Do the confirguration fo the Datacenter with collaboration of the Local IT. - Do the configuration for the servers, Network and the Storage for the datacenters for the customers. - Proceed to the upgrade HW and software of the Solutions HPE - Troubleshoot and solve problems within the SLA of the customers. - Do the proactive care of the solutions HP of the customer that they never face a downtime issues - Creation of the advisory documents and process documents for problem resolution - Share the information with the team members with workshops. - Operating System: HP-UX, OpenVMS, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2
Developer
DTCad Engineering
Oct 2009 - Jul 2010
10 months
Project: Implementation and integration of a module under the Tunisian accounting standards in OpenERP Environments and Tools: Python, XML, OpenERP server, OpenObject, Postegresql, Ubuntu server 9.O4.
Developer
Xtensus
Feb 2008 - Jul 2008
6 months
Project: Development and integration of a Campaign Management System Advertising. Environments and Tools: PHP, Apache, mySQL, UML, Windows Xp.
Education
ESPRIT
National Computer Engineering Degree
2008 - 2010
2 years 1 month
IHET
Master
2004 - 2008
4 years 1 month