Badr Jbaï

– Architected enterprise-grade multi-environment cloud platform (Staging, Master-Staging, Production) on AWS & Azure serving 500+ banking users. Implemented zero-downtime deployments, automated rollback mechanisms, comprehensive monitoring achieving 99.95% uptime SLA. – Led hands-on technical execution of Kubernetes EKS cluster migration (v1.24 to v1.28) across 3 production clusters managing 150+ containerized workloads. Implemented blue-green deployment strategies with advanced networking and persistent storage. – Engineered Kafka ecosystem integration (Confluent Platform, Kafka Connect) with Python-based smart contract automation. Reduced deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes (84% improvement) through intelligent Jenkins pipeline orchestration. – Designed standardized Helm chart framework adopted across 8 development teams. Reduced deployment complexity by 40% through template abstraction and Kustomize environment overlays. – Built comprehensive secret management infrastructure using AWS Secret Manager and Azure Key Vault with automated 90-day rotation cycles and Kubernetes External Secrets Operator integration. Eliminated hardcoded secrets across 50+ applications. – Implemented production observability and monitoring stack using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana for comprehensive visibility and alerting across all platform components.

– Led QA engineering team of 6 engineers. Implemented comprehensive test automation frameworks achieving 30% productivity increase and 45% reduction in bug escape rate. – Architected production AWS infrastructure using Terraform infrastructure-as-code. Implemented automated provisioning and infrastructure drift detection reducing manual errors by 90%. – Engineered CI/CD pipeline automation with Jenkins declarative pipelines reducing release cycle from 2 weeks to 3 days. – Developed comprehensive testing strategy for mission-critical emergency systems ensuring 99.99% availability and regulatory compliance.

– Engineered and operated enterprise DevOps platform serving 200+ developers. Maintained 99.9% SLA through automated monitoring and self-healing infrastructure. – Automated Software Factory upgrades across Docker Swarm clusters using Portainer orchestration reducing maintenance windows by 60% (from 8h to 3h). – Implemented Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) with GitOps workflow across Dev, Staging, Production environments reducing configuration drift incidents by 85%. – Developed Python automation SDK leveraging REST APIs for RBAC auditing across DevOps toolchain automating permission reconciliation for 200+ users.

– Architected complete platform infrastructure and DevOps automation tooling for enterprise banking applications serving 5M+ customers implementing infrastructure-as-code patterns and GitOps workflows. – Enabled 12 development squads to achieve continuous delivery through platform engineering implementing self-service deployment automation reducing deployment time from days to hours. – Engineered reusable Java application blueprints with embedded best practices deployed to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Tanzu) using Concourse pipeline-as-code adopted by 15+ microservices.

– Led CI/CD infrastructure knowledge transfer assuming full operational ownership of infrastructure and database systems across AWS 3 regions. – Pioneered GitOps architecture evaluation for enterprise product line designing adoption roadmap and technical integration strategy. – Engineered bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on RedHat infrastructure (5 nodes) implementing CNI networking, persistent storage, managing 20+ containerized workloads.

– Streamlined customer data ingestion workflows into SSAS platform, reducing processing time while providing expert support to internal stakeholders and clients. – Developed complex SQL queries on SQL Server for large-scale data extraction and ETL processes supporting internal and external reporting systems. – Automated metadata cleansing using Python and Excel, enhancing data quality and accelerating processing for the data operations team. – Designed and implemented data pipelines to optimize throughput and consistently meet client SLA commitments. – Collaborated with project managers on client calls, performing proactive data analysis to identify potential blockers and mitigate delays. – Partnered with offshore QA team in Kenya to identify process bottlenecks and implement operational improvements. – Leveraged Zendesk and Jira for issue tracking; developed JSON parsing solutions using PyCharm for supplier intelligence team.

– Led migration of 15+ project repositories from IBM Anthill Pro to Bamboo CI/CD including binary artifact migration to JFrog Artifactory reducing build times by 35%. – Administered Windows-based development infrastructure for Java aerospace applications optimizing build tooling and CI pipelines for mission-critical fault-tolerant systems.