Badr OUAKKI

Senior AWS Cloud Architect | Kubernetes

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: Paris

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

DevOpsClean ArchitectureAWSKubernetesTerraformReactJavaAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformSite reliability engineeringEvent Driven ArchitecturePythonPostgreSQLAWS LambdaRedisGitLabJenkinsGrafanaBackend DevelopmentMicroservicesMySQLDynamoDBAmazon EC2Product ManagementGolang.NETDockerKafkaDatadogElasticsearchGitHubPrometheusAnsibleScrumCybersecurity

Languages

ArabicEnglishFrench

About me

Intro

AWS Cloud Architect with 8+ years of expertise in multi-cloud solutions and DevSecOps automation. Focused mainly on AWS in the last 4 years. Specialized in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines with focus on scalable infrastructure and cost optimization.

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Work experience

AWS Architect & Tech Lead

Valeo

Apr 2022 - Feb 2026

3 years 11 months

Paris, France

• Led the design, implementation, and optimization of AWS cloud architectures for high-performance automotive systems. • Built and maintained an ultra-low-latency streaming solution (UDP/TCP) for a fleet of connected cars, deployed on Kubernetes (EKS) with AWSnative networking and security. • Architected and delivered an automated map-generation platform for the Chinese market using EKS, event-driven processing, and hybrid cloud integration with on-premise datacenters. • Defined and implemented CI/CD pipelines (GitOps, Terraform) to automate infrastructure, deployments, and compliance. • Acted as technical lead, supporting DevOps and developer teams across infrastructure, application architecture, and production readiness. • Drove performance optimization, scalability, and security hardening of existing platforms. • Provided assistance in deploying AI models (LLM) in EKS

Cloud Architect

IBM

May 2021 - May 2022

1 year 1 month

Lyon, France

• Present in different phases (RFP, RFQ, Proposal, Discovery, Assessment, Build…) of public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) related projects (Rehost/Replatform/Refactor…) for IBM/Kyndryl. • Part of an architect’s team responsible of designing “private cloud” data archiving service on-premises similar to S3. • Part of an architect’s team responsible of the reversibility plan of the current solution at the time + adding all the monitoring and alerting stack using DataDog and PagerDuty

PIMAN Group

Jun 2018 - May 2021

3 years

Paris, France

AWS DevOps Engineer

Dec 2019 - May 2021

1 year 6 months

Paris, France

- Managing the CICD: CodePipeline, Terraform for provisioning, Ansible for configuring, Docker for packaging, Kubernetes for orchestrating (EKS or ECS), ELK stack for logging and of course the wrapping is AWS.

Technical Team Lead

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

1 year

Paris Area, France

Management: - Daily management of 4 developers. - Cost estimation and budgeting. - Team splitted around France and Morocco. Production: - Applications' Deployment. - Server management and maintenance. Design and Development - Plan, design and develop applications for PIMAN clients.

Full-stack and Mobile Developer

Jun 2018 - Jan 2019

8 months

Paris Area, France

Design and Development - Plan, design, develop and maintain robust solutions for PIMAN clients. - Web service development (PHP/Laravel, Python). - Front-end design and implementation (JavaScript/AngularJS, Angular 4+ and VueJS).

Pentester

fluidion

Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

7 months

Paris Area, France

- Pentesting on the company's web applications, servers and networks. - Internal device management system.(PHP as the Back-End scripting language / JavaScript/jQuery/HTML5/CSS on the Front-End) Objectives : - Developing a reliable robust solution was the main concern for the company, a user friendly interface to keep track on every measurement and all types of fluidion devices and their location at real time. (PHP/JavaScript/jQuery/HTML5/CSS) - Dynamic charting based on specific needs as well as reports for all type of devices and measurements. - Penetrating testing on the company's servers and networks to test the effectiveness of the current security protocols.

Software Engineer

OCP S.A

Feb 2016 - Oct 2016

9 months

El Jadida, Morocco

Project : - Inventory management Web / Mobile applications.(JAVA EE / IONIC-AngularJS) Objectives : - Worked closely with team members to plan, design and develop robust solutions in a timely manner to manage the R&D center’s chemical products’ inventory system. (Java EE) - Prepared detailed reports concerning inputs and outputs orders and activities with dynamic charting. - Designed and implemented a Hybrid mobile application to manage suppliers, geolocate their position and also consult the chemical products’ technical sheets. (Ionic)


Education

Université de Technologie de Troyes

M2 in Security of Information Systems

2017 - 2017

1 year

Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées - Kénitra

Software Engineer

2013 - 2016

4 years

Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées - Kénitra

Integrated Preparatory Classes

2010 - 2012

2 years 2 months


Licenses & certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Issued: Jan 2024

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Issued: Jan 2022

Certified by Microsoft

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Issued: Jan 2022

Certified by The Linux Foundation

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Issued: Aug 2021

Certified by Google

Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator - Associate

Issued: Nov 2020

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services Developer - Associate

Issued: Nov 2020

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional

Issued: Nov 2020

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate

Issued: Sep 2019

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Portfolio

Ultra Low Latency Teleoperation Streaming Platform

Crowdsourced Parking Map Generation for the Chinese Market

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