
Badr OUAKKI
Senior AWS Cloud Architect | Kubernetes
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Paris
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Issued: Jan 2022
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Issued: Jan 2022
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
Issued: Aug 2021
Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator - Associate
Issued: Nov 2020
Amazon Web Services Developer - Associate
Issued: Nov 2020
Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional
Issued: Nov 2020
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate
Issued: Sep 2019
Portfolio

Ultra Low Latency Teleoperation Streaming Platform
