Mehdi Bennouar
Site Reliability Engineer | Kubernetes, AWS
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years expertise in cloud infrastructure and DevOps automation. Proven track record deploying Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and managing high-availability systems for 2500+ users. AWS-certified specialist in container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and system reliability engineering.
Work experience
Site Reliability Engineer
unyc
Apr 2025 - Present
1 year 7 months
Paris, France
• Ansible configuration management and compliance • Deploying and managing Docker containers • Building and maintaining a private cloud infrastructure using OpenStack • Deploying a self-hosted sentry solution with Kafka, Clickhouse and CNPG (PSQL Operator • Operating the Sentry platform with Helm and Kustomize (preprod/prod), SealedSecrets, Keycloak OIDC SSO, and observability (Prometheus, ServiceMonitors, Grafana) • Maintaining and regularly updating Docker images for production and staging environments • Automating infrastructure provisioning and server setup using Ansible • Improving and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab • Managing configuration compliance using Ansible • Deploying and operating containerized applications with Docker, Helm, and Kustomize across multiple Kubernetes clusters • Implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for application delivery and cluster management • Monitoring system and application performance with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki • Implementing alerting and observability practices to ensure high availability and fast incident response
System Analyst/DevOps
LGI Healthcare Solutions
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
2 years
Montreal, QC, Canada
- Updating CI/CD pipelines - Deploying and managing Docker containers - Continuous update of Docker images - Administration of AKS clusters - Automate infrastructure provisioning with Ansible - Use Ansible to create and maintain CI/CD pipelines - Creation of customised playbooks for configuring internal products - Configuration and maintenance of Keycloak instances via Ansible - Putting applications into production
System Administrator
Umbrella Technologies
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
3 months
Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada
System Engineer
Adlere
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
4 months
Paris, France
EFB
May 2019 - Aug 2022
3 years 4 months
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
System administrator/DevOps
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
3 years 1 month
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- Maintaining the Information System in operational condition - Continuous evolution, improvement and security of the Information System - Support Level 1,2 and 3 - Deployment, configuration of Linux web solutions and securing access - Configuration and maintenance of Apache2, Nginx and Tomcat web servers - Configure services automatically using Ansible Playbooks and roles - Development of a Moodle platform for exams for more than 2500 students - Implementation of the Moodle platform in a redundant, highly available infrastructure - Management of containers with Docker/Docker-compose - Design and development of automation scripts to simplify the configuration and maintenance of services - Set up a monitoring solution (Zabbix) including the definition of triggers for the monitored hosts
System and network technician
May 2019 - Jul 2019
3 months
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- Azure AD, Powershell, Linux, Squid Proxy, IT troubleshooting — Team of 3 engineers - Follow-up, treatment and resolution of incidents and requests - Participation in Information System improvement projects
Tutored project
Orange Cyberdefense
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
2 months
Paris, France
- Study and analysis of solutions for the implementation of a log recovery and exploitation system for a cyber-oriented product. - Implementation of a Rsyslog server for log recovery purposes - Analysis and centralization of logs using the Elastic stack solution
Operations Technician
Modis
Mar 2019 - May 2019
3 months
92400 Courbevoie, France
- Monitoring of all IT resources and applications - Backup management - Maintaining IS in operational condition (MCO)
VIP support and proximity technician
Sénat
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
4 months
8 rue Garancière, Paris
- Handling user calls and requests - Receipt, follow-up and resolution of incidents and user requests
Assistant System Engineer
LIRMM
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
3 months
Montpellier, France
CentOS, Linux, Nagios — Team of 5 engineers Complete upgrade of a supervision solution Import of configurations from the old version
Assistant System Engineer
LIRMM
May 2017 - Jul 2017
3 months
Montpellier, France
CentOS, Linux, Libvirt — Team of 5 engineers Homogenization of the hypervisors in version of the Linux distribution CentOS 7: Setting up a CentOS 7.3 mirror Network modification on switches with link aggregation
Education
ESGI
Master's degree
2020 - 2022
2 years 10 months
Université Paris-Est Créteil
Undergraduate studies
2019 - 2020
2 years
EF Executive Language Institute
English intensive course in London
2019 - 2019
1 year
Lycée Louis Armand
Diploma of Collegial Studies
2016 - 2018
3 years
Lycée Evariste Galois
High School Diploma
2014 - 2016
3 years
Licenses & certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Issued: Nov 2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Issued: Aug 2023