
Raed Bouabane
Senior IT Operations Manager | Cloud Infrastructure
Salary / Daily rate
92400 Courbevoie, France
Mobility: London, Paris, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
IT Operations Manager with 15+ years of expertise in cloud services, enterprise systems, and team leadership. Proven track record managing 20+ person teams, reducing deployment times by 60%, and delivering exceptional customer success at HPE and Orange. Specialized in cloud infrastructure, system administration, and strategic IT operations.
Work experience
Head of Cloud and Software Department
3S Standard Sharing Software
May 2024 - Present
2 years 6 months
Customer Success Manager for HPE GreenLake Cloud Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jun 2022 - May 2024
2 years
Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction and maximized profitability for GreenLake Cloud Services contracts. - Led cross-functional teams to ensure successful contract lifecycles, driving revenue, margin, and growth. - Managed GreenLake contract budgets and controlled expenses for optimal financial performance. - Developed strategies for maximizing revenue through new technology adoption and optimized consumption. - Built and maintained strong relationships with senior customer management to foster long-term strategic partnerships. - Championed customer success initiatives by proactively advising on business improvement, planning, and performance metrics. - Established and oversaw a comprehensive client governance structure for clear communication and collaboration. - Led the Customer Management Office, ensuring efficient delivery of services.
Sopra HR Software
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
4 years 2 months
Run Manager & Deputy Director of IT at Sopra HR Software
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year 7 months
IT Operations Manager
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
2 years 8 months
• Define the IT digital strategy for customers and internal staff • Interface with all levels of the organization from senior management to process participants • Work with business partners to identify innovative solutions through strategic workshops animation • Lead teams of up to 20 persons, responsible about (Systems, storage, database & middleware and End users support services). • Effectively planning and executing all IT related projects. • Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements. • Research new technologies and check future needs to keep the technical infrastructure are kept up to date. • Coordinate with various departments and perform integration of critical systems into infrastructure • Managed root cause analysis to eliminate downtime, increase system availability and improve SLA consistency. • Operation and support team management • Application Rollout Planning • Support escalation management
Orange
Apr 2011 - Jul 2018
7 years 4 months
BSS / Billing & IT Operations Manager
Mar 2013 - Jul 2018
5 years 5 months
Presently responsible for overall billing operations: Responsible for the Billing/Mediation and Rating Module. Responsible for roaming implementation and data clearing. Responsible for Pre & Post -Bill Run activities. Managing a team to provide operational and application support to all departments. Ensuring the accuracy of postpaid billing. Monitoring of Monthly Bill Runs. Managing system availability, performance and establish proactive actions. Managing and organizing Revenue control steps and financial checks. Preparation of different reports (daily error reports & daily active /de-active postpaid subscriber). Handling Customer Care related problems regarding Monthly Billing. Implementation of controls and reconciliation process to monitor the activities. Responsible for the automation for effective and efficient execution of processes. Responsible for implementation of change requests from other departments. Identifying and resolving the cases where monthly rental or billing was not performed. Effective development and implementation of Alerts/Alarm system to identify issues. Participate in efforts to create and enhance standards/best practices and drive adoption across team members. Producing monthly/weekly reports.
Application Administrator and IT Operations Support
Apr 2011 - Mar 2013
2 years
During my job duties I had to perform the following tasks: • Systems administration, database and system design, development and implementation to insure compatibility with existing architecture and systems • Install/Update and configure application software • Plan and coordinate application installs and updates patches • Partner with other support teams/organizations to install and configure applications • Understand business area issues & implicate for the impacted areas by assigned projects • Support and maintain enterprise applications, system performance, upgrades & updates, security, customizations, reporting, interfaces, and reporting • Coordinate projected plans for application development initiatives • Performance monitoring, capacity planning, system/database tuning • Perform testing of software from a performance perspective • Maintain development, test and production environments • Establish and maintain data security and system general controls • Monitor, analyze, and tune application/system parameters & configuration.
Expert System Supervision
Ooredoo - Tunisiana
May 2007 - May 2011
4 years 1 month
During my job duties I had to perform the following tasks: 1. Ensure the ongoing management of IT operations 2. Ensure the availability of IT system. 3. Incident Management: 1st and 2nd level support 4. Handle backup and restore data 5. Assist other technical teams of the Department to provide system updates 6. Reporting on activities 1 - Ensure the ongoing management of IT operations: • Monitor the performance of daily treatments • Duty tasks: rating, bill inquiry, payment integration, roaming • Update information system from BSCS • Statistical tasks: data warehouse, Billing • Participate in the supervision of servers and infrastructure. (Server, Applications, Networks, Databases, treatment reviews, etc..). • Fluent and strict implementation of operating procedures. • Instant and regular reporting (performance indicator. ...) 2 - Ensure availability of system’s information • Supervision of network components, systems, databases, • Overseeing the collection of CDR file payments 3 - Incident Management: 1st and 2nd level support: • Provide an entry point to the ITD (for DSC, service centers, ...) • Receive complaints / Attempted resolution • Climbing 3 ed level support. • Incident management operations. • Incidents LAN and WAN • Databases (added table space, restart ...) • Servers (disk space, crash...) • Incident Management Application: • Writing reports of incidents and update data base incident. 4 - Management backup / restore data: • Ensuring the proper conduct of backup sessions. • Resolve backup incidents (reconfiguration session, recycling tapes, ... • Run restore session. 5 - Technical assistance to other teams • Update System’s and applications. • Make planned reboot for servers and database • Install production Patch ... • Maintain general conditions of operation 6 - Periodic reporting on the activities: • Establish a list of events, planned outages, • Establish key performance indicators (KPI)
Education
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Master's degree
2011 - 2012
2 years