Safouen Madiouni

DevOps Architect

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

DevOpsTerraformAWSKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitPythonDjangoBitbucketAnsibleConfluenceJiraC

Languages

EnglishArabicFrench

About me

Intro

Hi, I’m Safouen Madiouni, a Cloud Architect and DevOps Specialist with years of experience helping businesses unlock the full potential of the cloud. I specialize in designing state-of-the-art AWS landing zones, crafting tailored cloud solutions, and aligning your business processes with cutting-edge technology to ensure operational excellence.

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Work experience

AWS Cloud Architect

Freelance

Sep 2024 - Present

2 years 2 months

Paris, France

• Designed and deployed high-availability, cost-optimized AWS architectures, leveraging EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC to ensure scalable and secure cloud solutions. • Led complex cloud migration projects, optimizing workloads for AWS with automation strategies that enhanced performance, security, and cost-efficiency. • Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, enabling fully automated, version controlled deployments. • Implemented robust security frameworks, including IAM policies, encryption mechanisms, and compliance adherence to protect cloud environments. • Optimized cloud expenditure by leveraging auto-scaling, reserved instances, and AWS cost-monitoring tools, reducing operational costs. • Facilitated DevOps transformation, implementing CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, Gitlab and GitHub Actions to streamline development workflows.

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

PMUFreelance

Mar 2024 - Nov 2024

9 months

Paris, France

• Established SRE best practices from the ground up, defining operational metrics (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) and fostering a reliability-focused engineering culture. • Built and led a high-performance SRE team (4 engineers), mentoring and driving adoption of best practices in monitoring, observability, and incident response. • Enhanced monitoring and observability using the MELT stack (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces) to improve system reliability and incident resolution efficiency. • Automated infrastructure management using Terraform and AWS, achieving zero-touch deployments and reducing manual interventions. • Implemented proactive incident management strategies, reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 30% through predictive analytics and automated remediation. • Shifted operational mindset to "Reliability as Code", integrating fault-tolerant architectures and self-healing mechanisms into cloud deployments.

Cloud Architect

Amazon Web Services - AWS

Mar 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 1 month

Paris, France

• Worked in enterprise-scale cloud migrations across multiple industries, implementing AWS best practices for assessment, mobilization, and workload optimization. • Optimized DevOps strategies by modernizing CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and integrating security into development workflows (DevSecOps). • Architected highly resilient cloud environments, aligning infrastructure design with business continuity requirements and compliance mandates. • Automated large-scale deployments using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, reducing provisioning time and improving deployment consistency. • Drove cloud adoption strategies, advising C-level executives on cloud transformation roadmaps, governance, and cost management (FinOps). • Developed FinOps initiatives, optimizing cloud spend through rightsizing, auto-scaling, and reserved instance purchasing, leading to cost savings of up to 25%.

DevOps Engineer

Ag2R La Mondiale

Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

1 year 1 month

Paris, France

• Streamlined DevOps workflows in the IT Factory team, automating software delivery pipelines and enhancing deployment efficiency. • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and automated provisioning in AWS and Heroku. • Designed scalable CI/CD pipelines, enabling seamless integration and deployment across multiple environments. • Migrated legacy applications to cloud-based solutions, improving performance, security, and maintainability. • Advocated for DevOps best practices, introducing automation frameworks and training development teams on modern methodologies. • Established governance models for system scalability, reliability, and security, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

DevOps Engineer

Amadeus Group

May 2016 - Feb 2021

4 years 10 months

Sophia Antipolis

• Worked on DevOps initiatives within the central DevOps team, designing and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines to enhance software quality and delivery speed. • Applied shift-left principles, integrating automated security testing and static code analysis into development workflows. • Automated software deployments using Ansible, reducing manual intervention and increasing deployment frequency. • Managed Kubernetes clusters, automating container orchestration and optimizing microservices architectures. • Developed observability solutions, integrating Elasticsearch, Grafana, and StatsD for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting.

Software Engineer & Data Fusion Researcher

CNRS

Oct 2014 - Sep 2015

1 year

60200 Compiègne, France

• Developed an online gamified data collection platform, enabling large-scale behavioral data analysis. • Applied advanced data fusion techniques, enhancing decision making insights for academic research projects.

Software Engineer

Leoni AG

Sep 2013 - Aug 2014

1 year

Sulayman, Tunisia

• Developed real-time monitoring systems for wire-cutting machines, enhancing production efficiency and defect detection. • Designed and implemented embedded software solutions, integrating wireless communication protocols for remote monitoring


Education

Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

Master's degree

2014 - 2015

1 year 1 month

Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Sousse

Diplôme d'ingénieur

2012 - 2014

2 years 1 month

Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Sousse

Ecole préparatoire aux études d'ingénieurs

2010 - 2012

2 years 1 month

Lycée neuf avril Jendouba

Baccalauréat

2008 - 2009

1 year 1 month


Licenses & certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Issued: Feb 2023

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Issued: May 2022

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Python

Issued: Jul 2020

Certified by TestDome

Fundamentals of Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift

Issued: Jun 2020

Certified by Red Hat

Portfolio

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