Younes Djebbouri

– Architecture & Solution Design: Led technical architecture and solution analysis for multiple cloud-native initiatives. Authored comprehensive Technical Architecture Documents (DAT), evaluating trade-offs across scalability, security, cost, and maintainability to guide design decisions – Cluster AKS Deployment: Designed and deployed a private AKS cluster integrated into a new Landing Zone within a Hub-and-Spoke architecture, leveraging API Server VNet Integration for secure and isolated communications – Infrastructure Automation: Automated deployments using Terraform with internally developed modules tailored to project requirements, adhering to best practices for modularity, scalability, and reusability. – Azure Arc Integration: Implemented an on-premises AKS cluster leveraging Nutanix Kubernetes Engine as the infrastructure solution, integrated with Azure Arc for unified management across hybrid environments. – API Management & Integration: Designed and implemented Azure API Management (APIM) solutions to expose internal and external APIs securely, including authentication, throttling, monitoring, and developer portal enablement. – Data Integration: Developed and optimized ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory, leveraging Integration Runtimes for secure connectivity with on-premises OT systems and ensuring seamless data ingestion into Azure – Databricks Hybrid Platform: Designed and implemented a hybrid Databricks architecture with a private cluster for critical workloads and public workspaces for development and testing, enabling collaborative data processing and analytics – Monitoring and Performance Testing: Deployed advanced monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to analyze Kubernetes logs and workload metrics. Conducted performance tests to validate cluster resilience, scalability, and network efficiency – AI Platform Enablement: Contributed to the design and integration of AI platforms (Azure AI Foundry), supporting data science and machine learning use cases through secure, scalable cloud-native architectures. – ML Platform Enablement: Collaborated with data teams to design a Machine Learning Platform using Databricks, integrating ETL pipelines, analytics workflows, and machine learning tools – FinOps & Cost Optimization: Identified and implemented cost-saving measures across the Azure infrastructure, including right-sizing resources, eliminating idle workloads, and leveraging Reserved Instances, resulting in annual savings of over €85,000 – Security Compliance: Reduced Azure Security Score by implementing Azure Policy and Managed Identities, ensuring compliance with best practices and corporate standards

– Spearheaded the migration of Nextcloud to a Kubernetes cloud environment, significantly improving operational agility, scalability, and resilience. – Customized the Nextcloud UI through advanced patch development to optimize user interaction and experience. – Led cloud infrastructure management using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code), ensuring seamless provisioning and management of resources. – Developed highly optimized custom Docker images, driving a major initiative to containerize legacy infrastructure, resulting in improved deployment speed and system performance. – Orchestrated Kubernetes deployments using Helm, streamlining the lifecycle management of containerized applications across multiple environments. – Provided expert administration of RHEL infrastructure, implementing Docker-based container management, MaxScale/MariaDB database optimization, and monitoring through advanced Grafana/ELK stacks. – Automated the entire RHEL migration process from version 7 to 8 using Ansible, reducing manual efforts and enhancing operational efficiency. – Designed robust Python and Shell scripting solutions for task automation, integrated with Rundeck to automate complex workflows. – Managed large-scale AWS S3 bucket ecosystems, implementing best practices for data integrity, availability, and security across the organization. – Delivered high-level N3 support, resolving complex incidents and providing technical leadership across multiple teams. – Conducted comprehensive server performance optimization (HAProxy, Apache, databases), scaling the architecture to support high user traffic. – Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, accelerating development cycles and ensuring rapid, high-quality code releases. – Executed performance and load testing (JMeter, Locust), ensuring application scalability and stability under heavy traffic. – Leveraged AWS services (EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, Route 53, IAM) for robust, scalable cloud solutions.

– Infrastructure Architecture & Segmentation: Designed and segmented Azure infrastructure to meet scalability, security, and availability requirements. Leveraged Terraform to enforce infrastructure consistency across all environments – Custom Terraform Module Development: Engineered reusable Terraform modules aligned with internal architecture standards, significantly reducing deployment times and improving infrastructure maintainability – Azure DevOps Automation: Automated key Azure DevOps workflows (Terraform import/plan/apply), reducing manual operations, minimizing human error, and accelerating infrastructure delivery cycles – Training & IaC Enablement: Delivered in-house training on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles, promoting knowledge sharing and building long-term capability across engineering teams – Incident Management & Support Coordination: Served as technical lead for major production incidents in Azure, engaging directly with Microsoft support to resolve high-impact issues affecting business continuity – Disaster Recovery Modernization: Audited and redefined the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), implementing cost-efficient, resilient cloud-based recovery strategies using Azure Backup, Site Recovery, and availability zones – FinOps & Cost Optimization: Drove FinOps initiatives across the Azure estate, identifying and eliminating unused or overprovisioned resources, applying reserved instances, and aligning capacity with demand-achieving significant operational savings and improving budget forecasting – Stakeholder Collaboration & Solution Delivery: Worked closely with business and IT stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable, cost-effective Azure architectures – High Performance Computing (HPC) Enablement on Azure: Designed and supported compute-intensive workloads on Azure, leveraging high-performance VM families (compute and memory optimized) to support data processing, analytics, and others workloads. – Secure Hybrid Compute Architecture: Architected hybrid compute solutions connecting on-premise high-throughput systems to Azure services through private networking, ensuring low-latency and secure data exchanges for compute-heavy workflows. – Cloud Optimization Roadmap: Designed and executed an infrastructure optimization roadmap focused on resilience, operational efficiency, and cost control-ensuring sustainability and long-term value of the cloud platform

– Cloud Architecture & Technical Documentation: Architected scalable, secure Azure-based solutions leveraging both PaaS and IaaS services. Conducted in-depth solution studies and authored Technical Architecture Documents (DAT) to validate technical decisions and ensure alignment with business needs. – Infrastructure Automation: Automated infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform, applying modular, reusable templates that optimized resource usage and deployment velocity across environments. – Disaster & Business Continuity Planning: Led the design and implementation of multi-region Disaster Recovery (DRP) and Business Continuity (BCP) strategies for both IaaS and PaaS workloads, ensuring high availability, data resilience, and RTO/RPO compliance. – Citrix to VDI Migration: Managed the full migration from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD/VDI), including solution assessment, DAT preparation, user profiling strategy, and resource cost modeling, significantly reducing complexity and operational overhead. – FinOps & Cost Optimization: Spearheaded a FinOps initiative that resulted in annual savings of over €250K by optimizing reserved instance usage, eliminating idle resources, rightsizing VMs, and enforcing tagging/governance policies for cost visibility. – Monitoring & Incident Response: Developed advanced KQL queries for Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, drastically improving the accuracy and speed of incident detection and root cause analysis in production environments. – CI/CD & AKS Lifecycle Management: Led CI/CD pipeline design and operations using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, managing container-based deployments on AKS. Improved release cadence and reduced rollbacks through test automation and canary deployments. – Governance & Security Compliance: Defined and enforced Azure governance controls including Network Security Groups (NSG), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), policies, and budget alerts to ensure security compliance and operational efficiency – Legacy Modernization & Cloud Migration: Orchestrated the migration of legacy applications to Azure, re-architecting where necessary for performance and cost-efficiency, and ensuring zero-downtime cutovers. – API Management: Designed and deployed Azure API Management (APIM) solutions, securing APIs exposed to internal consumers and external partners while enabling throttling, analytics, and developer portal capabilities. – Security Collaboration & Hardening: Worked closely with cybersecurity teams to enhance Azure environment security, conducting regular penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and implementing remediation plans across cloud resources.

– Ensured high system reliability by overseeing cloud infrastructure performance and availability, leveraging AWS and Azure services to maintain optimal uptime. – Managed incident response and troubleshooting through JIRA, proactively identifying and resolving production issues to ensure uninterrupted service delivery. – Implemented monitoring solutions using Datadog and Centreon, setting up detailed alerts and dashboards to improve system observability and enable rapid response to anomalies. – Streamlined cloud infrastructure management by automating routine tasks and infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual intervention and improving operational efficiency. – Led performance tuning and capacity planning, configuring HAProxy for load balancing and optimizing system performance under varying workloads. – Collaborated with development teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines (Docker, Jenkins), integrating automated testing and deployment processes that improved application reliability and reduced deployment times. – Enhanced system security by implementing Azure AD access control policies and encryption standards, ensuring compliance with organizational security protocols. – Proactively identified performance bottlenecks and conducted root cause analysis, using custom scripting (Python, PowerShell) to automate diagnostics and optimize system response times. – Contributed to incident post-mortems, identifying key improvement areas and documenting lessons learned to refine SRE processes and prevent recurrence of major issues. – Maintained containerized environments using Docker, optimizing application deployment and resource usage across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

– Managed O365 licenses – Handled various tickets on SNOW – Managed the company's Active Directory (Azure) – Resolved various incidents (network, AD, Docker, etc.) – Managed access rights – Used Microsoft Intune for application management and deployment – Ensured quality assurance and business continuity – Followed IT best practices/ITIL framework – Managed Kubernetes clusters with RANCHER – Created, configured, and managed clusters on Azure and GCP – Created High Availability clusters on-premise with Ansible + Kubernetes + Vagrant + HAProxy – Used Git (GitLab & GitLab CI) – Created and configured CI/CD Pipelines for testing (Jenkins, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL databases, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab, Vagrant) – MONITORING WITH PROMETHEUS/GRAFANA – IaC with (Terraform, Ansible) – Environment: Linux & Windows

– Handled N1 and N2 incidents (ServiceNow) – Contributed to migration projects from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (SCCM), Office 365, and Azure – Used Microsoft Intune for application management and deployment – Initiated into Microsoft Azure Cloud (AZ-900 and AZ-103) – Wrote technical documents – Used virtualization for assistance and IT troubleshooting – Installed and configured a network service – Installed and configured Office 365