Antoine L. - Middleware, GCP Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Hesperange, Luxembourg

Experience

Jan 2025 - Oct 2025

10 months

Luxembourg

Middleware, GCP Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Clearstream

Migration JBoss apps from on-premise to OCP within GCP respecting existing enterprise standards
Define and code the deployment of JBoss EAP apps within OCP using JBoss CLI and consider topology deployment requirements
ArgoCD: CI/CD in GitOps design for Openshift deployment
Openshift: Design all Kubernetes resources required to migrate and deploy the existing apps
GCP: Propose additional solutions based on GCP services to improve the transformation
Maven Build: Build the Docker images for applications deployment with OCP Kubernetes
Coding to create tools at all levels to secure and fast track the transformation and migration of all the applications

Feb 2024 - Dec 2024

11 months

Luxembourg

Cloud, DevSecOps and Security Architect

EIB

Security initiative to define and deploy cloud security landing zone for EIB security team
Security policies design and definition in EIB context
Tools selection: Checkov and Sentinel
Vault Management Secrets Management Governance Service model definition
CNAPP design and definition in collaboration
Defect Dojo - Data ingestion with Fortify data
Fortify scans and dashboards
Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
AWS and Terraform CLI
Participation to SAST, DAST and CNAPP initiatives

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1 year

Luxembourg

Technical Project Manager

BNP-BGL

Project Manager dedicated to Wealth Management to transform existing OnPrem apps to IBM Cloud
Initiate the transformation to move all Wealth applications from BGL OnPrem to BNP IBM Cloud
Plan, anticipate and follow the transformation actions
Align teams' efforts and plannings to orchestrate a successful migration from OnPrem to IBM Cloud

Aug 2023 - Jan 2024

6 months

Luxembourg

Enterprise Architect and Deputy Team Lead Architects

European Commission

Assess new IT programs and projects and promote their alignment with the Digital Strategy of DIGIT
Provide advice and guidance on all aspects of IT governance
Follow Inter-service Consultations and Inter-service Groups to promote digital-ready policy making
Provide support and training to IT projects, programs as well as IT portfolio managers
Create business architecture models that reflect the organization's strategies and goals
Data management: ensure and improve data quality for portfolio records

Jun 2021 - Aug 2023

2 years 3 months

Luxembourg

Cloud/Integration/Technical/Data/Integration Architect and Technical Manager

Accenture

Build and lead DevOps and data engineer teams
Technical reference for GCP and Red Hat Openshift
GCP and GCP certifications mentor for Accenture Benelux
Development partnership with Red Hat and Couchbase
Clearstream: Dev(Sec)Ops/Hybrid Cloud Architect Cloud Transformation/Data Migration and Oracle DBs within GCP and Azure
Coding: Terraform, Ansible, Jinja templating, shell scripts, yaml and json
Design IaC based on GitOps architecture model and integration of this initiative in Jenkins CI/CD
Design from the existing service catalog new features to handle any Clearstreams assets deployment in GCP and Azure
Design GitOps architecture as IaC initiative to provision, change and decommission any service based on GCP and Azure
Aperam: cloud, data and GCP architect; offload backup for Veeam with GCS Proof of Concept
TVH: enterprise, data and GCP architect; data governance definition and data model alignment
Orange Belgium: cloud, data and GCP architect; design of solution and data architecture for BI/Analytics Artemis project
Implementation of the data architecture solution based on data ingestion layers such as Striim, Apache Airflow and Kafka
Proof of Concepts based on scripting to access REST API SFVL to extract data in json format
Define denormalization and nested data models within the datawarehouse DB system to handle cost and performance objectives
Transformation of OBE enterprise normalized data model in denormalized/nested
Proposal of a data hub at Enterprise level to create master data repositories
Hadoop cluster migration to GCP cloud project with R, Spark and Python Scala code migration
Data migration scenarios from on-premise systems to cloud and implementation of service driven architecture to expose enterprise data

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

1 year 4 months

Toronto, Canada

Technical/Solution/Integration/GCP Architect and DevOps Engineer

The Home Depot

Design a new pricing system for all Canada and act as GCP architect for all merchandising portfolio
Build and lead DevOps and data engineer teams
Technical reference and certification mentor for GCP for merchandising portfolio
Pricing: Design and deployment of pricing application as REST API and event-driven exposure
Success story architecture handling more than 80 million calls daily with low latency and optimized FinOps
Data analytics performed using BigQuery ML, POC with Vertex AI and Multi-Modal AI
Call Center: Design and deployment of call center using GCP AI DialogFlow ES and CX
Products Catalog: Design and deployment of products catalog application with AI categorization features

Apr 2017 - Mar 2020

3 years

Toronto, Canada

Infrastructure/Integration Architect & Technical Project Manager

Intact

Migrate all existing applications of the company from on-premise VM apps to containerized microservices with Openshift
Develop and support Proof of Concept with GCP
Participate in Architecture Design
Technical expertise WAS and SDK: audit and recommendations to fix production issues
Technical expertise architecture and Oracle: solutions to build DBaaS with new Oracle Exadata
Technical expertise Jenkins and Java: implementation of Java Flight Recorder and automation of Jenkins in Docker and Openshift

May 2015 - Feb 2017

1 year 10 months

Toronto, Canada

Infrastructure Solution Lead (ePOS Portfolio)

Shoppers Drug Mart/Loblaw

Transform all the existing applications from LPAR Unix to VMware Linux with apps redesign and versioning
Definition of the target infrastructure solution inclusive of Platform, Enterprise Storage, Network, Monitoring, and Messaging
Define Proof of Concepts based on AWS and GCP for business and technology presentations to stakeholders
Contribution to the development and maintenance of the Infrastructure Assessment Model
Develop infrastructure solutions and design to align to the current IT standards
Develop and execute the solution development process from concept stage through to delivery
Requirements Analysis and Validation, High Level Design, Low Level Design and Technology Cost Model
Detailed Design and Deployment planning for Non-Production and Production environments
Governance over infrastructure-based vendors to ensure alignment with technology standards

Sep 2014 - May 2015

9 months

Toronto, Canada

Integration and Solution Architect/Engineer

BAE Systems

Install and maintain a new national wide insurance fraud system (NetReveal/NRoD)
Architecture and administration based on JBoss Server, Mercurial, Apache Maven, Python, and Oracle RDBMS
Installation of NetReveal/NRoD architecture with data ingestion
Definition of solution architecture and proposals for adoption and enterprise architecture goals
Perform Pen Tests with professional hackers and performance tests with The Grinder
Projects: Verizon, Canatics project (Canadian National Insurance Crime Services) and RSA project

Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

4 months

Toronto, Canada

Middleware Consultant

IBM Services

Provide middleware expertise based on Oracle products for Desjardins
Weblogic architect and administrator: installation, configuration, troubleshooting, deployment, and tuning
Monitoring: JPython and shell scripts, ITCAM and IBM tools
Hardware platform design and deployment: Dell PowerEdge and HP Proliant

Jul 2012 - Jun 2014

2 years

Montreal, Canada

Technical and Solution Architect & Technical Project Manager

Desjardins

Design and define Information Systems with multiple internal actors and contractors
Transform business requirements from conceptual phase to production deployment
Manage technical projects based on Unix systems, Oracle products, and Weblogic servers
Technical Specification Draft and Guide concerning installation and configuration of Information Systems
Weblogic expert: Fix issues in high-traffic production eCommerce websites (ADP and ADA)
Enterprise architecture: tuning eCommerce websites and troubleshooting infrastructures
Review and proposal for improvements during projects concerning Weblogic, Solaris, and RDBMS servers
Proposition to add new services in the service catalog

Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

3 months

Québec City, Canada

Technical and Solution Architect

Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports

Deploy Oracle middleware products (Oracle Forms Reports Fusion Middleware 11g1 and 11g2)
Installation, configuration in cluster, troubleshooting and upgrade of Fusion Middleware
Oracle Web Tier: mod_security, webcaches, mod_wl_ohs, and OHS administration
Oracle ADF: upgrade and installation within defined architecture

May 2006 - Jun 2012

6 years 2 months

Luxembourg

Technical Manager, Technical/Solution/Integration/Infrastructure/Enterprise Architect/Engineer and Team Leader

European Commission

Define new architectures based on Oracle products and expose them as a catalogue of services
Oracle application server administrator and architect based on PaaS policy
Define architecture for content management, identity management, workflow engines, and J2EE applications
Administration of Enterprise Service Bus part of Oracle Fusion SOA
Fusion Middleware products: installation, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting
Apache OHS: mod_osso, irules, rewrites, and security improvements
Webcache: cluster configuration, cache and compression rules, and advanced tuning
Weblogic and iAS Apps Server: administration of 1700 domains and 600 ORACLE_HOMEs in cluster or standalone
Infocentre and CMDB design and build using JPython, shell script, SQL, HTML, and CSS
Identity management: advanced tuning in partnership with Oracle and installation
Service catalog definition: automation of technical operations in ITIL system using customized scripts
Tuning of all architecture components (Web, Apps, Middleware, and DB Tier) with Load Runner team

Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

2 years

Luxembourg

Product Leader, Technical Project Manager & Senior Oracle Consultant

Vision IT Group

Oracle expert and IT consultant for Vision IT Group
Oracle DBA, application server consultant, and eBS technical consultant
Pre-sales activity, workshops, demos, prototypes and R&D
Oracle RAC installation on 2 nodes with tuning
Clients: Dexia BIL, DLP, EFG International, Pictet, SIGI, Dupont de Nemours, MNHA

Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

2 years

Paris, France

Oracle Technical Manager & Technical Project Manager

CapData Consulting

Develop business activities and act as technical reference for Oracle products
Presales and business development
Oracle DBA, application server consultant, and eBS technical consultant
Team leader of Oracle technical consultants (6 persons)
Design data model for MIDAS based on Oracle partitioned tables for all agencies

Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

1 year

Paris, France

Technical/Solution/Integration Architect/Engineer

Lagardere Active Ressources

Design all IT architecture based on Oracle products
Unix and Linux administration of servers, Oracle databases, datawarehouse, and eBS environments
Audit and recommendations for improvements especially for Datawarehouse and eBS
Installation of W4 (workflow engine) for human resources centralized calendar
ETL Sunopsis to replicate specific Oracle database used by critical applications
Internal consultant for all technical design and internal auditor to review existing architecture
Troubleshooting and performance improvements for eBS response times

Jan 2002 - Dec 2004

3 years

Paris, France

eBS Technical Consultant (Architect, Technical Project Manager & Technical Team Leader)

Sopra Group

Sizing of production hardware and software solution installation (N tier)
Normalized eBS environments with clients' norms and defined security policies
Define delivery policy: specific development installation, versioning, and automation of deployments
Installation and configuration of Business Intelligence with Discoverer
Creation of archive policy with Oracle partition table
Benchmark production environment and design data model for incentive compensations
Pre-sales: estimate costs of eBS projects and deliver proposals
Technical leader for automation and deployment tools used by developers
eBS administrator: installation, configuration, cloning, and maintaining multi-language environments

Jan 2000 - Dec 2002

3 years

Paris, France

Tuxedo/Unix Administrator, Oracle DBA & Migration Project Manager

EDS

Administration of Oracle databases and applications belonging to EDS clients
National project eCare: ARBOR (ERP), VANTIVE (CRM), eBS 11 (Logistics), and BEA Tuxedo
Migrated ARBOR ERP to new version, sized and benched the Oracle DB for high volume invoice processing
Creation of infocenter to share environment information in real time
Rebuild Business Objects Universes and tune them

Jan 1998 - Dec 2000

3 years

Paris, France

Informix DBA & Unix Administrator

GEAC

Support engineer in charge of GEAC applications dedicated for libraries
Administration of ERP/CRM solutions based on Informix databases and Unix platforms
Remote access administration and user support for applications and databases
Training of technical teams and performance tuning of GEAC applications

Jan 1996 - Dec 1998

3 years

Belfort, France

Technical Support Analyst

LGS

In charge of bugs correction and support for ANABEL users
ANABEL application improvements (ERP/CRM developed in BBX)
Troubleshooting and technical support for users

Summary

Enthusiastic, dynamic, hard worker & innovator, I wish to participate in the will of your company to improve your back office & front office IT services. Having more than 30 years of experience within the Information Systems dimension at a technical level, I have acquired solid technical expertise and acted as technical leader.

I think that my qualifications, experience & skills match your project management & technical requirements. The diversity of my experiences allows me to correspond to several types of roles within a technical & project management framework such as solution, technical, cloud, integration, dev(sec)ops and AI/data architect/engineer. Besides, I acted few time as Technical Project Manager.

Nowadays I act as technical lead in various areas such as: Data management to build master data repositories (data mesh) and from this source of data, start AI intiative, Cloud transformation, migration and adoption, Modernization Legacy IT Systems by migrating them to containerized technologies, cloud or/and serverless services, Lead with cloud technologies and “Infrastructure as Code” to deploy any cloud service in automation and self-service model Lead and evangelist to promote recommended and best practices related to new design patterns such data mesh, cloud, gitops, business driven and event driven Design solution to align business requirements with the most appropriate IT architecture including security, finops and time to market

Business Sectors – Financial (+10 years), Government (+8), Retail (+7), Industry (1), Energy (1) and Services (+5)

Skills

Technical Skills

Cloud Services Providers: Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure And Amazon Web Services
Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm, Podman, Cri-o And Containerd
Coding: Shell Scripts, Terraform, Python, Ansible, Yaml, Json And Html
Dev(sec)ops And Sre
Version Control Systems: Gitlab, Github And Bamboo/bitbucket - Git-ops: Argocd And Fluxcd
Ci/cd: Ansible Tower, Cloudforms, Terraform Cli, Tf Cloud And Tf Enterprise, Jenkins, Gitlab Pipelines And Github Actions
Images And Artifacts: Build Strategy And Exposition, Container/machine Images, Jib, Nexus And Artifactory
Api Design And Exposition: Rest Apis, Swagger And Api Gateway Products Such Kong, Apigee And Mesh Services
Security: Hardening, Sast, Dast, Cnapp, Security Scans And Policies, Waf And Reverse Proxies
Secrets Management: Hashicorp Vault, Akeyless And Any Cloud Secrets Management Services (+Kms)

Architecture

Frameworks: Togaf, Archimate, 12-factor-app, Erd And Uml
Design: Infrastructure As Code, Microservices, Event Driven, Cloud Landing Zone, Identity Platform, Data Hub And Data Masters, Data Mesh, Iaas, Dbaas, Iac, Paas, Saas, Vpc, Storage, Network And Security

Data And Ai

Data: Bigdata, Etl/elt, Metadata, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Data Modeling (Erwin), Redis, Sql And No-sql
Data Tools: Toad, Powerbi Studio, Pgadmin, Dbeaver, Sqldeveloper
Genai: Vertex Ai (Models+), Bigquery Machine Learning, Gcp Dialogflow Es-cx
Ai: Gcp Vision, Imagen, Veo, Gemini And Chatgpt
Ai Tools: Google Vertex Studio, Rag And Agent Engines, Models Garden, Google Colab, Ai Frameworks Such As Tensorflow And Pytorch, Model Training And Prompting Engineering

Management Skills

Project Management: Project Manager
Methodologies: Agile, Kanban And Scrum
Tools: Jira, Confluence
Management: Cloud Technical Lead As Mentor, Coach And Trainer
Team Building: Developer Teams (Max 10), Devops Engineers (Max 5) And Data Engineers (Max 3)
Governance Leader: Data, Cloud, Enterprise, Images Strategy And Ci/cd Design/workflows