Antoine L. - Cloud, data and Dev(Sec)Ops Architect/Engineer

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Hesperange, Luxembourg

Experience

Jan 2025 - Oct 2025

10 months

Middleware, GCP Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Clearstream

Define and code the deployment of JBoss EAP apps within OCP using JBoss CLI and consider topology deployment requirements
Design and implement ArgoCD CI/CD in GitOps for OpenShift deployment
Design all Kubernetes resources required to migrate and deploy existing apps on OpenShift
Propose additional GCP-based solutions to improve transformation
Build Docker images for application deployment with OpenShift Kubernetes using Maven
Develop tools to secure and accelerate application transformation and migration

Feb 2024 - Dec 2024

11 months

Cloud, DevSecOps and Security Architect; DevSecOps Engineer

EIB

Define and deploy cloud security landing zone for EIB security team
Design security policies in EIB context and select tools such as Checkov and Sentinel
Manage secrets with Vault and define governance service models
Design and define CNAPP in collaboration
Ingest Fortify data into Defect Dojo and create Fortify scans and dashboards
Implement Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and AWS Terraform CLI; participate in SAST, DAST and CNAPP initiatives

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1 year

Technical Project Manager for BGL Wealth

BNP-BGL

Initiate transformation to move all Wealth applications from BGL on-premise to BNP IBM Cloud
Plan, anticipate and follow transformation actions
Align teams’ efforts and schedules to orchestrate successful migration from on-premise to IBM Cloud

Aug 2023 - Present

2 years 4 months

Freelance

SELKEA

Aug 2023 - Jan 2024

6 months

Luxembourg

Enterprise Architect and Deputy Team Lead Architects

European Commission

Assess new IT programs/projects and promote alignment with DIGIT Digital Strategy
Provide advice and guidance on all aspects of IT governance
Follow inter-service consultations and groups to promote digital-ready policy making
Support and train IT projects, programs and IT portfolio managers
Create business architecture models reflecting organizational strategies and goals
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
Act as technical reference for GCP and Red Hat OpenShift
Mentor on GCP certifications for Accenture Benelux

Projects:

Clearstream: DevSecOps/Hybrid Cloud Architect for data migration and Oracle DBs within GCP and Azure; coding with Terraform, Ansible, Jinja, Shell, YAML and JSON; design IaC based on GitOps and Jenkins CI/CD
Aperam: Cloud, data and GCP architect; offload backup for Veeam with GCS proof of concept
TVH: Enterprise, data and GCP architect; data governance, data model alignment, enterprise data hub proposal
Orange Belgium: Cloud, data and GCP architect for BI/Analytics; implement ingestion layers with Striim, Apache Airflow and Kafka; denormalization in data warehouse; propose data hub and cloud migration solutions

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

1 year 4 months

Toronto, Canada

Technical/Solution/Integration/GCP Architect and DevOps Engineer

The Home Depot

Build and lead DevOps and data engineer teams; mentor on GCP certifications for Merchandising Portfolio

Projects:

Pricing: Design and deploy pricing application as REST API with event-driven exposure; handle over 80 million calls daily with response times between 17ms and 110ms; achieve FinOps at CAD 1,800/month; perform data analytics with BigQuery ML and Vertex AI POC
Call Center: Design and deploy call center using DialogFlow ES/CX for AI conversational interfaces with call recordings and history
Products Catalog: Design and deploy AI-based product catalog application for image and product categorization

Apr 2017 - Mar 2020

3 years

Toronto, Canada

Infrastructure/Integration Architect & Technical Project Manager

INTACT

Migrate all existing applications from on-premise VMs to containerized microservices with OpenShift
Develop and support GCP proof of concept
Participate in architecture design
Provide technical expertise on WebSphere, SDK and Oracle Exadata for DBaaS recommendations
Implement Java Flight Recorder and Jenkins automation in Docker and OpenShift with best practices

May 2015 - Feb 2017

1 year 10 months

Toronto, Canada

Remote

Infrastructure Solution Lead (ePOS Portfolio)

Shoppers Drug Mart/LOBLAW

Define target infrastructure including platform, storage, network, monitoring, messaging, desktop, remote access, middleware and DB technologies
Define AWS and GCP proofs of concept for stakeholders
Contribute to infrastructure assessment model development and maintenance
Analyze environment changes and assess impact on infrastructure landscape
Identify new processes and artifacts for solution development
Develop and execute solution development from concept to delivery
Conduct requirements analysis, high/low level design and cost modeling
Lead proof of concept, pilot phases and deployment planning for non-production and production
Govern infrastructure vendor solutions against technology standards

Sep 2014 - May 2015

9 months

Toronto, Canada

Integration and Solution Architect/Engineer

BAE Systems

Architect and administer NetReveal/NRoD fraud detection system based on JBoss, Mercurial, Maven, Python/JPython, Oracle RDBMS, VMware ESX, CentOS
Define solution architecture and propose enterprise adoption
Perform penetration tests with professional hackers and performance tests with The Grinder
Contribute to projects for Verizon, Canadian National Insurance Crime Services and RSA

Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

4 months

Toronto, Canada

Middleware Consultant

IBM Services

Provide WebLogic architecture, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, deployment and tuning
Implement monitoring with JPython/shell scripts, ITCAM and IBM tools
Design and deploy hardware platforms using Dell PowerEdge and HP ProLiant for Desjardins

Jul 2012 - Jun 2014

2 years

Montreal, Canada

Technical and Solution Architect & Technical Project Manager

Desjardins

Design and implement new IT systems and maintain existing systems on UNIX with Oracle FMW and WebLogic
Lead technical projects with Oracle RDBMS, FMW, Solaris and WebLogic Server (10.3.x to 12c)
Draft technical specifications and guides for installation and configuration
Resolve production eCommerce website issues and tune infrastructures
Propose improvements for WebLogic, Solaris and RDBMS servers; add services to service catalog

Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

3 months

Québec City, Canada

Technical and Solution Architect

Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports

Install, configure and upgrade Oracle Forms/Reports and Fusion Middleware 11g1/11g2 in cluster
Administer Oracle Web Tier with mod_security, web cache, mod_wl_ohs and OHS improvements
Install and define architecture for Oracle ADF Fusion Middleware 11g1

May 2006 - Jun 2012

6 years 2 months

Luxembourg

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

European Commission

Administer and architect Oracle application servers under PaaS policy
Define architectures using Oracle application server and databases for CMS, identity management, J2EE apps, portal, workflow, forms, and reports
Administer Oracle Fusion SOA ESB and Fusion Middleware products: install, configure, tune and troubleshoot
Configure Apache OHS with mod_osso, rules, rewrites, redirects and security improvements
Manage web cache clusters, compression rules and advanced tuning
Design, install and administer 1,700 WebLogic domains and 600 ORACLE_HOMEs for 13 Oracle products in clustered and load-balanced architectures
Develop infocentre and CMDB with JPython, shell scripts, SQL, HTML, CSS and external tables
Install SOA in WebLogic clusters and manage ESB deployments
Perform identity management tuning with Oracle partnership
Define service catalog of ITIL operations and automate service requests with scripting
Tune architecture components with LoadRunner across web, apps, middleware and DB tiers

Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

2 years

Luxembourg

Product Leader, Technical Project Manager & Senior Oracle Consultant

Vision IT Group

Act as Oracle DBA, application server and eBS technical consultant
Lead pre-sales activities, workshops, demos, prototypes and R&D
Install and tune Oracle RAC on two-node clusters
Support dexia BIL, DLP, EFG International, Pictet, SIGI, Dupont de Nemours and MNHA stakeholders

Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

2 years

Paris, France

Oracle Technical Manager & Technical Project Manager

CapData Consulting

Develop consulting business and act as technical reference for Oracle products
Lead team of six Oracle DBAs, iAS and eBS consultants
Conduct presales and business development
Design data model for MIDAS using Oracle partitioned tables for all agencies

Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

1 year

Paris, France

Technical/Solution/Integration Architect/Engineer

Lagardere Active Ressources

Design IT architecture based on Oracle products
Administer Unix/Linux servers, Oracle databases, data warehouse and eBS environments
Audit and recommend improvements for data warehouse and eBS
Install W4 workflow engine for centralized HR calendar
Implement ETL with Sunopsis for critical Oracle database replication
Troubleshoot and improve performance to reduce eBS response time from 5 minutes to under 5 seconds

Jan 2002 - Dec 2004

3 years

Paris, France

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

Sopra Group

Size production hardware and software solutions (mono-node and multi-node N-tier)
Normalize eBS environments to client standards
Define OS, database and application security policies
Define delivery policy for development, versioning and automated deployments
Install and configure BI with Discoverer; create archive policy with Oracle partition tables
Benchmark production environments and design data model for France Poste incentive compensations with range partitioning
Estimate project costs in presales; lead automation and deployment tools for developer teams
Administer eBS environments: install, configure, clone, patch and maintain multi-language setups
Audit, benchmark and propose roadmaps for application migrations and improvements

Jan 2000 - Dec 2002

3 years

Paris, France

Tuxedo/Unix Administrator, Oracle DBA & Migration Project Manager

EDS

Administer Oracle databases and applications for EDS clients
Manage national eCare project with ARBOR ERP, VANTIVE CRM, eBS 11 and BEA Tuxedo
Migrate ARBOR ERP to new version and optimize Oracle DB performance for invoice generation under 3 hours for over 1 million contracts
Create infocenter for near real-time environment information sharing
Rebuild and tune Business Objects universes

Jan 1998 - Dec 2000

3 years

Paris, France

Remote

Informix DBA & Unix Administrator

GEAC

Support ERP/CRM solutions for libraries based on Informix and Unix platforms
Administer client servers remotely and resolve application and database issues
Train client technical teams and configure GEAC applications for optimal performance

Jan 1996 - Dec 1998

3 years

Belfort, France

Technical Support Analyst

LGS

Correct bugs and improve ANABEL ERP/CRM application developed in BBX
Troubleshoot and support ANABEL 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