Benoit Kohler

I am leading a team of 5 engineers, my day to day activities are :

• Instilling the Devops culture into the Netops mindset.

• Developing strong and fruitful relationship with manufacturers and suppliers

• Creating and implementing client-centered services and offers The team goals are to conceive, source, build and maintain an international backbone across 6 counties in Europe (AS 60350), composed of 4 Datacenters and around 50 buildings connections. Our main missions are :

• Internet connectivity (Juniper MX) with more than 250Gbps

• MPLS L3 & L2 transport across all group buildings & datacenters (Juniper QFX)

• Datacenter Spine & Leafs with multiple context support (Cisco Nexus)

• Packaging & automating everything (Netbox, Ansible, Docker & Git CI/CD)

• Capacity planning and inventory management for our Datacenters

Acting deputy lead and network referent in a cross-functional team of 18, Working on making the daily life of everyone easier with new automation tools. Building a team of Network Reliability Engineer, inside the existing Infrastructure Team. We are tackling the technical debt while adding more automation as we grow.

Designing AS60350 architecture, based on the new usage. Veepee opened 3 new datacenters since 2016, I am in charge of changing the current model of our network services, as well as building our on-premise Cloud foundation.