About Mehdi
As a GCP Authorized Training Partner, 6x GCP certified, Kubernetes Certified and AWS Certified, I assist clients in their Cloud Journey, and help them get the best out of Cloud Public services in compliance with industry security standards and best practices.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Basic
Can work on-site
Dubai City (up to 20km), Abu Dhabi (up to 10km)
Experience
- BPCE GroupCloud & AI Security ArchitectJuly 2024 - Today (1 year and 11 months)Improve cloud security posture, and drive secure cloud adoption by enforcing security best practices in cloud architecture and AI driven solutions :
- Support cloud architecture design on GCP, while coaching project teams on Public Cloud and AI security challenges, and ensuring the adoption of security best practices ;
- Expand the GCP service catalog, ensuring newly introduced cloud services comply with the group's security policy (Dialogflow CX, Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI, PSC, BigQuery ML, Code Interpreter, Apigee, AlloyDB etc.) ;
- Implement key security controls to improve the group's overall cloud security posture ;
- Co-define an in-house security framework aiming to safeguard AI usecases, in alignment with the AI Act ;
- Louis VuittonCloud & App modernization ArchitectFebruary 2023 - July 2024 (1 year and 5 months)Support application and business teams in their move to the cloud on GCP, and reinforce architecture best practices on GCP and Kubernetes:GCP Cloud Adoption & Training:
- Train and onboard teams on GCP fundamentals, services, and best practices to accelerate cloud adoption.
- Cloud Security Posture improvement: Conduct GCP cloud security audits (IAM, Networking), identify vulnerabilities, and implement remediation plans to improve landing zone security.
- GCP Service Catalog enrichment: Develop a GCP service catalog, defining guidelines, standards, and architecture patterns, simplifying application design and onboarding on GCP, in compliance with internal security standards (Cloud Armor, GKE, GKE Gateway, Certificate Manager, Cloud SQL, Storage Transfer, Data Transfer, Cloud Run, Recommender, Filestore, Secret Manager, PSA, PSC, Cross-project Load Balancing, Cross-region Load Balancer, Vertex AI etc.)
App Modernization, container adoption & AI:- Drive application modernization and containerization adoption (GKE/Cloud Run), defining cloud-native target architectures to optimize performance, resilience, and scalability (Cloud Run, Cross-region load balancing, Vertex AI, GKE Gateway Controller, GKE with GPUs, GKE Autopilot, etc.).
Cloud Migration:- Develop and execute GCP migration strategies (Lift & Shift, Replatform, Refactor), defining target architectures, IAM policies, and identify cost optimization opportunities (FinOps).
- Sarenza / Monoprix OnlineSRE Cloud & Devops Engineer onMay 2022 - February 2023 (9 months)Enhance and maintain Kubernetes clusters hosting the client's e-commerce platform microservices:
- Deploy solutions to improve the Kubernetes cluster observability stack (Grafana, Jaeger, Prometheus)
- Migrate the Istio service mesh to Linkerd
- Operate Kubernetes clusters, improve their stability, and manage their run (incidents, updates, change requests)
- Implement a backup solution and define backup policies as needed (Velero) Rely on a GitOps approach via Argo CD, Terraform, and Helm to automate the deployment of solutions
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Education
- Kubernetes Certified (CKAD) GCP - Authorized Training Partner GCP x 5 - Google Certified ProfessionalKubernetes Certified (CKAD) GCP - Authorized Training Partner GCP x 5 - Google Certified Professional
- Master of ScienceCENTRALE PARIS2017Master of Science