Franck Ratier

Design, implement, manage, and maintain cloud infrastructure and services to support the business' objectives, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of cloud infrastructure.

Common tasks and responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy cloud infrastructure in a complex hybrid (multi-cloud, on-prem, edge) infrastructure (both greenfield and on-prem migration projects).
• Monitor and manage cloud resources to ensure optimal performance and cost-efficiency following the FinOps Team's guidelines (cutting costs by up to 50% on some projects).
• Implement and maintain security measures to protect cloud infrastructure and data following the Cyber Security Team's guidelines.
• Create and manage automation scripts to streamline cloud operations and reduce manual intervention.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to align cloud solutions with business requirements.
• Identify and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architecture, configurations, and processes.
• Serve as the primary contact for inquiries about the cloud infrastructure and, more broadly, for any questions or training needs related to cloud services.

Develop, design and maintain cloud centered technologies for a leading international pharmaceutical company. Custom built solution for federated learning software implemented on Kubernetes in Azure and AWS using a GitOps approach (FluxCD, Kustomize, Helm, Crossplane...).

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Build engineer in Fanatical support for AWS. Review high-level design from the Architect and produce the corresponding implementation document (low-level design). Discuss the technical options with the Client and deploy the infrastructure into AWS based on the implementation document using IaC (CloudFormation, Sceptre, Terraform). Create bash tooling to decrease build time by 50%. More than 40 production environments built, for more than 30 different Clients. Daily experience with most AWS services.

Migrate office services to the cloud (Jira, Confluence, internal landing page, web design static assets). Exposure to most AWS services, in particular EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ELB, VPC, ECS/ECR, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch. Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, CloudFormation. Scripting with bash, node.js, ruby.

Build a robust, tested and deployable backup structure for the live environment with onsite, offsite and offline backups of +20 Postgresql DB dumps using Bareos (Bacula fork) and a collection of bash scripts, representing +30TB of archive/week. Ansible deployment of new hosts (i.e. servers and disk or tape based storage ones). Sensu monitoring of all hosts. Automatic restore tests. Linux Administration of 300+ servers in traditional Data Center.

Responsibilities as Focal Point of the Team: management of production/daily business, management of changes, quality issues follow-up, communication with IBM's project office (CTL, SDM, DPE) and the Customer, communication within the Team. Responsibilities as Admin (AIX, HP-UX): creations & implementations of new scripts (Korn Shell, Python), maintenance of applications & production environment, batch management (TWS), backup & recovery (TSM), monitoring (BlueCare, Nagios), implementation of changes (installation/patching of customer specific applications), complete support in French language & with respect to ITIL practices, customer support on a 2 shifts schedule.