As an Architect within the Design Authority :
• Design, implement and manage a turnkey enterprise grade Kubernetes platform (Platform Engineering)
based on Azure AKS (Product centric, secured, multitenant, automation and GitOps, monitoring with
Prometheus, cluster management with Rancher, FinOps with OpenCost, DevSecOps…)
• Unify with the platform pattern the governance and the security principles and hardening of all Kubernetes
(AKS) based products, provide a shared service layer and self-service namespaces to product teams
• Structure and lead the Kubernetes offer at the enterprise level, setup onboarding process of products teams
and promote its usage
• Design, audit and implement cybersecurity by introducing DevSecOps approach and tools, setup a security
hardening guidelines and rules for the Kubernetes platform infrastructure and application deployed on it
• Setup a centralized Kubernetes cluster management solution and benchmark vendors (Suse Rancher, Tanzu
VMware, RedShift Red Hat)
• Support and accelerate digital transformation of the products in term of moving to cloud, containerization /
microservice architecture, secure the Alstom SaaS offering, enable automation, agility and self service
• Provide close technical support to projects and delivery teams (architecture & design, Azure services, AKS,
security, networking …) in build and run activities
• Release architectures and designs for cloud (Azure) and onPrem to ensure high availability, security,
resiliency, DRP, automation and DevOps, produce documentation, guidelines and architecture patterns
• Drive Azure FinOps audit, implement immediate remediations and provide enterprise principles and
guidelines for FinOps management
• Design, implement and promote a new cloud operating model to bring more automation (IaC and CI/CD),
agility, Platform Engineering and self-service approach to the organization and remove any bottleneck linked
infrastructure and process
• Introduce agile framework in architecture and design authority team, educate team to right balance between
intentional and emergent Architecture when interacting with agile project teams
• Design, support, and accelerate move to cloud of the different product across the company and advocate for
public cloud adoption (PaaS, Serverless, CaaS)
• Provide support and strategical vision to CTO and C-Level managers about cloud adoption, emerging
technologies and patterns, automation and agility frameworks, benchmark solutions and vendors
• Lead architecture and design authority team of 5 architects (France, US, India)
• Lead, define and support cloud and digital transformation strategy for our product line (>1 billion $ revenue) by promoting automation, cloud Platform patterns and agile approaches
• Setup and develop architecture and governance patterns, define standards for Security, HA, Reliability,
automation, performance and FinOps
• Design, manage and set up Cloud & DevOps platforms architectures (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure,
Networking, automation, security…) to facilitate cloud and microservices transformation and enable cloud
and agility adoption
• Design, maintain and evolve a ready to use enterprise grade DevOps platform (Engineering Platform) based on
Kubernetes (Kubernetes “AKS, EKS”, Helm, Micro services, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos …)
• Enterprise architecture board member and representative for review and validation, strategy and roadmap,
technology watch …
• Lead and support products in their Azure migration (Roadmap, Target Architecture, Lift & Shift, Hub & Spoke)
• Security audit, hardening and remediation, design and integrate DevSecOps approaches and tools on cloud and
platform level (Vulnerability scan, WAF …)
• Design and lead POCs for new technologies, solutions, patterns …
• Part of Azure CoE responsible of designing and implementation Azure cloud at the enterprise level (Hub &
spoke architecture, design landing zones, define and setup governance and security, defines automation
patterns and reference architectures, Migration roadmap, FinOps management …)
• Set up a knowledge base and delivery of architecture design documents
• Provide technical support and lead for DevOps squads and products teams
• Design, manage and set up Cloud platforms architectures (CaaS, PaaS, SaaS, AWS, Azure)
• Lead move to cloud projects, strategies and roadmaps for costumers
• Design, manage and set up data platforms (Ingestion, Data lake, Analytics, Visualization)
• Design and set up On premises infrastructure and perform installations (Application tiers, Database Server,
Middleware, security…)
• Design integration architectures and flows between systems (API, services bus, data hub …)
• Set up automation and DevOps architectures
• Lead architecture team and workshops (applicative, integration, data, security, microservices…) with
consumers and release documentation
• Monitor and ensure the adoption of the architecture principles, governance and best practices
• Support top management in developing strategies and roadmaps, provide a vision of the state of the art and
popularize technical concepts
• Technology watch and provide advice on future transformations
• Participate in offers development and pre-sales
• Involved in the business development of the offers (Cloud adoption frameworks, Kubernetes, DevOps …)
• Context of the Project: Implementation of an observability platform in a multi-cluster and multi-cloud context
addressing the axes: Monitoring, Logging, Distributed Tracing and centralization of AWS and Azure services
metrics
• Role: As a solution architect my role is to:
o Lead workshops and studies on the state of the art of technologies, best practices, and team’s
requirements
o Design, set up and discuss the architecture of the different layers of the platform (Security, HA,
resiliency…)
o Implement a POC to study the feasibility of the architecture, then the platform
o Submission of the architecture to the board, launch and supervision of developments and delivery
o Bring the platform to the products and show the added value to adopt it
• Context of the Project: Design, study and migration of several products and a DevOps Kubernetes (PaaS)
platform to Azure
• Role: As an Architect and technical leader of the migrations, my role is to:
o Coordinate migration activities, roadmaps, strategies
o Support products in the migration to Azure in a Lift & Shift pattern at first
o Introduce the concepts of cloud native architectures and lead the products towards more integration
in Azure (Advocate for usage of PaaS, serverless, CaaS …)
o Design, set up and implement new target architectures (Landing zone, Hub & spoke, infrastructure,
security, etc.)
o Implement a POC to study the feasibility of the architectures
• Context of the Project : Implementation of an end-to-end data / BI platform comprising a data ingestion layer, a
data lake, data warehouse and Analytics and a visualization layer, within an AWS Cloud environment
• Role: As Lead Solution Architect and technical leader of the platform my role is to :
o Coordinate and setup of the technical architecture design activities of the platform for each layer
o Management of the offshore solution architects (cloud, data), team in India
o Leading architecture workshops (As is - To be) and proposal of target architecture (infrastructure, data
lake, security, DevOps), support in technological and design choices,
o Drafting documentation
o Participate in project steering and governance, milestones and achievements monitoring
o Coordinate deployments and go live activities
• Project challenge:
o Big project involving many partners and dealing with new needs
o Ensure interoperability betwee...