Sébastien Coavoux

Cloud Architect, Devops, Linux

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Email: contact@azoplee.com

Availability: Available

About

I offer services in cloud infrastructure projects. I have expertise in containers, CI/CD and DevOps methodology. Independent for 5 years, I have 12 years of experience in a diverse range of industries: transportation, telecommunications, home care, horticulture, government agencies. I’m familiar with Agile methodology, got a good team spirit and can communicate easily. I can translate business or technical needs into infrastructure needs and help achieve them.

My main objective : ship work the way I would like to receive it Let’s discuss your needs and see how we can have a fit.

Experience

Azoplee.com

Senior Consultant

November 2019 - present

Client: Bayer - April 2023 to December 2023

Mission : Software build in the horticulture industry

Assignment : Cloud infrastructure architecture

  • Design infrastructure solution in Azure
  • IOT pipeline integration
  • Azure integration to achieve passwordless approach

Assignment : Enable developers fast protyping

  • CI/CD pipeline for each microservice
  • Deployment automation in Azure to achieve GitOps approach
  • Multi environment deployment

Assignment : Internal API integration

  • Business analysis and tranduction of need
  • API limitation analysis
  • Integration POC and validation

Technical environment : Azure, Azure Containers App, Gitlab, Azure functions, SQL server, Postgresql, Graphql, Terraform, Azure Data Explorer, Event hub, Cosmosdb

Client: Alayacare - October 2022 to March 2023

Assignment : Cost optimization of Kubernetes workloads

  • Setup of CPU based autoscaling for microservices
  • Analysis of historical metrics to define appropriate thresholds
  • 10% cost decrease on Kubernetes nodes infrastructure

Assignment : Application stability issue analysis

  • CPU throttling analysis of Kubernetes apps
  • Analysis of resource allocated for Kubernetes nodes
  • Recommendation on quotas and resources usage

Assignment : Application deployments

  • Self hosted onetimesecret deployment
  • Logging stack upgrade
  • IAM role integration with avec Kubernetes service accounts

Technical environment : Aws, Kubernetes, argocd, falco, helm, github actions, cloudformation, ruby, python, secret management

Client: Erudit - March 2022 to July 2022

Assignment: Platform Migration

  • Business apps containerization with Podman
  • CI/CD architecture
  • Packaging and Deployment Automation

Technical environment : Podman, Ansible, Gitlab, Openstack

Client: Bell - June 2020 to June 2022

Assignment: Node migration in a Kubernetes cluster

  • Cluster node addition
  • Reinstall of physical nodes
  • Maintain cluster operation while migrating

Technical environment : Linux, RKE, Ansible, Helm

Assignment: Tooling and pipeline improvemnts

  • Add, update and deploy charts
  • Configuration deployment automation with ArgoCD
  • Template standard configuration for new clusters

Technical environment : Gitlab, Helm, Openshift, ArgoCD, ELK, Kafka

Assignment: Support of new tenants on Openshift environments

  • Tenant onboarding
  • Teach Kubernetes best ptractices
  • Business configuration setup

Technical environment : Openshift, BGP, Envoy, Helm, ArgoCD

Assignment: Public cloud strategy adoption

  • Proof of concept in various cloud provider
  • Roles and responsibility definition within internal teams
  • Support strategy based on tenant expertise

Technical environment : AWS, GCP, Rosa

Customer: Axceta - February 2020 to May 2020

Assignment: Kubernetes-based stack Audit and Helm setup

  • Audit of existing architecture in Google Cloud
  • Detection and fixes of design and security issues
  • CI/CD pipeline improvement with Helm

Technical environment : Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Cloud Endpoint, Helm

Customer: Numigi - December 2019 to February 2020

Assignment: Stack migration from a Docker based architecture to a Kubernetes one

  • Audit of existing architecture
  • Proof of concept with Kubernetes architecture
  • Packaging and Deployment Automation

Technical environment : Kubernetes, Docker, DigitalOcean, Helm, Ansible

Customer: Nokia - November 2019 to February 2020

Assignment: Scaling Platform

  • Migration of business application from ECS to Kubernetes
  • Packaging and Deployment Automation
  • Platform support and coaching

Technical environment : EKS, Helm, Gitlab, Openstack, Terraform



Fon
(previously XCellAir)

Senior Devops Engineer

May 2017 - November 2019

Assignment: Private cloud platform

  • Setup and configuration of Openstack server
  • Design of private cloud architecture
  • Deployment and Configuration of Openstack with Chef
  • Contribution to Openstack Chef cookbooks to support last Openstack versions

Assignment: CI/CD pipeline

  • Migration of repositories to Gitlab Cloud and user training
  • Design and implementation of CI and CD using GitlabCI
  • Team velocity improvement with a faster feedback loop
  • Deployment of an internal artifacts manager (Nexus)

Assignment: Scaling plateform

  • Introduction of Docker technology in the company and user training
  • Lead containerization of business applications and technology adoption
  • Introduction of Kubernetes as next generation scaling solution
  • Deployment of containerized stack in AWS and Openstack (ECS, K8s, docker compose)

Technical environment : Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Gitlab, Openstack, Chef, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Python, Linux

 

Nuance Communications

Devops Engineer

April 2016 - May 2017

Assignment: Provide a cloud based platform for other team to setup in-house app

  • Setup and configuration of a Kubernetes cluster
  • Development of patch to Kubernetes to add new features
  • Development of a tool to automate installation, with continuous intergration and test in cloud
  • CI pipeline and unit tests of the setup tool
  • Setup, configuration, monitoring and maintenance of a docker registry for locals apps
  • Proxy architecture to replicate docker images
  • Coaching of new Kubernetes users
  • Integration of latest Kubernetes / Docker version to get the very last features

Technical environment : Linux, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, Go, Portus, Gitlab, DigitalOcean, Ruby

Nuance Communications

Release and Continuous Integration Engineer

November 2015 - April 2016

Assignment: Sustain CI pipeline and improve reliability

  • Setup of a in-house monitoring system to detect server issues
  • Use of container approach in CI to have stateless agent
  • Unification of agent setup to get a homogenous infrastructure
  • Deployment automation with configuration management tool from scratch

Technical environment : Linux, Python, Salt, Docker, Bamboo, Sensu, Graphite, Grafana, Ruby

 

Savoir-faire Linux

Free Software Consultant

April 2013 - November 2015

Customer: Société de transport de Montréal

Assignment : Setup of a monitoring tool in a huge environnemnt

  • Setup the monitoring tool in dev env
  • Development of tool generating configuration
  • Monitoring plugins development
  • Production support deployment
  • Continuous integration tests
  • Benchmarks, functional testing

Technical environment : Linux, Python, Shinken, Graphite, WMI, Talend, Ossec, Collectd, SNMP

Customer: Société de développement de la Baie-James

Assignment : Monitoring software update and hardware addition

  • Keep the software up to date with latest features
  • Monitor new hardwares, servers, softwares.
  • Custimization

Technical environment: Linux, Python, Shinken, Thruk, Nagvis, Windows Server, WMI, VmWare, SNMP

Customer: Société québécoise des infrastructures

Assignment : Setup of a monitoring tool

  • Setup and customization (alerting, theshold)
  • Custom development of monitoring plugins
  • Formation materials

Technical environment : Linux, Python, Shinken, Centreon, MySQL, PHP, Windows Server, WMI, VmWare

Education

Polytech'Grenoble

Computer Science Engineer
Major : Networks and Systems

2009 - 2012

Key modules : Algorithms, Systems architecture, Cryptography, Databases, Software engineering, Operating Systems, Networks, Communication, Management.

Projects

L’Atelier Candide

lateliercandide.ca

Business Process Engineering

2018 - 2024

Inventory operations automation

  • Product additions and updates
  • Delays detection on shippings
  • Product quantity sync between multiple website
  • Detect inventory difference and protuct to order again

Technical environment : Python, Google Analytics, Shopify, GraphQL

Alignak

Main developer

2015 - 2018

Open-source monitoring framework

Major refactoring to make code compliant to Python rules

  • PEP8 and Pylint compliance over the code
  • Functional and unit test additions
  • Setup of development best practices (continuous integration, code review, code quality analysis)
  • Packaging automation

Technical environment : Python, Travis, Docker, Dpkg