Valérian Beaudoin

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Professional Background

2021 - now : Engineering Manager Infrastructure, Back Market, Paris

2020 - 2021 : DevOps Tech Lead, Back Market, Paris

2019 - 2020 : DevOps Engineer, Back Market, Paris

Part of the DevOps team, I’m in charge of running Back Market websites with Kubernetes platforms on AWS using tools such as TerraGrunt, Kops or Helm to ensure the complete reproducibility of our stacks.

2018 - 2019 : Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer - Europe, Rakuten, Paris

Part of a global team located in the US, Europe and Japan, I worked on datacenter related tasks such as taking over existing virtualisation platforms based on VMware and OpenStack. I also took part in opening a new datacenter for Rakuten European subsidiaries and deploying an multi-tenants OpenStack infrastructure. I was aiming to manage them automatically and remotely, as well as providing easy to use infrastructures and tools.

2014 - 2018 : Network & System Engineer, Oxalide, Paris

Within a dedicated team, I worked on storage and virtualization infrastructures, shared services such as monitoring, APT repositories or e-mails, and internal tools made available to production teams. I also worked within a customer team for a few months.

  • Automation of the monitoring setup for servers
  • Creation of a tool for deploying virtual machines on VMWare infrastructures
  • Automation of the building of VMware / NetApp private clouds with Ansible
  • Management of Oxalide’s dedicated and shared virtualization platforms
  • Implementation of the Spacewalk patch management tool
  • Build of the inventory of machines with Ansible & Foreman
  • Deployment of the latest Oxalide website using AWS & Docker
  • Build and management of on-premise & cloud based customer platforms
  • Development of Chef cookbooks

2011 - 2014 : Linux System Administrator, Alter Way Hosting, Saint-Cloud

During this experience, in addition to managing customers platforms, I was able to take part in modernizing the existing IT infrastructure: upgrading old software, setting up Puppet and rationalizing physical and virtual machines.

  • Administration and deployment of architectures on linux servers
  • Troubleshooting and level III support
  • Management of dedicated and shared virtualization KVM platforms
  • Technical pre-sale
  • Writing and validating internal procedures and documentations

2010 - 2011 : System & Network Administrator (Apprenticeship), Waycom, Suresnes

This experience enabled me to deploy my first web infrastructures in relation to the customer development teams, and to build skills on a large number of technical subjects. I was also asked to suggest improvements and I dealt with incident mitigation, which allowed me to understand the stakes of the production.

2010 : Internship at the Intervention Unit, Orange, Caen

During this end-of-studies internship focused on telecommunications, I was led to install and configure PBX / IPBX, phones and Wi-Fi AP in various companies. I also made interventions on the local loop, and delivered training to end-users.

Education

2010 - 2011 : Professional Bachelor Of Computer Systems & Software, UIT of Sénart/Fontainebleau, Paris XII University

Specialized in Systems and Networks Administration.

2008 - 2010 : Technology University Degree of Networks & Telecommunications, UIT of Ifs, University of Caen

2010 : Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Jules Verne High School, Mondeville

Technical Experience

Operating Systems: Linux, macOS

Virtualization: KVM, Xen, VMware

Orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenStack

Storage: NetApp, EqualLogic, IBM

Continuous Integration: Travis-CI, Jenkins, GitLab CI

Continuous Delivery: Spinnaker

Monitoring: Centreon, Grafana, Datadog

Automation: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, TerraForm

Development: GoLang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl

Public Cloud: AWS, Azure

Containers: Docker

E-mails: Postfix, Dovecot, ClamAV

Web Services: Apache, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Tomcat, PHP, MySQL

Languages

French: Native

English: Scored 935 points at TOEIC in 2011

Spanish: Elementary

Japanese: Night classes, 114 at the JLPT N5 in 2017, 98 at the JLPT N4 in 2019

Interests

Swimming, Climbing, Japanese language, Piano, Travel, Open Source Software