DevOps Cloud Engineer - Infra & SecOps
Core Expertise
10+
Years
Engineering depth.
5
Clouds
AWS, OpenStack, GCP.
24/7
Production
Built for load.
Run the foundation
Build reproducible Linux, Kubernetes and OpenStack platforms that teams can rely on in production.
Make delivery repeatable
Transform manual infrastructure work into versioned, auditable and reusable automation.
Bridge legacy and cloud
Design pragmatic migration paths across AWS, OpenStack, VMware and on-premises infrastructure.
Read production clearly
Design monitoring, alerting and performance feedback loops before incidents turn into surprises.
Experience
A career moving from full-stack engineering into cloud, platform and DevOps roles, with repeated work on automation, orchestration, reliability and operational clarity.
Selected Missions
These are not decorative projects. They show the environments, migrations and operating systems behind the professional experience: what needed to change, what was built, and what became more reliable.
Mission profile
SDAN
French Interior Ministry
Secure and reproducible OpenStack infrastructure for multi-project environments.
Context
SDAN needed reliable, governed and maintainable infrastructure environments with strong control over systems, networking, security and databases.
Outcome
More standardized environments, faster provisioning and clearer operations through IaC, automation and observability.
Mission profile
IRCAM Amplify
Audio SaaS platform
AWS migration and operations for an audio SaaS platform.
Context
IRCAM Amplify needed to move toward a more robust AWS infrastructure while keeping production available.
Outcome
An automated, monitored and stabilized AWS infrastructure built around Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD and managed AWS services.
Mission profile
Radio France
Core infrastructure
Core infrastructure modernization for critical radio streaming services.
Context
Critical media services require resilience, observability and controlled deployments while integrating cloud and OpenShift migrations.
Outcome
A more reliable internal forge, better-controlled migrations and clearer production visibility through monitoring and alerting.
Mission profile
Foncia
Move2Cloud
DevOps tooling for AWS, OpenShift, VMware and OpenStack migration work.
Context
Foncia needed to modernize applications and infrastructure through progressive cloud and system migrations.
Outcome
Terraform resources, Ansible roles, GitLab CI/CD pipelines and internal tooling that made application teams more autonomous.
Mission profile
LCL
Banking platform
Docker Swarm to Kubernetes migration and DevOps modernization for LCL.fr.
Context
The LCL.fr platform and internal services needed a more modern, automatable and observable release stack.
Outcome
A stronger Kubernetes, CI/CD and OpenStack foundation with blue-green deployments and autonomous developer environments.
More mission notes
Mission profile
OpenClassrooms
Mentoring
OpenClassrooms Mentoring
Weekly technical mentoring, assessment and progression support for full-stack students.
Mission profile
Neteven
Marketplace ERP
Neteven Marketplace ERP
Full-stack ERP and marketplace engineering across product mapping, migrations and GDPR rules.
Credentials
2013 - 2016
Engineering Degree - Information Systems, Networks and Multimedia
Engineering degree focused on information systems, networks and multimedia technologies.
2011 - 2013
Preparatory Classes - MPSI/MP track
Two years of intensive scientific preparatory classes, MPSI/MP track.
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Cisco CCNA
Cisco
Cambridge First Certificate
Cambridge English
French
Fluent
English
Fluent / Cambridge First Certificate
Arabic
Fluent
AI ISEN
Member
ISEN Savoir
Student association president / Language office president
Side quests
Creative, competitive and community habits. Useful at work too, just with fewer dashboards.
side.quest
DJing and electronic music composition on FL Studio, with a strong interest in jazz and sound experimentation.
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Streaming on Twitch and YouTube, interactive content creation and community engagement.
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Basketball, swimming and table tennis, with a strong sense of team play and discipline.
Contact
Quick answers
Leo EL KHENIFER specializes in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering and SecOps, with hands-on work across Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD and observability.
Leo is based in Paris, France, and works on production infrastructure, cloud migration, automation and reliability topics for teams that need stable operating platforms.
The portfolio presents infrastructure case studies, platform engineering work, cloud migrations, automation systems, Kubernetes and OpenStack operations, observability and delivery pipelines.
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Available for senior DevOps, platform engineering and cloud infrastructure missions.