Alexandre Breniaux
System and Infrastructure Senior Engineer
Virtualization
Private and public Cloud
Infrastructure as Code
Datacenter
Operating Systems
39 years old
Driving License
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Dynamic, open-minded and new technologies enthusiast, I will do my best to strengthen your IT team by drawing my rich experience as a Datacenter and Cloud specialist, enhanced by a team leadership in international projects
Team Leader / Senior System engineer
Elca Cloud Services
Since February 2021
Full-time
Genève
Switzerland
- ELCA CLOUD provides a Swiss sovereign cloud platform
- System team management:
-Team leader of 4 level 3 system engineers
-Communicate, track and report on tasks, issues and changes related to the system platform.
-Organize work and development of team members.
-Decision-making.
-Focal point for various stakeholders to propose solutions and follow up on incidents and tasks in progress.
-Reactivity and follow-up during major incidents and security breaches - Operating system lifecycle process:
-End of life strategy.
-Infrastructure as code and automation mindset.
-Reporting for audit and KPIs.
-Capacity planning for Windows and Linux systems.
-Capacity planning for applications. - VMware vSphere lifecycle (setup, update, migration, IAC, maintenance and licensing aspect)
- Storage devices sizing and offer, setup, update, migration and maintenance
- Hardware/Datacenter management (sizing, setup, offers, lifecycle, maintenance plan, documentation)
- Windows expert role
- On-premise Windows server lifecycle
-Active Directory migration and architecture
-Windows server roles and applications(DNS/DHCP, IIS, MSSQL, ADFS, certificates)
- On-premise Windows server lifecycle
- Project migrations
-Audit of existing infrastructures
-Task creation and attribution
-Time tracking and reporting
-Infra as Code mindset - Consulting missions for infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery plans and responding to calls for tender.
- Level 3 support for customer and datacenter infrastructures issues
- Documentation of customer and internal infrastructures, project tracking, procedures and guideline
- Proactive environment monitoring with metrics and alert thresholds
Projet personnel
Mon camp de base
June 2020
to January 2021
ANNECY
France
- Project to create a company offering a mountain sports camp, combining :
- Full-board chalet-style accommodation.
- Transportation to the residence and activities.
- Mountain sports activities supervised by qualified professionals. - The project was halted following a pessimistic tourism projection due to the health situation allied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Systems Engineer / Systems Platform Owner
CICR
December 2016
to June 2020
Full-time
Genève
Switzerland
- International context, 2 Datacenters, more than 6000 servers, 18000 users and more than 3PB of data
- Head of the Systems platform (Datacenter and Cloud solutions) in charge of 6 L3 engineers and technical referent for projects and maintenances
- Technical project referent on Datacenter transformation into Hybrid Cloud infrastructure, servers deployment automation, Datacenter migration to hyper-converged infrastructure, internal messaging migration, global archiving project
- In charge of continuous improvement for the platform managed services
- Compliance review on technological developments and their compatibility with operational constraints, from the design to the operating phase
- Platform administration: production monitoring, capacity planning and budget management
- Identification, analysis and resolution of Level 3 problems
- Arbitration and escalation for all non-standard processes
- VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, RedHat and Hitachi Technologies
ICT Operational Engineer
LANexpert - Swisscom
April 2012
to December 2016
Full-time
Genève
Switzerland
- In collaboration with the project manager, numerous operational tasks on complex infrastructures, migration projects, relocation of Datacenter and disaster recovery test
- Responsible for continuous improvement on the managed services on a large variety of clients (NGOs, banks, industries)
- Accomplish complex administration tasks (patching, OS updates, data restoration)
- Audit of existing infrastructures to deliver improvement proposals, administration tasks and maintenance procedures
- Managing operations, resolving incidents and requests for changes on customers' IT infrastructures in compliance with ITIL best practices
- Receiving, documenting and managing customer infrastructure delivered from the project team
- Technologies Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, EMC
System and network administrator
MB2I
April 2010
to April 2012
- In charge of the deployment and optimization of infrastructures during IT projects on SMEs
- Deploying tasks for business interconnection, datacenter delocalization, infrastructure and messaging migration projects
- Audit of existing infrastructure and improvement proposals
- Administration task automations on customer infrastructures
- Technical reference for email and virtual infrastructure migration projects
- Problems analyze and resolution
- Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, IBM and Juniper Technologies
- Technical leader in Datacenter and Cloud projects
- Team management
- Datacenter transformation to Cloud services
- IT infrastructures evolution and migration
- Designing secure technical architectures
- POC integration tests and implementation
- Automation of administration and deployment tasks
- Defining and implementing a business recovery plan
- RFP writing and defense
- Capacity planning and budget management
- Level 3 problem analysis and resolution
- Infrastructure as code(IAC)
- Windows server infrastructure
- Hardware and datacenter expert
- Storage and Virtualization expert
- Microsoft Server technologies (Active Directory, DFS, DNS, DHCP, IIS, MSSQL, ADFS)
- VMware vSphere (Software Defined Datacenter)
- VMware vRealize suite (Automatic provisioning)
- Storage SAN, File and Object Storage
- Private Cloud infrastructure(design to implementation)
- Infrastructure as Code(terraform, gitlab, git, puppet)
- Linux system administration(Debian and RedHat)
- Public Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, OCI)
- Datacenter hardware (Dell, HPE, Hitachi, IBM)
- Backup solution (Veeam, Bacula, CommVault, Netbackup)
- Citrix Xen Desktop (App and Desktop streaming)
- Customer and solution oriented
- Polyvalent
- Facility to adopt new technologies
- Management capability
- Proactive and strenght for proposal
- Team player
- French, mother tongue
- English, upper intermediate
•AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
•Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ104
•Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
•VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2020
• VMware Virtual SAN : Deploy and Manage (V6)
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert : Desktop Infrastructure
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 - Configuration
• Managing App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenDesktop
• ITIL V3 Foundation
• Agile Foundation
• Deploying Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Solutions
• Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for Windows - Administration
•Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ104
•Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
•VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2020
• VMware Virtual SAN : Deploy and Manage (V6)
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert : Desktop Infrastructure
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 - Configuration
• Managing App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenDesktop
• ITIL V3 Foundation
• Agile Foundation
• Deploying Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Solutions
• Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for Windows - Administration
•Cloud Operations on AWS
•Learning GitLab
• Red Hat Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower
• Red Hat System Administration I et II
• Microsoft - Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
• Data Center Automation with vRealize Orchestrator and PowerCLI
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.2]
• VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.0]
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.2]
• Microsoft - Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
• Citrix - Implementing Citrix Netscaler 10.5 for App and Desktop Solutions
• Citrix -Deploying Entreprise Mobility Solutions with Citrix Xen Mobile
•Learning GitLab
• Red Hat Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower
• Red Hat System Administration I et II
• Microsoft - Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
• Data Center Automation with vRealize Orchestrator and PowerCLI
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.2]
• VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.0]
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.2]
• Microsoft - Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
• Citrix - Implementing Citrix Netscaler 10.5 for App and Desktop Solutions
• Citrix -Deploying Entreprise Mobility Solutions with Citrix Xen Mobile
• Bachelor IT administration and security for enterprises
• CQPM « Business Network Administrator »
• Associate Degree Networks and Telecoms
• Baccalauréat STI electronic
• CQPM « Business Network Administrator »
• Associate Degree Networks and Telecoms
• Baccalauréat STI electronic
- Trail running (ultra-distance competitions)
- Mountain ski, skating
- Race Bike
- Culinary recipes blog
- https://lamegadalle.com/
- Development of a trek booking site in the Moroccan High Atlas