Abdelkarim Mali, Enterprise IT Architect

Abdelkarim Mali

Enterprise IT Architect

iQera

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, IT Systems and Networks Engineering
Experience
15 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 4 Months

Enterprise IT Architect at iQera
  • France - Paris
  • My current job since November 2021
IT Solutions Architect at Orange Cloud for Business
  • France - Boulogne-Billancourt
  • May 2018 to October 2021

Design and Deploy EaaS (Elasticsearch as a Service) platform powered by Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Logstash, and Kafka.
Design and implement a continuous delivery solution for EaaS platform, powered by Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Kafka, Logstash and Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
Implement Machine Learning on critical Elasticsearch clusters.
Implement Elasticsearch clusters health monitoring and alerting, using X-Pack Watchers.
Manage users and roles within X-Pack.
Write technical documentation (Service description, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Installation Manual, Operating Procedures).

IT Solutions Architect at AG2R LA MONDIALE
  • France - Chartres
  • June 2018 to September 2018

Design and Deploy Elasticsearch cluster for Log management and Web-search application.
Implement a Kafka cluster as a message broker used to ship logs to Logstash.
Performance benchmarking and sharding optimization to enhance real-time searches.
Deploy Beats agents on Docker Enterprise platform to collect, ship and index logs in Elasticsearch cluster.
Build Kibana dashboards.
Implement X-Pack to enhance Elasticsearch security, monitoring, and reporting.
Write technical documentation (Service description, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Installation Manual, Operating Procedures).

IT Solutions Architect at Orange
  • France - Arcueil
  • May 2017 to May 2018

Design and implement a continuous delivery solution, powered by Gitlab, Nexus, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Puppet.
Design and implement NodeJS « Serverless » environment powered by Openshift and OpenWhisk.
Build Kibana dashboards.
Traine L1 and L2 teams for the Elastic stack.
Migrate Kibana 4 to Kibana 5, and RSyslog 7 to RSyslog 8.
Implement a RabbitMQ cluster as a message broker user to ship logs to Logstash.
Implement X-Pack to enhance Elasticsearch security, monitoring, and reporting.
Write technical documentation (Service description, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Installation Manual, Operating Procedures).

Technical Architect at Societe Generale Bank
  • France - Paris
  • July 2016 to May 2017

Leading a team of 5 system engineers.

Security projects :
o Hardening security on UNIX and Linux servers.
o Design and implement double factor authentication and Role-based access control approach on UNIX and Linux environments.
o Setting-up PCI-DSS compliant Linux Redhat servers template.
o Design and implement centralised logging solutions using Elasticsearch stack and Syslog-NG.
o Design and Implement Redhat Satellite 6 solution.

Automation / DevOps projects:
o Design and implement Ansible architecture for configuration management.
o Deploy VMware Integrated OpenStack.
o Design and implement development environment, powered by CoreOS, Openshift, and Docker.
o Design and Implement IaaS platform powered by VMware vRealize Automation, vSphere, Redhat Satellite, and Ansible.
o Design and implement J2EE PaaS platform powered by VMware vRealize Automation and Ansible
o Design and implement a DBaaS platform powered by VMware vRealize Automation, PostgreSQL and Ansible.

Disaster Recovery Project:
o Disaster Recovery Plan management for UNIX and Linux platform.

Technical Architect at Crédit Agricole Group
  • France - La Defense
  • February 2016 to June 2016

Migration management and resources optimisation for 295 IBM AIX partitions from IBM Power P750 to IBM Power S824.
Capacity planning and sizing optimisation (scaleUP vs scaleOUT) for private cloud (200 virtual machines)
Write Capacity Planning reports for UNIX, Linux and Windows Servers.

Technical Architect at Mutex
  • France - Paris
  • June 2015 to January 2016

Leading a team of 7 system and network engineers.
Define and implement a private PaaS platform, powered by Openshift, Docker and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
MS Windows 2003 system migration to MS Windows 2012.
Authentication, printing and file sharing platform migration from Novell OES2SP3 to MS Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory.

Technical Team Leader at Mutex
  • France - Paris
  • May 2012 to May 2015

Leading a team of 5 system engineers.
V2V migration from Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 to VMware vSphere 4.2.
VMware vSphere 4.2 platform upgrade to vSphere 5.5.
Define and implement a VDI platform powered by VMware Horizon View 5.2.
Oracle Database 10g (HPUX11i) migration to Oracle Database 11g (Linux x86).
Change management and Level 3 technical support.
UNIX/Linux, Novell, and VMWare ESXi system management.
Novell OES (eDirectory, NCS, NSS, IDM, Iprint) service management.
SAN administration (Clariion CX3-80, IBM DS4000, Brocade switches).
EMC Networker 7.6.4 backup’s management (Quantum Scalar i80, EMC DataDomain).

UNIX Systems Engineer at Mutualité Française
  • France - Paris
  • May 2011 to May 2012

Participation in IT Infrastructure and Business Split between two entities (FNMF and MUTEX).
UNIX/Linux, Novell, and VMWare ESXi system administration.
Change management and Level 3 technical support.
Netware 6 system migration to Novell Open Enterprise Server 2.
Oracle Application Server 10g (HPUX) migration to Oracle Weblogic 11g (Linux x86).
SAN administration (Clariion CX3-80, IBM DS4000, Brocade switches).
EMC Networker 7.6.4 backup management (Quantum Scalar i80, EMC DataDomain).
Design, prepare and execute Disaster Recovery Plan for UNIX/Linux servers.

UNIX Systems Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Morocco - Rabat
  • July 2010 to May 2011

UNIX systems (AIX and HPUX) administration.
Change management and Level 3 technical support.
TSM backup management.
SAN administration (HP XP24000/XP12000/XP1024/EVA, Brocade switches).

Versatile Production Engineer at Axa Technology Services
  • Morocco - Rabat
  • January 2010 to July 2010

Software infrastructure integration, support, and maintenance.
Incident and problem management.
Technical referent of Electronic Document Management (IBM Filenet 3.5).
Performance indicators and operating statistics development.

Unix systems Engineer at Crédit Agricole Group
  • France - La Defense
  • January 2009 to December 2009

Linux and VMWare Infrastructure 3.5 system administration.
Change management and Level 2 technical support.
Linux servers integration into OpenLDAP directory ( ~450 servers ).
Shell and Perl scripting

Education

Master's degree, IT Systems and Networks Engineering
  • at Université de Picardie Jules Verne
  • July 2009

Specialties & Skills

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
MIGRATION
NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER
SERVERS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Native Speaker