Nicolas RATINEAU

Director Systems Infrastructure

San Francisco, California, United States

About

IT professional with over 10 years of experience in the field of Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE with a demonstrated history of working in fast-moving environments. In-depth knowledge in managing end to end mission-critical projects from conception to implementation supporting next generation services with high availability working with leadership to push cloud cost-effective solutions. *SKILLS* • Cloud Native Architect (AWS), • Design and implement cost-efficient systems which are Highly Available and Scalable, • Infrastructure as Code with tools like Terraform, CI/CD workflow, Configuration Management • Docker/Containers/Kubernetes, Microservices, • Monitoring, Alerting, Logging, Tracing, Observability

Experience

  • Infrastructure Engineering Director at 2600Hz
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    • Consolidate cloud native technologies and key player in implementing DevOps mindset, infrastructure as code, new CI/CD pipeline. • Key role in the implementation of company-wide enterprise security strategy for network and hardware security, disaster recovery, data protection and information access across all major systems. • Closely collaborate with multiple engineering teams across the company. • Led technology selection and rollout, focusing on organizational planning, provider contracts, price negotiation and supplier service-level agreements. • Train support staff by coaching daily, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback. • Foster positive working environment to encourage innovation, collaboration while managing end-user needs between functional and security responsibilities with IT systems. • Vendors assessment Technology stack: - AWS (EKS, ECS, OpenSearch,...), CI/CD pipeline, Ansible, Terraform, Github, Docker, CentOS, Duo, Wazuh, Cloudflare, ...

  • Ingrooves Music Group (11 yrs 7 mos)
    • Director System Engineering
      Feb 2018 - Jan 2021 · 3 yrs

      Leading a team of DevOps Engineer to build/test/deploy/scale/monitor and improve Ingrooves hybrid systems. • Managed a migration project from all on-premise workloads to AWS which reduced the OPEX budget by 20%. Implemented infrastructure as code and new DR plan which reduced RTO and RPO by over 50%. • Oversaw development and implementation of improvements to all IT systems for global remote workers. • Implementation of DevOps processes. • Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs. • Interviewed, hired and trained new IT staff which supported 150+ employees across 7 countries. • Worked with leadership to manage a $2M+ IT budget. • Coordinated with management teams to plan, develop, align and execute strategies to merge IT systems after acquisition.

    • Associate Director Global Information Systems
      Nov 2012 - Feb 2018 · 5 yrs 4 mos

      • Ensured reliability, security and monitoring of all IT systems and tech processes which included two datacenter colocation facilities. • Managed the IT staff and helpdesk to support all employees across 4 offices worldwide. • Implemented consolidation through virtualization at the two datacenter facilities which reduced CAPEX budget by 30%+ • Designed and implemented a new on-premises Disaster Recovery plan which reduced RTO from 10 days to less than 48h. • Built and strengthened relationships with vendor representatives in order to negotiate prices. • Worked closely with leadership to implement new security practices from a new employee on-boarding process to third party vendor assessment. - Storage technologies: SAN, NAS, IBM XIV, Netapp ONTAP, Nexenta - Systems Administration (Windows 2012, Linux CentOS) - Virtualization: VMware, Citrix XenServer - IPS/IDS Sourcefire - Disaster Recovery

    • System Engineer
      Jul 2009 - Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      • Administered and monitored complex heterogeneous systems with over 400TB of music content. • Developed a scalable IT infrastructure to quickly react to company growth using new technologies like SDS and SDN • Became the company subject matter expert on all datacenter implementation. • Provided L2 and L3 engineer support for users and developers of various systems. • Implement and maintained CI pipelines for various internal projects • Created technical documentation for large proprietary software systems - Systems Administration (Windows 2008, Linux, Mac OS X) - Web Server Farm administration - Systems Deployment (WDS, WSUS, automation, ...). - Technical Support. - Network Administration (VPN, MPLS) - Project Management (Security, migration,...). - Life Cycle Management. - C# Development.

  • Micorosft SUPINFO Certified Trainer/Teacher Aides at SUPINFO
    Oct 2007 - Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Led discussion sessions, corrected and graded exercises as well as helped students solve problems during their internships. • Wrote news and articles for the school SUPINFO Microsoft Laboratory • Created a new webcast system and migrated the laboratory website. • Trained 6 Technicians for a third party IT service company on deployment and troubleshooting of Windows. • Helped at the hands-on labs during the Microsoft Tech Days event (13,000+ people).

  • Lifeguard at Vert Marines
    Jun 2006 - Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Student Job

  • Project Manager - Network Administrator at Saint Gatien High School
    Nov 2006 - Jun 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Part Time Internship Network Audit Network Optimization: Wireless Access-Point configuration (RADIUS) Creation of internal documentation Preventive maintenance on server Software deployment on Active Directory domains Helpdesk Servers setup, (GPOs, DHCP, DNS, WSUS, SQL, TSE …)