Zakaria E.

Site Reliability Engineering

France

About

SRE/DevOps Engineer with 7+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale. Core expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), with a background in data engineering and security. Certified: CKA · CKAD · CGOA · KCNA · KCSA · AWS Solutions Architect · Azure · Terraform Associate

Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer at Tenable
    Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr

    Tenable Identity Exposure (TIE) — a real-time Active Directory security platform that detects misconfigurations, attack paths, and identity-based threats across hybrid AD environments. Built an internal CLI to automate SRE toil across 3,000+ VMs and 1,000+ AKS clusters. Consolidated observability into a single OpenTelemetry pipeline. Led zero-downtime migration of 1,000+ clusters from nginx to Traefik ingress. Contributed to AWS migration while hardening the existing Azure platform.

  • DevOps Engineer at NetApp
    Jun 2022 - May 2025 · 3 yrs

    Ocean for Apache Spark (formerly Data Mechanics) — a fully managed Spark platform running on Kubernetes that automates infrastructure, optimizes costs, and simplifies big data workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Led multi-cloud infrastructure end-to-end (Terraform, K8s/Helm, CI/CD). Achieved SOC2 compliance, optimized cloud costs, and built Go-based CLI tooling. Partnered with Solutions Architects on customer-specific implementations.

  • Data & DevOps engineer at Société Générale
    Oct 2021 - May 2022 · 8 mos

    DevOps for a 7-person Data Lab in financial controls. Migrated Horton to Cloudera, managed CI/CD pipelines and monitoring (ELK), and ran a K8s/Airflow POC for ML workflows. IaC with Terraform on private cloud.

  • Excelerate Systems (2 yrs 7 mos)
    • Data & DevOps engineer
      Nov 2019 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Designed big data architectures for clients using ELK, Postgres, Airflow, K8s, and AWS. Served as Solution Architect for SearchGuard. Delivered consulting and training engagements.

    • Deep Learning Engineer
      Mar 2019 - Oct 2019 · 8 mos

      Computer Vision & Deep Learning in the edge for smart connected devices

  • Visiting professor at IONIS Education Group
    Feb 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Taught at ESME-Sudria, ISEGCOM, and KEDGE Business School (e-MBA) alongside full-time role — covering ELK, SQL, and data engineering topics.