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🚀 Senior Solution Architect & DevOps | TOGAF, Cloud, Kubernetes & Critical Infrastructure

IT Solution Architect (TOGAF Certified) | Cloud & DevOps Expert

💡 My Promise: From strategy to zero-defect execution. With 20+ years in architecture and engineering, I bridge strategic vision (TOGAF, ITIL) and technical reality (DevOps, IaC). I optimize performance, secure critical systems (CIS Benchmarks), simplify complex enterprise environments, and enable digital transformation with measurable impact.

Core Expertise:

Architecture & Governance: Defining IT vision, roadmaps, enterprise standards, modeling systems (ArchiMate/UML), and secure deployment of COTS solutions.

DevOps & Cloud: Designing robust GitOps CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker for HA, hybrid cloud (AWS, GCP, VMware), and automating infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform.

Security & Operations: Hardening Linux/Windows systems, Zero Trust, secrets management (Vault), modern auth (Keycloak, mTLS, LDAP/OAuth2), Observability (ELK, Prometheus/Grafana), proactive incident management, and audit readiness.

🛠️ Technical Fluency:

IaC/Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Python | Orchestration/CI/CD: Kubernetes, OpenShift, ArgoCD, Docker | Security/IAM: Vault, Keycloak, CIS Benchmarks | Modeling/Process: TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL V4

🔎 Approach: Rooted in civil engineering, I pursue elegant, efficient designs. Passionate about innovation, I maintain projects like clickceler, an AI-driven system for time series analysis using Symbolic/Logic AI. Fluent in French/English, I excel at transversal facilitation, documentation, and international collaboration, delivering actionable insights and practical solutions.

Sectors: Energy (Elia), EU Institutions (EEAS, eu-LISA), Telecom, Finance.

GitHub (engineering approach):

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
Dutch
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bousval (up to 50km)

Elia Transmission Service
IT Intake Manager
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
June 2024 - June 2025 (1 year)
• IT Intake Manager receiving and managing non-standard business service requests directed to IT operational teams: Applications, Infrastructure, Network, Security. Expertise in IT architecture, including Cloud, hybrid, and private environments is essential to successfully perform these cross-functional tasks across IT business and operational departments:
• Reception and clarification of the context for each new service request.
• Guidance towards IT architectural solutions that align with company standards and meet the security requirements of critical and sensitive activities in an EMS (Energy Management System).
• Offloading IT operational teams by handling unconventional IT requests covering multiple domains organized in SILO in a transversal way.
• Close collaboration with teams responsible for the deployment and maintenance of IT applications, infrastructure, network & security.
• Acting as a facilitator and catalyst between IT business activities and IT operational functions.
IT Service Management Solution Architecture Cloud computing
European External Action Service (EEAS)
Infrastructure Solution Architect
November 2022 - April 2024 (1 year and 5 months)
• Archimate Technology Modeling – TOGAF ADM Cycle – D, E Phases
• Technology / Infrastructure Viewpoints based on Archi, Microsoft Visio & Gliffy diagrams.
ATOS / eu-LISA
IT Infrastructure Solution Architect (TOGAF)
November 2019 - February 2022 (2 years and 3 months)
• TOGAF – Archimate – EA Sparx - Visio
• Specification and management of requirements (requirements)
• General specifications of the building blocks of VMware Clusters based on Archimate modeling language.
• Information System design: Detailed Infrastructure VMware, ESXi, VCS, VSAN, Clustering – High Availability
• Information system design: RedHat RHEL VM template
• Information system design RedHat RHEL Hardening & security / CIS Benchmarks, openssl, mTLS, ldaps, sssd
• Information system design: Monitoring Nagios – Gearmand – InfluxDB – Grafana- Prometheus, ELK- Elasticsearch-LogStash-Kibana
• Information system design: Networking HAProxy Front End / Application / Administration high availability (VRRP) keepalived, Networking DHCP, dnsmasq, apache.
• Information system design: Operational procedures for "factory" configuration and deployment of VMware clusters and RHEL VMs.