Currently holding this position, open to career opportunities
I'm a Linux system engineer within Pierre & Vacances group, european leader in Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry. I'm in charge of VMWare virtualisation platform, Pillar centralized storage (FiberChannel) as well as RedHat Linux servers.
I'm also in charge of improving monitoring (Nagios), capacity planning (SmartReport, Cricket) and metrology used to get a businness view of our platforms.
Previous Positions
2007 - 2010: Production manager - hosting company Amen
- System and Network team Manager
- Management of 4 people, 24x7 on-call planning
- Infrastructure management:
- Shared hosting: 350 servers
- Private virtual hosting: 45 servers, more than 3000 virtual machines
- Dedicated hosting: 3500 servers
- New hosting products definition, deployment and management
- Collaboration with marketing and dev teams (Profits & Loss studies, technical specifications, ...)
- System & network architecture, monitoring (High availability, Nagios, Cricket, Munin, backups)
- Installation, configuration, security (Puppet, PXE)
- Third level customer support
- In charge of Amen's infrastructure management (110 000 customers, 300 000 domains names.)
- Main Amen website (customer 's space, corporate website, online store & intranet: 150 000 visitors/month, 1,2M view pages/month, 99,99% uptime)
- DNS servers, Monitoring, Filers (PowerDNS, MyDNS, Nagios, Cricket, Munin, NetApp, Coraid)
2003 - 2007: Technical IT security auditor – French Navy IT HeadQuarter
- Training "Firewall, architecture and deployment"
- Documentation writing
- Practice exercices with Netfilter/iptables.
- 2 days training, 4 times a year
- Around 15 interns per session, from technician up to engineer.
- Technical IT security inspections
- Procedure definition, validation and writing,
- Realization,
- Hot feedback,
- Results analize,
- Enhancement proposal and action plan writing.
- Defensive IT security French Navy IT HeadQuarter
- IT security warning and alert network (intrusion, virus alerts, security patches, ...)
2000 - 2003: Intranet website development – French Navy
1992 - 2000: Radar maintenance technician – French Navy
IT skills
- Systems
- Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Windows 2000 / XP / 2003,
- Xen, OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, KVM
- Apache, HAProxy, Nginx, Lighttpd, Tinyproxy
- Postfix, Dovecot
- MySql, PowerDNS, MyDNS
- OpenVPN
- Programming langages
- PHP, Shell, Javascript
- (X)HTML - W3C recommandations
- IT security organisation
- Risk analyzis with EBIOS method (French government risk analyzis method)
- French security reference documentation writing: DSI / FEROS / PES
School degrees
- Since 2009 - Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers (CNAM, french school for professional)
- Network and multimedia enginner degree CYC14 - (IRSM)
- 2000 - French military degree in IT programming
- French national education homologation: "BTS informatique de gestion" (NSF code 326t,level III)
- 1992 - Petty Officer start school - French Navy
Trainings
Trainings at "Agence Nationale pour la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Informations" (ANSSI)
- Wifi security
- Secured architecture (practical works)
- Security on the Internet (theoretical works)
Other trainings
- 2005 - Windows 2003 Administration & Security
- 2002 - Java Initiation
- 2001 - Advanced Linux administration
- 2000 - Web development, introduction
Personal works
- Development
- Micro-blogging PHP tool development
- Linux aDesklets widgets (http://adesklets.jbfavre.org/)
- Documentation
- Technical documentation (http://publications.jbfavre.org/)
- Linux Firewall, architecture concepts and deployment, for French Defense Department.
Foreign langages
- Technical english
- German: scolar notions
Hobbies, others
- Computing:
- Free software, GNU/Linux, Internet technologies
- Music:
- Singer in french choir chœur StellaMaris since 2001
- Singer in french choir chœur LuxÆterna since 2007