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Sebastien Vayrette-Gavard

Sebastien Vayrette-Gavard

Sr Technology Specialist
2448 NewCastle, Oaville, Ontario, CA, L6M 5B1
(905) 808-6907
vayrette@gmail.com
English, French

Background

About

About

Having a real passion for everything IT, I turn challenges into learning opportunities. Working in the field for as long as I can remember, my first experience started hands-on as I learned how to assemble and connect computers.

As the years have passed, I continue to explore the many topics that the IT world has to offer. I usually spend my day around Ansible, Consul, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, and most recently, Kubernetes. Along with a chatbot, they enable me to quickly deliver self-serve pipelines in order to provide teams around the organization with anything from bootstrapping a new on-premise or cloud environment, triggering a build, deploying a release or switching to a disaster recovery site.

Currently, I have strong experience in designing data-centers and networks, maintaining infrastructure on bare metal, hypervisors or containers, delivering monolithic or microserviced applications, as well as a proven track record with large scale SaaS environments and post-merger integrations. I also participate with recruiting and interviewing processes, in addition to training and mentoring new and remote team members.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Sr Technology Specialist, 

    Apr, 2018 - Present

    Amdocs is a leading software and services provider to communications and media companies of all sizes, accelerating the industry’s dynamic and continuous digital transformation.

    In the role of Sr Technology Specialist, I was assigned to the post-merger integration UXP Systems and Amdocs. Over the course of 16 months, I planned and executed the migration of all UXP Systems assets to the Amdocs' corporate network. I also interviewed and built a new onsite and remote Devops teams.

    • Lead UXP Systems PMI with Amdocs

    • Introduced IaC and IaaS

    • Succesfully delivered multiple large scale SaaS

    • Trained Costumers' operational teams

    • Mentored new on site and remote team members

  • Sr DevOps Engineer, 

    Jan, 2017 - Feb, 20181 year 1 month

    EagleEye is a SaaS platform that allows retailers and other businesses to create an intelligent, real-time connection with their customers. The latest addition to our portfolio is the PCOptimum loyalty program which effectively merged both Optimum and PCplus.

    One of my biggest contributions was the introduction of Jenkins and Ansible along with Consul and Vault. This allowed EagleEye to deploy, scale and secure any on-premise or cloud data center with very little operational overhead.

    • Infrastructure

    • Monitoring

    • SaaS

    • Performance Testing

    • Continuous Integration

  • Web Infrastructure Architect, 

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

    TVOntario is a publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario.

    In collaboration with management, development teams and other stakeholders assess near and long term needs. Research, recommend and implement approved approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale and automate when appropriate.

    • Private Cloud

    • Infrastructure

    • Configuration Management

    • Migration

    • Deployment

  • Sr System Administrator, 

    Apr, 2010 - Oct, 20155 years 6 months

    HostPapa's goal is to provide every customer with a fully-featured hosting package, backed by top customer service and powered by renewable green energy. HostPapa is an established, privately owned company and a leader in high-value, low-cost hosting.

    For nearly 6 years I have been taking care of the servers' farm for one of the biggest Canadian hosting company, first analyzing workflows and quickly offering new and improved ones. Daily tasks included physical setup of new servers at the data centres as well as installations of hypervisors and virtual machines and their OS. Occasionally I would add or replace switches and routers and maintained an ever growing database of ip ranges and their routing tables across our infra structure.

    • System Admin

    • Network

    • Monitoring

    • R&D

    • Mentoring

Skills

Skills

  • Cloud Engineer

    Git

    Ansible

    AWS

    VMware

    Consul

    Vault

    Helm

    Docker

    Jenkins

    Groovy

    Kubernetes

    Terraform

  • System Admin

    Linux

    SCM

    Network

    Backup

    LDAP

    RADIUS

    Disaster Recovery

    Configuration Management

    Database Administration

    Troubleshooting

  • Messaging

    RabbitMQ

    Mosquitto

    SNS

  • Databases

    MySQL

    MariaDB

    RDS

    PostgreSQL

    MongoDB

    ElasticSearch

    Redis

  • Networking

    Firewall

    Routing

    IPSec

    VoIP

    Wireless

    Proxy

    SSH tunneling

    VPN

  • Programming

    bash

    c

    python

    nodejs

    hcl

    go

    coffeescript

    yaml

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Genie Informatique, University of Annecy-le-Vieux

    Sep, 1998 - May, 1999

    Networks and Telecommunications

    Operating Systems

Interests

Interests

  • IoT

    Flying RobotsHome AutomationComputer Vision
References

References

  • Jean-Christophe ROUX

    Sébastien is a very good 'DevOps' who gets things done. Solid knowledge of the current devops toolkit, from AWS to Kubernetes. I also like Sébastien's fundamentals of IT (automation better than manual...). And it is always fun to be around him.