Amar LAMKADEM
On assignment - Open for SaaS projects / evenings & weekends

Amar LAMKADEM

Integration & DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience, specialized in deployment industrialization, CI/CD pipeline optimization and cloud infrastructure management. Expert in Kubernetes, Terraform and scalable architectures. Currently on assignment at Lombard Odier (private bank).

750€/day (excl. VAT)
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[email protected] +33 7 61 36 17 01 Metz, France LinkedIn GitHub
9+ YRS
2025 - Present
Lombard Odier

Integration & DevOps Engineer

Assignment at Lombard Odier private bank in Luxembourg. Integration and automation of deployment pipelines in a demanding banking environment.

CI/CD Integration DevOps Banking
Oct 2024 - May 2025
Optimy

DevOps Engineer

Ownership of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Migration from legacy GoCD infrastructure to Bitbucket Pipelines with detailed roadmap planning.

  • Legacy GoCD infrastructure migration to Bitbucket Pipelines
  • FluxCD POC for multi-environment image building
  • Domain registrar migration from GoDaddy to Route53 and Cloudflare
  • Developer support on database/PHP performance optimization
AWS Terraform Kubernetes Helm FluxCD Bitbucket
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
Eleven Labs

DevOps Engineer

Collaboration with Eleven Labs for a client in the education sector. Production application maintenance and release cycle improvement.

  • 2-year technical debt cleared in 18 months
  • Deployment speed improved 3x
  • Managing 5 environments (4 non-prod + prod)
  • Uptime improved from 99.5% to 99.9%
GCP Jenkins Helm Docker AWS Terraform Ansible
Aug - Sep 2022
Coffreo

DevOps Engineer

Complete application migration to OVH managed Kubernetes clusters. Tight deadlines, k8s/helm expertise required.

  • Complete migration in 6 weeks (tight deadline)
  • Zero downtime during migration
  • CI/CD setup and Helm packaging
Docker Helm GitLab Datadog Sentry OVH
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
KeyOpsTech

DevOps Engineer

GCP infrastructure support and maintenance. Evening and weekend contract (1 day/week).

  • Pipeline updates and new project setup
  • Debugging and existing project support
  • Cloud cost optimization
GitLab CI Docker Helm GCP Ansible Terraform
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Trusk

DevOps Engineer

Tech industrialization for European expansion. Building sustainable and robust infrastructure.

  • Migrated 50+ microservices to Kubernetes
  • 100% infrastructure as code (Terraform)
  • Cloud costs reduced by 30%
  • RTO/RPO divided by 4 (Disaster Recovery)
Kubernetes GCP Ansible Helm Terraform AWS
2018 - 2021
Telemaque

DevOps Engineer

Complete transformation of work methodologies. Cloud migration to GCP and implementation of modern DevOps practices.

  • Jenkins installation and security hardening
  • CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines
  • GCP cloud migration (VM, Cloud SQL, BigTable)
  • Agile practices introduction
Docker Kubernetes Helm GCP Jenkins Terraform
2016 - 2018
Telemaque

Back End Developer

In-house CRM management and multi-country phone outreach application. Email communication applications development.

  • CRM management and multi-country phoning application
  • Call workflow automation (Phoning, Callback, Appointments, Collection)
  • Security procedures implementation
Symfony Laravel MySQL RabbitMQ
2016 - Present
DevRushIT

Founder & Freelance

Indie SaaS studio. Development and management of high-traffic tools (+1M visitors/month).

  • PointMp3/PointMp4 - Online video converter (+1M visitors/month)
  • Nginx, MySQL optimization for high traffic
  • SEO and digital marketing
Nginx MySQL Docker Kubernetes
2018 - 2021
SportCleek

CTO

Technical management of an offshore team for a multi-sport application. Strategic vision definition and product roadmap.

Docker Swarm Kubernetes Istio MySQL
Containers & Orchestration
Docker Kubernetes Helm Istio Docker Swarm
CI/CD
Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions Bitbucket Pipelines FluxCD
Cloud
GCP AWS DigitalOcean OVH Scaleway
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform Ansible Saltstack
Monitoring & Logging
Datadog ELK Stack Sentry SonarCloud
Languages
Python Bash PHP JavaScript Node.js
Databases
PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB ElasticSearch Redis
Frameworks
Laravel Symfony

Without a doubt, Amar is one of the most passionate and skilled people I've met. He has solid experience in building software solutions, DevOps practices, and software architecture. Amar is not only technically brilliant, he's also a reliable colleague, always ready to share his knowledge.

Abdelali Boulajine Software Engineer - DevOps

I warmly recommend Amar for his wide range of skills and constant curiosity, which drives him to continuously expand his knowledge. He's always ready to share what he knows and has shown great team spirit. Dynamic and determined, he's not afraid of challenges.

Julien Truong DevOps Engineer - Eleven Labs
2015 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems & Software

IUT 2 Grenoble - Work-Study Program

2014 - 2015

Associate Degree in Computer Networks

Lycee de Lorgues

2014

High School Diploma in Electronics Engineering

Lycee de Lorgues

Languages
French Native
English Professional
Arabic Bilingual
Interests
High-Tech Football Photography Travelling