Lyon, France

Younes Allaoui

Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer

13+ years building secure, resilient AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform for mission-critical platforms.

View projects Get in touch
0
Years experience
0
Fewer incidents
0
Faster MTTR
0
Cloud cost saved
0
Faster delivery

Engineering resilience and ROI

Cloud infrastructure that is secure by design, resilient under failure, and honest about its cost.

I'm a Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer with over 13 years of experience in enterprise and regulated environments. I architect large-scale hybrid AWS infrastructures that keep mission-critical platforms running at 99.9%+ availability.

My track record includes measurable operational impact: 30% fewer incidents, 35% faster recovery (MTTR), 25% cloud cost optimisation and 40% faster delivery pipelines.

I bring deep expertise across Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, cloud security, FinOps and chaos engineering. I believe every architecture decision should be defensible with data, not assumptions.

"I'd rather break something on purpose in staging than guess how it fails in production."

95%
AWS Cloud & Architecture
93%
Kubernetes & Containers
92%
Terraform & IaC
90%
CI/CD & Automation
88%
FinOps & Cost Optimisation

Featured projects

Production-grade infrastructure, fully automated, security-hardened, and measured with real numbers.

Flagship project

EKS Resilience & FinOps

AWS EKS · Chaos Engineering · FinOps

How often must an availability zone fail before multi-AZ pays for itself? I built two identical EKS platforms differing by a 15-line Terraform diff, then broke them with AWS Fault Injection Simulator to measure, not assume, the true cost and benefit of high availability.

EKS 1.34 Terraform Karpenter AWS FIS RDS Multi-AZ Prometheus Gateway API Python
34s
Median RTO (multi-AZ)
98.81%
Availability under fault
0s
RPO (proven)
$222/mo
HA cost increment

Single-AZ never recovered (2.71% availability); multi-AZ held at 98.81% across three chaos runs.

Single-AZ 2.71%
Multi-AZ 98.81%

The finding: resilience cost lives in compute spread, not the database. Multi-AZ RDS is $32/mo, spreading the workload is $103/mo. Hardened with Pod Identity, IMDSv2, KMS envelope encryption and default-deny NetworkPolicy.

View code Read the analysis

Portfolio Cloud Infrastructure

AWS · Terraform · HCP Terraform

This very website: a fully private, globally distributed static site provisioned end-to-end with Terraform and managed via HCP Terraform (Terraform Cloud). Zero manual clicks in the AWS console.

~$1.30/mo
Total infra cost
TLS 1.2+
Enforced everywhere

Private S3 + CloudFront OAC (SigV4), ACM DNS-validated SSL, Route 53 alias records, and CloudWatch → SNS alerting on traffic and error-rate spikes.

AWS Terraform CloudFront S3 OAC Route 53 CloudWatch
View code Details

Skills and technologies

The stack I use to design, automate, secure and observe cloud-native infrastructure.

Cloud platforms

  • AWS
  • EC2
  • EKS
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch
  • IAM
  • Multi-Cloud

Kubernetes & containers

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Karpenter
  • Gateway API

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • HCP Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible

CI/CD & DevOps

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Make

Middleware & apps

  • Apache/Nginx
  • Tomcat
  • JBoss
  • API Gateway
  • Load Balancing

Monitoring & security

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • ELK Stack
  • Vault
  • Dynatrace
  • AppDynamics

Let's build something resilient

Have a cloud, Kubernetes or DevOps challenge? I'd love to hear about it.

Get in touch

Available for senior DevOps / Cloud engineering opportunities and consulting.

Lyon, France