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Younes ALLAOUI

Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Kubernetes Specialist

13+ years architecting large-scale, secure and cost-optimised hybrid AWS infrastructures for mission-critical platforms. I turn Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD into resilient systems that run at 99.9%+ availability — and I can prove the ROI.

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About

Engineering resilience & 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 — and I believe every architecture decision should be defensible with data, not assumptions.

⚡ Core Expertise

AWS Cloud & Architecture95%
Kubernetes & Containers93%
Terraform & IaC92%
CI/CD & Automation90%
FinOps & Cost Optimisation88%
Portfolio

Featured Projects

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

Flagship
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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 1.34TerraformKarpenter AWS FISRDS Multi-AZPrometheus Gateway APIPython
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Median RTO (multi-AZ)
98.81%
Availability under fault
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RPO (proven)
$222/mo
HA cost increment

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

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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 & error-rate spikes.

AWSTerraformCloudFront S3 OACRoute 53CloudWatch
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Skills & 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
Contact

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.

allaoui.younes.pro@gmail.com
+33 6 61 97 20 69
Lyon, France