PL. 01 — System N.K.State: nominalFR

Nicolas K.

DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Île-de-France · Looking for a work-study role

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Scroll to put the system under load ↓Fig. 0 — General view. Scale 1:1.
Detail A — The operator.

Two cultures, one system.

I started out building applications. Shipping code made me want to understand what keeps it standing in production: networks, servers, pipelines, the cloud.

Today I design infrastructure with a developer’s eye: automated, versioned, observable.

Legend, Fig. 0
  1. Core: the application.
  2. Inner orbit: the infrastructure that carries it.
  3. Outer orbit: the automation that keeps it running.

A system is judged under load.

PL. 01 — System N.K.State: nominal
LOAD
LATENCY
REPLICAS
STATE
  1. KubernetesOrchestration, autoscaling
  2. TerraformInfrastructure described as code
  3. AnsibleReproducible configuration
  4. GitLab CI · GitHub ActionsContinuous integration and delivery
  5. ArgoCDCluster state synced from Git
  6. Prometheus · GrafanaSee the load before it breaks
  7. HashiCorp VaultSecrets kept out of the code
  8. Trivy · SonarQubeSecurity inside the pipeline
  9. AWS · AzureTwo clouds, same principles

Simulation. The figures illustrate behaviour, not a production measurement.

Load absorbed. The system returns to equilibrium.

  1. Fig. 1 — Application Onboarding Platform

    Application lifecycle automation with managed deployment on AKS.

    UnfoldSource code

    Architecture project

    Azure (AKS, ACR, Key Vault), Bun, Hono, TanStack, PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Loki/Tempo

    1 GitHub · 2 ACR · 3 AKS · 4 Azure Key Vault · 5 OpenTelemetry & Grafana

  2. Fig. 2 — Multi-Cloud Environments Provisioning

    Full automation of highly available infrastructure deployments.

    UnfoldSource code

    Infrastructure project

    Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, YAML

    1 Terraform · 2 Ansible · 3 Azure / AWS · 4 Kubernetes

  3. Fig. 3 — Secure CI/CD Pipeline

    Integration of security and vulnerability management from the development stage.

    UnfoldSource code

    SecDevOps project

    GitLab CI, SonarQube, DAST, Trivy, HashiCorp Vault, Prisma Cloud

    1 GitLab CI · 2 SonarQube & DAST · 3 Trivy · 4 HashiCorp Vault · 5 Prisma Cloud

  4. Fig. 4 — Centralized Log Management

    Deployment of an ELK stack for analysis and operational monitoring.

    UnfoldSource code

    Observability project

    Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes

    1 Kubernetes / Docker · 2 Logstash · 3 Elasticsearch · 4 Kibana

  5. Fig. 5 — AI Automated Content Assistant

    Comprehensive web service using AI to produce content.

    UnfoldSource code

    Full Stack project

    React, TailwindCSS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, OAuth2/JWT, OpenAI API

    1 React & TailwindCSS · 2 Node.js · 3 PostgreSQL · 4 OAuth2/JWT · 5 OpenAI API

Background

PartPeriodTitlePlace
012026 – 2027Master’s degree, DevOps, Infrastructure & CloudSup de VinciLooking for a work-study (1 week school / 3 weeks company)Sup de Vinci
022026 – 2027Looking for a work-study: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure EngineerÎle-de-FranceAvailable to discuss nowÎle-de-France
032025Full-stack developer (internship)MOD 95, Val-d’OiseShowcase website, barcode-based stock managementMOD 95, Val-d’Oise
042024 – 2025Application designer and developer (bachelor’s level, RNCP level 6)PrépavenirPrépavenir
052023 – 2024PHP/Symfony developer (associate degree level, RNCP level 5)StudiStudi
062021 – 2025Logistics services contractorBNP Paribas IMEX, ParisOperational data, onboarding, technical documentationBNP Paribas IMEX, Paris

Put your system under load.

Looking for a work-study role for 2026-2027. Available now to discuss, then for a permanent or freelance role from 2027. Reply within 48 hours.

Email
nicolask.dev@outlook.fr
GitHub
github.com/nigh0st
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/nicolas-k-dev
PlatePL. 01
TitleSystem N.K.
AuthorNicolas K.
Scale1:1
Statenominal