Summary
Aurélien Grimal is a seasoned systems and infrastructure engineer with nine years’ experience designing, hardening and operating Linux-based production environments for large organizations. He specializes in high-availability clustering (Corosync/Pacemaker, Ceph, OpenSVC), observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Netdata) and OS hardening across Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL/SLES following ANSSI and CIS guidelines. Aurélien combines hands-on virtualization and cloud skills (KVM/Proxmox, OpenStack) with automation expertise in Ansible and scripting (Python/Perl/Shell), and has built orchestration interfaces for bare-metal and VM deployments in datacenters. His background in the Gendarmerie Nationale adds operational discipline and experience in secure messaging and directory services (Cyrus, Postfix, OpenLDAP), informing pragmatic procurement and hardware optimization advice. Colleagues rely on him for integrating robust open-source solutions into critical infrastructure and for mentoring technicians on support and escalation practices.
9 years of coding experience
Baccalauréat, Engineering Science, Mention Bien, Baccalauréat, Engineering Science, Mention Bien at Lycée Militaire d'Aix-en-Provence
Diplôme technique des systèmes d'information et de communication, Informatics, Diplôme technique des systèmes d'information et de communication, Informatics at Gendarmerie Nationale
National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
French, English, Portuguese