Summary
Vincent Lours is a seasoned Linux and DevOps engineer with over 7 years of experience delivering resilient, automated infrastructure for enterprise and public safety environments. Currently a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat, he blends frontline customer support for OpenShift with engineering work to triage and fix upstream bugs. Previously he was the sole Linux systems lead for Queensland’s Public Safety Business Agency, where he drove IAAS improvements, implemented global update policies, tuned OpenShift workloads and boosted AWX performance by over 30% through playbook refactoring. Skilled across RHEL/CentOS, Ansible/AWX, Puppet, CI/CD pipelines and log platforms like Splunk, he excels at translating operational pain points into durable automation and security practices. Known for creating custom automation modules (e.g., Zabbix on CoreOS) and pragmatic performance tuning, he brings a hands-on, documentation-first approach to complex, high-stakes infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Computer Science, Advanced Diploma, Computer Science at Le Havre University, Le Havre (FR)
Bachelor, Generale sciences, Bachelor, Generale sciences at Lycée Robert Schuman, Le Havre (FR)
French, English