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Chaker ZaafouriCZ

Chaker Zaafouri

SAP Cloud & Cybersecurity Architect

€780/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Chaker

+20y of experience, leading many projects:
- S/4 HANA, SAP RISE: Eramet, ArcelorMittal, LVMH, Sodexo
- Cloud Computing: Eramet, LVMH, Carrefour, Ooredoo Grp, Vodafone, Etisalat Grp, Maroc Telecom, Aljeel Aljadeed, Dell, NEC
- Cybersecurity & GRC: LVMH, Sodexo, Axa, ArcelorMittal, BSIC Bank, Maroc Telecom
- Nework Operation Center: Ooredoo, Maroc Telecom, Mauritel, Tunisie Telecom, IRESA, Sotacib, CNAM, UVT, CCK
- Telecommunication & IoT: Ooredoo, Orange, iDigilink, Eramet Group
- Aero Mechanical Industries: Airbus Grp, Figeac Aero, Safran, Stelia, Zodiac Aerospace, Safran

World wide Trainer (Eng/Fr/Ar): Alienvault USM, AT&T Cybersecurity, Security Forensics, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Public Cloud, Azure, NOC & SOC Tooling & Management

Training cycles:
- ITIL, ISO 9001, ISO27001 LA, Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator ( CHFI ), Alienvault Certified Security Analyst & Engineer ( ACSA / ACSE )
- AZ303, AZ304, AZ400, AZ500, Unix, Unix Shell Scripting, Redhat, VCP, OVM, Citrix, Zimbra Administrator & Trainer, Hyperic
- Management Best Practices, Professional/Business Coaching, Lean Startup Methodology
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Fluent

  • Italian

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • CAC40 Corporates
    SAP Cloud & Cybersecurity Architect
    January 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    - Integrate security by design principles across all project phases, from architecture design to run operations
    - Define cloud security strategies, governance models, and security processes for Move2Cloud and transformation programs
    - Adapt and operationalize cloud security frameworks to customer cloud infrastructures
    - Establish enterprise risk management practices, including assessment, mapping, mitigation, treatment, and acceptance
    - Design and secure cloud landing zones in alignment with corporate security standards and cloud provider best practices
    - Build and maintain security knowledge bases and hardening guidelines for public cloud services
    - Define and implement a Zero Trust security architecture roadmap, including IAM enhancements, micro-segmentation, and continuous authentication
    - Lead the validation of infrastructure and cybersecurity architectures for SAP S/4HANA deployments on Microsoft Azure and Alibaba Cloud
    - Ensure security compliance of SAP workloads on Azure with corporate standards, cloud security frameworks, and Azure best practices
    - Validate SAP RISE architectures against enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements
    - Ensure cloud landing zone and SAP RISE compliance with corporate security policies and regulatory standards
    - Coordinate with SAP, Microsoft, system integrators, and customer teams to validate end-to-end architectures and remediation plans prior to go-live
    Cloud Azure Cybersecurity Architect AI Security SAP RISE SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  • LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics
    Cloud Security Architect
    September 2020 - December 2022 (2 years and 3 months)
    Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

    - Define technical and functional security pre-requisites in projects on premise, private Cloud/SaaS or public Cloud Azure/GCP/Aliyun; in line with IT and information security strategies and policy framework
    - Azure cloud Audit, gap assessments & Gap analysis
    - Define strategy and action roadmap for gap remediation & prioritize high prioity + low complexity approch to reach quick wins
    - Create & maintain Naming & Tagging convention for cloud
    - Define Role Based Access Control strategy & process documentation
    - Create Techical Architecture Document Template, Secret inventory, Network stream
    - Define Cloud Security Policies & Cloud Backup Policies
    - Produce Network Hub&Spoke, DMZ, T0, Disaster recovery patterns
    - Define Infra as Code strategy
    - Form, Train & manage DevSecOps team to Automate the cloud environment with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as a code
    - Design multi-cloud Terraform modules
    - Adopt "Cloud First" strategy
    - Define move to cloud strategy & risk management
    - Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads
    - Understand and document technical requirements from business units & clients
    - Define Migration strategy to move applications to the cloud
    - Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation
    - Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services and tools
    - Design the HA / DR strategies
    - Set up process, services and tools around cloud
    - Oversee building of the environment and project solution designs
    - Validate the environment to meet all security and compliance controls
    - Help share knowledge across the team on the various Azure, GCP & Aliyun services
    - Ensure Cloud Technical Referent
  • ERAMET
    Lead Architect Cloud & Cybersecurity Expert
    March 2019 - August 2020 (1 year and 5 months)
    Paris Metropolitan Area, France

    - Applications Security Risk Assessment, Risk Mapping & Risk Mitigation
    - HLD LLD Development & Azure Cloud Technical Architecture Document
    - Development of Application Technical Architecture Document (DAT) Templates
    - Drafting of architectural repositories: TAD Template, Build Sheets, Backup / restore Sheets,
    - Functional Architecture Document for Project Managers, Service Catalog
    - Design of Technical Solutions & Development of TAD
    - Build Networks, ExpressRoute, Hub/Spoke Topology, UDR, NSG, Firewall HA, WAF, VPN Site-Site/nomad
    - Backup Automation, Patchs management, Job Scheduling
    - Migration of all applications from onPremise Data Centers to Azure Cloud
    - Technical study for the demutualization of physical servers towards virtualization / Cloud
    - Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Ansible) for all SAP Environments on Azure
    - Continuous Delivery Ansible for installation & configuration of all prerequisites for SAP environments (Patterns & Packages).
    - SAP/Azure performance tuning
    - Cloud Technical Referent in the Information System Department
    - Ensure compliance with standards and compliance with the security policy
    - Development of processes in the Cloud & Apps Integration Department
    - Support for clients to define their needs
    - Costing of new Cloud needs and cost optimization
    - Azure cost optimization & Finops
    - Ensures compliance with standards and the governance of Eramet Group's processes

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Education

  • Master, IT Security Expert
    Time Université
    2005
    Master, IT Security Expert
  • Business Coach
    HEC Paris
    2016
    Business Coach HEC Paris

Certifications

  • Certified Security Engineer
    AT&T Cybersecurity
    2011
    Security Automation and Orchestration Advanced Event Correlation and Tuning SIEM Deployment and Architecture Design Advanced Threat Detection and Threat Hunting Cloud Integration and Security Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation SIEM Installation and Configuration Network Traffic Analysis and Monitoring Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting Log Management and Custom Parsing
  • Alienvault Certified Security Analyst (ACSA)
    AT&T Cybersecurity
    2011
    Asset Discovery and Management Event Correlation and Rule Customization Cloud Security Monitoring Incident Response and Investigation SIEM Operations Management Security Monitoring and Compliance Threat Detection and Analysis Intrusion Detection and Prevention Cyber Threat Intelligence Vulnerability Assessment

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