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Hi, I am Gabriel

Gabriel Jean

Cloud Automation Technical Advisor at Transport Canada

I am passionate about IT and programming in General. I love to build new things and learn more about tech. I am motivated to help people around me be more productive and ultimately happier

Bilingual
Fast Learner
Problem Solving

Experiences

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Transport Canada

July 2023 - Present

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Transport Canada is responsible for transportation policies and programs. We promote safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible transportation.

Cloud Operations Technical Advisor

July 2023 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Guides and supports application owners to accelerate and facilitate their migration to the cloud.
  • Provides advice to developers on best practices to adopt in the cloud.
  • Analyzes the architectural plans of future cloud-ready applications to identify opportunities for improvement, correct technical errors, or ensure compliance with policies and standards.
  • Developed a Power BI that sync to Azure automatically and report the costs of each applications and projects in the Azure environment to identify opportunities for reduction and raise awareness among application owners.
  • Development of ‘Policy as Code’ using Azure Policy and Bicep in the Azure environment to automate and standardize certain configurations when deploying a new application.

Transport Canada

June 2021 - July 2023

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Transport Canada is responsible for transportation policies and programs. We promote safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible transportation.

Cloud Automation Analyst

June 2021 - July 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Contributed to the design and implementation of a centralized Kubernetes environment for Transport Canada developers.
  • Set up a new AWS environment adhering to the Treasury Board’s “guardrails” through the use of the “Landing Zone Accelerator.”
  • Designed and developed reusable models using Bicep and Terraform to encourage application owners to implement cloud best practices.
  • Automated the deployment and configuration of the central Application Gateway to increase the speed of organization migrations.
  • Automated the renewal of external and internal SSL certificates using Let’s Encrypt to reduce workload on our team.
  • Automated the shutdown and startup of all non-essential virtual machines outside of working hours to save on usage costs.
  • Contributed to the configuration and implementation of SCED in TC’s Azure environment.
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Public Service Commission

Jan 2019 - June 2021

Gatineau, Québec

The Public Service Commission is responsible for promoting and safeguarding a merit-based, representative and non-partisan public service that serves all Canadians, in collaboration with stakeholders.

Infrastructure & Operations technician

Jan 2019 - June 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Designed and implemented an automated deployment pipeline for a new web application. (CAT)
  • Supported developers in integrating their applications into containers.
  • Utilized cloud knowledge to contribute to the implementation of multiple proof-of-concepts aimed at migrating CFP applications to Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Designed, installed, and configured a Kubernetes platform in Azure Stack.
  • Documented new cloud technologies to contribute to knowledge sharing and CFP operations.
  • Provided support for all applications hosted on our WebLogic environment. (GC Jobs)
  • Configured and supported all Windows and Linux servers for the CFP.

Gatineau, Québec

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) works to improve the standard of living and quality of life for all Canadians. We do this by promoting a labour force that is highly skilled. We also promote an efficient and inclusive labour market.

Support Technician

May 2018 - Aug 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Provided Technical support for all of ESDC’s mobile devices.
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Education

Networking and Cybersecurity (DEC)

Skills

Projects

CAT
CAT
Contributor May 2020 - June 2021

PSC Online testing platform to evaluate candidates on second language abilities and other skills.

HomeServer
HomeServer
Owner 2022 - Present

All configurations, scripts and docker images used to manage my HomeServer.

Portfolio
Portfolio
Owner July 2020 - Present

A website to present myself on the internet.

Accomplishments

President's Award (Innovation)

Won this prize when I helped to deploy a new modern application using modern technologies in the cloud.

President's Award (Teamwork)

Won this prize when I was in charge of the installation of the brand new CAT application for the PSC.

President's Award (Teamwork)

Won this prize when I was in charge of creating a new deployment pipeline for the Covid-19 Recruitement Response Team.