Client : BNP ParibasPlatform & CloudPeriod : Sep 2023 — Jul 2024

Banking migration to the cloud

At the head of a team of 17 engineers, migration of 140 legacy machines to IBM DMZR Cloud (Kubernetes/OpenShift), in a banking environment regulated by PCI-DSS and ISO 27001.

140

legacy machines migrated to the cloud

engineers led and mentored

Context

BNP Paribas was undertaking the migration of 140 legacy machines to IBM DMZR Cloud, a Kubernetes/OpenShift platform — in a regulated banking environment where PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 are non-negotiable.

Challenge

Migrate banking workloads without breaking compliance, advancing in controlled steps — and upskill a team of 17 engineers on Kubernetes, OpenShift, and GitOps, all while delivering.

Solution

Day-to-day leadership and mentoring of a team of 17 engineers.
Progressive migration following the strangler pattern to Kubernetes/OpenShift on IBM DMZR Cloud.
Multi-zone disaster recovery plan and mTLS encryption between pods.
GitOps with Helm and ArgoCD, GitLab CI pipelines.
Dynatrace monitoring; hardening and audits with Kube-bench and Falco.

Stack

Kubernetes
Helm
ArgoCD
GitLab CI
Kube-bench
Falco
OpenShift
IBM DMZR Cloud
Dynatrace

Work

A similar project?

Describe your context — reply within 24 to 48 h.

Let's talk about it

More case studies

Neurones IT · Platform & Cloud

Nkube — multi-cloud Kubernetes platform

Design and technical lead of a multi-tenant platform for creating and managing Kubernetes clusters — Vanilla, K3S, RKE/RKE2, OpenShift — on AWS, GCP, Azure, and OVH.

clouds covered — AWS, GCP, Azure, and OVH

Go · Pulumi · Ansible · Next.js +8

View the case study

ENGIE · Platform & Cloud

CI/CD platform at scale

Ephemeral GitHub Actions runners (ARC), in-cluster Jenkins controllers, and in-house tooling for a DevOps platform serving 600+ organizations and 10,000+ users.

600+

organizations served by the platform

10 000+

daily users

Jenkins · Karpenter · Terraform · Go +7