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I am Benjamin Nicodeme

DevOps Engineer Cloud Engineer

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I am devoted, motivated and I always want to improve my skills. I am a lot implicated in learning new things. I work a lot in my free time to increase my knowledge in various technologies including Cloud Computing, CyberSecurity and Networking.

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I have got a technical profile. I like to implement new technologies. I also have good soft skills and a teamwork spirit. I am always trying to do my best and implicate myself at 200%.

  • Fullname: Benjamin Nicodeme
  • Birth Date: December 18, 1995
  • Job: DevOps Engineer @ Green Island
  • Website: nicode.me
  • Email: benjamin.nicodeme@icloud.com

Skills

  • 85%
    AWS Cloud Computing
  • 85%
    Infra.& Config. as Code
  • 75%
    AWS CI/CD
  • 70%
    Serverless
  • 70%
    Linux admin.
  • 70%
    Networking
  • 60%
    Virtualization
Resume

More of my credentials.

Work Experience

Head of Infrastructure

June 2023 - Now

Green Island

Having taken more responsibilities as a DevOps Engineer, I moved to the role of Head of Infrastructure.

DevOps Engineer

February 2022 - June 2023

Green Island

I joined Green Island as a DevOps Engineer, focused on AWS cloud and hybrid technologies.

Implementation Engineer

September 2020 - February 2022

NTT Ltd.

I started my career at NTT Ltd. as a young graduate focused on Cloud and CyberSecurity technologies.

CyberSecurity Intern

February 2020 - April 2020

NTT Ltd.

I did my Master's Degree internship at NTT Ltd. It was focused on firewalling, load balancing in DevOps/SecOps fashion.

ICT & Security Student

November 2018 - June 2020

UB4 SARL

Most of my work has been to upgrade the company's existing infrastructure spread over several sites. Security has also been added and increased as well. I also had the opportunity to work on VoIP systems and interact with SIP providers and ISPs.

IT Student

May 2018 - May 2019

Cavaliara SPRL

My work consisted in setting up a website , a mail server and a billing system, all in the cloud.

Internship

February 2016- May 2016

Nethys

I did my Bachelor's Degree internship at Nethys . It was focused on security and especially on advanced malware as well as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). The subject of my final work was "Study and analysis of solutions for detection, prevention and protection against advanced and persistent threats on an information system".

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Certifications

AWS

January 2022 - January 2025

AWS Certified Database - Specialty (MLS)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Database Specialist.

AWS

August 2021 - August 2024

AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (MLS)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Machine Learning Specialist.

AWS

August 2021 - August 2026

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner.

HashiCorp

June 2021 - June 2023

Terraform Associate

I am a HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.

PAN

February 2021 - February 2023

PSE Strata Professional

I am a Palo Alto Networks System Engineer Professional - Strata.

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Axelos

February 2021

ITIL 4 Foundation

I am ITIL 4 Foundation certified.

PAN

February 2021 - February 2023

PCNSE

I am a Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer.

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Google Cloud

February 2021 - February 2023

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)

I am a Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer.


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PAN

January 2021 - February 2023

PCNSA

I am a Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator.

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AWS

December 2020 - December 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect.

AWS

December 2020 - December 2023

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Security Specialist.

AWS

November 2020 - November 2023

AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Security Specialist.

AWS

November 2020 - August 2026

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified DevOps Engineer.

AWS

October 2020 - August 2026

AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Developer.

AWS

October 2020 - August 2026

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator.

AWS

July 2019 - December 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA)

I am an Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect.

Cisco

September 2018 - March 2022

CCNA Security (210-260)

I am a Cisco Certified Network Associate Security.

Cisco

September 2015 - March 2022

CCNA R&S (200-120)

I am a Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching.

Education

Master's Degree

September 2017 - June 2020

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ecole Royale Militaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur, Haute Ecole de Bruxelles, Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles

I graduated my Master Degree in CyberSecurity - Corporate Strategies. This Master's Degree was a joint program with six universities, colleges.

My Master's thesis was about Federated Cyber Range Challenges.

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Master's Degree

September 2016 - 2017

Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège @ ISIL

I studied for a Master Degree in Industrial Science - Computer Science, but I did not graduated this Master's Degree.

Bachelor's Degree

September 2013 - June 2016

Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège @ InPrES

I have got a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science - Networks and Telecoms. During my 3 years of study, I learned the following key points : C, C ++ C #, Java, Database, SQL, Routing & Switching, Security, Windows & Linux servers, VoIP, Visualization.

Contests

CyberSecurity Challenge

October 2020

Capture The Flag - ~#sudo maso - 4th place

With my 3 teammates AKA. ~#sudo maso, we participated to the CyberSecurity Challenge on October 2020. In the finals, which were held virtually we finished at the 4th place over ~200 teams initially registered.

WorldSkills

23 to 26 August 2019

Skill 53 : Cloud Computing - Excellence Medallion

I represented Belgium at the world championship of skills in Kazan (Russia) in the Cloud Computing skill and was rewarded with a Medallion of Excellence. Only 5 members of the Belgian Team received this award. This award is granted when the score of the competitor is greater than or equal to the median of the competition, and in this case, to the world median. It was the first time this skill was present in the WorldSkills. 1300+ competitors from 63+ nations were present during these 4 days of competition. The Cloud Computing platform was AWS and all of the competition was about :

  • Systems Design/Deployment
  • Network Design
  • High Availability
  • Scalability
  • Automation
  • Security
  • Monitoring

More info can be found on the WorkdSkills website and on the AWS Gameday website

WorldSkills India

3 to 4 July 2019

International Cloud Computing Challenge (AWS) - Silver Medal

I was invited to compete with 8 countries for 2 days of Cloud Computing competition in India. The Cloud Computing platform was AWS and all of the competition was about :

  • Systems Design/Deployment
  • Network Design
  • High Availability
  • Scalability
  • Automation
  • Security
  • Monitoring
Here are some of the services used during this contest :
  • Athena
  • CloudFront
  • CloudWatch
  • EC2
  • Lambda
  • Rekognition
  • S3
  • VPC
  • And many more

More info can be found on the AWS Gameday website

CyberSecurity Challenge

February - March 2019

Capture The Flag - ~#sudo maso - 7th place

With my 3 teammates AKA. ~#sudo maso, we participated to the CyberSecurity Challenge during February to March 2019. In the finals, we finished at the 7th place over ~200 teams registered.

WorldSkills Ireland

20 to 23 March 2019

Cloud Computing (AWS) - Guest Competitor - Bronze Medal

I was invited for 3 days of Cloud Computing competition in Ireland. The Cloud Computing platform was AWS and all of the competition was about :

  • Systems Design/Deployment
  • Network Design
  • High Availability
  • Scalability
  • Automation
  • Security
  • Monitoring

More info can be found on the AWS website : AWS Gameday

EuroSkills Budapest

27 to 29 September 2018

Skill 39 : ICT Specialists

With Romain Mathieu, we defended the Belgian colors at EuroSkills Budapest 2018. We finished 10th of this incredible contest. We are proud of having the change to represent the Belgium At this international Skills championship.
The competition was on tree days, which were distributed as following :

  • DAY 1 - configure Linux architecture from scratch :
    • Light Routing & Switch
    • Mail
    • File sharing share
    • Firewalling (iptables)
    • NAT
    • VoIP - Asterisk
    • DHCP
    • BIND9
    • VPN
    • ...
  • DAY 2 - we were asked to move everything implemented on Linux day 1 to Windows
  • DAY 3 - Cisco advanced configurations :
    • ASA Firewalling
    • VoIP CME
    • L2 Security
    • L3 Security
    • IKEv2 Tunnels
    • EIGRP
    • ...
I have an EuroPass Certificate attesting of my work during these three days of competition.

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WorldSkills Belgium

February - March 2018

IT Network Management - Gold Medal

The purpose of the 2-day contest was to configure a redundant Cisco network, Windows and Linux servers to implement the equivalent of a corporate network including endpoint workstations. The following domains were thus part of the competition: routing & switching, security, visualization(Hyper-V), file sharing (NFS), Active Directory management, GPOs, log servers, ntp, tftp, etc.
My final score was 86,5 %
(Cisco : 87,5%, Linux : 88,5%, Windows : 79,5%, Troubleshoot : 100%, with different ponderations)

CyberSecurity Challenge

February - March 2018

Capture The Flag - JM Team

With my 3 teammates AKA. JM Team, we participated to the CyberSecurity Challenge during February to March 2018. We went to the part 1 finals but we were not in the 12th teams selected fort the part 2 of the finals. So we finished at the 15th place over ~200 teams registered.

WorldSkills Belgium

March 2017

IT Network Management - Gold Medal

The purpose of the 2-day contest was to configure a redundant Cisco network, Windows and Linux servers to implement the equivalent of a corporate network including endpoint workstations. The following domains were thus part of the competition: routing & switching, security, virtualization(Hyper-V), file sharing (NFS, SAMBA), Active Directory management, GPOs, log servers, etc.
My final score was 82,5 %

WorldSkills Belgium

March 2016

IT Network Management - Finalist (Top 6)

The purpose of the 2-day contest was to configure a redundant Cisco network, Windows and Linux servers to implement the equivalent of a corporate network including endpoint workstations. The following domains were thus part of the competition: routing & switching, security, virtualization(Hyper-V), file sharing (NFS, SAMBA), Active Directory management, GPOs, log servers, etc.

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Where to find me

4000 Liège
Belgium

Email Me At

Email : benjamin.nicodeme@icloud.com

Call Me At

Mobile: (+32) 478 09 52 31