Emmanuel Clément - Infrastructure Engineering Leader

About

Systems should be boring. Mountains shouldn't.

I'm an infrastructure engineer who combines hands-on platform engineering with team leadership. I lead a distributed international infrastructure team at OVHcloud from Montréal, while staying close to the engineering work: building Kubernetes platforms, automating infrastructure, and keeping production reliable. I've been based here since 2023, after more than a decade in Paris.

I work with an SRE mindset: infrastructure as code, small careful changes, observability first, and documentation people actually read. As a lead, I focus on clear ownership, sensible processes, and making sure the team never depends on a single person.

Off the clockAlpinism · Rock climbing · Hiking · Running

Toolbox

What I work with

Platform Engineering

KubernetesLinuxInternal Developer PlatformsMulti-cloud architecturesAWS · Azure · GCP · OVHcloud

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformAnsibleGitOps

Automation & Delivery

PythonBashCI/CD

Reliability & Security

SRE practicesObservabilityIncident managementProduction operationsSecurity practices

Career

Where I've been

2023 - today
Team Leader, Infrastructure - Data Platform · OVHcloud, Montréal

Joined OVHcloud following the ForePaaS acquisition. Leading a distributed team of four engineers running the Data Platform's infrastructure - engineering platforms with Kubernetes, Terraform & automation, and keeping production reliable and quiet.
2019 - 2023
Head of Infrastructure & Security · ForePaaS (acquired by OVHcloud in 2022), Paris then Montréal

Built and operated the multi-cloud infrastructure behind an end-to-end data analytics PaaS, running production workloads across multiple cloud providers.
2018 - 2019
Audit & Security Manager · ForePaaS, Paris

Guided the platform's move to the cloud - tooling, methods and culture - alongside audit and risk management.
2015 - 2017
IT Auditor, Risk Assurance · PwC, Paris

Information systems audit for CAC 40 banking and insurance groups, under ISA and PCAOB standards.
2013 - 2015
IAM Project Manager & Assistant CSO · Natixis, Paris

Deployed an identity and access management solution across Natixis entities - from role modeling to user training.
2010 - 2012
First steps · eanet & TWM Projects, Paris

IT technician, then network administrator: virtualization, Linux and Windows servers, a first private cloud.

Education

2014 - 2015Master 2 SIEE (Extended Enterprise Information Systems) - Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
2011 - 2013BEng (Hons) Computer Networks & Distributed Systems - Edinburgh Napier University

Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer (2018).

Contact

Say hello

The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn.