Network Engineer Team Leader (French Speaker)

We are looking for a Network Engineer Team Leader (local contract) to join our BPCE IT business Unit.

Founded in 2015, BPCE Infogérance & Technologies is a subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, dedicated to Infrastructures, End-User Environment, Security and Production. Driven by growth, expertise, transformation and agility, this project embraces an international mindset and a diverse skill set. You’ll find yourself in a dynamic and enriching workplace or, as we like to name it, a real tech playground, where you’ll be able to explore a huge tech stack. 

Within the Cœur Réseau department, the AFD (Administration des Fabrics Datacenter) team works on the Lan and Man infrastructures of Groupe BPCE's Datacenters in France and Europe.

The AFD team participates in the management of the Man network infrastructures interconnecting the Datacenters, the legacy Lan infrastructures, Cisco/ACI and Arista/MP-BGP Evpn, the Datacenters, the network layer of the group's private Cloud and the network infrastructure interconnecting the group to the Internet in Europe.

The team develops and supports network automation in infrastructure as a service mode.

The AFD team will eventually comprise 9 in-house staff in Porto.

Key figures

- 4 main data centers in France

- 3 data centers in the group's subsidiaries in Europe

- 2,400 switches and routers

- 70,000 physical and virtual servers (70% in private Cloud).

- Multiple interconnections to the Internet at 3 data centers - 20 Gbps traffic on average

The AFD Team Leader organizes the monitoring of the network's overall production with the aim of maintaining an impeccable level of service:

Missions:

• Participating in the recruitment of internal staff for the AFD team in Porto
• Assessing and developing staff skills
• Leading team meetings and agile rituals
• Support the team in carrying out its projects
• Maintain a high level of network infrastructure service
• Ensure network supervision using our monitoring tools
• Handle production incidents as quickly as possible
• Monitor routine network configuration requests: vlan creation, configuration changes, adding switches to fabrics, etc.
• Support the systems and applications teams in deploying their infrastructures on the network
• Encouraging the automation of all processes

Main Technical Requirements:

• Strong technical knowledge: OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP Evpn, Multicast, Cisco ACI, Cisco/Arista CLI

• Experience of network architectures with several thousand devices

• Knowledge of virtualized environments

• Knowledge of automation and/or programming languages such as Ansible or python

• Knowledge of the Agile method

• Ability to manage crisis situations

Other Requirements:

• English level C1 and French C1.

• Experience as a network architect and be able to pass on your skills and your vision of technical developments in the short, medium and long term.

• Able to take a step back from your technical and human environment, identify the improvements that need to be made and are capable of explaining and implementing them.

• Worked on large network architectures in environments subject to major operational constraints: trading rooms, call centers, etc.

• Good communication skills

• Good stress management

• Be autonomous.  

Availability to:

• On Duty Call 

Candidate’s Journey 

Following your online application, you’ll be contacted by one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists. The next steps would be to meet our business experts (Team Leaders and Team Managers), welcome and onboard you into the Team.  

Few other things you should know:  

This career opportunity is based in Porto, right in the heart of the city, and offers a hybrid working model.  

Last but not least, we invite you to discover what a day in your like could look like:  

Early morning. Campo 24 de Agosto. In 4 minutes, you are clocking in at the office. Start your day having breakfast with the Team and grab fresh fruit on the way to your seat, in one of Porto’s most typical neighborhoods. This Purple Day is going to be a busy one: daily meeting ensuring all team members are on the same page regarding work status, priorities and blockers, language class and, just after, a Talent Management meeting with your manager, discussing your career path.  

Lunch break. Today, your Team is onboarding newcomers, but also welcoming French colleagues: the perfect excuse to walk downtown and bond over a francesinha. When returning, inhale nature and peace of mind in Natixis Urban Garden (look at the crops; ready to harvest!).  

Back inside. Brainstorming session on a new, exciting project in our disruptive and immersive Manaus Village. The afternoon went flying (tasks, meetings, some jokes with your teammates). End it on a high note: celebrating cultural diversity with a Diwali, the Indian festival of lights.  

 Tomorrow, you attend a conference led by influential speakers in your industry and, the day after, you will work from home, benefitting from some focus time to complete that report and soft skills course on LinkedIn Learning. Once you are done with your work for the day, strike the right note playing with Natixis band or be part of a board games session. If that is too steady for you, meet your colleagues to catch some waves or sail the Douro river during golden hour.