Network Engineer Team Leader (French Speaker) Porto

Network Engineer Team Leader (French Speaker)
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

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
- 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

AFD Team Leader Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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 ability to pass on skills and vision of technical developments
• Able to identify and implement necessary improvements in technical and human environments
• Worked on large network architectures in environments with major operational constraints: trading rooms, call centers, etc.
• Good communication skills
• Good stress management
• Be autonomous

Availability

• On Duty Call

Additional Information

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.

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