IP Network Engineer M/F

Transatel is a global provider of cellular connectivity solutions and Europe's leading aggregator of virtual mobile network operators (MVNOs). How about connecting the world, beyond borders?

Your mission

Working as a member of the infrastructure engineering team at our telecom headquarters, you ensure the definition, configuration, availability, performance, and security of our network infrastructures. You also participate in their development as part of new projects: operator connection, customer interconnection, hosting of new core or value-added services (VAS).

You will be responsible for:

• Administration of Transatel’s international IP backbone and POPs (host-ing, transit, peering, operator interconnections).
• Ensuring the availability and performance of these services.
• Taking part in the engineering, implementation and administration of the core telecom platforms and services (Packet Core, Voice Core, Signal-ing, VAS).
• Carrying out and maintaining technical and functional monitoring.
• Carrying out operational projects (migration, upgrade, interconnection).
• Participating in product launches, maintenance operations, and being on call.
• Anticipating the infrastructure developments of the telecom platform (capacity planning, technology watch).

Technical skills:

Advanced knowledge of IP Service Provider networks.

• Advanced routing: BGP, OSPF, VRF, MPLS, etc.
• Cisco administration: from 2950 to ASR9k and Arista.
• IPSEC VPN.
• LIR administration.
• Very good knowledge of Linux network functionality: Firewalling ip-tables / PF, BIND, PowerDNS, HAPROXY, SQUID, etc.

Good knowledge de Nagios, Centreon, Cacti or Graphite.

Knowledge of:

• Datacenter environments.
• Linux and open source environments: Debian, CentOS, OpenBSD.
• Virtualization environments: XenServer, VM Ware, KVM.
• Development tools: Shell, Perl, PHP.
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Couchbase.

Familiarity with mobile operator DATA architectures / NFV / SDN would be an advantage.

Your profile

• You have a Bac+5 (postgraduate) diploma and you have at least 5 years’ experience in the network domain.
• You work, or have experience of working, for a service provider (operator, web site, host, etc.) You are at ease with open-source technology.
• You understand the constraints of hosting a high-availability network. You are interested in mobile data network engineering.
• You are practical and attentive to the needs and requirements of your environment.
• You get on well with others, enjoy working as part of a team, and have the ability to communicate with experts in other domains.
• You have a sense of curiosity and show initiative. You also enjoy learning and have a capacity for self-teaching.
• You are willing to be on call.
• You are fluent in English.

Our recruitment process

At Transatel, we strive to have an efficient global process to finalise our recruitments as quickly as possible (around 3 weeks).

Here are the different stages in the recruitment process:

• 1st HR contact by telephone
• Interviews: A Manager/HR interview + one or more operational or technical interviews
• An online personality test
• An HR call presenting the offer of collaboration in detail, followed by receipt of the offer by email
• Welcome & onboarding process

Benefits

• Salary package: fixed salary + individual bonus + half-yearly profit-sharing and incentive schemes (investable in PEE or PER)
• Salary committees every 6 months
• Up to 2 days' homeworking, 25 days' holiday + a few free days
• CSE, company restaurant, advantageous health insurance, 50% reimbursement of the Navigo transportation pass or sustainable mobility package

For more information, please refer to the Transatel career page: https://www.transatel.com/join-us/compensation-and-benefits/

If you've got as far as the bottom of this offer, it would be a shame to put off your application until later, so apply now!