Staff Engineer, Infrastructure

Location

Paris, France

Job Summary

We have an opportunity for a Staff Engineer, Infrastructure to join our Global Information Technology & Systems team. In this role, responsibilities will include delivery of a broad range of IT infrastructure and platform services in the cloud and on premises. This position seeks a truly passionate, service-oriented IT engineer with a proven track-record of delivery of transformational IT. In partnership with other IT professionals around the globe, you will be responsible for delivering high quality outcomes across a broad range of IT management applications, systems, and in a 24/7 operational environment infrastructure.

This is a “Experienced service/systems ownership role”, with a focus on: infrastructure design, maintenance, management, automation, and security. This role is expected to adhere to industry standards. You will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of our IT infrastructure. This position will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain systems and services that support our organization's operations. Applying a creative, hands‑on approach with broad skillset, this role is expected to make a positive impact to the ongoing operational performance of technology and systems that are critical to the business. This position includes on‑call and occasional travel expectations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure highest level of performance and security collaboratively with the infrastructure team, through strong leadership and open communication.
• Work closely with other IT team members to ensure optimal teamwork and performance.
• Implement processes for maintaining a stable environment.
• Work closely with various vendors to ensure prompt support and resolution to issues.
• Oversee the research, evaluation and integration of innovative technologies and approaches.
• Establish, develop, and maintain relations and communications with vendors to better understand how they can help us to move forward.

Key Areas:

• On Premise and Cloud Base Virtualization Services
• Hardware Infrastructure Management
• Network and Security
• Data Center Operations
• Hardware and Platform Patching
• Infrastructure DR and systems backups
• Automation of systems
• Monitoring and incident response

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Expertise and Proficiency in VMware ESXi/vSphere with minimum 5 years of experience.
• Expertise and proficiency in provisioning and administering public cloud solutions.

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of IP networking, Design, IP addressing, DNS (local and Internet), Routing, Switching, VLANs, etc.
• Experience and competencies in IT Cybersecurity protection and best practices.
• Experience with public cloud administration and best practice - AWS/Azure
• Experience with iSCSI and fiber channel Storage Area Networks (e.g Nimble, Pure, Dell EMC) and Hyperconverged infrastructures (e.g Nutanix).
• Proven Network/Server Troubleshooting skills in mixed Linux and Windows environment.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with VMware ESXi/vSphere.
• Strong Linux skills (e.g. CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Linux).
• Strong Windows Servers skills (Windows 2012 or Later)
• Linux and Windows scripting (e.g. Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Ability to manage small projects.
• Excellent teamwork and people skills, motivated self‑starter.
• Minimum of 5 years supporting 24/7 production class data centers.