Network Architect

**Organisation Summary**

AXA’s purpose is to empower our 107 million customers to live a better life. At AXA Group Operations, we help make this purpose a reality by providing innovative IT, telecommunications, infrastructure services and delivering a high-performance workplace for every single AXA employee across the globe. We make sure people have the tools and technology they need to do their jobs brilliantly.

We embrace the incredible pace technology is moving forward. That’s why we need people who can adapt to changing needs, who are collaborative and proactive. People who will help to make sure that, as a business, we’re ready for tomorrow.

Our common ambition: AXA need to become a tech-led company. This is where AXA Group Operations sets the tone and must play its role as one of the major catalysts of AXA’s transformation. We are the ones triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

**Position Summary**

AXA Group Operations initiate with its Network Product Department a One Network Program to tackle its digital transformation, enhance user’s connectivity experience, and mitigate cyber risks. Within Network Product department, Data Center & Cloud product line is responsible of AXA Data Center and CLOUD Network infrastructure, including routers, switches, load balancer, Internet access, DC interconnexion backbone, DWDM, Cloud network environment (AWS, AZURE, GOOGLE, Intercloud)

Data Center & Cloud Network engineer are designing, engineering, delivering, and supporting those products and services, that strongly contribute to One Network program initiative.

**Key Responsibilities**
- The Network Product Engineer is responsible to define, advertise and ensure to deliver of sustainable, robust, and secured solutions. In close collaboration with Group Security, CTO and One Network Program, the Network Product Engineer will propose solutions at the right cost and bring business value to support the corporate business and lines of business strategies.
- The main activities include the following for his/her own area of responsibility:

- Contribute and support a medium to long term product evolution and continuous product improvement,
- Manage the advisory, selection, design, secure build & integration for the products in scope
- Facilitate communications and interactions between functional groups, AXA IT Services, strategic partners, and vendors.
- Ensure QOS delivery and support of solutions

Provide high expertise support on products and services

**Your Profile**
**Functional experience**:**
- Leadership - Exhibits strong results orientation, change leadership, adaptability, and the ability to drive collaborative behaviour
- Communication skills - Exhibits strong skills in listening, spoken and written communication, collaboration, and the ability to work in a global team. Network Products Engineer are expected to have the ability to understand and discuss with both senior managers and IT, and explain in clear language complicated architectural concepts and strategies
- Openness and reaching out - Strong human relationship skills, exhibit curiosity and can see opportunities in situations, not just problems
- International profile - A proven ability to work effectively in an international environment. In addition, exhibits a strong proficiency in English

**Skills and Experience**
- Strong experience in driving large architecture, standardization & transformation initiatives.
- ** Core activity**:

- **Phase 2, he will provide L3 suport for productionwith build and Support team**
- **Must have Network Automation skills (Terraform, ansible, Python) for POD automation and will be a key contributor on this topic**
- Must have strong expertise in Network & Cloud design patterns, Security solutions & IT infrastructure best practices.
- Experience in managing Data Center and CLOUD Network technologies, AWS, AZURE, GOOGLE, INTERCLOUD, Transit Gateway, ACI, Switch Fabric, Load-balancer, VMWARE NSX-T
- Knowledge in Network Security products, SASE, VPN (Cisco, F5), Firewalling (Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco, Algosec), Web gateways (McAfee), Segmentation technologies and identity services, voice, wifi, SDWAN, LAN wired, WAN, MPLS will be appreciated
- ** Must have Network Automation skills (Terraform, ansible, Python) for POD automation**:

- University degree (engineer profile) with +8 years’ experience in Network Domain in an international and Matrix organization,
- Must exhibit a strong understanding of today’s Network and infrastructure challenges and trends, mostly at Infrastructure and Technical levels.
- Established and demonstrably productive technical relationships with major IT vendors
- Strives for excellence with deliverables of high quality and ability to work in tight planning
- Gather, combine and analyze business and technical requirem