Network Reliability Engineer

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Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home
Skills & expertise
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Collaboration and teamwork
Serverless
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Gitlab
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Scaleway
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OUR STORY:

🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow !

Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies.

Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants.

Every day, thanks to our rich catalog of products and services (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves 38,000 private and public sector clients, from Photoroom to Mistral AI, Golem AI, and ADEME.

📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Lyon.

🚀 WHY WE NEED YOU ?

Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Network Reliability Engineer team to support the expansion of our backbone and data center network infrastructure. Your mission will be to maintain, scale, and improve Scaleway’s network reliability in order to support our product growth, new availability zones, and high-level performance expectations.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

We work in a collaborative and international environment where the diversity of Scalers, combined with a spirit of sharing, helps bring new projects to life every day, advancing our ambitions together.

You will be part of a team of 13 people responsible for building and maintaining the network infrastructure, working in one of two roles within the team :

- Network Reliability Engineer

- Network Automation DevOps 

The team is distributed between Paris, Toulouse, and remote locations. Together, they ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of a complex infrastructure spanning several countries and tens of thousands of devices. You’ll frequently collaborate with teams across the company, including Product, Hardware, and Tech DCs.

🗓️ YOUR DAILY ROUTINE

- TasksMaintain and grow our data center and backbone network infrastructure (deployments, upgrades, migrations, peering sessions, etc.)

- Troubleshoot and resolve network incidents

- Contribute to the automation of network deployments and operations

- Collaborate with other teams to plan and execute network deployments

- Write and maintain technical documentation

- Continuously monitor and improve network reliability and performance

- Use tools like Netbox, LibreNMS, RANCID, and Netshot for network inventory and monitoring

- Use and develop internal APIs and scripts (primarily in Python)

- Participate in the team's continuous learning culture

- Ensure configuration consistency and standardization across the network

🔍 ABOUT YOU:

HARDSKILLS

Strong understanding of routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN, layer-2/3 protocolsExperience with network automation (Ansible, Python).

You have hands-on experience with at least one of the major network vendors' products: Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei etc.

Familiarity with Netbox, LibreNMS, RANCID, Netshot, or similar toolsGood knowledge of Linux systems and REST APIs

Fluent in English

You are familiar with modern collaboration tools: Jira, Gitlab etc.

SOFTSKILLS

Extremely fast learner with high adaptability to new technologies

Strong curiosity and willingness to dive deep into emerging AI tools

Proactive mindset and readiness to take initiative

Technical autonomy and ownership of your scope

Clear communicator, capable of explaining complex systems simply

WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT SCALEWAY ++++

Hybrid work: Up to 3 days remote per week

Modern offices: Creative, ergonomic workspaces in prime locations with terraces and bike facilities

Healthy dining: Chef-prepared meals at HQ; Swile card for regional sites

Well-being: Support for gym memberships, childcare, and caregiver services

Diverse culture: English is as common as French; teams span many nationalities

Growth mindset: Strong internal mobility and opportunities across the Iliad Group

🚀 Why join the Scaleway adventure ? 

A rich and diverse product offering: Scaleway offers over 100 public cloud products in IaaS, PaaS, and AI.

A cutting-edge technical environment: Scaleway provides modern infrastructures, including high-performance bare metal servers, to tackle exciting technical challenges.

Commitment to responsible cloud: Scaleway is dedicated to a more responsible cloud, with data centers powered solely by renewable energy since 2017, minimizing our ecological footprint and holding top-level certification.

🔜 THE NEXT STEPS …

Screening call with our recruitment team (30 min)

Interview with your futur N+2

Technical interview with your future manager and a team member

Final decision and offer

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