Connectivity & Network Expert (Project Lead) M/F

Job Description

Veolia aims to become the reference company in ecological transformation. Our mission to "Resource the world" reflects the commitment of our 220,000 employees to positively impact our planet. At Veolia Headquarters, we empower employees to be useful and make a real impact.

Main activities

• Maintain expertise in connectivity products and technologies (SDWAN, LAN, WIFI, PROXY, DNS/DHCP, FIREWALL) with vendors to drive innovation in deployed solutions
• Manage and ensure compliance of network architectures with Technical Architecture and Operations Documents (DATEX)
• Update and maintain technical documentation and architecture compliance
• Lead small to medium‑size projects as project manager; ensure smooth transition to operational teams led by Service Managers
• Animate and lead communities around assigned products to communicate strategy, product evolution, and service understanding
• Drive continuous improvement actions through active community engagement and knowledge sharing
• Support Service Managers in controlling managed service provider activities, particularly on complex tickets and critical incidents
• Conduct technical diagnostics, validate action plans, and ensure resolution on complex and critical incidents
• Ensure technical best practices and compliance with operational procedures are respected
• Provide technical escalation support and expertise to Service Managers on complex operational topics
• Participate in service definition and continuous improvement initiatives
• Participate in vendor management and technical committees
• Optimize technical solutions to improve end‑user experience and reduce costs

Qualifications

Main skills

• Technical: deep L2/L3 expertise (BGP, OSPF, Spanning‑tree) in connectivity products and technologies (SDWAN, LAN, WIFI, PROXY, DNS/DHCP, FIREWALL)
• Project management: Lead small to medium‑size projects as project manager
• Client centricity: Animate and lead communities around assigned products to communicate strategy, product evolution, and service understanding
• ITIL: Integration in a service approach to guarantee operational excellence and good transition from project to operational teams
• English: Fluent to discuss with BU and use international documentation

Key behavioral skills

• Simplifying complex concepts: Ability to make complex information easy to understand for a non‑expert audience
• Communication IT & Business: Ability to transmit information, broadcast a message in a clear and understandable way
• Transversality: Ability to work with several teams with no hierarchical link
• Decision making: Ability to listen, decide or escape
• Conviction / Assertivity: Ability to argue to persuade
• Formalisation & Rigor: Ability to be clear in communication, to ensure understanding and alignment of the different stakeholders
• Autonomy: Ability to understand needs, use hard & soft skills to manage topics without systematic escalation. Define an efficient approach to solve topics
• Organisation skills: Ability to plan activities and those of its teams
• Leadership: Ability to position itself at the head of a group and to lead and motivate teams
• Sense of performance/ client: Ability to meet commitments, in continuous search for improvement and wish to overperform
• Interpersonal skills: Ability to interact well with other people, to collaborate and cooperate
• Synthesis skills: Ability to combine separate elements in order to form a coherent whole and quickly understand them

Additional Information

We offer you the opportunity to join a company whose goal is to become the leader in ecological transformation!

What we offer

• Being part of a collective that cares about your future career and development
• Opportunities for growth within Veolia Headquarters and more broadly within the Veolia Group, in France and internationally
• Opportunity to be part of enriching projects outside of your daily work
• Veolia is committed to a global social pact for all its employees worldwide
• We are committed to providing you with the best possible experience

But also

• 100% reimbursement of urban transport subscriptions
• 10 days off (RTT) in addition to the 5 weeks of paid vacation
• Company restaurant and meal vouchers for teleworking days
• Profit‑sharing

EEO Statement

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.