Vacancy available: LyonBoulogne-Billancourt
When you come to work at Davidson, you won’t just be joining a group of 3,000 consultants in 6 countries and 2 continents, you’ll be joining “the” company named by its employees as Great Place To Work France and Europe for four years, as well as the largest B Corp in France.
“B Corps” form a community of companies that have decided that, rather than being the best in the world, they’ll be the best *for* the world.
Our growth is based on strong principles:
Deep respect for all our stakeholders: consultants, customers and suppliers, because although work can’t “buy happiness”, it can “cause unhappiness”. We’re therefore committed to listening, acting honestly and promoting equality (Women / Men but not only).
A minimum environmental footprint and a maximum societal footprint. This is why, aside from the assignments you’ll be working on, you’ll also have the chance to contribute to the projects Davidson supports: international solidarity assignments (with Planète Urgence), supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds (with Article 1) and investing in start-ups that develop innovative solutions.
Adhocratic management based on implementing “horizontal company” and “tribal management” principles.
One important point about the latter: well-being at work is a luxury you need to have as a “solid” company. For the Davidson teams, this means marrying initiative, commitment and professionalism, as “without work, talent is just a dirty habit”. It drives us to recruit components that are better than we are. In a classic hierarchical organisation, it can be beneficial to have an army of people who work for you. In an adhocracy, that doesn’t work.
Mission / Profile
You’ll be working on projects to convert information systems to cloud computing environments based on “Infrastructure as a Service” (IAAS) models, dealing with issues related to automating connectivity and network services.
Your role will consist of designing and installing infrastructure and network services and ensuring their reliability and security.
In this capacity, you will be responsible for:
- Formalising requirements (prime contractor, project owner)
- Providing support for technology decisions
- Specifying features, components and interactions between solutions
- Specifying implementation processes and participating in critical commissioning phases
- Implementing and integrating solutions in project mode to deploy and secure complex technical infrastructures
- Accepting the implemented solutions and verifying that they work correctly
- Analysing, updating and producing deliverables associated with the implemented architectures
- Supporting the teams responsible for providing in-service support to network/security platforms (skills transfer, assistance & support, associated deliverables)
- Providing guidance and expert advice to resolve complex incidents
Skills (pre-existing or to be acquired)
- Openstack, SDN/NFV, VMware virtualisation technologies
- IP network environments (VXLAN, MAN, etc.)
- Protocol analysis tools (analysers, probes, etc.) and testing & automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Python, etc.)
- Practical experience in real-world telecoms network environments (test or production networks)
- Good familiarity with datacentre environments
- Strong verbal and written skills in French and English
Talents/soft skills
- Team player
- Curious
- Thorough
- English language
Description of the segment's business
Telecommunications industry
Telecommunications are a key part of Davidson’s history. From equipment suppliers to operators and users, since the company’s inception we’ve been working with those who devise, roll out and run fixed and mobile communications networks all around the globe. Founded during the 3G period, Davidson saw the first rollouts of 4G/LTE, convergence via IMS, the emergence of the Internet of Things, the popularisation of fibre optics, the introduction of SDNs, etc.
Davidson is now one of the leading telecoms consulting providers in France and Europe, supported by its experts and project managers drawing on a wealth of internal resources: a training institute (5G, IoT, PMP, FTTx, virtualisation, etc.), rooms dedicated to ideation and meetups (Singular), an R&D department (leading multiple partnerships and financing arrangements, including INRIA, Telecom SudParis, ESEO/ENSTA Bretagne and Eurecom) and a unit for monitoring normalization/standardization (responsible for the publication of “5G networks”, éditions Eyrolles).
This enables us to work on assessment assignments and project management in technical assistance, service centres and packages with an outcome obligation.
Examples of assignments:
- Supporting customers with IoT & 5G trials
- Technical due diligence
- Auditing and organizing a deployment programme
- Radio/core/service platform bid management
- Protocol architecture
- Network equipment and smartphone validation
- Network sizing
- Steering of HW/SW deployment projects
- Detailed engineering and configuration
- Radio QoS, IP QoS, QoE, application metro-logy
- The next project we’ll be working on together…
