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Network Expansion and Contract Manager

Remote:

Hybrid

Contract:

Full time

Salary:

6 - 19K yearly

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Lille (FR), Paris (FR), Toulouse (FR)

Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years experience in service provider industry, Familiarity with telecom and datacenter market, Experience in procurement and negotiations, Basic technical understanding of internet routing, Computer science background and IT jargon fluency, Strong communication and documentation skills, Bilingual English and French.

Key responsabilities:

Gather business needs for network expansion
Identify vendors and services, negotiate contracts
Optimize network costs and find peering partners
Analyse traffic patterns and plan for capacity growth
Collaborate with product teams, finance, and leadership

Scaleway Scaleup https://www.scaleway.com/

201 - 500 Employees

HQ: Paris

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Job description

Your missions

Key Facts about Scaleway Network

- -Connecting 100,000+ physical servers for virtualized cloud and dedicated servers infrastructure.

- 10 datacenters in 3 countries, plus a dozen of network PoPs across Europe.

- Around 5 Tbps of Internet traffic.

- Many thousands of routers and switches.

- Highly automated massive-scale technical environment.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the network infrastructure and leadership teams to gather business needs for network expansion.

Identify vendors and services that cater to Scaleway's network business needs, including metro and long-haul DWDM wavelengths, dark fibers, IP transit, IXP, etc.

Negotiate key vendor contracts and orders from a business perspective.

Work together with the network infrastructure leadership on optimizing network costs.

Find private peering partners, negotiate private peering conditions, and develop private peering outreach.

Analyse Scaleway traffic patterns and anticipate future capacity growth.

Collaborate with product managers and product engineering teams to understand product roadmaps and network capacity needs.

Work closely with the finance team on budget planning and follow-up, business case analysis, and supplier invoicing.

Mandatory Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of experience in the service provider industry (ISP, cloud, content, and CDN providers, large scale web-services).

Understanding of the telecom and datacenter market, including key players and types of services.

Experience in procurement and business negotiations.

At least a basic understanding of the technical fundamentals of internet routing, fiber optics, and physical data center infrastructure.

General computer science background: overall understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networking work, fluency in IT jargon.

Ability to write documents and present information in a structured manner.

Strong communication skills.

Fluent in English and French, spoken and written.

Nice to Have Qualifications

Previous experience as a network engineer and strong technical background in IP routing, fiber optics, routing protocols, network hardware, and datacenter infrastructure.

Established contacts with industry players.

Fluency in French & English.

Location

This position is based in our offices in Paris, Lille or Toulouse (France)