IT Infrastructure Engineer

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

As a member of this team, your mission will be to roll-out and manage Corporate and/or industry IT infrastructure standards and best practices across the entire region, improve infrastructure efficiency, keep its costs under control, reduce service disruption and improve user experience.

Responsibilities :

Perimeter: Data centers, Workstations, Telecommunication, Security.

Deploy standard group infrastructure within plants.

Support R&D technical standards.

Manage outsourcing operations.

Define & ensure different levels of service.

Promote innovation at regional West Europe level.

Guarantee confidentiality of information.

Manage incidents not treated by outsourcers.

Validate IT budget, MTP. & invoice services according to the required service level.

Validate IT IAR (Investment Approval Requests) for all plants.

Past Experience :

At least 3 years of past IT experience and very strong technical background (such as a Master’s degree in Computer Science).

SkillSet :

Required technical skills (similar competing technologies also accepted):

The candidate should have competency and/or experience on several of below bold letter

topics and technologies (or similar competing technologies). Competency and/or experience on the other topics is a plus. In general the candidate should have a good understanding of underlying IT concepts, strong motivation to learn

, and resourcefulness in proposing adequate solutions to complex problems.

Network and network services

WAN / LAN / WiFi (TCP/IP, VPN, QoS, Cisco, wiring best practices).

Telephony & audio/video conferencing (CUCM, Analog, VoIP, ToIP)

Active Directory (DC, GPO), DHCP, DNS, SMTP

Servers, Storage, Middleware, Datacenter

Datacenters (Cooling, Fire prevention, Racking)

Server hardware (UPS, servers, SANs)

Virtualization Hypervisor (HyperV)

Server OS (Mainly Windows, but also some Unixes)

Backup & DRP (CommVault)

Oracle (SQL, DBA, RMAN, Performance, Oracle Enterprise Manager)

File and print servers (Microsoft)

Remote Desktop Services (Servers, Thin Clients)

Monitoring (Centreon / Nagios)

User environment and support

Help Desk Knowledge

(Processes, ITIL, Incident, Problem, SLA, …)

Software deployment, inventory and asset management (Altiris)

Endpoint (Laptop, Desktop, Tablets, Thin Clients) hardware

Printing (copiers, multi function devices, ...)

Security

Firewall (Fortigate)

Network access control (802.1x, Cisco Prime)

Internal audit

Anti virus

Syslog, Splunk

Single sign-on solutions (Evidian)

Management skills (optional)

Supplier management

Project management

Reporting and communication with internal customers

Fluent English (Toeic 785 or similar level)

Business level spoken French (reading/writing not mandatory)

Skills on other IT infrastructure topics are also highly valued.

The job requires frequent on-site visits to supervise Valeo sites under our perimeter, perform maintenance tasks, introduce and/or roll-out new technologies, and so on. Expect up on business trips, mostly in Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Italy but sometimes in Egypt, Turkey and occasionally other West Europe countries (French, Belgium, South Africa).

For system maintenance or urgent system issues, it is also sometimes required to work late at night or during weekends..

Job:IT Infrastructure Engineer

Organization:Continental IT Infrastructure

Schedule:Full time

Employee Status:Regular

Job Type:Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:2025-05-30

Join Us !

Being part of our team, you will join:

- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development

- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration

- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth

- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo:

REQ2025058259