Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech!

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: Beauty. Present in 150 countries across five continents and with €42 billion consolidated sales, L'Oréal is the global industry leader. With 37 global beauty brands across four divisions, L’Oréal offers beauty for each covering all beauty categories and catering to all beauty desires. With the acquisition of the Australian brand Aēsop in 2023, the Group continues to expand its portfolio through targeted acquisitions as part of its drive to create the future of beauty.

Today, L’Oréal includes more than 2,000 tech positions and is constantly growing. Beauty Tech is changing the game and leading the shift towards new consumer realities and a digital disruption. Championing Beauty Tech, we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future.

Beauty Tech is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. Beauty Tech equips the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic. With this ambition, L’Oréal continues to recruit diverse, innovative, skilled and passionate minds in different tech domains such as Data, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure.

Your future team

The L'Oréal Group Network team's mission is to design and operate connectivity for over 300 sites, 2000 points of sale, and 90,000 employees in a (cyber)secure, scalable, and operable way. Their scope includes internet connectivity, WAN/SDWAN, internet security, remote access, public DNS, firewalls, etc. 

Comprised of approximately 15 globally distributed team members, the Network team prioritizes cybersecurity, automation, and fosters a strong supportive culture, playing a vital role in all other infrastructure solutions. 

What a day in the life of the Network Security Architect team looks like:

As part of the global Network team, reporting to the Head of Network Connectivity / Group Head of Network, under the supervision of the CTO (responsible for all L'Oréal infrastructure - Endpoints, Workplace, Hyperscalers, IT Identity, and Network), you'll start your day with a team meeting to discuss priorities and ongoing projects. You'll then dedicate your time to designing secure and high-performing internet access and remote access solutions, taking into account operational and security requirements. 

You'll work closely with security teams to analyze risks and implement appropriate protective measures. In the afternoon, you might lead a workshop with regional network architects to share best practices and ensure consistency across deployed solutions, or provide your technical expertise as Level 3 support to operational teams in case of a major incident.

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As a Network Connectivity Architect, you will be responsible for the design, deployment, and optimization of internet access and remote access solutions. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Defining the architecture of internet access and remote access / Security service edge (SSE) solutions, in compliance with security standards and operational requirements.
• Collaborating with security teams to identify risks and implement robust protection solutions.
• Leading a community of network architects internationally, by organizing workshops, sharing best practices, and ensuring the consistency of deployed technical solutions.
• Providing Level 3 technical support to operational teams in case of major incidents.
• Contributing to the automation of tasks and processes to improve operational efficiency.
• Participating in technological watch and proposing innovative solutions to optimize connectivity.
• As a member of global network team, you will be onboarded in design choices for all the connectivity solutions (WAN, SDWAN, Firewall, Public DNS, WAF, etc…)

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED!

First and foremost, we love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact, proactive and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit.

Secondly, in this specific position, it will be important for you to have

Minimum 5 years of experience

• Soft skills:
  1. As a member of central Network team, your job will be to manage the community of network architects and make sure all of them agree and can support the solutions you design
• Mandatory skillsets
  1. Internet security (SaaS proxy solutions) and Remote access / Security Service Edge stacks
  2. Firewalling 
  3. Routing/switching skills
  4. Programming skills (automation is a key aspect)
  5. IT system (PKI, certificates, identity management)
  6. French and English 
• Optional skillsets
  1. Public DNS/CDN/WAF
  2. Firewall Automation solutions

LET US GIVE YOU 6 OTHER REASONS TO JOIN US!

Joining L'Oréal means joining a company that:

1. Invests in Tech and positions its Tech teams at the heart of its digital transformation strategy.
2. Allows its employees to have a real impact, to test their ideas, to innovate and to build our future.
3. Offers a Hybrid Work Policy: 3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home
4. Provides many benefits: VIP staff shop offering our products at a preferential rate, a company restaurant & gym, 60% reimbursement of transportation subscription, a work council offering lots of employee discounts (social & cultural activities, holiday vouchers etc.) and much more! 
5. Delivers a powerful and innovative HR policy: dynamic mobility policy, significant investment in employee training, regular re-evaluation of remuneration, numerous innovative HR measures: Time Savings Account, paternity leave, Citizen Day, etc.
6. Is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.

GOOD TO KNOW: THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS 

1. Interview with HR
2. Interview with the hiring manager
3. Interview with the business leader

We will be delighted to exchange with you!

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