Storage Lead Expert

ASSIGNMENT ENVIRONMENT

AXA Group Operations - Our mission at AXA is to empower people to live a better life. We aim to transition from being perceived merely as a payer of claims to becoming a strong partner in life for our customers. Our role as Group Operations is to support and empower all AXA teams in achieving this meaningful aspiration.

The most powerful levers to achieve this can be summarized as Innovation and Execution:

1. Innovation: To create and provide the prerequisites and opportunities for all AXA teams to develop leading innovative solutions for the needs of our current and future customers.
2. Execution: To create an environment that allows our teams all over the world to bring their ideas to reality and fulfill our strong promise to customers.

Our concrete goals are:

• Reinforce and realize our value creation for the global AXA organization.
• Support and foster innovation across AXA in close alignment with Group Business Innovation.
• Embed simplicity and empowerment in our day-to-day working while ensuring a powerful contribution to AXA’s mission and strategy.

PRESENTATION OF THE CONTEXT AND THE STORAGE TEAM

Under Group IT Services Distributed Products, the “Storage” product aims at delivering best-in-class Storage capabilities (SAN, NAS, Hyperconverged) for AXA GO and the entities.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for the engineering and operations of new solutions regarding Storage Technologies and its ecosystem, working globally with all regions.

YOUR MAIN TASKS

• Administration of Storage infrastructure SAN & NAS.
• Incident management (resolution and communication).
• 24/7 on duty and early morning organization.
• DRP campaign.
• Audit and security projects.
• Work in a global mode and exchange with the region.
• Provide and share documentation.
• Internal communication with team colleagues and AXA teams.
• Provide capacity management reporting and visibility on action/project progress.
• Be responsible for the infrastructure in our scope.
• Define and validate the framework and architecture standards.
• Verify and analyze the impacts of new solutions and their coherence with the existing architecture and SI master plan.

YOUR PROFILE

Mandatory knowledge and experience areas:

• NAS: NetApp skills
• Scripting abilities and automation.
• Nutanix, VSAN experience.
• Strong general knowledge in IT and Datacenter infrastructure architectures.
• Part of security follow-up for storage practice.
• Proven experience in IT production environments (incident management, 24/7 on duty, early morning organization), with DRP architecture.

Requested personal skills:

• Autonomous, teamwork spirit, and self-organized working, respectful of processes.
• Curiosity and assertiveness.
• Customer-centric and result-oriented.
• Ability to work in dynamic, matrix-structured global organizations.
• Upper intermediate level of written and spoken English is a must.
• French speaking would be appreciated.