Rexel. Electrifying solutions that make a sustainable future possible.
Rexel, a global expert in the multi-channel distribution of electrical products and services for the energy sector, serves three main markets: residential, commercial, and industrial. Passionate, dedicated, and highly skilled, our employees contribute to delivering innovative electrification solutions on the ground and making the energy transition possible. We believe in bringing positive energy to everything we do!
Join our dynamic teams and be part of this extraordinary journey! Joining the Rexel teams offers an exciting and dynamic environment, where you can make a tangible difference, work on innovative projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and develop professionally and personally.
Job DescriptionAs a Data Hosting & Cloud Infrastructure Manager, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, management, as well as optimization of the organization’s cloud and on-premise hosting infrastructure. Your objective: to ensure secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective infrastructure services that support enterprise applications, data platforms, and business operations.
Your role: to lead infrastructure teams, oversee cloud strategy, manage hosting environments, ensure compliance and security standards. You will be working closely with application, security, DevOps, Managed Service Providers and data teams to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure services.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure Management
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure environments, primarily on Microsoft Azure.
- Ensure scalability, performance, reliability, and security of cloud services.
- Oversee provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of cloud resources.
- Contribute to cloud governance and architecture standards.
Data Hosting & Platform Management
- Manage enterprise hosting environments including data centers, virtualized infrastructure, and hybrid cloud platforms.
- Ensure high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Support hosting for enterprise applications, databases, and analytics platforms.
- Monitor infrastructure capacity and performance.
Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy
- Contribute to the definition and execution of the cloud and infrastructure strategy.
- Support cloud migration initiatives from on-premise environments to cloud platforms.
- Implement automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions.
- Help design scalable and resilient infrastructure architectures.
Security, Compliance & Governance
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with security policies and regulatory standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Work closely with cybersecurity teams to implement security controls.
• Support identity access policies and infrastructure security monitoring.
Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor infrastructure and cloud engineers.
- Coordinate activities with DevOps, security, networking, and application teams.
- Manage relationships with vendors and external service providers.
Operations & Reliability
- Ensure infrastructure uptime and reliability.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration.
- Support monitoring, logging, and alerting practices.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure or cloud environments.
- Experience managing cloud or hosting environments.
- Experience leading infrastructure or cloud engineering teams.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure in hybrid environments and VMware virtualization.
- Fluent English required.
Technical Skills
- Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure (Hybrid Environment).
- Infrastructure: VMware, Hyper-V.
- Automation / IaC: Terraform.
- Containers: Kubernetes.
- Configuration management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
- Networking: VPC, VPN, load balancing, firewalls.
Leadership Skills
- Team leadership and mentoring.
- Vendor and stakeholder management.
- Strategic planning and project leadership.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Additional Information
Please apply for this position with an English-language resume.
Chez Rexel, nous pensons que notre succès dépend de vous. Nous vous aidons à développer vos connaissances et à explorer de nouveaux domaines au sein de l'entreprise et dans le cadre de votre développement de carrière.
Nous sommes conscients de notre responsabilité sociale et nous nous engageons en faveur de l'égalité et de la diversité dans notre environnement de travail. Ensemble, nous pouvons créer un avenir meilleur. Postulez maintenant et profitez de cette opportunité de croissance et de développement.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure or cloud environments
- Experience managing cloud or hosting environments
- Experience leading infrastructure or cloud engineering teams
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure in hybrid environments
- Strong experience with VMware virtualization
- Fluent English
- Experience with Terraform (Infrastructure-as-Code)
- Experience with Kubernetes (containers)
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Experience with Hyper-V
- Networking knowledge (VPC, VPN, load balancing, firewalls)
What We Do
Rexel, worldwide expert in the professional multichannel distribution of electrical products and services for the energy world, addresses three main markets - residential, commercial, and industrial. The Group supports its customers to be at their best in running their business, by providing a broad range of sustainable and innovative products, services, and solutions in the field of technical supply, automation, and energy management. Rexel operates through a network of over 1,900 branches in 19 countries, with more than 27,000 employees. The Group’s sales were €19.2 billion in 2023. Over the past five years, Rexel has proven its ability to structurally outperform the growing and increasingly attractive electrical distribution market. The demand in green energy and energy efficiency has boosted the Group’s businesses. On February 11, 2021, Rexel presented its mid-term ambitions. The Group’s strategy relies on a growth, value-creation and ESG ambition approach, via several strategic initiatives: - Accelerating growth through “More Customers, More SKUs, More Digital” - Improving operational and financial performance, in particular through digital - A balanced capital allocation around return to shareholders and investment in future growth. As an example, Rexel seizes any external growth opportunity in order to strengthen its position in certain geographies such as the United States or to add adjacent skills. ESG targets for 2030: - A 35% reduction in CO2 emissions of its operations (scopes 1&2) compared to 2016 - A 45% reduction in CO2 emissions from the use of products sold (scope 3) compared to 2016. 2023 sales: €19.2 billion 19 countries 1,900 branches 27,000 employees
