French telecom operator scaling fiber networks and security infrastructure
Bouygues Telecom operates a large-scale telecom infrastructure business across France with 5,001–10,000 employees and 10,500 total staff. The tech stack is defensive and enterprise-focused (Active Directory, Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, Fortinet, Cisco) with substantial cloud adoption (Azure, AWS, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes). Current hiring velocity is accelerating, concentrated heavily in sales (34 roles) and support (11 roles), with active projects centered on fiber commercialization, cloud platform operations, and security-incident detection—indicating ongoing digital infrastructure modernization amid legacy copper decommissioning.
Bouygues Telecom is a French telecommunications operator providing connectivity and digital services to consumer and enterprise customers. The company manages a mission-critical network infrastructure spanning fiber, dark fiber, ethernet, and copper assets, with ongoing strategic phasing of legacy copper and acceleration of fiber deployment. The organization spans 10,500 employees across 150+ job functions including network engineering, IT, big data, security, sales, and commercial operations. Current operational priorities include fiber commercialization, security-incident detection and response, cloud platform build-and-run, and product strategy for high-capacity network offerings.
Core stack includes Active Directory, Splunk, QRadar, SIEM/SOAR/EDR for security; Azure, AWS, GCP for cloud; Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes for infrastructure; Cisco, Fortinet, Huawei for networking hardware; and Prometheus, Grafana for observability.
Major initiatives include fiber commercialization, cloud platform build-and-run, security-operations center improvements, product strategy for ethernet/WDM/dark fiber, and digital inclusion programs. Concurrent effort underway to phase out legacy copper infrastructure.
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