Orange Cyberdefense, the Orange subsidiary and European leader in cybersecurity services, announces the launch of its latest recruitment campaign, which will run until the end of 2023.
The outfit wants to recruit around 800 professionals in the nine European countries where it operates to meet the new cybersecurity challenges of companies of all sizes and who will join the 3,000 experts already in the organisation.
Positions are available across the entire organisation, from analyst roles in operational teams to architects, engineers, consultants, and ethical hackers.
From beginners to experts (master’s level, engineering or business schools, universities, training in new technologies and/or IT, work-study programs, etc.), roles are available to those who want to work in the fast-paced and mission critical cybersecurity space, on topics ranging from anticipating, identifying, protecting, detecting, and responding to cyber threats.
Orange Cyberdefense ended the last financial year with overall growth of 14 per cent across its activities, achieving sales of €977 million. More generally, its revenues have increased fivefold over the past eight years.
To support its development ambitions, it has increased its acquisitions in Europe, integrating four new companies in four years. The goal of rapid expansion can be seen in the organisation’s desire to be one of the most dynamic employers in its market each year, with an average growth of 13 per cent in its headcount in the last two years. Last year it hired 777 new experts.
The company said that it is making significant changes to improve its recruitment credentials. For example, to attract new professionals from all backgrounds, it has created a single recruitment platform for all its cyber campuses in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
The company said that it should be able to diversify the profiles of its employees, are reflected both in the average age of its employees (which is 35 years old), and in proportion of women in the organisation (approximately 20%), and who represent 25% of new hires.
Orange Cyberdefense is also committed to increasing diversity within tech jobs. As such, it is a member of the Women4Cyber association, which promotes cybersecurity jobs to women through mentoring and tutoring sessions.
“Our goal is to create the largest community of cyber experts in Europe. This is a huge challenge, especially with the talent shortage the whole industry is experiencing. We promise the professionals who choose to join us that they will be joining a very ambitious organisation that has the resources to be the leader in its market and to offer extensive development opportunities to its employees. Our employees are united by a common mission to build a safer digital society. We have entered an ultra-digital world with many clear benefits – let’s not deny ourselves this – but we must not forget the real dangers it also poses,” said Hugues Foulon, CEO of Orange Cyberdefense.
