VSAT Expert

Project overview

Context

A major critical infrastructure operator in the energy sector must ensure redundant voice communication, capable of maintaining its operations for at least 24 hours in the event of a blackout, in accordance with European Emergency & Restoration Regulation (EU 2017/2196).

To meet this requirement, it is deploying a satellite telecommunications infrastructure (VSAT) across several hundred sites. The project is in the feasibility phase, with a pilot planned for 2027.

You will act as the reference VSAT expert, from the call for tenders to reversibility: pilot, deployment, VABF, and VSR.

Responsibilities

Project Management and Coordination

Technical Expertise, Acceptance, and Qualification

Tools & Environment

Working Conditions

Why This Mission

• Support the project from the opportunity phases through to deployment, VABF, VSR, and reversibility.
• Ensure functional and technical coordination between national and regional teams, operators, suppliers, and service providers.
• Produce and manage schedules, workload plans, risk analyses, indicators, and progress reports.
• Lead working groups, technical committees, and design workshops.
• Contribute to the telecommunications master plan (VSAT component) and draft techno-economic analysis notes comparing deployment scenarios.
• Define the functional and technical requirements of the satellite solution.
• Design test strategies, write the acceptance test plan, and oversee qualification campaigns.
• Administer and validate acceptance environments, as well as performance, availability, security, and interoperability tests.
• Provide daily VSAT expertise, contribute to incident diagnosis, and propose preventive actions.
• Control and validate project and MCO/MCS documentation, operating procedures, and supplier deliverables.
• Satellite telecommunications (VSAT).
• Testing, qualification, validation, and acceptance methods (VABF, VSR).
• Coordination of national and regional teams, suppliers, and service providers.
• Techno-economic analysis.
• Windows, Linux environments, web technologies (appreciated).
• Standards and frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27002, LPM, NIS2, GDPR, ITIL (appreciated).
• Agile methodologies, backlog and anomaly management (appreciated).
• Location: Paris La Défense (92) — occasional travel to technical sites and suppliers.
• Start Date: Early January 2027.
• Duration: 12 months firm + 3 options of 6 months (30 months maximum).
• Workload: 1 FTE (full-time).
• Status: Freelance / Portage.
• Experience: 10 to 20 years.
• Electrical qualification H0V/B0 required.
• Professional English B1/B2, written and spoken.
• Critical infrastructure project with European regulatory stakes, from feasibility to commissioning.
• Role of reference expert, sole responsible for the VSAT scope, with real technical latitude.
• Long-term visibility: 30 months of possible commitment.
• Rare subject, at the intersection of satellite telecommunications and energy network resilience.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: 92400 Courbevoie, France, FR
• Rate: 100-100 EUR/h
• Languages: French, English