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Hervé SambaHS

Hervé Samba

Senior Talent Acquisition IT/ Cyber / AI

€450/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Hervé

  • Support Business Managers in analyzing needs, defining target profiles, and recruitment strategy.
  • Identify, qualify, and evaluate candidates during interviews, with report writing and recommendations to managers.
  • Support clients and candidates throughout the recruitment process up to offer negotiation and contracting (permanent, freelance, umbrella).
  • Contribute to employer branding development and propose innovative actions to optimize talent attraction and acquisition.
  • Define and manage talent sourcing and headhunting strategies for hard-to-fill positions, using advanced search techniques (LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, X-Ray Search, CV databases, job boards).

Commonly recruited profiles(BUILD & RUN): Network & Security Engineer /
SOC Analyst / Network & Security Architect/ Network and Security Admin, Firewall Admin/ F5 Firewall Expert/ , Cyber Security SDM, Cybersecurity Engineer/ Cloud Project Manager/
Software Developer/ IAM Consultant/ IBM/ Resilience Engineer /IBM SOAR/
CISO/ Devops...( Firewalls: checkpoint, Palo alto, Fortinet) Siem: Qradar, sentinel, Csirt...
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 20km)

Experience

  • AVA2I
    IT Sourcing Manager / Senior Talent Acquisition
    TECH
    December 2025 - Today (8 months)
    Paris, France
    • Support managers in analyzing needs, scoping IT, Data, AI, Cyber, and Infrastructure profiles, and defining recruitment strategies.
    • Deploy sourcing and talent hunting strategies for expert and rare profiles by leveraging advanced search tools and techniques (LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS, X-Ray Search, GitHub, CV databases, technical communities).
    • Identify, qualify, and evaluate candidates during recruitment interviews (technical and HR), with the creation of targeted shortlists and recommendations to managers.
    • Manage complex recruitments, ensuring candidate follow-up through offer negotiation and hiring finalization.
    • Optimize recruitment tools and processes (ATS, talent pools, reporting, KPIs) to improve performance, candidate experience, and team efficiency.
    • Support recruitment teams on sourcing best practices, digital tools, and continuous improvement of Talent Acquisition methods.
    LinkedIn Recruiter IT Recruitment Talent Hunting Sourcing Sourcing Strategy
  • TDS Global Technologies|
    IT / Cybersecurity Recruiter
    TECH
    September 2023 - November 2025 (2 years and 2 months)
    Paris, France
    • Analyze needs with business managers and define priorities
    • Sourcing and headhunting in various job boards and social networks…
    • Use of Sourcing techniques: Boolean Operators, advanced search on GitHub, Stack Overflow, IT Turnover...
    • Initial telephone qualification of candidates on cybersecurity skills...
    • Conducting interviews, in-person and/or video, HR evaluation supported by report writing…
    • Client presentations and participation in skills evaluation interviews.
    • Job offer proposal (choice of contract type, salary negotiation (Freelance, Permanent, Umbrella),
    • Participation in external communication activities (School Relations, career fairs, forums)
    • Commonly recruited profiles: (BUILD & RUN): Network & Security Engineer/
    SOC Analyst / Network & Security Architect/ Network and Security Admin, Firewall Admin/ F5 Firewall Expert/ , Cyber Security SDM, Cybersecurity Engineer/ Cloud Project Manager/
    Software Developer/ IAM Consultant/ IBM/ Resilience Engineer /IBM SOAR/ CISO/ Devops,
    • Knowledge of firewalls
    ✓ Packet Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, Check Point Firewall,
    Juniper SRX.
    ✓ Application Level Firewalls: Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 BIG-IP
    Application Security Manager/ Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Firepower, Sophos XG Firewall.
    ✓ Proxy Firewalls: McAfee Web Gateway, Symantec ProxySG /
    ✓ Web Application Firewalls: Imperva WAF, Akamai Kona Site Defender...
    ✓ NGFW: Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, Check Point Next Generation Firewall, FortinetFortiGate.
    • Knowledge of other Technologies: Splunk, Pentest , Guardicore , Sailpoint IǪ, Logpoint , Sentinel , CSIRT, Secur ID, Ǫradar LAN/ SDWAN/ NAC/ FTTH, IAM, IBM,
    RCAF, F5, Splunk…
    Recruitment Boolean Operator Technical Knowledge Sourcing Strategy
  • SNCF
    IT RECRUITMENT OFFICER
    November 2022 - September 2023 (10 months)
    Missions / KPI: 18 IT (Infra, Dev, IT Project Management, InfoSec, Tech Support…)
    • Understand and define recruitment needs in collaboration with Managers.
    • Write and publish job offers on various job boards and social networks,
    • Source and headhunt IT profiles from specialized sites, CV databases, and
    social networks,
    • Manage the entire recruitment process, from initial screening to interviews (Tests, MSC),
    • Report and track applications with the technical and commercial team (Digitalent),
    • Prepare reports and contribute to hiring decisions with managers,
    • Participate in onboarding and implement innovative recruitment strategies.

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Education

  • MASTER II HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
    ASCENCIA BUSINESS SCHOOL
    2023
    MASTER II MANAGEMENT DES RESSOURCES HUMAINES
  • Master of Science
    UNIVERSITY OF LORRAINE
    2021
    MASTER II SCIENCES HUMA INES & SOCIALES

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