About the Company

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health, well-being and work/life balance matters to us and that’s why we offer you as much flexibility as possible regarding remote and hybrid working. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. We offer flexible start and finish times, the opportunity to job share and many of our roles can also be worked on a part time basis.

About the Role

Thales is transforming to a cloud-operating environment. In this new role, you’ll be helping to build and support Thales UK’s and in particular cortAIx AI product, programme and project teams to set-up and transition to new DevOps environments. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work as part of an agile development team, helping to build secure and resilient application infrastructure providing an outstanding experience for our customers and engineering teams. As part of the UK cortAIx team, you will provide specialist skills and experience into key digital growth programmes, upskilling our business teams on modern DevOps ways of working. Thales is a great place to work so diversity, integrity and a passion for what we do are very important drivers for us. Whether you’ve been a DevOps professional for many years or have had some recent exposure in your last role that you would like to build on, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Design and build industry leading cloud-based infrastructure on Azure & other hyperscale clouds for greenfield & migration activities
• Using modern DevSecOps practices, create and manage secure, low maintenance environments in cloud
• Create and maintain development tools to enable effective and efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Help shape and grow cloud estate, with no legacy systems to support
• Automate and improve development and release process
• Support release and production environment where necessary
• Maintaining the technical solution for infrastructure
• Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed respecting established rules.
• Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
• Securing the platform infrastructure
• Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
• Ensure that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the Squad is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required train the team on those topics.
• Ensuring Security best practises are being upheld
• Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community

Qualifications

We recruit DevOps Engineers and Managers at many levels so we would be very interested to hear from you regardless of your length of experience.

Required Skills

• Active interest in the cloud operating environment; able to show that you have undertaken self-development in this discipline
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of cloud infrastructure as a service and cloud platform as a service
• Active ability and interest in scripting languages
• Strong experience with Cloud infrastructure on Azure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with build and CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Exposure to application development.
• Good understanding of Cloud design patterns and have used them to solve complex problems

Preferred Skills

• This role is placed as a mid-senior role providing specialist skills and capabilities into a number of key AI deliverables, as a result you will need to be:
• Comfortable engaging with stakeholders of varying degrees of seniority and technical experience
• An advocate for transitioning to modern ways of delivering software solutions
• Comfortable working across several (2-3) possibly disparate projects
• Able to work with the other functions of the technical directorate to embed our solutions across our UK businesses

Pay range and compensation package

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Thales is committed to diversity and inclusivity.