Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.
Cyber Security & Digital Identity (CDI)
From secure software to biometrics and encryption, CDI technologies and services enable businesses and governments to authenticate identities and protect data, so they stay safe and enable services in personal devices, connected objects, the cloud and in between.
Summary of role:
Responsible for supporting the DCC infrastructure and ensuring it is safe and secure.
Role and responsibilities – what success looks like:
Maintain the technical solution for infrastructure:
- System architecture
- Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed in production, respecting established rules.
- Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
Secure the DCC infrastructure:
- Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
- Ensures 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 trains the team on those topics.
- Ensuring Security best practises are being upheld
- Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community
Principle Relationships :
- DCC Team
- Software Engineering Director
- UK Engineering Management Team
- CBU Heads of Software & Systems Engineering
- IS Security / IS Architects
Key responsibilities & Accountabilities
Outputs:
- Automated deployment scripts for the product
- Proper operational best practices implemented for PaaS
- Document design and resources
Success criteria:
- Product is able to release into production in a timely manor
- Ensuring maximum up time
- Operational best practices
- Deployment automation best practice
Best practices:
- Monitoring the usage and alerts to anticipate necessary changes
- Ensure platform cannot fail
- Investigate alternative delivery process
- Ensure a resilience process for Dev Ops tasks
Education and Qualifications
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent in an engineering discipline or closely related technical field.
- The successful candidate will have a proven track record of having demonstrated the key competences listed elsewhere on this document.
- Membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with chartered status.
- Agile certification.
Behaviours and Values
- Demonstrates behaviours which meet the Thales Leadership Model requirements and demonstrates a professional, committed approach to all tasks undertaken.
- Displays passion, energy, drive, agility and resilience in achieving work-related goals under difficult circumstances.
- Enjoys or thrives on developing and performing through teamwork.
- Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude
- A good problem solver showing initiative and improvisation.
- Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives.
- Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work.
- Must be able to work in a multi-disciplined team environment with Suppliers, Thales employees and Customer present.
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Skills Required
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent in an engineering discipline or closely related technical field.
- Proven track record demonstrating the key competences for the role.
- Membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body, preferably with chartered status.
- Agile certification.
- Experience defining and maintaining system architecture for infrastructure.
- Experience developing automated deployment scripts and provisioning infrastructure resources (compute, network, storage).
- Experience implementing operational best practices: supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure security best practices and ability to uphold them.
- Ability to educate, communicate and train teams and work in multi-disciplined teams with suppliers and customers.
Thales Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thales and has not been reviewed or approved by Thales.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer contributions and matches, profit sharing, and share purchase opportunities are emphasized across multiple regions. These elements are positioned as competitive components of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO that increases with tenure, paid holidays, and paid military, maternity, and paternity leave are described. This breadth supports work–life balance across locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid work options, flexible schedules, and parental supports such as childcare benefits and leave for sick children are available in several markets. Flexibility is presented as a core part of the employee experience.
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What We Do
Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers – businesses, organisations and states – in the defence, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
