DevOps Engineer

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.

The Role

Thales is transforming to a cloud-operating environment. In this new role, you’ll be helping to build and support a digital platform within the UK Digital Competence Centre (Best-In-Class), shaping the tools and processes for our development teams moving into DevSecOps ways of working.

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.

Your career could develop within DCC as it continues to grow, or take you into the business as the digital and technical agenda develops.

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
• 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

Experience Required

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.

• 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 solve to complex problems

Security Clearance Requirement

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions.  This role requires Security Clearance (SC). It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. 

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.

Benefits

• Performance-related bonus (Grade Dependant)
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

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At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.

If this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. Join the Talent Community here.

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