DevOps Engineer

Location: Praha, Czechia

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales in the Czech Republic employs over 400 people from 45 different nationalities. A total of 15 teams work on projects for government agencies, banking, mobile services and the Internet Of Things (IoT) technology. At the core of our business is the development of software which we configure and embed in a multitude of different devices and form factors. These include many kinds of payment cards, SIM cards, travel passes, secure eBanking devices, authentication tokens, machine identification modules (MIM), and secure ID documents including ePassports, eID and eHealth cards, as well as eDriving licenses. Because of the international environment surrounding us every day, it comes as no surprise that English is our official corporate language.

We are looking for a Cloud engineer who can help build and maintain our state-of-the-art cloud SaaS environment where multiple teams and partners can work together to deliver the best experience for our customers. You will join a team of highly skilled engineers to successfully build and operate our next generation CIAM Cloud offering.

Main responsibilities:

The Cloud DevOps Engineer is responsible for:

• Support and troubleshoot all applications to ensure our cloud services are optimized for performance and reliability

• Work closely with your team to continuously improve the platform and be a good team player

• Help and support other teams to be successful on the platform

• Write infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm charts) for multiple cloud services (AWS &GCP)

• Review code from colleagues and provide valuable feedback

• Maintain and build monitoring tooling and build pipelines

• Be in contact with customers to assist in analyzing and debugging issues

• Participate on the on-Call schedule & Provide L2/L3 Support to our Services desk and R&D teams

•On-call duties

You have:

● At least five years of experience as a cloud engineer

● Strong analytical skills and eager to learn new technologies

● Proven operational experience with AWS and Kubernetes

● Experience in working with technologies such as Terraform, and Helm

● Experience in working with one or more scripting languages like Bash and Python

● An understanding of TCP/IP and networking protocols

● Worked with DevOps and SRE methodologies

Ideally you also:

● Understand CIAM solutions and security-relevant protocols (SAML, OIDC)

● Have programming experience (Typescript, Go, C or Rust)

●  Are an experienced database operator (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch)

● Are a security-first mindset person

● Have an in depth understanding of AWS/GCP services and networking

● Have worked with GitOps and understand the pros and cons to CI/CD

● Thrive under pressure

● Have worked in regulated markets and understand consequences of compliance standards (SOC2/ISO27001)

● Have excellent communication skills across multiple mediums

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!