Cloud 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 30000 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.

As Cloud Engineer you will be part of the technical governance team of the Digital ID Team contributing to the Identity & Biometrics Solution Business Line (IBS BL) from Thales Digital Identity Security (DIS) Global Business Unit.

The mission covers cloud and container architecture and security engineering as well as creation and maintenance of helm charts for current and future products/solutions.

You will us to accelerate our digital transformation into private and public cloud environments and help to coordinate our containerization efforts.

The role requires a large part of hands-on implementation but also communication and knowledge sharing.

Development duties:

• Be part of the digital transformation in private and public cloud environments
• Be able to lead the implementation and setup of those technologies in collaboration with technical leaders of the engineering teams
• Develop and set up the automation tools (GitLab CI/CD) to support the development/validation/integration technical process
• Write guideline installation guide documentation training materials to make the engineering team autonomous on those technologies

Support duties:

• Train the various engineering teams on the cloud-based technology and CI/CD tools to support the cloud transformation make them autonomous
• Provide guidance and expertise during architecture definition (i.e security audit architecture design pre-sales)

Communication duties:

• Liaise with other cloud engineers for all cloud-based matters from the various IBS product line DIS BL and corporate group (CCoE/CTO)

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science (or Information Technology related field)
• 3 years of experience in the field of software development (server-side development)
• 3 years of experience in system integration and deployment of cloud-based technology (IaaS Docker Kubernetes OpenStack monitoring system authentication system repository)
• Experience in various database repository model (SQL NoSQL S3 NAS) as a designer or administrator
• Experience in a large and complex distributed system with high availability and high scalability (using an application server message-broker service streaming load-balancing)
• Experience in the network protocol (SOAP/ REST HTTP TCP/IP DNS VPN WAF RTCP)
• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code language scripting code continuous automation principles (CI/CD)
• Good knowledge of operating systems (Win/Linux) and proficiency in at least one development language (Java C/C C# Python JavaScript Go)
• AWS SAA or AWS SAP certification considered positively

Others

• Good communication skills (oral and written)
• Fluent in English and at least one additional language of the European Union
• Willing to share knowledge training and supporting people
• Analytical thinking

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