DevOps I Platform I Tools Engineer

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83000 employees on five continents. With over 7500 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.

This role is a Principal Applications Engineer position within Thales UKs engineering tooling team focused on modernising and migrating the companys engineering environments to a cloud-based Azure platform while maintaining existing toolsets and supporting engineering users throughout the transition.

Location(s):Crawley or Reading or Cheadle or Bristol or Glasgow or any other Thales site in the UK

Role purpose and context:

Thales is transforming how it delivers tools to its engineers by building the next generation of Engineering Environments on a cloud-based this role you will:

• Build and support a modern cloud-native tooling environment that provides an outstanding experience for engineering teams across the UK.

• Lead migration from legacy on-prem or older tooling to new Azure-based solutions ensuring continuity of service during the transition.

• Work in an agile development team collaborating closely with a Technical Product Owner and other stakeholders to plan prioritise and deliver improvements.

• Provide coaching and guidance to more junior team members and champion best practices in deployment automation and operations.

The role sits at the intersection of platform engineering DevOps and internal developer experience with a strong emphasis on reliability automation and user satisfaction for engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

Your core accountabilities include:

• Deploy and support industry-leading tools on Thales cloud-based Azure infrastructure (e.g. CI/CD artifact management code quality licensing).

• Build or modify deployment solutions where offtheshelf reuse isnt possible often using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation.

• Improve current processes through automation reducing manual effort and increasing consistency and reliability.

• Maintain existing environments through the transition phase ensuring stability for engineering users while new platforms are rolled out.

• Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute network storage) in a simple and efficient manner.

• Implement operational best practices including supervision/monitoring backups archives and log management to ensure robust secure and auditable environments.

Youll maintain principal relationships with engineering users the Technical Product Owner Service Delivery Manager Delivery Manager and Head of Discipline to align tooling with business needs.

Technical stack and skills

We are looking for strong handson experience in modern DevOps and platform engineering technologies. Highly desirable skills include:

• Linux administration and scripting

• CI/CD methodologies and pipeline design

• Kubernetes and Docker for containerisation and orchestration

• JFrog Platform (Artifactory/XRay) for artifact and dependency management

• GitLab for source control and CI

• Ansible for configuration management and automation

• Python for scripting and tooling

• Virtual Machines and cloud infrastructure concepts

Plus experience in any of the following is a strong advantage:

• Atlassian Suite (Jira Bitbucket Confluence)

• Siemens Polarion (requirements/ALM)

• FlexLM License Server

• Black Duck SCA Coverity SonarQube (security and code quality)

• Jenkins (CI/CD)

Benefits:

• Performance-related bonus

• 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

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 you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. 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. If approved by the MOD a dual national from a non-ITAR country may be considered.

To be eligible for full SC you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 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:

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.

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