DevOps Engineer

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

DevOps Engineer

Locations – Crawley, Cheadle, Reading, Glasgow, Belfast, Templecombe, Bristol, Doncaster, Ebbw Vale (With Flexible Hybrid/Remote Working)

Who are we and what do we do?

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space.

Your health, well-being and work/life balance matters to us and that’s why we offer you as much flexibility as possible regarding remote and hybrid working. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. We offer flexible start and finish times, the opportunity to job share and many of our roles can also be worked on a part time basis.

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

Typical Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Pension – Thales match, plus 1%, with a max contribution of 7%
• Health Insurance – 50% of Salary for 5 years
• Life Assurance – 2 x Minimum (higher if part of the Pension Scheme)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Annual Leave 201 hours + 1 Company day (27 Days + Bank Holidays)
• Annual Bonus
• 37 Hours per week. (Half Day Friday typically)
• Excellent Maternity and Paternity Support

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 Requirements

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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