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DevOps Engineer

Cheadle
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Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales

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.

Summary of role

Responsible for supporting the DCC infrastructure and ensuring it is safe and secure.

Role and responsibilities – what success looks like

  • Maintain the technical solution for infrastructure:
    • System architecture: Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed in production, respecting established rules.
    • Support delivery teams: With automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
  • Secure the DCC infrastructure:
    • Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.
    • Ensures 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 trains the team on those topics.
    • Ensuring Security best practices are being upheld.
    • Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community.

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Principle Relationships

  • DCC Team
  • Software Engineering Director
  • UK Engineering Management Team
  • CBU Heads of Software & Systems Engineering
  • IS Security / IS Architects

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities

  • Outputs:

    • Automated deployment scripts for the product
    • Proper operational best practices implemented for PaaS
    • Document design and resources
  • Success criteria:

    • Product is able to release into production in a timely manner
    • Ensuring maximum up time
    • Operational best practices
    • Deployment automation best practice

Best practices

  • Monitoring the usage and alerts to anticipate necessary changes
  • Ensure platform cannot fail
  • Investigate alternative delivery process
  • Ensure a resilience process for Dev Ops tasks

Education and Qualifications

  • Qualified to degree level or equivalent in an engineering discipline or closely related technical field.
  • The successful candidate will have a proven track record of having demonstrated the key competences listed elsewhere on this document.
  • Membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with chartered status.
  • Agile certification.

Behaviours and Values

  • Demonstrates behaviours which meet the Thales Leadership Model requirements and demonstrates a professional, committed approach to all tasks undertaken.
  • Displays passion, energy, drive, agility and resilience in achieving work-related goals under difficult circumstances.
  • Enjoys or thrives on developing and performing through teamwork.
  • Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude.
  • A good problem solver showing initiative and improvisation.
  • Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives.
  • Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work.
  • Must be able to work in a multi-disciplined team environment with Suppliers, Thales employees and Customer present.

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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.

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Skills

System Architecture
Infrastructure Provisioning
Automation Scripting
Monitoring
Log Management
Backup And Archiving
Security Best Practices
Agile Methodology
PaaS
DevOps

Location

Cheadle, England, United Kingdom

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