Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Reading, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS
Reading

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

You’ll be part of a huge international programme of work tackling key security development programme across within the aviation industry.

You will help our teams to accelerate their cloud 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.

Please note – You will need to be able to obtain Security Clearance for this position, please see below for further details.

Development duties:

• Be able to lead the implementation and setup Cloud technologies in collaboration with technical leaders of the engineering teams.
• Develop and set up the automation tools (CI/CD) to support the development/validation/integration and deployment of cloud solution.
• 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

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science (or Information Technology related field)
• Experience of software development (server-side development)
• Experience with deployment and maintaining of highly available solutions on AWS
• Experience in system integration and deployment of cloud-based technology (IaaS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, monitoring system, authentication system, repository)
• Experience of writing infrastructure as a code (IaC) using Terraform
• 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
• Willing to share knowledge, training, and supporting people.
• Analytical thinking

Security Clearance Statement

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.  Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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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.

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