DevOps Engineer

Thales; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Half day Friday

Leave and volunteering benefits

Life cover

Employee assistance program

Discount schemes

Job summary

Thales in the United Kingdom seeks a skilled engineer to support the DCC infrastructure, ensuring safe, secure, and reliable operations. The role focuses on automating deployment, implementing best practices for PaaS, and thorough documentation of designs and resources.

You will collaborate with the DCC Team, software directors, and IS security to uphold security and resilience while educating the broader Thales UK community. A degree in engineering and Agile certification are preferred.

Qualifications

• Eligible to work in the UK with SC clearance or willing to obtain clearance.
• Experience implementing automated deployment and operational best practices for PaaS.
• Proven ability to document design and resources for infra projects.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Automation scripting

Security clearance

DevOps mindset

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Agile certification

Job description

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:

• 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 practises are being upheld
• Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community

Principle Relationships :

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

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities

• 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 manor
• Ensuring maximum up time
• Operational best practices

Best practices:

• Monitoring the usage and alerts to anticipate necessary changes
• Ensure platform cannot fail
• 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.
• 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
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

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 Security Clearance (SC). 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.

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.

Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.