Senior Azure Cloud Tools Engineer

Thales; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus

Half day every Friday

28 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Life cover

Employee Assistance Program

Discount schemes

Gym membership discounts

Job summary

Thales UK is recruiting a Principal Applications Engineer to lead the modernisation of engineering environments on a cloud-based Azure platform. You will build and support cloud-native tooling across the UK, migrate from legacy systems while maintaining continuity for engineering users.

You will work in an agile team with a Technical Product Owner, coach junior members, and drive deployment automation, IaC, and operational best practices across multiple UK sites.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud-based tooling and Azure migration.
• Proven ability to build and support cloud-native tooling environments.
• Strong automation and IaC experience.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and support tools on Thales’ Azure infrastructure (CI/CD, artifact management, code quality, licensing).
• Develop deployment solutions using IaC and automation.
• Improve processes through automation; reduce manual effort and increase reliability.

Skills

Linux administration

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

JFrog Platform

GitLab

Ansible

Python

Virtual Machines

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Confluence

Polarion

FlexLM

Black Duck

SonarQube

Jenkins

Job description

Thales UK is recruiting a Principal Applications Engineer to lead the modernisation of engineering environments on a cloud-based Azure platform. You will build and support cloud-native tooling across the UK, migrate from legacy systems while maintaining continuity for engineering users.

You will work in an agile team with a Technical Product Owner, coach junior members, and drive deployment automation, IaC, and operational best practices across multiple UK sites.