DevOps Engineer

Lieu : Herstal, Belgium

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Thales Belgium SA, Belgium competence center of Thales, is a company located on 2 sites, one in Tubize (near Brussels) and the other one in Herstal (near Liège). Thales Belgium, which employs more than 280 collaborators, is specialized in the design, development and supply of critical information systems for customers in the sectors of Defense, Security (including Cyber) and Aerospace.

Mission:

Thales Begium (Herstal site) is a world leader in precision guided rocket system for helicopters and jet aircraft. In order to meet its ambitious production and product development roadmap, Thales wants to reinforce teams with devops engineer to speed up and automate aspects of the processes of developing, testing and releasing software, allowing for the continuous delivery of software and software updates.

You play a key role in helping the engineering department raise and maintain quality level of our deliverables, and maturity of the department itself.

Main Responsibilities:

• Setting up development tools and infrastructure (CI/CD);
• Maintaining CI/CD infrastructure operational and stable (with the help of IS/IT department);
• Setting up tools to meet the needs of engineering and operational departments;
• Defining best ways to automate and improve development, test, release, update and support processes;
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management (DevSecOps);
• Providing Dev(Sec)Ops expertise whenever needed, both internally and towards customers;
• Facilitating exchanges and interactions between software engineers, testers and IS/IT department;
• Recommending new tools and processes that will improve our quality and velocity, on the basis of market trends and Thales Group’s recommendations.

About you:

• Bachelor or Master degree in Software Engineering (3+ years of experience);
• Linux proficiency (CentOS/RedHat, Ubuntu);
• Knowledge of shell scripting;
• Knowledge of virtualization and orchestration: VMWare, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible…
• Knowledge of Cloud/System monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Jaeger, Open Telemetry…
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools used by Thales: Git, JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory…;
• Knowledge data management between different systems: ERP (OCM, Odoo), PLM (Windchill), PowerBI
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases: PostgresQL, Cassandra, MongoDB…;
• Knowledge of HTTP protocols and components: NGINX, httpd, haproxy…;
• Strong interest for cybersecurity: SSL, certificates, vulnerability scanning (SAST/DAST), pen testing, secure by design…;
• Strong interest for software quality;

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