Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Engineering

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

We’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries - from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace - and from manufacturing to engineering, we work together to build a future we can all trust.

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

Lately Thales acquired Imperva and became a Top 5 Cyber Security Global Leader.  
Imperva, a Thales company, is committed to championing cybersecurity excellence and protecting the pulse of businesses worldwide. Our solutions proactively identify, evaluate, and eliminate current and emerging threats, ensuring organizations can innovate for their customers without compromising security. Globally, we prevent 89.71 billion attacks monthly, analyze 2.6 trillion requests monthly, and monitor threats in 184 countries. 

We work in a Hybrid Model from home and from the office and We have been recognized as one of the Best 50 high-tech companies to work for in Israel 2024 by Dun & Bradstreet!  
If you're passionate about shaping the future of cybersecurity and driving innovation in the field, we encourage you to seize this opportunity and become part of our team. Apply now to protect what matters most.

We are looking for a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead and develop our Platform Engineering teams, located in our Rehovot Office. This is a mixed team of SRE’s and Infrastructure Engineers, who closely align to DevOps principals. Your responsibility will be to drive innovation, scale our platforms, and create operational excellence for the Imperva globally distributed network. The person taking this role will have the freedom to make decisions that will have a significant impact on Imperva’s infrastructure and how we serve our customers.
 
As an EM in the ICO organization, you will improve your team's approach to solving problems, supporting and optimizing the infrastructure programmatically.  You will work with your team to
improve the overall availability, reliability, performance, and security of the infrastructure under your management. This is very much a hands-on role, you will be expected to be in the weeds
with your team, working collaboratively on projects and systems. You will need to develop a deep technical understanding of our systems and help grow and mentor your team. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, a team of diverse engineers in multiple, global, locations.

• Work collaboratively with your team to plan their  work and ensure  that everyone knows what they should be working on.

• Work with teams across Imperva and the wider Thales Business Unit to ensure we are providing services and tools that they need.

•  Work with the Imperva PMO to plan and execute projects.

• Apply SRE & DevOps principles to eliminate toil and improve reliability.

• Work cross functionally as needed to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues.

• Respond to escalations, help with incident response, RCA’s, provide management of and follow up from postmortems.

•  Establish metrics for data-driven decisions to help , and velocity.
   
   
  Requirements:

• At least 7 years of professional experience, at last 2 years within a leadership role in a cloud/web/CDN scale infrastructure.

• Experience with Python and Go. C/C++/Rust a plus.

• Expert-level knowledge of Linux systems, network protocols, experience with BGP and anycast routing is a plus.

• Experience with DevOps principles and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Salt stack), CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Git), monitoring and visualization (Prometheus, Grafana).

• Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka.

• Experience with containers and container management (Docker, Kubernetes).

•  Experience analyzing and building data telemetry, modeling, pipelines, UI visualization.

• Experience in developing software, troubleshooting, and monitoring large scale distributed systems.

• Implement modern software engineering best practices/standards and adhere/maintain software development life cycle.

•  Working knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologies.

•  Outstanding collaboration and communication, and documentation skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally to establish and meet OKRs.

•  BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.

• Experience managing a team of Engineers, with a broad spectrum of experience, in multiple locations and time zones globally.

Legal Notice: 

Imperva as a Thales company champions inclusion, and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

 If you need an accommodation or assistance in order to apply for a position with Thales, please contact us at talentacquisition@us.thalesgroup.com. 

Thales, champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.