Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

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.

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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

An opportunity for a Software DevOps Engineer who wants to gain experience within a stimulating and rewarding environment.

We are interested in talking to experienced DevOps Engineers or maybe you have graduated in a computing or a computing related subjects with a broad understanding and background in various aspects of software dev ops looking for a DevOps opportunity.

This will include administration on both Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, configuration of a variety of services and assisting the Software Engineering community in resolving their issues with these services. The role also requires effective communication with the company Information Services team to resolve issues.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities/Tasks:

To use and carry out basic administration on Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

This will include configuration of services, firewall, NTP and Active directory

With regard to Windows, understanding of the command line, as well as batch scripts and PowerShell

Understanding of shell scripts (bourne, bash, csh), and the ability to use a text editor on the command line.

For assisting users, knowledge of languages such as C, C++, Java, Matlab and C# would be useful.

The ability to administer a number of applications using both the front and back ends.

These applications will include Jenkins, JIRA, bitbucket/git, SVN, klocwork.

SonarQube, confluence, Crucible/fisheye, Palamida, Sonatype Nexus and flexlm.

User permission administration of these application, together with knowledge of the underlying philosophies of these tools and how to use the tool as a user.

Administration of the Matlab distributed computing platform

Be able to interact with users to determine their issues and to assist in resolving those issues

About you

Experience in using of various scripting languages, including Python, Perl, awk and sed

Configuration Management tools e.g. SVN/GIT

Static and Dynamic tests tools

Knowledge of Agile software development lifecycles

Desirable

Programming experience in one or more of the following languages is desirable: C, C++, C#

Understanding of static and dynamic software testing an advantage

Experience of mathematical modelling tools and techniques an advantage

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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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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