Software DevOps Engineer

Location: Firenze, ItalyThales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.Sesto Fiorentino is the Headquarter of Thales Italia. It hosts two Domains: Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) and Security (SIX). The activity of GTS domain: Security systems, telecommunications, supervision, control & management information and signalling solutions for trains, trams and metros Regarding railway solutions, Thales is the homologated supplier of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana for Axel Counters, Tunnel Security, Energy Saving, SCADA systems and Asset Management. Italy is Thales Group’s competence centre for tramway signalling solutions. The activity of SIX domain: mission critical solutions and applications for assets and citizens security (supervision, control and information management systems) as well as cybersecurity. Thales offers solutions to protect the information systems and critical data of its civilian and military customers and helps its customers to detect and prevent cyberattacks by devising secure architectures from the design stage, overseeing these architectures and ensures that they are kept in secure working order. Italy is Thales Group’s competence centre for Airport security and operations management solutions.

Thales Italia is looking for a DevOps Engineer to speed up and automate developing, testing, releasing and deploying software. The candidate will build, test and maintain infrastructure and tools so that software can be developed, released and deployed.

Duties of a DevOps Engineer include:

• Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure;

• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes;

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats;

• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes;

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended;

• Build tools to reduce occurrence of errors and improve customer experience;

• Develop scripts to automate releases and software deploy;

• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.

Profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or relevant field.

• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks like Python, Java, SQL, Bash, Go;

• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and updating with CI/CD pipelines;

• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools like Prometheus;

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration and Kubernetes products ecosystem;

• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure;

• An understanding of various operating systems, especially Linux, as most public clouds operate on Linux or Unix systems;

• Development and maintain of Kubernetes Operators to manage product lifecycle;

• Capability to evaluate new technology alternatives and vendor products;

• A strong focus on automation and agile development;

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;

• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.

• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.

• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on K8s platform.

• Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.

• REST or RPC, microservices-based architectures

• Must have strong experience building & deploying services on Kubernetes ideally CKA certified.

• Strong working knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment. Must have GitLab experience.

• Working knowledge of Terraform and Ansible for performing DevOps on cloud platforms

• Current hands-on development experience in one or more modern languages and frameworks: Java, Go, Python, JS/NodeJS, Bash;

• Strong knoledge of GitOps methodology;

• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry;

• Fluent English

• Problem-solving attitude

• Collaborative team spirit

Required strong knowledge of:

• Linux OS administration;

• Git, CI/CD Pipelines and Gitops processes;

• Docker;

• Kubernetes;

• Helm;

• Velero;

• Gitlab;

• Argo CD;

• Databases Administration;

• Networking basics;

• Cybersecurity basics;

• Scripting (Python/Bash);

• Ansible;

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps in pipelines development, provisioning, operations, and management of Kubernetes environments.

Nice to have:

• Kafka;

• Terraform;

• Keycloak administration;

• Java coding skills;

• Quarkus framework;

• Architecture resiliency and redundancy knowledge to secure highly available application;

• Good interpersonal skills and communication skills, including the ability to work in an Agile team environment.

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. Great journeys start here, apply now!