Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.

Engineering Environments Engineer (Support)

Location: Crawley

Do you want to work with a highly regarded team who will support your learning and development?

We would like to welcome you to consider applying to Thales. Our organization values talent and expertise. and we are always seeking dedicated individuals to join our team.

What the role has to offer:

You will be helping to support the next generation of Engineering Environments in the UK.As an Engineering Environments Engineer, you will work as part of an agile support team, helping to support our tooling environment providing an outstanding experience for our engineering teams.Thales is a great place to work so diversity, integrity and a passion for what we do are very important drivers for us

Our opportunity:

Thales is transforming the way in which we deliver our tools to engineers. In this role you will be helping to support the next generation of Engineering Environments in the UK using modern methods on a cloud based platform. This means we need a smart team that is able to work with our users to solve issues quickly and identify areas where we can improve our tooling/process.

We are looking to grow our team to help refresh our tools and move to a hybrid cloud environment, which is a big refresh programme happening worldwide in Thales, and is a great opportunity to change engineers’ experiences of tools.

Key tasks/Responsibilities:

Support industry leading tools on our cloud-based Azure infrastructureIdentify ways of improving our current processes and remedy through the use of automationSupport delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient mannerWork with our users to resolve their issues and build solutions to prevent futher issues.

About you:

We recruit at many levels so we would be very interested to hear from you regardless of your length of experience.

We are looking for someone who is pasionate about helping people and supporting them so that they can get back to work as quickly andd smoothly as possible. You should be an excellent problem solver and enjoy developing solutions to whatever challenge is presented.

Experience with Python, Git, Ansible, Jfrog Platform (Artifactory/Xray) and Azure or similar is desirable but not essential

Experience in any of the below is a plus:

KubernetesDockerAttlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)PolarionGitLabLinux (RedHat, though other distributions will be considered)FlexLM License ServerBlackDuckKlocworkCoveritySonarQube

Connect with Andreea Burcea, Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-BA1 who is eager to explore together with you this exciting opportunity.

The successful candidate will need full Security Clearance (SC) - For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website*

Security Clearance statement

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions.  This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment.  If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered.  Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels .

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a variety of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

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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