DevOps Engineer

Job description

Location: Tubize, Belgium

Thales 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/5G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

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.

Thales Belgium SA ( Tubize site ) is looking for a:

DEVOPS Engineer entry level

Mission:

As part of the engineering group of THALES Belgium, the Devops/Testbed system engineer will be involved in the development and support of state-of-the-art systems and testbed designed on site at THALES Belgium in Tubize. He or she shall participate to the operation of a Mission Critical ecosystem with internal customers satisfaction as priority.

The System Engineer will perform key aspects of Staging, deployment, preventive maintenance and IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification) for testbed environment.

Your learning, main tasks & responsibilities :

• Understand and implement MCx (Mission Critical Services) architectures on testbed
• Implement these solutions either among themselves, or demonstrate interoperability with market solutions (4G/5G core and RAN, OSS, Tetra, Paging, eMBMS).
• Participate in our studies related to new technologies
• By joining us, you will be trained (+/- 2h/week) on MCx, networks, IT and virtualization from their design to their deployment
• Understand and analyse the internal Customer's requirements and project KPIs ;
• Support & implement various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs (Good to have)
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management together with cyber department (Good to have)
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress/status to the management.
• Prepare, configure equipment for Proof Of Concept (PoC) of solution;
• Provide internal demo capabilities keeping all the involved equipment ready(Android,IOS,Windows)

Your profile:

• You need to be a technical passionate, eager to discover and learn new technologies based on your previous knowledge in electronics, IT or telecommunication systems
• Demonstrated initiative, proactive, analytical, synthetic, organizational and problem-solving skills;
• You are in a typical engineering school or university cycle in the field of networks or computer science and you have understanding in how networks and IT works.
• OR you have an Engineering degree in Electronics / Computer Science / Telecommunications or a related field;
• You are customer satisfaction and results oriented;
• You are able to switch between working independently and working in a team
• good communication skills, both verbally and written. Fluency in English (≥ B2) is mandatory. Knowledge of French and/or Dutch is desirable;
• You want to improve your skills in the areas mentioned above

Your technical skills :

• Network skills (mastery of the OSI model, general understanding of how network communications work in a system)
• You are able to put your knowledge into practice by deploying open source solutions.
• Skills/knowledge in virtualization to implement different network functions or services.
• You have an appetite for scripting (regardless of the language: python, bash, Ansible etc.)
• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• Basic Knowledge IP
• Basic knowledge of 2 skills :
  KVM / VMware / Kubernetes / OpenShift knowledge
• Understanding of Python, Perl, Ansible(at least Basic)
• Troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with work management solutions, such as Jira or Redmine;

If your profile does not match 100%, don't worry.

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