1 day ago
Vélizy-Villacoublay, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead DevOps activities and platform operations, incorporating Diffusion Restreinte and Export Control security requirements.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, particularly with GitLab CI/CD.
- Administer and evolve Kubernetes environments on GCP.
- Automate infrastructure using Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Create and industrialize standardized, versioned, reusable, and governed package deployment processes.
- Contribute to the tribe’s deployment strategy, technical governance, packaging, and controlled deployments.
- Ensure platform observability, incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Implement requirements for Export Control, Diffusion Restreinte, environment isolation, and traceability.
- Support industrialization of services using LLMs and agents.
- Participate in technical interviews, reviews, operational discussions, and alignment activities.
Requirements
- Bac+5 education.
- Confirmed experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD, deployment automation, and GitLab CI/CD.
- Experience with Docker or Podman, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Pulumi.
- Knowledge of cloud environments, ideally GCP, including networking, storage, and exposure services.
- Knowledge of VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, reverse proxies, and DNS.
- Experience with platform observability, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.
- Experience with platform operations, incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of identity, authorization, secrets management, and secure deployments.
- Scripting or development experience with Python, Bash, Go, or TypeScript.
- Understanding of isolation, security, and traceability constraints in restricted environments.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with varied stakeholders and developer profiles.
- Ability to structure and industrialize package deployment approaches.
- Fluency in English is required.
- The role may require security clearance in accordance with applicable regulations.
Benefits
- Attractive compensation package.
- Ongoing skills development through training programs, academies, and internal communities.
- Inclusive and supportive work environment focused on employee work-life balance.
- Recognized social and environmental commitment.
- Based at the Thales Vélizy campus near Paris, with workplace services intended to support professional and personal life.
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About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.