DevOps Engineer

ABOUT Defense and Security

Our coverage spans across an extensive spectrum of fields, encompassing proven solutions in Defence & Military, Security & Surveillance, Intelligence & Big Data, Secure Radio Communications, to Cybersecurity, Network & Infrastructure Security.

We are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology with a rich legacy in excellence and innovations. With the combined expertise of 2100 staff in Singapore, and over 80,000 professionals across 68 countries, Thales Singapore Engineering Team is the key contributor in keeping Asia-Pacific & the world safe and secure, protecting and changing lives every single step we take.

Along with other departments in Singapore, such as Thales Research & Technology, we engineer state-of-art technological solutions from dreams into reality for the world. If you are ready to make a difference on a global scale, our team is the place for you. Join us today and embark on an extraordinary journey of writing the next chapter of history for a better world.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a DevOps Engineer, you are accountable for the following:

· Guarantee the technical solution for infrastructure & deployment

o System architecture & PaaS implementation

o Define and develop the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in development, quality assurance, and production environments, respecting established rules.

o Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.

· Secure the product operability

o Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions

o Guarantees that the product underlying architecture is state of the art.

o Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.

· Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required trains the team on those topics.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

· System skillset :

o System Administration basic skillset (services, ssh, user management, …)

· DevOps tooling advanced skillset :

o Extensive working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm

o Using and administrating GitLab CI/CD

o Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks and Modules

o Deploying and setup of CI/CD pipelines (closely work with development team to develop CI/CD pipelines and deploy into private and public cloud)

o Scripting experience in Shell (bash or Python) etc

o Using Jira / Confluence

o Code documentation using Markdown

· Infrastructure as code skillset :

o Automate deployment and configuration using Ansible

o Working knowledge VMware ESX and other virtualization technologies

· Network basics :

o Good working experience with NGINX and HA proxy deployment and configuration

o Familiar with commonly used network commands (e.g. curl, telnet, netstat)

o LAN architecture (CIDR, vLAN, routing, NAT)

o DNS and SSL (internal, external)

· Security :

o Secrets management using various vaults (Gitlab security vaults, Kubernetes secrets)

o SSH administration

Good-to-have Skills:

· System Administration advanced skillset (IPtables, scripting, advanced kernel tuning, ...)

· Experience with Sonarqube and Nexus repository

· Cloud skillset:

o Use Azure CLI

o Automate Azure resources provisioning with Terraform

o Administrate a IaaS tenant (Azure)

o Administrate a PaaS tenant

· Build for the Run:

o Deploy and administrate monitoring and alerting tooling (grafana, prometheus)

o Craft monitoring and alerting thresholds

o Deploy and administrate a log concentration tool (ELK and FluentBit)

o MQTT broker configuration

· Other useful skills:

o General technical architecture methodology understanding (RPO, RTO, SLA, flow matrix, ...)

o Database administration basics (ex : MySQL dump, clustering models, deployment architecture)

o Agile methodology and process understanding and experience

o Development skill with one of the following language: Java, Go, C#

Behaviour:

· Produces Ingenious, astute design, with an open mind

· Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to fluently communicate with local project team and external stakeholders.

· Collaborative team players preferred