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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Thales Group
- **Location:** Stockport, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Backup Devices, Desktop Publishing, DevOps, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Deployment Automation
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=648f7883bcacdc64

## About the Role

* Qualified to degree level or equivalent in an engineering discipline or closely related technical field.
 * The successful candidate will have a proven track record of having demonstrated the key competences listed elsewhere on this document.
 * Membership or fellowship of a professional engineering body preferably with chartered status.
 * Agile certification.

Behaviours and Values

 * Demonstrates behaviours which meet the Thales Leadership Model requirements and demonstrates a professional, committed approach to all tasks undertaken.
 * Displays passion, energy, drive, agility and resilience in achieving work-related goals under difficult circumstances.
 * Enjoys or thrives on developing and performing through teamwork.
 * Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude
 * A good problem solver showing initiative and improvisation.
 * Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives.
 * Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work.
 * Must be able to work in a multi-disciplined team environment with Suppliers, Thales employees and Customer present.

## Description

Responsible for supporting the DCC infrastructure and ensuring it is safe and secure.

Role and responsibilities - what success looks like:

Maintain the technical solution for infrastructure:

 * System architecture
 * Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed in production, respecting established rules.
 * Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.

Secure the DCC infrastructure:

 * Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
 * Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
 * Ensure the Squad is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required trains the team on those topics.
 * Ensuring Security best practises are being upheld
 * Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community

Principle Relationships :

 * DCC Team
 * Software Engineering Director
 * UK Engineering Management Team
 * CBU Heads of Software & Systems Engineering
 * IS Security / IS Architects, Outputs:
 * Automated deployment scripts for the product
 * Proper operational best practices implemented for PaaS
 * Document design and resources

Success criteria:

 * Product is able to release into production in a timely manor
 * Ensuring maximum up time
 * Operational best practices
 * Deployment automation best practice

Best practices:

 * Monitoring the usage and alerts to anticipate necessary changes
 * Ensure platform cannot fail
 * Investigate alternative delivery process
 * Ensure a resilience process for Dev Ops tasks


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