Job Description

Location: Ottawa 20 Colonnade, Canada

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

We are looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to join our team in Ottawa, Canada. The engineer engages in both Engineering and Operations activities and delivers the final application to production. Exceptional knowledge of automation practices and software development skills are required so that operations can deploy and support our solutions with the highest quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support all application infrastructure to ensure our PaaS/IaaS platform is optimized for performance and reliability.
• Socialize designs with team and integrate suggestions and changes as appropriate.
• Implement code in a timely fashion and with high quality, consistent with standards for the group.
• Review other developers' code as necessary.
• Unit test software components to ensure module-level functionality and data structure consistency.
• Provide documentation as appropriate including design documentation, comments in code and end-user documentation.
• Consult with other technical team members and management on industry best practices.
• Discuss and agree on the most innovative solutions applicable to our cloud services environment.
• Maintain and enhance internal tools.
• Provide input to improve scalability and reliability of infrastructure to our Automation Architects
• Deploy and assist with maintenance of automation technologies.
• Provide Level 2/3 Support to our Operations team for all automation technologies.
• Document all build and run procedures when implementing new automation technologies.

Required Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or 8+ years of professional work experience in a related field.
• 7 years experience delivering products utilizing Java, Python, or GO in large enterprise environments
• 5 years experience with supporting and deploying cloud based applications
• 5 years experience utilizing Linux and Window systems
• 5 years experience with REST APIs, micro-services development and deployment
• 5 years experience in Agile Environment
• 5 years experience in managing production systems on a very large scale
• Demonstrated working proficiency of Paas operationational concepts: like change management, on call rotations, escalations, uptime, etc...
• Experience working with virtualization: VMWare, HyperV, etc...
• Expertise with automation technologies (Ansible, Puppet, Chef...)
• Knowledge of PaaS technologies (CloudFoundry, Openshift, etc...)
• Experience with IaaS technologies (OpenStack, Azure Stack, etc...)
• Experience with Private hosting (Private datacenters, Rackspace, etc...)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Public cloud hosting (GCP and Azure)
• Experience in working with strong authentication solutions using OTP or identity management solution is a plus
• Ability to work in a geographically distributed company
• Collaboration and project management tools: Jira, Confluence, etc...

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.