Senior DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure & Cyber (UAE Nationals)
Thales
Date: 3 hours ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Full time

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi’s airport.
Roles & Responsibilities
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi’s airport.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Participate in the definition of the system requirements and specifications
- Maintain the internal development infrastructure and tools
- Maintain the physical infrastructure
- Maintain and enhance the tools
- Develop code to manage infrastructure and cyber services
- Write code to automate deployment and configuration of services
- Write unit test to ensure module-level functionality and data integrity
- Perform code peer review
- Document and comment code
- Follow up on issues and team backlog activities
- Provide documentation on deliveries and installation & test procedures
- Provide technical support for other multi-disciplinary teams e.g. system engineering team, integration/test/verification/qualification teams, deployment teams
- Perform root cause analysis for errors
- Deploy and assist with maintenance of automation technologies
- Train and coach other team members in DevOps competencies
- 5+ years of DevOps experience
- Experience in IT Infrastructure subsystems (network, communication, datacenter, virtualization, software integration, etc.)
- Experience with a number of the following tools and technologies
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tooling e.g. Jenkins, GitLab
- Configuration management and Infrastructure-as-code tools e.g. Ansible, Terraform
- Excellent knowledge of container orchestration tools e.g. Docker Swarm
- Major operating system families e.g. Linux, Windows
- Excellent knowledge of Git and Git workflows
- Excellent scripting skills (Python, Bash)
- Good understanding of the following
- Security relevant protocols and technologies e.g. network security, endpoint security, virtualization and container security, server hardening, PKI
- Service Oriented Architecture, REST services, micro services
- Databases e.g. PostgreSQL
- Preferably experience with Agile methodologies, including appropriate tooling (e.g. Jira)
- BSc in computer science or equivalent qualification
- Fluent in English, Arabic and/or French are added advantages
- Relevant industry certifications e.g. system & network operations, cyber security, DevOps/software development
- Good technical analysis and problem solving skills
- Attention to details
- Able to work in a multi-disciplined technology environment
- Technical document writing
- Excellent communication skills
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