Dev Ops Software Engineer – Maritime Mission Systems
DevOps engineer at Thales modernising the platforms behind Royal Navy sonar systems: maintaining DevOps tooling, building CI/CD pipelines, migrating legacy environments, and improving automation, IaC, monitoring and security using Linux (Red Hat), Docker/Podman, Ansible and Python.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Cheadle, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience in Agile and DevOps environments with CI/CD
- Strong Linux administration (Red Hat preferred) with container tech (Docker or Podman)
- Automation/scripting using Ansible, Bash, Python or Go
- Knowledge of container orchestration, infrastructure automation and modern DevOps practices
- Understanding of networking, cybersecurity, monitoring and SBOMs
Full description
Overview
In this role you will help shape the DevOps for mission-critical maritime systems, modernising the DevOps platforms that support sonar capabilities for the Royal Navy and international customers. You will work closely with software engineers to enhance developer experience, platform performance, and tooling essential for reliable software delivery in defense. You will drive migration of legacy environments, adopt modern automation and IaC practices, and strengthen monitoring, security and availability across the platform. This position sits at the heart of delivering trusted underwater sensing and decision advantage for navies worldwide, enabling secure and scalable software delivery.
Pay / Benefits
- Performance-related bonus
- Car cash allowance
- Half day every Friday
- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance DevOps platforms and development tooling
- Develop, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines
- Modernise and migrate legacy development environments
- Investigate, evaluate and implement modern DevOps tools, automation solutions and Infrastructure as Code
- Develop and support in-house tooling while improving platform performance, availability, monitoring and security
Key requirements
- Experience in Agile and DevOps environments with CI/CD
- Strong Linux administration (Red Hat preferred) with container tech (Docker or Podman)
- Automation/scripting using Ansible, Bash, Python or Go
- Knowledge of container orchestration, infrastructure automation and modern DevOps practices
- Understanding of networking, cybersecurity, monitoring and SBOMs
- Linux administration (Red Hat)
- Docker
- Podman
- Ansible
- Bash
- Python