Cloud Ops Systems Engineer at Thales DIS USA Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas

Job Description:

Location: Texas_Remote_Worker, United States of America

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.

Position Summary

This position role is to provide a System Engineering function to develop, deploy and support / operate the platform based on Cloud Technologies such as Openstack, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Elasticsearch. For doing so, the candidate will possess and demonstrate the ability to solve complex technical issues (Investigation of issues will require understanding of the whole solution including different systems and technologies, the candidate will need to correlate the information from logs and metrics provided by the different elements of the solution. It also includes Security aspects like encryption, keys and APDU management) for platforms running on multiple technologies and software systems. The candidate should also have extensive understanding of pipeline definition and automation for building, validating and deploying the platform to be able to work on a DevOps CI/CD mode with our internal teams and customers. A strong knowledge and experience on Elasticsearch is also required to handle the logging management and support for the customer, provide improvement and upgrades for future deployment and current Production support.

Essential Functions / Key Areas of Responsibility

•Member of Cloud OTA Deployment team

•Define, architect, (collecting requirements, searching for industry best practices, proposing solutions to peers for review, formalizing output in documentation) and deploy high availability solutions using Cloud Technologies such as Openstack, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Elasticseach, Prometheus utilizing active/active architectures (multiple instance of the same component will run in parallel and accept / handle traffic at the same time, either within a same site or different sites)

•Define, develop and maintain deployment and operation script and tools for deployment automation.

•Participates in maintenance window activities for hosted, on premise cloud platform changes. Responsible for Solution platform deployment, installation, patching, and third party software upgrades on internal and external customer platforms

•Maintain Solution and Database monitoring solutions

•Define, architect, (collecting customer needs and product needs, providing recommendation for project according volume and number transaction / level of availability required) and deploy Cassandra database high availability solutions utilizing replication technology in active architectures across multiple sites.

•Define, architect, (understanding the database design, data available into the database and the required output. Must also consider the volume of data to implement the best approach to collect and process the data to generate the output in an optimal way) and deploy Scala / Spark programs for data extraction and reporting based high availability solutions utilizing replication technology.

•Participate in technical design review and strategic decision making (using understanding of many technologies, provide feedback and input to peers to ensure the best design is implemented)

Minimum Requirements: Skills, Experience & Education

•College degree in Computer Science

•Expert level experience in cloud database deployment, management and migration

•2+ years of Cassanda / MySQL database administration

•2+ years of Elasticseach / Filebeat deployment / configuration and administration

•Very good knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle: requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, code review, testing, and release

•Proactive, team player, and leadership qualities with strong technical background

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

•Managing high SLA environments

•Autonomous on Cloud technologies such as Openstack, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Cassandra

•Autonomous on Pipeline automation with Jenkins

•Autonomous on Ansible, Terraform deployment scripts and automation

This position will require successfully completing a post-offer background check. Qualified candidates with (a) criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with federal law, state law, and local ordinances.

Successful applicant must comply with federal contractor vaccine mandate requirements.

Thales champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law

If you need an accommodation or assistance in order to apply for a position with Thales, please contact us at talentacquisition@us.thalesgroup.com.

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