Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

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.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

THALES is looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to play a key role in supporting the transformation towards a cloud‑operating environment across some of our most exciting and strategically important digital and AI programmes. As part of our UK cortAIx team, you will help build, secure and evolve next‑generation DevOps environments that enable cutting‑edge AI solutions across Thales.

Location – Glasgow or Crawley

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• Performance‑related bonus
• Hybrid working options
• Pension scheme
• 28 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays)
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme & mental wellbeing support
• Employee discount schemes with major brands and retailers
• Learning, development and global career progression opportunities

Additionally, this role offers:

• Opportunities to influence and shape Thales’ growing AI and cloud ecosystems
• Work across multiple digital transformation and AI programmes
• Exposure to modern cloud‑native environments with no legacy estate
• Engagement with diverse engineering teams across the UK

What will you deliver?

Working as part of an agile development team, you will design, build and support secure, resilient cloud environments for Thales UK, helping AI product, programme and project teams to adopt modern DevSecOps ways of working.

Building & Automating Cloud Infrastructure

• Design and build industry‑leading cloud infrastructure on Azure and other hyperscale platforms
• Create secure, low‑maintenance cloud environments using modern DevSecOps practices
• Develop and maintain tooling to support efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Drive automation to improve development, release and deployment processes
• Support release and production environments where required

Maintaining Technical Solutions

• Ensure products are deployed correctly and consistently within established technical rules
• Provide delivery teams with automated tools/scripts to provision compute, storage and network resources
• Help define and enhance the technical approach for cloud environments

Securing Platform Infrastructure

• Understand the functional context of products and challenge functional decisions where appropriate
• Embed operational best practice (monitoring, backups, logging, supervision)
• Ensure the squad understands operational constraints and provide training where needed
• Uphold strong security practices across cloud environments
• Communicate best practice and educate the wider Thales UK engineering community

Who are we looking for?

• A strong interest in cloud technologies and evidence of self‑development
• Good understanding of IaaS and PaaS
• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure
• Ability and interest in scripting languages
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible for Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with CI/CD tools and build pipelines
• Exposure to application development
• Understanding of cloud design patterns and how to apply them

Desirable Skills

This mid‑senior role supports several high‑priority AI deliverables, so it is beneficial if you are:

• Comfortable engaging with stakeholders at varying levels of seniority and technical depth
• An advocate for modern DevSecOps and software delivery practices
• Able to work across multiple concurrent projects
• Collaborative, and able to work with wider technical functions to embed cloud solutions across the business

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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