Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Paco De Arcos - Q45, PortugalThales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.Thales Edisoft Portugal, S.A. is focused on providing the most advanced solutions in the Aeronautics, Space, Security and Defense domain.

For more than 35 years, Thales acts in Portugal for global Defence and Aerospace markets and promotes and delivers innovative solutions that enhance its customer's critical systems´ security, on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, through a technical team of excellence.

We are currently looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Airspace Mobility Solutions team

Responsibilities:

• Integrate, configure and validate infrastructure solutions, ensuring all technical and functional requirements are met;
• Produce and maintain detailed design documentation, solution specifications, test plans and bills of material;
• Lead activities and small teams within agile sprints, coordinating design, integration and break-fix deliveries;
• Support testing, troubleshooting and hardware/software integration in complex environments;
• Identify technical risks and propose effective solutions while actively participating in design reviews and customer meetings.

Requirements:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related fields, with excellent communication skills and ability to produce clear technical documentation;
• Solid experience with Red Hat Linux systems, including configuration, performance tuning, hardening and automation;
• Strong skills in automation with Ansible and experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Octopus, Travis);
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell, Perl, YAML) for automation and integration;
• Knowledge of hardware and networking (TCP/IP, VLANs, Cisco/HP/Lenovo) and hardware validation processes.

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.

For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

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At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Tiago Vital is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Tiago Vital – Talent Acquisition Partner

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