FREELANCE ASSIGNMENT

Start date: a.s.a.p.

Duration: 1 year

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, defense, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrows possible, today.

TOGETHER WE MAKE THE BIG AMBITIONS OF TOMORROW HAPPEN TODAY

In this position you will join the Thales Netherlands IS/IT team. IS/IT is at the core of the Thales digital transformation, there is a close relationship between IS/IT and business.

With a team of 150 colleagues we provide IS/IT support to our 2500 NL colleagues in several Business Lines and functions. The IS/IT department of Thales Netherlands works closely together with the international IS/IT departments of the Thales group.

Our mission is: “Providing secure access to Thales information in One Click” with a culture of “Feeling Proud Together”. Our Agile transformation journey has started some years ago. As a learning organization we fully embrace agile principles and strive for excellence by continuous improvement. We do not fear to fail as long as we can learn from it.

As a DevOps Infrastructure Kubernetes Engineer you will be a part of the Hosting and Cloud squad and work closely with other colleagues within and outside the squad. Your squad will be part of the Hosting tribe of the whole Thales group. Together they’re responsible for: Virtualization, Data center Ops, Cloud, Storage, Backup and Disaster Recovery.

About the job

Your week as a DevOps Infrastructure Kubernetes Engineer looks varied. Every day you start together with the team to discuss ongoing tasks during the stand-up and how to align them with each other. Both within the department as well as the team we work according to the Agile working methods. Throughout the week you focus on the sprint that you work on together with your team. You work on the maintenance and further development of our Kubernetes Infrastructure. Preferably you have gained experience in Enterprise environments where security and standardization are also very important. You understand what is expected of an IT engineer regarding Kubernetes, Infra and IT automation. Furthermore, you have a strong vision about a secure IT infrastructure which you are able to communicate properly.

You are responsible for

• Contributing to ensuring that the vision and strategy for the products within your domain are aligned with that of the company.
• Translating the business demand according to the expectations of the stakeholders.

Furthermore, you have

• Working experience with Kubernetes, where specific experienced based on Tanzu is an advantage
• Experience with Kubernetes tooling to perform configuration management such as Helm and FluxCD
• Wxperience with deploying and managing cloud native applications such as Gitlab, Grafana, Prometheus and Hashicorp Vault
• Working experience with Linux and VMware products
• Lnowledge of VMware infrastructure, based around VMware Cloud Foundation including Tanzu is an advantage
• Experience in creating high level and low designs is an advantage
• Experience in developing a business case to support infrastructure projects

About you

We are looking for a colleague who:

• has relevant working experience especially in an Agile environment
• has experience within a complex enterprise IT environment
• has strong communication skills
• has experience with agile working or is open-minded in adopting new ways of working
• is fluent in English and preferably in Dutch as well.
• Is a team player
• Flexible
• Is able to be in the office fulltime for the first period of time. After that at least 2 to 3 days a week on site.

Whats in it for you

• Become part of a great team in a high tech, innovative international organization
• A nice workplace, where we value a good work-life balance and flexibility