Senior AWS Engineer/Platform Engineer |

Location: Crawley, United KingdomThales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services. Platform EngineerLocations – Crawley, Doncaster (Hybrid Working)Full-time or Part-time Who are we and what do we do? Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services. Thales is continuing to develop its digital platform capabilities, and this role will play an important part in supporting and evolving a dedicated AI platform capability within the UK Digital Competence Centre (Best-In-Class).As an Infrastructure Systems Engineer, you will join an agile platform team responsible for supporting secure, resilient and high-performing on-premise infrastructure services that underpin a business-critical hosted AI solution. You will help maintain and improve the core infrastructure environment, ensuring services remain available, supportable and secure for internal users and engineering teams. You will work closely with platform engineers, developers, security specialists and other stakeholders to support reliable service delivery and continuous improvement. Your career could develop within the DCC as it continues to grow or take you into the wider business as our digital and technical agenda evolves. Thales is a great place to work where diversity, integrity and a passion for what we do are very important to us. Whether you have worked with platform infrastructure for many years, or have gained relevant experience more recently and are looking to build on it, we would love to hear from you. ResponsibilitiesSupport and maintain the infrastructure underpinning an on-premise hosted AI platform, ensuring services remain secure, reliable and available. Monitor platform health and performance, investigating and resolving issues as part of day-to-day service support. Infrastructure and platform supportSupport the day-to-day operation of the hosted platform across physical server, the virtualisation layer and operating system environments. Help maintain service availability, performance and capacity through monitoring, troubleshooting and proactive maintenance. Support the ongoing management of hardware and software lifecycles to keep services secure and supportable. Incident resolution and service improvementInvestigate and resolve infrastructure and platform issues in line with agreed support processes. Experience working with Windows Server operating systemsExperience with Unix-based operating systems, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Experience with VMware ESXi and/or other hypervisorsExperience supporting containerised environments, particularly KubernetesIncident and problem management, troubleshooting and working within change management proceduresGood understanding of core networking principlesAbility to demonstrate a good understanding of application and operating system lifecycle managementExperience supporting infrastructure in an enterprise or operational environmentGood understanding of platform and infrastructure support principlesDesirable SkillsExperience with build and CI/CD tools and pipeline (BitBucket/ Github)Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AnsibleActive ability and interest in scripting languagesHP Enterprise hardwareAgile working methodologiesActive DirectoryPowerBISolid understanding of APIs and their functionConnect with Fiona Tal, Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-FT1 who is eager to explore together with you this exciting opportunity. Security Clearance Requirement: Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires Security Clearance (SC). In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance: . The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here. If this role isn't quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. Join the Talent Community here. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here. If this role isn't quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. Join the Talent Community here. SummaryLocation: CrawleyType: Full time