Technical Lead
Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.
Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida and has other operational offices and sites spread across Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru and Mumbai, among others. Over 2200 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital sectors. Thales has two engineering competence centres in India - one in Noida focused on Cyber & Digital business, while the one in Bengaluru focuses on hardware, software and systems engineering capabilities for both the civil and defence sectors, serving global needs. The Group has also established an MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) facility in Gurugram to provide comprehensive avionics maintenance and repair services to Indian airlines and support the growth of the local aviation industry.Position Summary
The DevOPs Engineer - C# is part of Thales IFEC payment squad. This individual is responsible for design, implement, test and deploy SW features. He is contributing to developing, sustaining and supporting payment features. To be successful, the candidate will need to have solid experience within the AGILE/SCRUM software development methodology, object-oriented programming concepts, and full software development life cycles. The candidate should have sufficient technical and leadership skills to be a mentor to entry-level engineers and be able to work collaboratively with his/her team. This individual needs to be accountable for his/her commitment (both technically and behaviorally), be able to cooperate effectively, demonstrate willingness to lead/mentor others, and be adaptive in working with different stakeholders.
Essential Functions / Key Areas of Responsibility
- Writing, testing, and documenting code for Software development
- Provide technical documentation for system, features, and components
- Automated unit test for the developed features
- Provide thorough unit testing to ensure a quality product is delivered
- Support automated end to end testing
- Follow and support agile methodologies and practices by actively participating in all SCRUM ceremonies
- Expected to improve, enhance, and support existing operations
- Designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting production deployments
- Implement and maintain security and data privacy best practices
- Create scalable and high-performance web services for data tracking
- Test prototypes and oversee handover to operational teams
- Provide guidance and training to individuals and other functional groups as needed
Minimum Requirements: Skills, Experience, Education, Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Certifications, Language
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related study
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Experience in development with C# (.NET), or similar object-oriented languages
- Experience in development with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
- Experience in development with structured database such as SQL, MySQL, etc
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience with TFS, Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, & JAMA tools.
- Experience with orchestration and containerization tools such as Kubernetes and Docker
- Entity Framework
- RedHat A-MQ (or ActiveMQ)
- Experince in developing REST APIs
- OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Azure AD authentication
- Experience in implementing SAAS for solution monitoring is a plus (Datadog…)
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