Job Description

Location: SINGAPORE, SingaporeThales 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 established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.ABOUTThe Airspace Mobility Solutions (AMS) business, part of the Global Business Unit Land and Air Systems, is providing leading edge Air Traffic Management (ATM), Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), Security and Digital Aviation solutions for the Commercial and Defence sectors.The AMS business manages 11% of the world\xe2\x80\x99s airspace and with revenues of over 500 million Euros worldwide, is the global market leader in airspace management solutions. In Singapore, the business focus is the delivery and support of two key ATM solutions including TopSKY-ATC(HE) and LORADS-III.This role will initially support the LORADS III program.ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARYThe purpose of this role is to lead the Software Configuration Management at a program level where the intention is to drive closer collaboration and integration between the Software team and the Ops team by overseeing the implementation, deployment and integration of solutions (e.g., 150 CSCIs) and accountable for its seamless delivery.KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESAs a DevOps Manager, you are accountable for:

• Promote the DevOps mindset amongst the teams to focus on Continuous Delivery, Streamline change approval where appropriate, shift left on security
• Identify and plan mitigation actions that can lead to (a) less deployment pain, (b) less rework, (c) less burnout
• Coordinate weekly with stakeholders (including software and integration teams) to identify gaps in the software delivery process (e.g., Test Automation, Test Data Management, Version Control, Monitoring and Observability)
• Provide direction, expert advice, mentoring, and workflow management (including task prioritisation and resource coordination) in support of achieving project objectives and milestones
• Identify / Review risks, and proposing effective solutions, executing mitigation actions and reporting on outcomes / cost savings and residual risks
• Define and tailor the software engineering environment and the process, practices and tools applicable to the project
• Participate in technical reviews, workshops, peer reviews and project reviews as appropriate for the program
• Provide guidance to technical teams with regard to software engineering matters aligned to the agreed architecture, to ensure effectiveness whilst meeting customer requirements
• Promote knowledge sharing and ensuring that work is captured sufficiently for re-use across projects
• Following Thales processes and practises and contribute to their improvement

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCETo be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or other relevant qualification

Essential Experience

• Solid experience of managing the software delivery of real time distributed complex software centric solutions in a safety critical environment
• Solid experience in total life cycle of complex software development, including processes and responsibilities at each stage in the cycle
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders across a complex environment
• Solid experience of leading and mentoring team of Software and System engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
• Solid experience in upskilling and training new engineers
• Solid experience in managing software native and containerized builds, delivery and/or distribution in an Linux environment with safety critical considerations using Jenkins and Gitlab; deploying CICD tools to measure change failures, frequency of software releases, measure code quality and cybersecurity quality changes
• Solid experience in managing CICD pipelines to improve the development flow (e.g., rollbacks, manual steps, trigger other jobs), optimizing pipelines (e.g., identify and rectify bottlenecks w.r.t. cost), deploying CICD strategies (e.g., rolling update, blue/green, canary)
• Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, including Project and Engineering Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Technical Design Authorities, Speciality engineers and the software engineering team under management.
• Tracking tools including Jira, Confluence etc.

Desirable:

• Air Traffic Management domain expertise
• Experience in product delivery using agile methodologies like Lean methods (including PDCA, Kanban, Value-Stream Mapping); prior experience working Agile @ Scale framework is a bonus
• Programming/Scripting Languages; Bash, Core Linux software and networking tools (e.g., strace, dtrace, climits, cgroups, systemd), Terraform, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet,
• Strong experience working in a Linux/Unix development environment

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales\' key values.
• An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
• An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
• An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
• Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimising accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practises at all times.
• Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Be eligible for Security Clearance from the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (CAT2)
• Occasional international travel may be required

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. Great journeys start here, apply now!

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