Thales

Network Engineering Manager

Thales

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Belfast • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AnsibleGoGrafanaJenkinsPrometheusPythonSaltStack

About the role

  • Take a critical look at our network from an internet perspective and develop a strategy to improve traffic flows across the internet and within our pops.
  • Along with our architect's, design and build a clear road map to modernize and stabilize our network infrastructure.
  • Develop and mentor Network Engineers to develop and grow into the roles they want to take on in the future, whether management or senior technical leadership.
  • Work with the SRE / Observability teams to ensure we are measuring the right things and planning for improvements.
  • Work with the Network Automation team to build better and faster automation for network changes and traffic management.
  • Monitor and ensure that reliability & quality are constantly improving, using automation and best practices to reduce the time to production for new services.
  • Engage constructively and proactively with our Product Engineering and Product Management teams, ensuring that we have buy-in and alignment in our new infrastructure designs.
  • Partner with our Global Service Deliver Team (Network operations Engineers & Network Operations Center) to ensure we are all working to the same goals.
  • Work collaboratively with leadership and your team to plan monthly and quarterly workload to ensure that everyone is aligned on their projects and priorities.
  • Work cross-functionally to troubleshoot and resolve business and project affecting issues.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of professional experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role in a significant web infrastructure.
  • Significant experience running global networks with BGP and anycast routing.
  • Expert level knowledge of network protocols.
  • Experience analyzing, building and using network telemetry.
  • We continue to push an Infrastructure as code and automation first mindset so experience with software engineering best practices/standards is necessary.
  • Working knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologies.
  • Outstanding collaboration and communication ability, and documentation skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally.
  • BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with DevOps principles and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Saltstack), CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Git), monitoring and visualization (Prometheus, Grafana) are a significant bonus.
  • Experience with Python and Go would be a plus.
  • Experience managing a team of globally diverse Engineers, with a broad spectrum of experience.
Benefits
  • Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.
  • 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.
  • Inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
BGPanycast routingnetwork protocolsnetwork telemetryInfrastructure as CodeAnsibleSaltstackCI/CDGitlabJenkins
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationdocumentationleadershipmentoringcross-functional teamworkstrategic planningproblem-solvingproactive engagementorganizational skills
Certifications
BS in computer scienceMS in engineeringrelated technical discipline