IT Sysadmin

Location: Madrid Emilio Vargas, Spain

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of €320 million and a staff of 1,200, it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

Thales Spain are looking for a professional to backfill a role within a mature multidisciplinary team, where professional growth, exploration of new technologies and collaborative work are actively encouraged. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a strong learning ability, initiative, proactivity and autonomy, together with a user-oriented mindset and the ability to work under pressure in production environments, while adapting to project requirements and compliance needs.

Job responsibilities:

• Provide proactive and reactive support for production infrastructure across different environments

• Support in design and deploy the architecture of new services

• Ensure infrastructure maintenance aligns with applicable regulatory, security and compliance requirements

Job Requirements:

• Linux Server Management (Debian, Centos, RedHat, Ubuntu)

• Experience wiht virtualization environment management (VMware, XEN, HyperV, Azure, AWS)

• Basic knowledge in networking

• Experience maintaining database services such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and MySQL

• Deployment and rollout of new systems and services

• Middleware services support knowledge (LVM, LDAP, NFtables, HAProxy, Authelia, DNS, Dovecot, Nagios, Docker Swarm, VRRP, Apache/NGINX, ...)

• Demostrable experience in manteinance plans and for security hardening, patching and vulnerability remediation.

• Demostrable knowledge in: Ansible, Python, Scripting,

• Valued knowledge in: Jira, Gitlab, AzureDevOps

• Troubleshooting and support for service delivery infrastructure

• 3+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and production infrastructure support

• Experience in troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis

• Experience working in critical or high-availability production environments

• Knowledge of security hardening, vulnerability remediation and patch management are valued

• Ability to automate operational tasks through scripting and configuration management tools

• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with cross-functional teams

• Good communication, documentation and organizational skills

YOUR CAREER AT THALES

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your Competencies in different areas:

Room and attention to personal development
Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

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!