Tools Engineer | Defense

Job Description

Location: Herstal

Sector: Defense

Our client wants to reinforce their teams with a tools engineer to speed up and automate aspects of the processes of developing, testing and releasing software, allowing for the continuous delivery of software and software updates. You play a key role in helping the engineering department raise and maintain quality level of our deliverables, and maturity of the department itself. Main Responsibilities:

• Setting up development tools and infrastructure (CI/CD)
• Maintaining CI/CD infrastructure operational and stable (with the help of IS/IT department)
• Setting up tools to meet the needs of engineering and operational departments
• Defining best ways to automate and improve development, test, release, update and support processes
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management (DevSecOps)
• Providing tools expertise whenever needed, both internally and towards customers
• Facilitating exchanges and interactions between software engineers, testers and IS/IT department
• Recommending new tools and processes that will improve the quality and velocity on the basis of market trends 

Your Profile

• Bachelor or Master degree in Software Engineering (3+ years of experience)
• Linux proficiency (CentOS/RedHat, Ubuntu)
• Knowledge of shell scripting
• Knowledge of virtualization and orchestration: VMWare, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible…
• Knowledge of Cloud/System monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Jaeger, Open Telemetry… 
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools used by Thales: Git, JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory…
• Knowledge data management between different systems: ERP (OCM, Odoo), PLM (Windchill), PowerBI
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases: PostgresQL, Cassandra, MongoDB…
• Knowledge of HTTP protocols and components: NGINX, httpd, haproxy…
• Strong interest for cybersecurity: SSL, certificates, vulnerability scanning (SAST/DAST), pen testing, secure by design…
• Strong interest for software quality
• You feel ready to work concurrently on several projects which can be very different in nature
• Proactive and autonomous, you like to take initiatives
• Rigorous, well-organized and a  team player
• Fluent in French and English
• Not mandatory knowledge, but a definite plus: 
  • Knowledge of testing frameworks: Robot Framework, BDD framework such as Cucumber…
  • Knowledge of other programming/script languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Groovy, Lua…)
  • Knowledge of Cloud provider full stack (preferably Azure, or Google/AWS)
  • Experience in complex software-based solutions (large distributed systems including embedded software)