Engineering Environments Engineer (HPC)

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. 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. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Job title: Engineering Environments Engineer (HPC)

Location: Cheadle

Do you want to work with a highly regarded team who will support your learning and development?

We would like to welcome you to consider applying to Thales. Our organization values talent and expertise. and we are always seeking dedicated individuals to join our team.

What the role has to offer:

• As an Engineering Environments Engineer (HPC)  you will work as part of an agile development team, helping to build and support our High Performance Compute platform providing an outstanding experience for our engineering teams
• You will be helping to build the next generation of Engineering Environments in the UK using modern deployment methods on a cloud based platform
• Thales is a great place to work so diversity, integrity and a passion for what we do are very important drivers for us

Our opportunity:

Thales is transforming the way in which we deliver our tools to engineers. In this role you will be helping to build the next generation of Engineering Environments in the UK using modern deployment methods on a cloud based platform. We are looking for people from a broad range of engineering disciplines, so no matter your background we would love to hear from you.

Key tasks/Responsibilities:

• Deploy and support industry leading tools on our High Performance Compute infrastructure
• Maintain the High Performance Compute platform
• Identify ways of improving our current processes and remedy through the use of automation
• Ensure that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented. 
• Support users in on boarding to the platform
• Identify new opportunities within the business to utilise the platform

About you:

We recruit at many levels so we would be very interested to hear from you regardless of your length of experience.

Experience with below or similar is desirable but not essential:

• Linux (RedHat, though other distributions will be considered)
• Bright Cluster Manager or similar
• Altair Access/PBS

Experience in any of the below is a plus:

• Dell Isilion (OneFS)
• BeeGFS
• Matlab, Ansys or similar

Education and Qualifications:

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar. Although relevant experience will be considered in lieu of this.

Behaviors and Values:

• Demonstrates behaviors which support the Thales Leadership Model:
  • Think Big
  • Make it Happen
  • Together
• Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude
• A good problem solver showing initiative and improvisation
• Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives
• Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work
• Must be able to work in a multi-disciplined team environment with Suppliers, Thales employees and Customer present.
• Excellent technical observational and communications skills

Connect with Andreea Burcea, Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-BA1 who is eager to explore together with you this exciting opportunity.

Security Clearance statement

As standard, all successful candidates must possess the permanent right to work in the UK, and will be required to go through Government security clearance at BPSS (Baseline Personal Security Standard) Level prior to starting with us and then to obtain full Security Clearance (SC) in line with the United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) requirements above. 

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.  As part of the vetting process you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, eligibility to work in the UK, time spent abroad over the last 5 years, as well as employment and / or educational history.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels .

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a variety of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

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. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an 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. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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