Sr Applications Integrator Engineer

Location: SINGAPORE, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

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.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Sr. Application Integrator Engineer, you are accountable for:

• This position requires a deep understanding of
  • integration frameworks,
  • middleware solutions,
  • APIs,
• The ability to troubleshoot complex issues and deliver innovative solutions. With a focus on strategic collaboration and continuous improvement, our ideal candidate is both detail-oriented and forward-thinking
• Guarantee the technical solution for infrastructure & deployment
  • System architecture & PaaS implementation
  • Define and develop the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in development, quality assurance, and production environments, respecting established rules.
  • Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
• Secure the product operability
  • Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
  • Guarantees that the product underlying architecture is state of the art.
  • Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required trains the team on those topics.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

• Possess 8 to 10 years of experience in the following:
• Design and implement integration solutions to connect multiple software applications.
  • Develop and maintain APIs to facilitate data exchange between systems.
  • Collaborate with software developers and IT teams to understand integration requirements.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot integration issues to ensure continuous operation.
  • Optimize and enhance current integration processes for improved efficiency.
  • Document integration processes and maintain up-to-date technical documentation.
• Hands-on experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Shell scripts
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of API management and development using REST or SOAP
• System skillset :
  • System Administration basic skillset (services, ssh, user management, …)
• DevOps tooling advanced skillset :
  • Extensive working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
  • Using and administrating GitLab CI/CD
  • Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks and Modules
  • Deploying and setup of CI/CD pipelines (closely work with development team to develop CI/CD pipelines and deploy into private and public cloud)
  • Scripting experience in Shell (bash or Python) etc
  • Using Jira / Confluence
  • Code documentation using Markdown

Behaviour:

• Produces Ingenious, astute design, with an open mind
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to fluently communicate with local project team and external stakeholders.
• Collaborative team players preferred

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