Software Integration and Configuration Engineer

at  Thales

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that enable two-thirds of planes to take off and land safely. We create in-flight entertainment systems that engross 50 million fliers every year and we develop the avionics that control the world’s largest commercial aircrafts. Our simulators train the next generation of pilots for fighter jets, transporters and search and rescue helicopters. And, together, each and every member of our aerospace team makes a difference.
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.

KEY SKILLS

• Extensive experience in authoring and reviewing technical documents.
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience with Systems integration (hardware and software).
• Experience with Verification, Validation, and Qualification processes.
• Current with Java or other high-level programming language skills.
• Strong software design pattern experience and implementation of best practice.
• Understanding of software development and debugging (e.g. C/C++, Java).
• Windows and Linux Operating Systems Experience.
• Experience with platform engineering development.
• Experience with Windows and Linux System administration.
• Experience with scripting (e.g. shell programming, Bash, Python, Javascript).

• Perform and implement software configuration control activities outlines in the configuration management plan, including supporting change control boards.
• Define, review, freeze and share the software configuration baselines, supporting the functional baseline and product baseline.
• Manage problems reports and change requests relating to software artefacts.
• Perform functional and physical audits to formally approve that the software artefacts meet the technical requirements and are reproducible.
• Record all approved configuration documentation, applicable configurations and applied configurations for each platform in the organisation repository.
• Deploying operating systems onto systems, workstations, and virtual machines.
• Configuration of networks, switches, and system ancillaries.
• Customising and troubleshooting application software and operating systems to meet cyber security requirements as defined by the Cyber Security Design Authority, including hardening, lockdown, and running vulnerability assessments.
• Write and perform tests to verify, validate, and qualify the software load.