System Engineer

Location: Madrid, Spain

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 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.

In Defence and security, armed forces, governments and global organisations entrust Thales with helping them achieve and maintain security, tactical superiority and strategic independence in the face of any type of threat. In an increasingly unpredictable world, governments rely on our expertise to protect their citizens and make the world safer, from designing smart sensors and connecting soldiers on the digital battlefield to delivering solutions that protect states, cities and critical infrastructures.

In Spain, Thales Sistemas is specialized in Command and Control systems, Tactical Communications and Modeling and Simulation addressing solutions in the domain of Defense and Security. Thales is the Spanish leader in tactical Land CIS (Communication and Information Systems) covering all the product life cycle (design, development, production, ILS). Based in Leganés, Thales Sistemas employs a highly specialized workforce of more than 100 people, most of them engineers that participate in the following activities:

• Communications and Information Systems (CIS) to support Command function and Decision Making:
• Embedded electronics for military aircraft
• Tactical Communications
• Radio Navigation Aids for air traffic
  
  
  

We’re currently looking for an engineer of adaptive, perfective, corrective and preventive maintenance of hardware and software of Command and Control Systems for the Spanish Army. You will work directly with our clients, based on El Pardo - Madrid.

What will you do?

You will participate in a dedicated team working in customer premises, mainly focused in:

• Maintaining C2 SW systems
• Updating SW & HW in different customer systems.
• Preparing the means and documentation necessary to deploy C2 systems within customer nodes, benefiting of automatized tasks, and supporting the stakeholders in the process
• Solving any incidence that may occur in deployment
• Assuring that all SW is cyphered & secured
  
  
  

To Do This, You Should Have Experience In…

• Administration of Microsoft Active Directory environments, including configuration of users, groups, permissions and security policies.
• Application of the STIC guides of the National Cryptological Center (CCN).
• RAID planning and configuration in servers and disk cabinets.
• Client-server services implementation, including server configuration and maintenance, application integration, and database management to ensure service availability and performance
• Hardware and software licensing. Use of KMS tools and VAMT Console. Key generators.
• Implementation and configuration of Windows Deployment Services to deploy and update operating systems in bulk.
• Disk encryption. Experience with Microsoft Bitlocker and Sophos SafeGuard.
• PowerShell.
• Configuration of routers and switches for the creation of circuits and VLANs in a wide area network (WAN) to improve connectivity and network efficiency.
• Working in an international environment (English/Spanish).
  
  
  

Any of the following will be valued:

• Hands-on experience configuring and using Acronis products for data backup and recovery, including most notably Acronis Cyber Backup and Acronis True Image.
• Implementation and management of data backup and recovery solutions using Veritas BackUp Exec and Windows Backup.
• Experience configuring storage arrays, including installation, configuration, and administration of data storage systems. Specifically the range of HPE products, such as StoreOnce or MSA equipment.
• Updating systems at the hardware, software and firmware level. Assembly and use of a Windows WSUS server.
• Light notions in Cloud computing environments (AWS).
• Application of Agile frameworks in work groups (PSM I and PSM II Certification). Use of tools applied to Agile and Scrum.
  
  
  

What do we offer?

• Flexible compensation & social benefits.
• Continous working hours – day shift.
• Location: El Pardo - Madrid.
  
  
  

Thales is a company committed to equal opportunities between women and men, and for this reason, we work to raise awareness and disseminate information on the subject both internally and externally.

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!