Sr. Application Integration Engineer

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Established in Singapore in 1973, Thales Singapore Engineering Team leads and pioneers innovative solutions for the Asia-Pacific region. Our coverage spans across an extensive spectrum of fields, encompassing proven solutions in Defence & Military, Security & Surveillance, Intelligence & Big Data, Secure Radio Communications, to Cybersecurity, Network & Infrastructure Security.

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Along with other departments in Singapore, such as Thales Research & Technology, we engineer state-of-art technological solutions from dreams into reality for the world. If you are ready to make a difference on a global scale, our team is the place for you. Join us today and embark on an extraordinary journey of writing the next chapter of history for a better world.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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

1. This position requires a deep understanding of integration frameworks, middleware solutions, and APIs.
2. 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.
3. Guarantee the technical solution for infrastructure & deployment:
1. System architecture & PaaS implementation.
2. 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.
3. Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
4. Secure the product operability:
1. Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.
2. Guarantees that the product underlying architecture is state of the art.
3. Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
5. 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:

1. Possess 8 to 10 years of experience in the following:
1. Design and implement integration solutions to connect multiple software applications.
2. Develop and maintain APIs to facilitate data exchange between systems.
3. Collaborate with software developers and IT teams to understand integration requirements.
4. Monitor and troubleshoot integration issues to ensure continuous operation.
5. Optimize and enhance current integration processes for improved efficiency.
6. Document integration processes and maintain up-to-date technical documentation.

1. System Administration basic skillset (services, ssh, user management, …).

1. Extensive working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
2. Using and administrating GitLab CI/CD.
3. Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks and Modules.
4. Deploying and setup of CI/CD pipelines (closely work with development team to develop CI/CD pipelines and deploy into private and public cloud).
5. Scripting experience in Shell (bash or Python) etc.
6. Using Jira / Confluence.
7. Code documentation using Markdown.

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