Location: Gorgonzola, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

If you are looking for new opportunities in a high-skilled multicultural team, we are now looking for a Software Solution Engineer to join our Software team in Gorgonzola.

PROFILE:

You are a graduated with a bachelor or master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science with at least 10-15 years of experience in Software Development.

You are customer focused, resourceful, innovative, creative with a strong communication skill. You are analytical and structured but you also enjoy thinking outside the box and being creative

You will have the opportunity to join our SW design community working in an Agile Scrum team of SW developers.

You will be accountable for the definition of requirements, the design of SW architecture, coding and testing of Software running on our equipment. The development will be done in compliance with our rigorous aerospace standards but also tailored to our challenging schedules.

You will be part of our international cross-functional team that includes project manager, system engineer, HW-ME designers, Project Engineering, Quality Assurance and manufacturing operations.

COMPETENCIES:

• Passion for coding, technologies and shipping features that bring innovation 
• Solid know-how of Linux operating system and software packaging using the RedHat Package Manager
• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code review, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring and proactive changes.  
• Strong C/C++ and scripting languages (python/bash) skills
• Extended know-how with regards to TCP/IP networking and the corresponding low-level APIs. You also potentially have background on Linux network configuration
• Experience working on complex, multi-threaded application architectures
• Familiar with cybersecurity principles, network protocols, and familiarity with networking component.
• Experience with network debug and testing tools (Wireshark)
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new feature
• You are familiar with the basic tools deployed in our infrastructure: DOORs, Jira
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
• You have good verbal and written communication skills

NICE TO HAVE:

• Any experience with Bootloader or Kernel would be beneficial
• Experience with Linux system builder tool like Yocto or Buildroot.
• You are familiar with Linux containers (Docker, LXC, OpenShift or Kubernetes)
• You are familiar with the SNMP protocol
• Experience with distributed version control systems
• You have expertise in requirement management
• You are familiar with build automation systems (Jenkins) and automation testing

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