Senior Cloud Software Developer
Location : Ottawa, Canada
Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people.
Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.
Position Summary
As a seasoned Cloud Development Software Engineer for the Cloud Services Platform team, you will work across a variety of disciplines to investigate, prototype, develop, test, and deliver software across an industry-leading cloud technology stack.
This includes building backend services in a micro-service based containerized Kubernetes environment, which are secure and are natively cloud enterprise deployed.
You will be involved in understanding requirements, translating them into working enterprise-level architecture, as well as implementing and supporting the solution.
You will work closely with a cross-matrixed team in a scaled agile environment. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, including automation and DevOps.
Be part of a team required to design, implement, test, and support features with the following mindset : Quality, end-user experience, maintainability, scalability, performance, cost, resilience CI-CD.
Key Responsibilities
- Building cloud native software, using various platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies and related tools
- Developing UI and Backend server software using Java, Springboot, and Golang
- Applying coding / implementation best practices to produce elegant, high quality, resilient, maintainable, and reusable code
- Implementing and following security best practices
- Proactively participating in creating unit test cases, along with integration & performance testing
- Enhancing our Build and deployment methodologies (i.e. CI / CD processes)
- Participating in issue investigation, and deployment of applications, and testing / integration in various deployed environments
- Managing the source code repository for projects in Git
- Documenting, managing, and maintaining internal knowledge and processes
- Remaining up-to-date on industry trends, and applying the latest evolving technologies, and frameworks
- Following agile methodology, including active participation in sprint planning and retrospective meetings, creation of user stories, as well as corresponding tasks
- Providing feedback to the documentation team to develop, improve, and review Customer centric feature documentation
- Interfacing with geographically distributed teams in Austin, Ottawa, Noida, and other locations on a regular basis
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 5+ years programming skills in Java, Golang, Python, Linux scripting languages, along with frameworks, such as Springboot, Node.js, J2EE
- Experience developing code using IDE’s such as Intellij or Visual Studio
- 7 years of working experience in building complex enterprise micro-service, and cloud services, based applications in GCP or AWS
- Demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills in a cloud environment
- 7 years experience in developing web based client-server applications using a combination of Java, Golang, or Python, as well as web application server setup / configuration
Special Position Requirements
Schedule :
Regular 7.5 hour day shift between 8 : 00am and 6 : 00pm, on-call L3 support pager rotation (1 week per every 2 months)
Physical Environment :
Hybrid - combination of working from home and at the office
What We Offer
Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following :
- Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
- Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
- Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
- Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.
Why Join Us?
Say HI and learn more about working at Thales.
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Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process.
Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview.
We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.
About Thales
In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable and full of opportunities, trust is essential for societies to flourish.
Trust in our institutions. Trust in our systems. Trust in technology. Trust in each other.
And the people we all rely on to make the world go round, they rely on Thales. They come to us with big ambitions : to make life better, to keep us safer.
From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers navigate uncertainty with confidence and new frontiers with optimism.
Thinking smarter and acting faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.
We collaborate to architect and deliver high technology solutions that are both imaginative and resilient, human-centered and sustainable.
So that together we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.
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