Senior Network Engineer

Location: Paço de Arcos - Q45, Portugal For more than 35 years, **Thales** acts in Portugal for global Defence and Aerospace markets and promotes and delivers innovative solutions that enhance its customer’s critical systems´ security, on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, through a technical team of excellence. We are currently looking for a **Senior Network Engineer** to join our **Airspace Mobility Solutions** team! **Responsibilities:** * Integrate, configure and validate infrastructure solutions, ensuring all technical and functional requirements are met; * Produce and maintain detailed design documentation, solution specifications, test plans and bills of material; * Lead activities and small teams within agile sprints, coordinating design, integration and break-fix deliveries; * Infrastructrure installation, configuration, validation and handover of equipment to systems integration teams locally or on customer sites around the world * Support testing, troubleshooting and hardware/software integration in complex environments; * Identify technical risks and propose effective solutions while actively participating in design reviews and customer meetings. **Requirements:** * Degree in **Engineering, Computer Science, IT** or related fields, with excellent communication skills and ability to produce clear technical documentation; * Availability for business travelling around the world * Solid experience with **Red Hat Linux** systems, including configuration, performance tuning, hardening and automation; * Strong skills in automation with **Ansible** and experience with **CI/CD** pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Octopus, Travis); * Proficiency in **scripting languages** (Python, Shell, Perl, YAML) for automation and integration; * Knowledge of hardware and networking (TCP/IP, VLANs, Cisco/HP/Lenovo) and hardware validation processes. The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies. In 2024, the Group generated **sales of €20.6 billion.**   For our more than **83,000 employees** in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. **With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.** **Say HI\* – Your journey to us** At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact **Tiago Vital** is looking forward to your online application on our [Career portal](https://www.thalesgroup.com/de/career/ihr-einstieg-bei-uns). Tiago Vital – Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-TV1 #LI-HYBRID \*Human Intelligence