Team Lead IT Platforms & Devops (w/m/d)

Team Lead It Platforms & DevOps

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Thales is a worldwide leading provider of cutting-edge technologies for defense, aerospace, cyber security, and digital identity.

In Ditzingen, you will find security solutions for monitoring and securing borders and border controls, for the protection of civilian and military facilities, as well as for tactical communication. If you want to develop and produce tactical and field-tested radio equipment for networked operational command with us, this is the right place for you. Become part of the Thales expert team for radio equipment, cybersecurity and cryptography, for encryption components and hardware security modules, as well as for electronic key management systems. We look forward to you!

Your mission as Team Lead IT Platforms & DevOps:

• Technical and disciplinary leadership of a team consisting of 10 Dev(Sec)Ops Engineers, IT and network experts for the development and operation of security-critical systems and products for civilian and military customers
• Responsibility for the professional development of the team as well as for efficient resource utilization in projects
• Ensuring high-quality work results through adherence to defined processes, tools, and quality standards
• Close collaboration across areas with project managers, executives, and other team leaders in a matrix structure
• Operational support for technical solution finding and taking on technical engineering management tasks in projects

We look forward to:

• Completed studies in information technology, electrical engineering, or a comparable qualification
• In-depth knowledge of IT platforms and architectures, including hardware, container technologies, virtualization (IaaS, PaaS, IaC), network topologies, as well as automation and provisioning tools like Ansible, Python, and Terraform
• Experience in designing and modeling complex IT systems while taking into account common security standards (BSI Basic Protection, IEC 62443, Common Criteria) and ideally experience with tools for creating security concepts (e.g., SAVe)
• Secure use of modern development environments and tools (e.g., Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Gitlab, Jira, Confluence) as well as practical experience with agile and classical methods of software development
• Leadership experience or potential in leading technical teams as well as in mentoring and coaching employees
• Very good German and English skills in speech and writing

Thales invests more than 4 billion euros annually in research and development in key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cyber security, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the group generated a turnover of 20.6 billion euros.

For more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries, we open up pioneering perspectives, realize individual career paths, and enable creative freedom. This is achieved through courage, diversity, and the firm will to shape the challenging demands of our time more securely and inclusively. With our sustainable, value-oriented personnel management, we actively advocate for diversity.