Devops Architect

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your comprehensive DevOps expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside innovative, collaborative, and forward-thinking teammates.

You'll own the entire DevOps lifecycle of our products, ensuring smooth code integration with CI/CD, optimizing release management processes, and automating and managing deployment environments. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (IoT experts, data scientists, software engineers, and data architects), standardize software development release management processes, and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of creating a well-informed cloud strategy and managing the adaption process, but also provide technical support and guidance to our users.

We’ll look to you for:

• Ensuring smooth code integration with CI/CD pipelines

• Optimizing release management and automating deployment environments

• Creating and managing a cloud strategy (Azure and on-premise)

• Standardizing the software development release management process

• Troubleshooting and providing technical support and guidance

• Writing and maintaining technical documentation

• Developing and mentoring junior team members while cultivating a strong culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.

• Guiding users on best practices for container-based applications

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science & information systems or related engineering

• 8 to 12 years of experience in CI/CD for on-premises and cloud environments.

• A strong background in DevOps with hands-on configuration and deployment

• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Helm Charts, CRDs, Terraform and Kubernetes operators.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Shell Scripting.

• Expertise in containerization (Kubernetes, RKE2, Azure AKS, Rancher) and virtualization (Harvester, VMware, OpenShift).

• Proficiency in Linux operating systems and administration.

• Experience with data technologies like Kafka, Nifi, Elasticsearch, Postgres,Longhorn and RabbitMQ.

• Knowledge of observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus.

• Knowledge of version control tools like Git and GITLAB

• Experience/Knowledge on technologies/frameworks like .NET, WPF, SignalR, event-driven development, and Robot Framework.
• Proficiency in designing blue/green deployment strategies and managing large-scale distributed applications.
• Understanding of security protocols, digital certificates, SSL/TLS, and key/secrets management
• Platform engineering and microservices experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, influence stakeholders, and work collaboratively in a global matrix organization.
• Certification on DevOps, Kubernetes (CKA), Cloud Technologies like Azure, AWS and GCP will be an added advantage.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines

• Work with new security standards for rail signalling

• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues

• Contribute to innovative projects

• Utilise our agile and flexible working environment

• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries

• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning

• Progress towards leadership and advanced technical roles

• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.