A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures for over 40 years. Our diverse skills, talents, and cultures enable us to serve our customers—including governments, institutions, space agencies, and telecommunications operators—with solutions to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate. This description aligns with the TAS-Thales standard for every vacancy.
Job: Network Solution Architect
Mission
Within the Enterprise Architecture department, the Network Solution Architect participates during the design and build phases of projects to ensure the overall consistency of the enterprise IT technical architecture.
The Technical Solution Architect’s role is to design solutions that meet business needs while assessing impacts on current systems architecture and working with the IT & Security directorate to ensure compliance with IT standards, norms, and rules.
We are looking for a
* Network Solution Architect
* to join our Network & Security squad and implement technical architecture designs that will improve our organization’s network & infrastructure, supporting upcoming business & IT transformations.
Responsibilities
* Guarantee consistency of technical architecture
* Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture methodology, technical design process, principles, rules, and relevant IT standards & norms
* Promote reuse of architecture components & patterns, favoring cost-efficient & sustainable designs
* Advocate for technical design choices to ensure coherence across all Thales Alenia Space countries
* Contribute to knowledge sharing through modeling, documentation, communication, and training
* Propose updates to architecture principles & rules repository
* Participate actively in architecture governance from demand to delivery
* Advise on technical architectures & solutions
* Design One-TAS technical architectures for business projects or architecture change requests
* Analyze and verify impacts of proposed architectures, ensuring coherence with existing architecture (As-Is & To-Be analysis)
* Design architectures respecting contextual constraints: priority, time, resources, organization, data
* Inform stakeholders of issues with current technical solutions
* Collaborate with IT & Security teams to meet performance, adaptability, and interoperability objectives
* Facilitate architecture design, risk assessment, and security validation processes; document decisions
* Support during implementation, research emerging technologies, and identify opportunities for benefits or issue resolution
* Participate in proof of concepts
Technical skills
As part of the Network & Security squad, involvement in domains such as:
* Network infrastructure and Firewall (FW)
* Network flows, FW filtering, FW objects naming
* DMZ, Bridge infrastructures
* Proxies (including NG Proxies)
* Cyber Security
* Bastion / PAM (Privilege Access Management)
Strong skills in Network and Cybersecurity are required:
* Telecom: Phone architecture (IP and TDM), Video conference architecture (ISDN and IP), PBX interconnection (Alcatel solutions)
* Protocols: TCP/IP, Multicast, Routing protocols
* LAN: Ethernet, L2 and L3 backbone, 802.1w, 802.3ap, Wi-Fi
* Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies
* DDIN services (Infoblox or equivalent)
* Network security solutions: UTM Firewalls, VPN, authentication protocols, NAC/EVAS, IDS/IPS, IP encryption (Thales solutions), Firewall Security Policy management (Tufin or equivalent)
Nice-to-have skills include:
* Implications for Unified Communication solutions and infrastructure (Cisco Jabber, Microsoft Teams)
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