Senior Network Engineer

Location: Singapore Changi, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

**Position Summary**:
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the provision of network integration activities for the respective project and/or bid activity. The Engineer is a key member of the Hardware Deployment & Integration team that provides:

- Technical and resource supervisory input to Network Integration and Deployment engineering activities
- Skilled input to the Network Integration and Deployment activities within the respective project engineering segment, and
- Assistance to the Integration Group for bid response activities.

**Responsibilities**:
The Senior Network Engineer provides effort and expertise in 2 areas: Programs and Bids.

For **Projects**:

- Revise solution architecture drawings and diagrams, cost templates (devis), the List of Supply (LOS) / Bill of Materials (BOM), and interfaces at the start of the project.
- Create and/or update network integration engineer contributions to the Solution Specification and Design documentation, Network Acceptance Test Procedures, and other associated network integration documents.
- Define equipment configuration for the ATM solution(s) and coordinate with Hardware Deployment and Integration management for assembly of the ATM system.Also interface with Tools Engineering, Customer Service and Site Services departments where necessary to accomplish this task.
- Load, configure, validate, and hand over equipment to Software Integration in the factory and on customer sites.
- Support configuration changes to system platforms in factory and customer sites.
- Attend Design Reviews with customers.
- Provide customer training.
- Identify risks at solution architecture level and propose where possible alternate validated solutions.
- Provide system and networking expertise useful in the design.
- Follow and contribute to the development and enhancement of engineering processes

For **Bids / Tenders**:

- Creation and Peer Review system architecture diagrams.
- Creation of the List of Supply (LOS) / Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Creation of Hardware Integration section in the Engineering Department devis.
- Definition of system interfaces.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Science discipline or any other relevant fields, with 5 years of relevant experience
- Cisco formal certifications (CCNP, CCNA etc) is essential
- Good level of knowledge of, and experience with Unix/Linux (Redhat distribution preferred) Operating System
- Familiarity with a wide range of Computer and Networking hardware (preferably Cisco)
- Work experience in a mission-critical, near real-time environment preferably ATC-related is highly desirable
- Experience in large and distributed networked computer systems is a highly desirable
- Scripting (TCL/TK, Perl, & Shell)
- Able to work on multiple activities con-currently and effectively self-manage (autonomy)
- Able to work under pressure