We hear about DevOps more and more often these days, but what DevOps actually means?

Join our concise summer school that will level up your knowledge about DevOps and will guide you through best practices.

Meet us online during 6 hands-on sessions in which we will cover topics such as infrastructure deployment automation (infrastructure as code), configuration management (configuration as code), containerization and orchestration.

Our DevOps professionals will showcase some of their day-to-day activities, to help you visualise a real project, disclosing a touch of the DevOps community secrets.

This experience will guide you figure out if you want to develop a career in this direction, and will bring a plus in your CV for further job interviews.

• a first contact with Thales and what we do
• a nice experience that you will remember
• many technical skills that will be useful in the future
• knowledge about the latest technologies
• use a variety of tools in a practical experience
• ideas to automate & improve any project/process
• make new friends with the same interest in DevOps

All activities will be done online using Microsoft Teams communication tool.

All participants will use a virtual machine prepared in advanced by the organizers.

Sessions will combine theory with practice, students will have the opportunity to build a complete DevOps environment by themselves.

The courses will be organized three times a week according to the schedule below:

• August 29 th , 2023, 17:00-20:00: Session 1 - Setup the environment + program overview + Git/Gitlab
• August 30 th , 2023, 17:00-20:00: Session 2 - Python + Ansible
• August 31 st , 2023, 17:00-20:00: Session 3 - Docker + Gitlab pipelines

• September 5 th , 2023, 17:00-20:00: Session 4 - Kubernetes 1/2
• September 6 th , 2023, 17:00-20:00: Session 5 - Kubernetes 2/2
• September 7 th , 2023, 17:00-20:00: Session 6 – Helm + DevOps@Thales

If you’re excited about this opportunity, fill out this form (CLICK) by:

Afterwards, we will send you a short assessment via email. Following the internal evaluation of all submissions, we will announce the selected participants and provide you with connection details via email.

Don’t miss out on this chance to broaden your horizons and enhance your CV!

Join Thales DevOps Summer School and pave your way to a successful career in the IT industry.

Please make sure to have the following:

• Personal laptop
• Stable Internet connection
• Oracle VirtualBox installed
• Gitlab account
• DockerHub account
• Access to Microsoft Teams
• Minimum free space: 20 GB

Experienced Thales DevOps Architects and Engineers from the Engineering Environment & Support Department.

• Bogdan Croitoru, Engineering Support Department Manager
• Geanina Szekeres, DevOps Head of Discipline
• Adrian Mazarache, CloudOps Head of Discipline
• Stefan Mitoi, ITOps Head of Discipline
• Mircea Vrabie, DevOps Engineer
• Mircea Anton, DevOps Engineer
• Eduard Draghici, Thales HR responsible

All the other colleagues that will be involved will be added here.