Senior Network Engineer

Thales

Paco De Arcos - Q45 Hybrid permanent

Posted: March 6, 2026

Job Description

Location: Paco De Arcos - Q45, Portugal

For more than 35 years, Thales acts in Portugal for global Defense and Aerospace markets, promoting and delivering innovative solutions that enhance its customer’s critical systems´ security on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, through a technical team of excellence.

We are currently looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Airspace Mobility Solutions team! You will have the opportunity of working in an exciting and technically challenging domain, performing duties requiring the application of a mature, experienced and professional approach.

Responsibilities:

• Review and validate solution architecture;

• Prepare network integration documentation;

• Enforce cyber security best practices throughout all project phases;

• Define ATM solution equipment configurations and coordinate with deployment, integration, and support teams;

• Implement configuration changes on system platforms;

• Participate in design review;

• Identify architectural risks.

What we look forward to:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related fields;

• Cisco formal certifications (CCNP, CCNA etc);

• Experience with security gateways (Juniper, Palo Alto or Cisco firewalls);

• Experience with Unix/Linux Operating System (RHEL preferred) and Shell environment;

• Network automation (Python, Ansible);

• Experience in working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.

For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Jéssica Carrasqueira is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Jéssica Carrasqueira – Talent Acquisition Partner

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