Platform Engineer

About Naval Group

We are an international player in the naval defense industry for over 400 years, continuously pushing boundaries to build the future. We recruit talent to design, build, and maintain exceptional products such as submarines, aircraft carriers, and frigates, for which the digital component is essential.

A POSITIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT

Located at 10 sites in France and 18 countries, we value a pleasant work environment that promotes diversity of profiles, teamwork, and well-being. This is reflected in social diversity, agreements for quality of work life, commitment to professional development through continuous training, and the involvement of employees in the collective implementation of our corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.

OUR KEY FIGURES

17,000 employees 4.3 billion euros in revenue

YOUR MISSIONS

The Ollioules site hosts design, development, and integration activities for high-tech IT systems on board ships for the French Navy and international clients.

At the heart of these systems are the CMS (Combat Management System), software that controls the combat system's equipment.

Surrounded by a team of 20 employees, you will be responsible for the architecture of frameworks and the implementation of evolutions. You will also identify and lead R&D work to anticipate functional or technological needs for these frameworks. Finally, you will provide expertise to the CMS teams on low-level Linux and embedded aspects.

Your Mission

As a Platform Engineer, your goal is to design, build, and automate the infrastructure and tools of our development platform. You will bridge the gap between operations (Ops) and pure development (Dev) with a strong automation culture.

Your Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Orchestration

• Administer and evolve our Kubernetes clusters
• Manage Infrastructure as Code to ensure reproducibility and immutability
• Ensure the scalability and high availability of our environments

Tooling & Development

• Develop the tools, K8S operators, and microservices for our infrastructure, primarily in Rust and GoLang
• Optimize the Developer Experience for our users

CI/CD & DevSecOps

• Lead continuous integration and deployment pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
• Integrate "Shift-Left" security into the pipelines

Observability & AI

• Maintain and enrich the observability stack: LGTM
• Participate in the integration of AI components (MLOps, inference, or code assistance tools) into the infrastructure

THE PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Your Profile

We are looking for a passionate engineer:

Experience: You have solid production experience with Kubernetes Development: You are not just a "user" of tools, you know how to create them. You have a strong interest in or mastery of Rust (knowledge of Go is a plus) Mindset: You embrace the DevSecOps culture. For you, a task repeated twice must be automated Agility: You are comfortable with the Spotify model (Squads, Guilds) and cross-functional collaboration Bonus: Curiosity or initial experience with AI/ML workflows

The advantages of the position:

• You have the opportunity to work on board ships to carry out investigations
• You are in an innovative environment combining both legacy technologies and embedded digital cloud, requiring a wide range of knowledge
• You participate in a large number of programs, including surface vessels, submarines, and drones.

The Technical Stack

Orchestration: K8S, KubeVirt, Rook Ceph, Longhorn IaC: FluxCD, ArgoCD, Helm, CrossPlane Languages: Rust, GoLang CI/CD: GitLab CI Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki OS/Network: Linux

Welcome to Naval Group

NAVAL GROUP We are an international player in the naval defense industry for over 400 years, continuously pushing boundaries to build the future. We recruit talent to design, build, and maintain exceptional products such as submarines, aircraft carriers, and frigates, for which the digital component is essential.

A POSITIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT

Located at 10 sites in France and 18 countries, we value a pleasant work environment that promotes diversity of profiles, teamwork, and well-being. This is reflected in social diversity, agreements for quality of work life, commitment to professional development through continuous training, and the involvement of employees in the collective implementation of our corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.

OUR KEY FIGURES

17,000 employees 4.3 billion euros in revenue