Data SRE — Bucharest Sovereign Cloud Hub

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments institutions and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of defence and security aerospace and space cybersecurity and digital identity were driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

In Romania we are advancing innovation through software engineering research and development delivering solutions in key markets in which Thales Group operates. Our engineers design develop and integrate solutions that impact global industries from fully operational systems and subsystems for naval warfare and maritime security operations to air traffic management systems satellite-based solutions tactical indoor simulations identity and biometric technologies and more.

Junior Mid roles within one application. We triage based on experience after apply

A trusted sovereign Google Cloud region operated end-to-end from within Europe by the joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud. Same Google Cloud power (GKE compute data Vertex AI) European jurisdiction European operators Thales-grade cybersecurity.

In the last 6 months alone: world-first regulatory qualification (IaaS CaaS PaaS in a single decision SecNumCloud 3.2 December 2025) named 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Sovereign Cloud 3 data centres 10000 devices NVIDIA H100 GPU clusters in production workloads across energy banking healthcare defense.

We are standing up the SRE function for this platform from scratch. Bucharest is the primary hub Q3 / Q4 2026 hiring window. You are joining a greenfield team not inheriting one.

You will operate the data plane of a sovereign cloud region: enterprise storage (SAN Fibre Channel) mission-critical databases (primarily PostgreSQL) Kubernetes CSI drivers backup/DR pipelines and the automation layer that ties them together. You own durability availability and recoverability across the data stack.

• Operate enterprise storage platforms (SAN Fibre Channel iSCSI tape and backup libraries)
• Own PostgreSQL operations at scale (replication failover performance capacity)
• Design and test backup/DR pipelines with real restore validation not documentation only
• Operate Kubernetes CSI drivers and stateful workload storage
• Automate data infrastructure via Terraform and equivalent tooling
• Drive stateful reliability engineering: durability RPO/RTO capacity planning
• Own data incident response post-mortems and continuous improvement
• Follow-the-sun on-call rotation with Google Cloud SRE teams

You have some or all of the following. We hire for depth in at least one area of the stack breadth in the adjacent ones and willingness to grow into the rest:

• Minimum 1-3 years in SRE storage engineering or database engineering
• Strong stateful systems mindset (durability replication RPO/RTO capacity)
• Hands-on with either enterprise storage (SAN FC iSCSI) OR databases at scale (PostgreSQL)
• Automation-oriented (Terraform Ansible or equivalent)
• Solid Linux and cloud fundamentals
• Excellent English (international team follow-the-sun on-call)

• Both storage AND database experience (rare combination we hire either)
• Kubernetes CSI drivers and stateful workload operations
• Backup/DR at regulator-grade (banking healthcare defense)
• Quantum NetApp Dell EMC or major storage vendor experience
• PostgreSQL replication partitioning or performance tuning at scale

• Greenfield SRE function Bucharest hub. You catch the org before it exists. First hires shape the standard everyone else inherits.
• Accelerated Google training program on Googles internal technical stack (Borg Colossus Spanner) is planned as part of onboarding.
• Direct technical collaboration with Google Cloud SRE teams. Follow-the-sun on-call model with global coverage.
• Sovereign cloud first-of-its-kind SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified. Regulated workloads in banking healthcare energy defense.
• Hyperscaler-level scale of operations from a single location. No relocation required.
• Competitive package private medical meal vouchers sport benefit and the rest of the Thales standard package.

Apply via the link in the first comment. We review Senior and Mid profiles within the same pipeline and route based on experience during first-stage screening.

At Thales were committed to fostering a workplace where respect trust collaboration and passion drive everything we do. Here youll feel empowered to bring your best self thrive in a supportive culture and love the work you do. Join us and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference for a safer greener and more inclusive world.