Enabling 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.

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

LOCATION: Bucharest

MODEL: Hybrid 32

TEAM: English-speaking

START: Q3 / Q4 2026

The mission

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 build and operate the enabling layer of a sovereign cloud region: Kubernetes on NixOS the LGTM observability stack (Grafana Loki Tempo Mimir) ELK-based security monitoring GitOps deployment pipelines and the automation infrastructure that ties them together. You are the platform team that other SRE teams depend on.

• Operate Kubernetes clusters on NixOS at production scale

• Design and operate the LGTM observability stack (Grafana Loki Tempo Mimir)

• Own ELK-based security monitoring and log aggregation

• Implement GitOps deployment pipelines (ArgoCD or FluxCD)

• Automate the platform via Terraform CI/CD and infrastructure as code

• Drive platform reliability engineering: SLI/SLO error budgets capacity

• Own platform 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 3 years in SRE Platform Engineering or DevOps

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes (deployment operations troubleshooting)

• Depth in either observability (Prometheus Grafana Loki) OR platform automation (Terraform GitOps)

• Solid Linux fundamentals

• Scripting / programming (Python Go Bash)

• Excellent English (international team follow-the-sun on-call)

• NixOS or declarative platform configuration experience

• LGTM stack at scale (Loki Tempo Mimir specifically)

• GitOps in production (ArgoCD or FluxCD)

• ELK-based security monitoring

• Experience in regulated environments (banking healthcare defense)

• 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. 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.