Platform Engineer Observability a venture between Thales and Google

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.

Bucharest - Hybrid (3 office / 2 remote) Occasional travel to Paris / Berlin
Start: ASAP English-speaking team

Imagine instrumenting a Google Cloud region that doesnt exist anywhere else in the world.

Thats the job.

THE PROJECT

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 you know (GKE compute data Vertex AI).
European jurisdiction. European operators. Thales-grade cybersecurity.

In the last 6 months alone the platform:
Achieved a world-first regulatory qualification - IaaS CaaS PaaS in a single decision
Named 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year - Sovereign Cloud
Runs 3 data centres 10000 devices NVIDIA H100 GPU clusters in production
Serves European enterprises in energy banking healthcare defense

Your job: make all of that observable.

WHAT YOULL OWN

Design deploy and operate the LGTM stack (Grafana Prometheus Loki Mimir)
Define monitoring logging and alerting strategies across GKE
Operate log and metric pipelines at scale
Collaborate directly with Google Cloud engineers

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

Must-have:
5 years in Observability SRE or DevOps
Strong hands-on with Prometheus (PromQL) Grafana Loki (LogQL)
Proven track record designing alerting and monitoring strategies
Solid Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
Log and metric pipelines at scale
Strong Linux fundamentals comfortable in English

Nice to have:
Mimir Tempo / OpenTelemetry
Terraform Helm GitOps
SRE practice (SLI/SLO error budgets)

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

This isnt another use GCP job. Youre helping operate a GCP region - the first one ever run autonomously by a partner.
You sit at the table with Google Cloud and Thales engineering not behind it.
Greenfield observability scope: you define the standard not maintain legacy.

Thats not a tagline. Its the actual job.

WHAT YOU GET

Competitive package private medical meal vouchers sport benefit and the rest of the Thales standard package. Real engineering ownership in a Bucharest-based team that ships to production for European critical infrastructure.

SOUND LIKE YOU

If youve scaled LGTM in anger argue for an hour about cardinality budgets and want a Bucharest-based role that actually matters - lets talk.

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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.