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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, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.\nIn 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.\nAll Experience Levels (Junior, Mid, Senior) within one application. We triage based on experience after apply\nThe mission:\nA 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.\nIn 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, 10,000+ devices, NVIDIA H100 GPU clusters in production, workloads across energy, banking, healthcare, defense.\nWe 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.\nWhy this role matters:\nYou 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.\nWhat you will do:\nOperate enterprise storage platforms (SAN, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, tape and backup libraries)\nOwn PostgreSQL operations at scale (replication, failover, performance, capacity)\nDesign and test backup/DR pipelines with real restore validation, not documentation only\nOperate Kubernetes CSI drivers and stateful workload storage\nAutomate data infrastructure via Terraform and equivalent tooling\nDrive stateful reliability engineering: durability, RPO/RTO, capacity planning\nOwn data incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement\nFollow-the-sun on-call rotation with Google Cloud SRE teams\n What we are looking for:\nYou 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:\nExperience with SRE practices and operations, storage engineering, or database engineering\nStrong stateful systems mindset (durability, replication, RPO/RTO, capacity)\nHands-on with either enterprise storage (SAN, FC, iSCSI) OR databases at scale (PostgreSQL)\nAutomation-oriented (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)\nSolid Linux and cloud fundamentals\nExcellent English (international team, follow-the-sun on-call)\nNice to have:\nBoth storage AND database experience (rare combination, we hire either)\nKubernetes CSI drivers and stateful workload operations\nBackup/DR at regulator-grade (banking, healthcare, defense)\nQuantum, NetApp, Dell EMC, or major storage vendor experience\nPostgreSQL replication, partitioning, or performance tuning at scale\nWhy join:\nGreenfield SRE function, Bucharest hub. You catch the org before it exists. First hires shape the standard everyone else inherits.\nAccelerated Google training program on Google's internal technical stack (Borg, Colossus, Spanner) is planned as part of onboarding.\nDirect technical collaboration with Google Cloud SRE teams. Follow-the-sun on-call model with global coverage.\nSovereign cloud, first-of-its-kind, SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified. Regulated workloads in banking, healthcare, energy, defense.\nHyperscaler-level scale of operations from a single location. No relocation required.\nCompetitive package, private medical, meal vouchers, sport benefit, and the rest of the Thales standard package.\nSound like you?\nApply 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.\nAt Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. 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