System Administrator Virtualization

Location: Bucharest, Romania

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, we’re 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.

Job summary

As a System Administrator and DevOps Engineer, you are seen by the members of your team to be not only a pillar of strength but a source of motivation and inspiration as well. You should be someone whom is savvy with Linux Operating System and have worked with development teams to help them build up the infrastructure. You have prior managing system experience before you adopted DevOps as this experience would allow you to quickly understand the needs of stability, safety for a cloud or hybrid platforms. You should expect the role to be part of a global effort to support our costumer on their IT. You should be someone who is passionate about automating, trouble-shooting, robustness and reliability, trouble-shooting network and system configuration, monitor and manage systems.

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Required competencies/experience:

• Working knowledge of platform administration, operating & maintaining Linux OSes (e.g. RedHat, Ubuntu)
• Working knowledge of VMware technologies (Vsphere, VCloudDirector)
• Working knowledge of Software Defined Network (NSX-T)
• Significant experience in IaC stack e.g. Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform etc
• CI/CD: Keycloak, Gitlab, Jenkins, Nexus and SonarQube
• Has experiences working with virtualized or containerized environments (Docker)
• Working knowledge Windows
• Able to configure network on the system and check connections
• Working knowledge of one or more system-level programming languages like BASH, ZSH, Python, Ruby.

Behavioral skills:

• English fluent
• Strong team player
• Be autonomous and proactive on your tasks,
• Teamwork and knowledge sharing.
• Sense of responsibility
• Good communication skills
• Has a continuous learning mindset and learning of new paradigms, techniques & practices in build-test-release cycles and software automation
• Understand the necessity of stability in the infrastructures

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll 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.