SRE – Linux, Networking, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, And Production Support

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Location: Bangalore - Indraprastha, India

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 aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we're driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida and has other operational offices and sites spread across Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru and Mumbai, among others. Over 2200 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India's growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital sectors. Thales has two engineering competence centres in India - one in Noida focused on Cyber & Digital business, while the one in Bengaluru focuses on hardware, software and systems engineering capabilities for both the civil and defence sectors, serving global needs. The Group has also established an MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) facility in Gurugram to provide comprehensive avionics maintenance and repair services to Indian airlines and support the growth of the local aviation industry.

Skills & Competencies

At least 3 years of professional experience within a cloud/web/CDN scale infrastructure

Experience with Python and Go. C/C++ a plus

Expert knowledge of Linux systems, network programming and protocols TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP

Experience with BGP and Anycast routing is a plus

Experience with DevOps principles and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Saltstack), CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Git), monitoring and visualization (Prometheus, Grafana)

Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka

Experience with containers and container management (Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience analyzing and building data telemetry, modeling, pipelines, UI visualization

Experience in developing software, troubleshooting, and monitoring large scale distributed systems

Responsibilities

Apply SRE core tenets of measurement (SLI/SLO/SLA), eliminate toil, and reliability modeling

Enable and educate development teams on industry best practice design patterns, ways of working and operational knowledge to ensure platform continuity

Develop and architect solutions to infrastructure and operational aspects of new products and feature sets

Assist with go/no go preplanning, verification/validation, and review of existing and new product/services

Proactively analyze data and test the integrity of network/systems to ensure production applications and services are operating optimally

Work within development teams to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues

Escalations, incident response, RCA, and blameless postmortem

Participate in on-call rotation

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.