Site Reliability Engineer | Systems, Networking, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud & Automation

Job Description

Location: Bangalore – Indraprastha, IndiaThales 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.ResponsibilitiesApply SRE core tenets of measurement (SLI/SLO/SLA), eliminate toil, and reliability modelingEnable and educate development teams on industry best practice design patterns, ways of working and operational knowledge to ensure platform continuityDevelop and architect solutions to infrastructure and operational aspects of new products and feature setsAssist with go/no go preplanning, verification/validation, and review of existing and new product/servicesProactively analyze data and test the integrity of network/systems to ensure production applications and services are operating optimallyWork within development teams to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issuesEscalations, incident response, RCA, and blameless postmortemParticipate in on-call rotationQualificationsAt least 3 years of professional experience within a cloud/web/CDN scale infrastructureExperience with Python and Go. C/C++ a plusExpert knowledge of Linux systems, network programming and protocols TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTPExperience with BGP and Anycast routing is a plusExperience 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, KafkaExperience with containers and container management  (Docker, Kubernetes)Experience analyzing and building data telemetry, modeling, pipelines, UI visualizationExperience in developing software, troubleshooting, and monitoring large scale distributed systemsImplement software engineering best practices/standards and software development life cycleWorking knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologiesA strong team player who is accountable towards business urgencyAbility to stay organized in a multi-tasking environmentSelf-starter personalityAt 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.

Bangalore – Indraprastha