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Location: Bucharest, Romania
The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales. Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.
Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!
We are looking for a Senior backend developer (Back + Continuous Integration/Cloud runtime experience) to help analyze and modernize legacy Custom dev applications for them to become eligible to a move to cloud. You will work closely with Devs and DevOps teams.
This position is suited to experienced developers (7+ years) who are autonomous, curious, and looking to develop or enhance their skills in dev, automation and cloud runtimes.
Key Responsibilities
Dev Area
The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales. Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.
Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!
We are looking for a Senior backend developer (Back + Continuous Integration/Cloud runtime experience) to help analyze and modernize legacy Custom dev applications for them to become eligible to a move to cloud. You will work closely with Devs and DevOps teams.
This position is suited to experienced developers (7+ years) who are autonomous, curious, and looking to develop or enhance their skills in dev, automation and cloud runtimes.
Key Responsibilities
Dev Area
- Read and analyze existing code to identify the things to be updated and fixed
- Being able to properly start the application locally within an IDE to become efficient in troubleshooting
- Being able to fix SAST critical issues
- Update application to be linked to a Single Sign On solution (OAUTH2/OIDC, SAMLv2), whether it is custom dev or vendor solution (Commercial off the shelf) under the supervision of the Developer
- Update backend dependencies to under support version under the supervision of the developer
- Implementing a Dockerfile to run the application
- Configure CICD pipeline with the help of the Internal Developer platform and the Squads’ devops.
- Adapt Helm Charts and Ansible Role to fit the application’s context
- Configure Systemd modules and other Windows GPO’s to make the application’s up and running
- Use the ITSM to ask for services from the other part of the organization
- Back-end / Front-end: Notion or interest in learning for PHP, Java, .Net, Node, Python, Javascript (at least one programming language should be used for 3+ years and another known)
- CI/CD: Git, GitLab CI, ARM (Artifactory)
- Tooling: SonarQube, SAST, DAST, Intellij or VScode, Terraform, Ansible
- Cloud: Common Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (Cloud run, GKE, ClouSQL, GCS fuze, VPCs, IAP), Tanzu
- Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Oauth2 OIDC, SAMLv2, Linux (systemd, journald, LVM), Windows (GPO, WinRM), Databases (Postgres, Oracle)
- Methodologies: Agile / Kanban
- At least 3 years of experience with backend programming language
- 4 years of devops/system
- Autonomous and comfortable working with modernizing legacy code and learning new things
- Interest in cloud-native principles and containerization
- Willingness to grow in infrastructure, DevOps, and CI/CD practices
- Collaborative, structured, and adaptable – essential qualities in a complex enterprise environment
Key Skills
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devops
cicd
google cloud platform
javascript
kubernetes
gitlab ci
terraform
solidity
ansible
python
docker
gitlab
istio
linux
java
git
php
gcp
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- Posted
- Oct 11, 2025
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Not Applicable
- Location
- Bucharest
- Company
- Thales
Industries
Aviation
Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Defense
Space Manufacturing
Categories
Engineering
Information Technology
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