DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Summary

Thales is seeking a DevOps Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of the operations, scalability, and reliability of our Sentinel Licensing SaaS platform. This role is critical to ensuring seamless service delivery for our global customer base. You will be responsible for managing production environments in AWS and GCP, supporting containerized workloads on Kubernetes and Docker, and driving automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI / CD practices. Collaborating closely with engineering, SRE, platform, and customer-facing teams, you will proactively improve system performance, incident response, monitoring, and cost optimization. This position requires strong technical leadership, hands-on cloud experience, and a deep understanding of operating complex SaaS environments at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and scale highly available services in a production cloud environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using modern DevOps toolchains.
• Support and optimize containerized workloads running on Kubernetes and Docker .
• Build tools and processes to enhance application monitoring, logging, and performance tuning .
• Ensure production environments meet SLAs , support cost optimization , and adhere to security and compliance standards.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the full technology stack including applications, databases, networks, and cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in incident management , perform root cause analysis , and lead continuous improvement efforts.
• Operate effectively as part of a globally distributed, 24x7 support team .

Required Skills & Experience

Preferred Skills & Experience

Why Join Us

This is a high-impact opportunity to work on cutting-edge DevOps practices in a global SaaS environment. You will directly contribute to the stability, scalability, and evolution of Thales’ cloud-based licensing solutions. If you're passionate about automation, cloud innovation, and operational excellence—we want to hear from you.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!