Senior Network Administrator with French

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.

Thales Services Numérique works on outsourcing operations for more than sixty customers. We support our customer's system with the MRO activity, Our activity is based on the MRO, development of the IT to support applications, transformation of existing applications to the Cloud, Secure hybrid outsourcing or on premise infrastructure, and apply security audits on platforms and remediation's plan.

Job summary

As a Network Administrator and NetOps Engineer, your mission is to work on the delivery of new infrastructure. From the engineering to MRO, you will have to deploy new network infrastructure or transform them.

Your experience on Security infrastructure, Wan or Lan will allow you to challenge the design proposed before the build.

You are well aware of ITIL practice, so you will not put at risk the stability of our customer's IT during the build and run and you should expect the role to be part of a global effort to support our customers on their IT. You should be someone who is passionate about automating, robustness and reliability, trouble-shooting network and system configuration, monitor and manage systems.

Required competencies/experience:

• Working knowledge of firewalling, WAN or LAN environment
• Perfect knowledge of TCP protocol and packet analysis
• Routing: BGP, OSPF
• Switching: 802.1q, 802.1x, Spanning-tree, VTP, LACP, VPC, VXLAN, EVPN
• Firewall, VPN, IPSEC,
• Proxy, Load Balancing, IDS/IPS, DNS
• Automation : scripts, Ansible, Python
• ITIL v4

Requested competencies / experience:

• Firewalls : Juniper, ForcePoint, Palo Alto , Stormshield
• Switch / router : Juniper, Cisco IOS end NXOS
• Load balancer : F5
• Proxy : Symantec (ex Bluecoat), McAfee
• Tufin
• SSL VPN : Pulse Secure
• Fluent in French

Behavioral skills:

• Strong team player
• Be autonomous and proactive on your tasks,
• Teamwork and knowledge sharing.
• Sense of responsibility
• Good communication skills

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.