Location: Noida, India

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 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, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

Position Summary

The Database Engineering Specialist is an expert across various database technologies.

For this position, non-relational database expertise is mandatory with a primary focus on Cassandra databases, as well as expertise in Public Cloud technology (AWS and/or GCP).

The Database Engineering Specialist will be a member of Engineering team responsible for delivery of Thales customer solutions and will manage all responsibilities related to database installation, database deployment strategy, database architecture design, new product software release application, technical project planning, technical platform analysis and troubleshooting, project estimate provision, drive technical decision making, and provide overall database consultant services to the delivery and operation team.

The Database Engineering Specialist will work in close coordination with product teams, delivery teams, support & operations teams, and management teams to satisfy requirements across areas of solution support, operations and technical project delivery.

Essential Functions / Key Areas of Responsibility

The Database Engineer primary responsibility footprint:

Member of global database services team on call support team 24/7, follow the sun.Build, test, and review technical documentation, utilize documentation set as a playbook to manage and apply production change.Deploy and maintain database monitoring solutions.Develop, design, deploy, and test backup and recovery architectures for customer database platform solutionsDevelop, design, and deploy database high availability solutions utilizing database replication technology in both active/passive and active/active database architectures.Responsible for participating in maintenance window activities for hosted, on premise, and public cloud platform changes.Responsible for database platform deployment, installation, patching, change management, and third-party software upgrades on internal and external customer platforms.Responsible for leading datacenter technology architecture decisions by managing third party software inventory, recommend/plan/deploy platform upgrade cycles, plan and participate in security audit (GSMA), database migration plan development and execution to move customer solutions to new platforms within and between hosted datacenters and public cloud.Responsible for database hardening procedure identification and deployment on public cloud, hosted, and on-premises platforms.Responsible for providing database expertise and operations support to the technical support teams and project delivery teams.Responsible for leading strategic decision making as part of project delivery teams, analyze project requirements, provide recommendation, define task timelines, design migration and database deployment strategies in order to satisfy project delivery.Responsible to defining, tracking, executing, and planning for database delivery tasks as part of project delivery team in areas of database installation, database upgrade, hardening, database monitoring, and data migration to satisfy project delivery.Responsible for participating in technical database architecture design on public cloud, hosted, and on-premises platforms.Responsible for participating in database platform review, bench and tuning exercises, security evaluation, provide technical analysis and proactive recommendations for improvements and/or design changes for both production platforms and new software product delivery releases.

Minimum Requirements: Skills, Experience & Education

College degree in Computer ScienceNOSQL Database: 3-5 years Cassandra administration, other experience in other NOSQL database like MongoDB a plusRelational Database: Oracle database administration (Data Guard, Goldengate, active/passive, active/active) is desiredRelational Database: MySQL administration experience is desiredExtensive background with public cloud database deployment, management and migration.Expertise in database concepts, defining standards, processes, and procedures in database deployment methodologiesExpert in operations of high-profile production database platforms with high SLA and high-performance expectationHigh level of experience in managing change on production database platform on hosted, on premise, and cloud database platformsExpert in deploying high availability database architecturesVery good knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle: requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, code review, testing, and releaseProactive, team player, and leadership qualities with strong technical backgroundExcellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Highly skilled in Cassandra database administrationSkilled in Public Cloud deployment (Cloud Formation, Terraform…), operations and monitoring (Datadog)Skilled in Oracle database and related toolsMySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server experience a plusKnowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.Database performance evaluation, platform bench participation

Special Position Requirements

Candidate will need to be able to multitask and quickly switch if needed to work on emergency incidents on production platforms.   The position requires the ability to be able to manage tight deadlines and have visibility on project delivery goals and the ability to communicate effectively to project teams and management. The candidate will be able to thrive in fast paced work environment.  The candidate will be required to be available to work during nights and weekends when the situation requires it.

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