Database Engineering Specialist

Location: Noida, India

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 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.

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 solutions
• Develop, 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 Science
• NOSQL Database: 3-5 years Cassandra administration, other experience in other NOSQL database like MongoDB a plus
• Relational Database: Oracle database administration (Data Guard, Goldengate, active/passive, active/active) is desired
• Relational Database: MySQL administration experience is desired
• Extensive background with public cloud database deployment, management and migration.
• Expertise in database concepts, defining standards, processes, and procedures in database deployment methodologies
• Expert in operations of high-profile production database platforms with high SLA and high-performance expectation
• High level of experience in managing change on production database platform on hosted, on premise, and cloud database platforms
• Expert in deploying high availability database architectures
• Very good knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle: requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, code review, testing, and release
• Proactive, team player, and leadership qualities with strong technical background
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

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

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.