Database Engineering Specialist
Database Engineering Specialist
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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
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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Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
