Database Engineer

Location: Bucharest, Romania

The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales.  Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.

Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!

The DB Engineer will be responsible for handling business requests, formalizing them technically, and monitoring project progress by following the changes performed by the RUN team.

He/She will also manage DB administration and incident during the handover period.

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design the database solutions tailored to business needs with the support of the architect
• Manage and track incidents and tickets through internal tools.
• Participate in the migration of the databases
• Perform performance analysis of production systems.
• Ensure systems comply with the group standards.
• Perform all the test and validation
• Database installations: install and configure or upgrade database and provide associated documentation
• Issues analysis in the build phase
• Provide authentication information to applicative integrator
• Provide technical expertise, technology watch.
• Automation of deployments / DevOps technologies
• Repeating tasks automation
• Continuously improve and write procedures / reflex sheets for supervision and operation teams
• Knowledge of ITIL processes and the Agile methodology

Required Skills:

• Expertise in database management systems (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Proficiency in query optimization and performance management.
• Knowledge of database backup and restoration tools.
• Strong understanding of Database architecture concepts.
• Strong proficiency in ticket management systems.
• Database: Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch.
• Ability to estimate workload & detect platform needs
• Issues analysis in the build phase
• Provide technical expertise, technology watch.
• Web oriented application installation and configuration: Apache, IIS, Nginx, Tomcat, Jboss, Weblogic, HAProxy, Certificate management

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in system management in a production environment.
• Experience in managed services or service desk environments is a plus.
• General knowledge on Linux OS, Windows and web application
• ITIL concepts
• Agile methodology
• Virtualization knowledge: Docker, VMware …
• Network contexts Knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Firewalling, VLAN, VPN…)
• Applications installations: install or upgrade applications and provide associated documentation
• English fluent

Behavioural skill:

• Ability to work with different departments on the projects assigned.
• Proactive and self-motivated. Ability to independently look for solutions.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and flexible hours.
• Advanced English knowledge, a conversational level in French would be appreciated.
• Sense of responsibility and customer-oriented attitude
• Good communication skills.
• Has a continuous learning mindset and learning of new paradigms, techniques & practices in build-test-release cycles and software automation.
• Understand the necessity of stability in the infrastructures.
• Be autonomous and proactive on your tasks.
• Teamwork and knowledge sharing.
• Continuous learning mindset and learning of new paradigms, techniques & practices in build-test-release cycles and software automation,

Your career at Thales

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competences in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development.
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path.
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group.
• Work for different Thales domains & entities.

Your immediate benefits

• 24 holiday days a year
• Benefit Online
• A good work-life balance which includes flexible working hours
• A comprehensive compensation and benefit package including medical coverage & life insurance
• Hybrid Workplace
• goFLUENT  & Udemy Subscription

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!