Database Engineer

Thales

Bucharest, Romania

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