Lead Database Expert
You may not know our name, but you have surely used our innovations and solutions.
Our mission is to unlock the world and make it safer through cutting-edge identity technologies. Every day, around the globe, we are enabling citizens and consumers alike to perform their daily critical activities (such as pay, connect and travel), in the physical as well as digital space. We are transforming their lives by making the world more secure and yet also more streamlined.
We have brought together complementary know-how and technologies that have never been combined before for both the physical and digital era: secured connectivity, secured payments and secured identity management. Cybersecurity, biometrics, large scale distributed systems and Cloud computing, analytics and smart devices are at the core of both our physical products and our software and systems.
We serve our clients in 180 countries thanks to our 15,000 employees worldwide.
Purpose
We are currently looking for a Database Expert to design, develop, install, optimize, and support databases within our projects.
The target environments for Database Management Systems (DBMS) at IDEMIA are:
- Oracle on Linux: 70%
- PostgreSQL: 20%
- SQL Server on Windows: 5%
- MongoDB and Cassandra: 5%
Key Missions
As a Database Expert, you will assist us in:
- Being the focal point for databases (DBMS) in projects and products, working closely with architecture teams.
- Participating in database installation, configuration, optimization, including associated options and backup/restore solutions.
- Conducting version migrations of DBMS and other actions requiring deep expertise.
- Providing technical support for projects and products, as well as tuning database performance.
- Implementing data security measures, including hardening, encryption, and data segregation.
- Conducting technological surveillance on DBMS to anticipate changes and explore new solutions.
- Contributing to continuous improvement of administration, backup/restore, monitoring, and installation tools, while fostering the Database Technical Expertise Community.
You will ensure your success if you have:
- Strong experience in database administration, particularly Oracle/PostgreSQL.
- Experience working with Agile methodology.
- Diverse database experiences (development/support/design [...]).
- Skills to manage databases with significant data volume.
- Proficiency in English.
Even better if you have:
- Proficiency in MongoDB.
- Proficiency in Spanish, in addition to English.
Profile & Other Information
By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you can join the journey of a unique tech company. You can seize all the opportunities of our fast-paced environment. You can add your distinctive qualities to our global community. You can contribute to a safer world.
We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards. We’re well established, and yet still agile. We aren’t too big, and we aren’t too small. And we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.
At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.
Our teams are close and collaborative; maintaining a dialogue and developing human connections matter to us. We are truly international and we know that diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance. We welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.
Each of our locations has its own advantages to offer a collaborative and friendly work environment.
IDEMIA. Expect the unexpected. Join the journey of a unique tech company.