Thales
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Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do.
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
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Global Support Organization and provide World class Support for all Thales products.
Thales is a leading global provider of data protection solutions with more than 40 years’ experience securing the world’s most sensitive information. Our customers—businesses, governments, and technology vendors with a broad range of challenges use Thales e-Security products and services to improve the security of applications that rely on encryption and digital signatures.
By protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information that flows through today’s traditional, virtualized, and cloud-based infrastructures, Thales helps organizations reduce risk, demonstrate compliance, enhance agility, and pursue strategic goals with greater confidence.
Position Scope
As a member of a collaborative Client Services team, the Escalation Engineer will provide product escalation support to the Client Services Tech support team, for specific product, in constructing complex customer deployments, analyzing for root causes, recommending remediation procedures or best practices and documenting test methods, processes and knowledge bases. In addition, this position is responsible for validating proper interoperability of Thales products with other third-party vendor software/Solutions
This is a multi-disciplined role; the successful candidate should be able to perform hardware/software setup in a variety of lab configurations. This will include various OS platforms, storage products, databases, file systems, security protection software, HA clustering software, etc. The candidate must be a strategic thinker, well organized and able to work within fast-paced engineering environments and is also expected via collaboration with the broader Technical Support, QA and Developer teams to drive continual improvements to our processes and methodologies, all with the goal of continually improving the product quality and customer experience.
This is a dream job for an individual who likes to develop and maintain proficiency across a wide variety of enterprise-class hardware and software products.
Work closely with global support engineers on customer escalation issues to ensure timely resolution
Configure and duplicate the customer’s environment where necessary to replicate the issues for diagnosing
Identify the root causes and use this information to improve continuously within support & field service teams
Work closely with global development teams to diagnose issues and validating fixes
Given the critical nature of the customer issues supported, some after-hours/weekend work will be required. Pparticipation in the 24 x 7 telephone support Rota is mandatory for this position
Serve as a Thales product support expert who will work closely with other department as required to facilitate training on new product and features and maintaining a database of training videos for support review.
Work closely with our engineering and product management teams to communicate customer needs, issues, and trends to successfully use Thales products.
Identify and champion product enhancement requests as customer advocates.
Create knowledge and support articles, webinars, white papers, and other materials that help customers use Thales products.
Other duties as assigned
Technical Knowledge/Skills & Experience Required
Operating Systems & Infrastructure
Strong Linux & Windows Server administration skills
System performance analysis (CPU, memory, disk, processes, services)
Log analysis and troubleshooting
Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V)
Networking fundamentals
TCP/IP, DNS, routing, NAT, VPN concepts
Packet capture and analysis (Wireshark, tcpdump)
Load balancer concepts
Database Knowledge
Strong understanding of databases (Oracle, MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2, MySQL)
SQL query analysis and troubleshooting
Database performance fundamentals
Understanding of DB connectivity/authentication
Replication and HA concepts
Security & Compliance Fundamentals
Vulnerability and risk concepts
Encryption fundamentals
Compliance standards awareness (PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR)
Diagnostic Tools
Wireshark, tcpdump, curl/Postman, Fiddler, Splunk/Kibana basics, Database tracing tools
Good to have
Basic scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell, REST API fundamentals, JSON/XML parsing)
Automation mindset for repetitive diagnostics
Troubleshooting & Escalation Skills
Analytical & Troubleshooting skills
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Complex log correlation
Crisis Management
Reproducing customer issues in lab environments
Performance bottleneck identification
Clear technical documentation skills
Strong ownership and accountability mindset
Ability to independently lead P1/P0 customer escalations
Mentorship and enablement of Support teams
Trend analysis and recurrence prevention
Contribution to KBs, tooling, automation, and process improvements
Strong understanding of enterprise customer environments and deployment patterns
Bachelor’s degree in computer science /engineering or technical field or equivalent experience.
Professional Attributes
Focus on Customers
Perform through teaming
Innovate, decide and act quickly
Develop our people
Proactive - Develops practical solutions, takes ownership, has a ‘can do' rather than ‘won’t do’ approach
Technically curious – Regards technology problems as challenges
Teamwork - Connected to the business, communicates openly, shares information and knowledge, networks internally and externally, persuades rather than pushes, involves colleagues, respects colleagues
Creative – Connects the technical dots with a goal of building customer value
Responsive - Always reacts quickly and with a sense of urgency to requests, issues, e-mails or other events in a timely and flexible fashion
Work Environment
The working environment is generally indoors in environmentally controlled conditions where lighting and temperature are adequate, and there are no hazardous conditions. Work is generally performed within an office environment, with standard office equipment available.
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.
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