Senior Application DBA - Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) (all humans)
Erste Group Bank AG2 hours ago
Bratislava, SlovakiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Analyze and optimize application workloads by connecting user-facing performance issues to database-level causes.
- Improve database performance for critical application flows and resolve execution-plan, locking, contention, and database-roundtrip issues.
- Define and track application-specific SLIs and SLOs for latency, error rates, throughput, and saturation.
- Design monitoring around user experience, critical application flows, and business transactions.
- Partner with engineering teams on query and index reviews, migration checklists, and performance-testing gates.
- Enable developers through database best practices, automation, self-service capabilities, and reliability guidance.
Requirements
- Strong recent active experience as an Oracle DBA or Database Engineer in enterprise environments, with experience or exposure to PostgreSQL.
- Strong knowledge of SQL performance tuning, execution plans, AWR, ASH, explain plans, indexing strategies, and transaction behavior.
- Active experience optimizing application workloads and improving latency, throughput, stability, and reliability of database-backed applications.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across application and database layers.
- Experience in DevOps or platform engineering environments, including automation tools and automated deployment approaches.
- Ability to automate operational tasks and build self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Experience with microservices or distributed architectures, cloud or hybrid environments, high-scale transactional systems, and load or performance testing tools is beneficial.
- Fluent English is required; German is an advantage.
Benefits
- International community of talented and passionate colleagues, with interest groups and clubs.
- Health-care support including contributions toward medical examinations, a helpline, and salary compensation during sick leave.
- Work-life benefits including sabbatical and paternity leave, marriage and childbirth contributions, four extra holiday days per year, third-pillar contributions, and a MultiSport card.
- Employee Referral Program with rewards for successful IT referrals.
- Full-time position with a stated minimum salary of EUR 2,900 gross per month, with actual salary dependent on qualifications and expectations.