Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Open Source Databases (all humans)
Erste Group Bank AG2 hours ago
Bratislava, SlovakiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Administer PostgreSQL databases across development, testing, and production environments.
- Perform database configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, and recovery activities.
- Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot database issues and support incident resolution, root cause analysis, and problem management.
- Support database security, access management, auditing, compliance-related tasks, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Create and maintain scripts, automation, and Infrastructure as Code practices to reduce manual work.
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across AWS and Google Cloud environments.
- Collaborate with database, platform, and application teams and contribute to continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Recent active experience in the last 2–4 years administering PostgreSQL databases, cloud database services, or infrastructure platforms in production environments.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database operations.
- Experience writing and troubleshooting SQL queries.
- Experience with managed database services in AWS and/or Google Cloud.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, security, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Experience with Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages and basic Linux/Unix administration.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation tools, DevOps practices, and CI/CD concepts.
- Preferred experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or cloud migration initiatives.
- Ability to build reliable systems, take ownership, collaborate effectively, adapt to change, and contribute to a constructive team culture.
Benefits
- International community of technology professionals and opportunities to participate in interest groups and projects.
- Health-care contribution, medical examination support, hardship helpline, and salary compensation during sick leave.
- Sabbatical, paternity leave, marriage and childbirth contributions, four additional vacation days per year, third-pillar contribution, and MultiSport card.
- Employee Referral Program with rewards for successful IT referrals.
- Full-time position with a competitive performance-related salary; the posting states a minimum of EUR 2,700 gross per month.
- Equal-opportunity workplace emphasizing diversity and inclusion.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability