
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Oracle Database Platform (all humans)
Erste Group Bank AG3 days ago
Košice, SlovakiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Administer Oracle databases across development, testing, and production environments.
- Perform database configuration, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, security, access management, and compliance-related activities.
- Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot database issues and participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis, and problem management.
- Support high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions using Oracle RAC and Data Guard.
- Create and maintain scripts and automation for database administration and operational tasks.
- Contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and operational visibility for Oracle database platforms.
- Collaborate with database, platform, and application teams to improve reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Recent active experience in the past 2–4 years administering Oracle databases or supporting enterprise database platforms in production environments.
- Knowledge of Oracle database administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database operations.
- Experience writing and troubleshooting SQL and PL/SQL.
- Experience with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, database resilience, database security, access controls, and auditing.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.
- Basic Linux or Unix administration knowledge and familiarity with infrastructure, storage, and networking fundamentals.
- Preferred experience with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Multitenant, OCI, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, or database migration and modernization initiatives.
Benefits
- International community and opportunities to learn from Erste colleagues.
- Interest groups and clubs with opportunities to participate in discussions and projects.
- Health-care support, including contributions toward medical examinations, a helpline, and salary compensation during sick leave.
- Work-life benefits including sabbatical, paternity leave, marriage and childbirth contributions, four extra vacation days per year, third-pillar contributions, and a MultiSport card.
- Employee Referral Program with rewards for successful IT referrals.
- Full-time position in which the legally quoted minimum wage is EUR 2,700 gross per month; actual salary is dependent on qualifications and expectations.