Senior DevOps Engineer - PostgreSQL Platform (Open Source) (all humans)

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We are part of Erste Group - the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong PostgreSQL experience to improve the reliability, automation, and evolution of our database platform and infrastructure ecosystem.

This role focuses on DevOps, platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with PostgreSQL expertise as an important part of the broader platform landscape. You will support automation, infrastructure reliability, observability, CI/CD enablement, and operational excellence across mission-critical production environments.

You will work closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, and database engineering teams to design scalable operational solutions, improve platform resilience, and modernize operations through automation and engineering best practices.

What to do:

• Design, implement, and maintain automation for infrastructure and PostgreSQL platform operations using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash.

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling.

• Standardize and automate platform operations across environments, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and self-service.

• Own the reliability, availability, and operational stability of production platform services.

• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.

• Operate and optimize PostgreSQL environments, including high-availability, replication, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery setups.

• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, metrics, and operational analytics using tools such as Grafana.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps, documentation, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and adoption of DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering practices.

Requirements

You check these boxes:

• At least 7 years of strong recent working experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.

• Minimum of 5 year of recent hands-on experience operating production-critical environments.

• Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting skills.

• Recent project experience with infrastructure automation and infrastructure as code, including Terraform and Ansible.

• Scripting experience with Python and Bash.

• Active strong PostgreSQL administration and production operations working experience, including high availability, replication, backup and recovery, and performance tuning.

• Experience with observability, monitoring, incident management, SLAs/SLOs, and reliability engineering practices.

• Fluent English; German, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, GitOps, Grafana, Zabbix, Patroni, open-source infrastructure, hybrid cloud, or large enterprise environments are preferred.

Professional Skills

• Builds reliable systems and thinks ahead about what can go wrong, making sure things keep working and improve over time.

• Takes ownership of work from start to finish and works closely with others to get the right outcome for the user.

• Keeps things simple, focuses on what matters, and removes unnecessary steps or complexity.

• Acts quickly on the most important work, adapts when needed, and learns from feedback.

• Supports others, leads by example, and helps create an environment where people can do their best work.

• Learns fast, adjusts easily to change, and keeps improving in a fast-moving environment.

• Delivers strong results and helps raise the level of the whole team.

• Contributes to a positive team culture by being open, respectful, and constructive, and by not tolerating toxic behavior.

Why you will like us:

• Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste

• Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic

• Health Care - Taking care of your health is important. That’s why we contribute to your above standard medical examination and provide a helpline in case of hard lifetime situations. You also receive a salary compensation during sick leave

• Work-Life-Balance - Sabbatical, paternity leave, contribution to marriage & childbirth, 4 days of extra holiday per year, contribution to the 3rd pillar and MultiSport card. This is how we promote a balance between work, leisure, and family

• Employee Referral Program - Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital

• A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - we are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 2.900,- gross per month for this full time position. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

The way we are:

Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.