Postgres DB Senior Engineer

Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia

Job Location:

Košice - Slovakia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Purpose

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer who will serve as a technical expert for building monitoring optimizing and maintaining Postgres database environments.

The role also includes analyzing datasets identifying opportunities for optimization improving performance and validating technical approaches using data-driven methods.

Team description

Join the team at operational services GmbH within Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia offering opportunities for German- and English-speaking talents. OS is one of the leading ICT service providers in the German market delivering modern and secure IT solutions long-term operational support and ensuring availability of critical business processes for medium-sized and enterprise customers.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

Administration operation and maintenance of Postgres environments
Design implementation and optimization of database architectures

Planning and executing installations upgrades migrations and patching of Postgres DB

Monitoring performance and tuning Postgres databases

Implementing backup & recovery strategies

Troubleshooting database issues identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions

Ensuring availability reliability and high performance of database systems

Supporting high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) configurations

Creating and maintaining system and process documentation

Collaboration with development infrastructure and operations teams

Ensuring adherence to security policies compliance requirements and audit standards

Contributing to automation initiatives and continuous service improvement

Qualifications :

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU HAVE:

Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Postgres administration

Strong understanding of Postgres architecture components and internal processes

Practical experience with:

Installation configuration maintenance

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

Monitoring and troubleshooting

Solid knowledge of Postgres and ability to analyze and optimize complex queries

Experience with Linux Server environment (administration basics required)

Analytical systematic and structured working style

Strong teamwork communication skills and customer-oriented approach

Ability and willingness to perform on-call duties

Nice-to-Have Technical Knowledge

Oracle
MariaDB
High Availability solutions (AlwaysOn Failover Clustering Log Shipping Mirroring)

Command-line / shell scripting

Experience with support tools (e.g. PuTTY monitoring dashboards automation tools)

Language Requirements

English: Upper Intermediate (B2)

German: Nice to Have

Additional Information :

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work career growth private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

Financial benefits
Benefits with focus on learning and development
Benefits with focus on health and sport
Benefits with focus on family and work life balance
Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 1850 /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Remote Work :

Employment Type :

Full-time

Purpose We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer who will serve as a technical expert for building monitoring optimizing and maintaining Postgres database environments. The role also includes analyzing datasets identifying opportunities for optimization improving performance and validating tec...