DevOps Engineer (DataBase)

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Your responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members to write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of existing services by identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Write unit tests and integration tests where necessary to increase the confidence during development and deployment of the code.
• Collaborate with team members to build, maintain, and optimise pipelines (build, test, deploy, rollback) for database service automation code in GitLab.
• Develop and manage Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (XRDs) and utilise crossplane to deploy databases across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Utilise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate environment provisioning, configuration, patching, backups, DR testing, and routine operational tasks.
• Suggest and implement automation of deployment and configuration tasks, including automated deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Document infrastructure, code, scripts, and configurations to ensure maintainability and knowledge transfer within the squad.
• Administer and automate Oracle and PostgreSQL operational tasks, including migrations, backups/restores, replication, upgrades, and performance tuning in both cloud and on-prem setups

Our requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with Bash scripting.
• Solid hands‑on experience in Database Operations, especially with Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Extensive experience working with AWS core services, including: RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, S3, EKS/ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Experience in CI/CD processes using GitLab or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with on‑premise virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Hyper‑V, KVM, Nutanix.
• EU citizenship
• Fluent English: B2/C1.
• Being open to occasional business trips abroad and visits in our office in Katowice.

Optional

• Clearance

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What we offer

• BENEFITS (UoP): Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, workation
• DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (UoP and B2B): certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud)

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