Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Open Source Databases (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 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with PostgreSQL and cloud database experience to support reliable, secure, and scalable database services.

In this role, you will work across database administration, cloud operations, and reliability engineering to help maintain PostgreSQL services in AWS and Google Cloud environments. You will contribute to automation, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement while working with database, platform, and application teams.

What to do:

• 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, and compliance-related tasks.

• Support high availability and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL platforms.

• 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.

You check these boxes:

• Active experience in recent 2-4 years of 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 scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar, plus basic Linux/Unix administration knowledge.

• 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.

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 2.700,- 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.